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
Thai alphabet the vowels เ, แ, โ, ใ and ไ before the consonants they follow, and thus Thai, Lao, and Tai Viet are the only Brahmic scripts in Unicode that use visual order instead of logical order. Thai characters can be typed using the Kedmanee layout and the Pattachote layout. Thai alphabet The Thai alphabet (; ; ) is the abugida ("alphasyllabary") used to write Thai, Southern Thai and many spoken in Thailand. It has 44 consonant symbols (, "phayanchana"), 15 vowel symbols (, "sara") that combine with 28 vowel symbols and four tone diacritics (, "wannayuk" or "wannayut") to create characters