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
Urdu alphabet represent vowels. Urdu doesn't have standalone vowel letters. Short vowels ("a", "i", "u") are represented by optional diacritics ("zabar", "zer", "pesh") upon the preceding consonant or a placeholder consonant ("alif", "ain", or "hamzah") if the syllable begins with the vowel, and long vowels by consonants "alif", "ain", "ye", and "wa'o" as matres lectionis, with disambiguating diacritics, some of which are optional ("zabar", "zer", "pesh"), whereas some are not ("madd", "hamzah"). Urdu does not have short vowels at the end of words. This is a table of Urdu vowels: "Alif" is the first letter of the Urdu alphabet, and it is