Hawaiian alphabet Hawaiian alphabet The Hawaiian alphabet (in ) is an alphabet used to write Hawaiian. It was adapted from the English alphabet in the early 19th century by American missionaries to print a bible in the Hawaiian language. In 1778, British explorer James Cook made the first reported Europe voyage to Hawaii. In his report, he wrote the name of the islands as "Owhyhee" or "Owhyee". In 1822, a writing system based on one similar to the new "New Zealand Grammar" was developed and printed by American Protestant missionary Elisha Loomis. The original alphabet included five vowels and twelve consonants: and
Elfdalian alphabet Elfdalian alphabet The Dalecarlian alphabet consists of 32 letters, 25 derived from the Swedish alphabet, and seven additional letters: vowels with an ogonek diacritic, denoting nasality: ("Ąą", "Ęę", "Įį", "Ųų", "Y̨y̨", and "Ą̊ą̊") as well as the consonant "Ðð" (eð), denoting voiced dental fricative, as 'th' in 'father'. The letters "Cc", "Qq", "Xx" and "Zz" are only used in names and foreign words. The alphabet is used for the Elfdalian language and for other Dalecarlian dialects. All except Ą̊ and ą̊ are available as characters in the Unicode standard. Ą̊ and ą̊ can be produced by Ą or ą and