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
Avestan alphabet alphabet, with explicit characters for vowels, and allowed for phonetic disambiguation of allophones. The alphabet included many characters ("a", "i", "k", "t", "p", "b", "m", "n", "r", "s", "z", "š", "x") from cursive Pahlavi, while some ("ā", "γ") are characters that only exist in the Psalter Pahlavi variant (in cursive Pahlavi "γ" and "k" have the same symbol). Some of the vowels, such as "ə" appear to derive from Greek minuscules. Avestan "o" is a special form of Pahlavi "l" that exists only in Aramaic signs. Some letters (e.g. "ŋ́", "ṇ", "ẏ", "v"), are free inventions. Avestan script, like Pahlavi