Hawaiian alphabet not make it a letter of the alphabet. In publishing the Hawaiian Bible, they used the okina to distinguish ' ('my') from ' ('your'). It was not until 1864 that the okina became a recognized letter of the Hawaiian alphabet. As early as 1821, one of the missionaries, Hiram Bingham, was using macrons in making handwritten transcriptions of Hawaiian vowels. The macron, or "", was used to differentiate between short and long vowels. The current official Hawaiian alphabet consists of 12 letters: five vowels (A a, E e, I i, O o, U u) and seven consonants (H h, K
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