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Rarotongan (Māori Kūki 'Āirani/reo ipukarea)
Rarotongan or Rarotongan Maori is an Polynesian language spoken on the island of Rarotonga in the Cook Islands. It's closely related to Taihitian and Maori.
Thanks, Maven, and welcome to you. No b, c, d, f, j, l, q, s, w, x, y or z, eh? Is ' considered a character? If so, what is it called?
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If so, what is it called?In English, it's called a glottal stop. Hawai`ian, it's called `okina. (The latter link includes the Tahitian ( `eta) and Tonga ( fakau`a terms, too.
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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Whoa: The `okina is considered a consonant. Just as you would never drop essential
consonants in your spelling (ear for dear, for example),
do not drop the `okina. It is well-depicted with a " ` ",
which precedes vowels with `okina:`a, `e, `i, `o,` u. From: 'okina.
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`etaWords that begin with a vowel in English actually begin with a glottal stop. Except for some dialects, that's just about the only place where glottal stops can occur. Cockney is famous for replacing intervocalic ts with glottal stops.
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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Kia orana Jackie,
As far as I am aware the glottal stop is not a character of the Cook Island Maori alphabet. I also don't have a contemporary translation for such diacritical marks as the Glottal and Macron.
The use of the Diacritical marks is a recently established initiative aimed at helping non native speakers to learn the language. Prior to the advent of the Bible, Cook Islands maori was not a written language and no visual aids were used to help people recite their language. The only Polynesian people I know of that had a writen language were those of 'Rapanui' or 'Easter Island'.
There are other consonants within the Cook Islands language F, S, L, W are also used in some dialects and the vowels can take on short or long form, with glottal or without glottal.
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