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What is "okina"

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okina

n. The Hawaiian apostrophe-like letter (ʻ) used to indicate the glottal stop consonant.

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ʻOkina

Okina letter forms

Hawaiian okina

Tahitian eta

»ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi« (Hawaiian: Hawaiian Language) within single quotes, font: Linux Libertine. The glyph of the two ʻokinas is clearly different from the one of the opening quote.

The okina, also called by several other names, is a unicameral consonant letter used within the Latin script to mark the phonetic glottal stop, as it is used in many Polynesian languages.

Okina

Okina may refer to:

  • ʻOkina, a letter used in some Polynesian languages, visually resembling a left single quotation mark
  • Okina or , a character from the Rurouni Kenshin manga series

  • , a particular Japanese Noh, combining play/dance with Shinto ritual

  • , a Japanese satellite of the lunar orbiter SELENE (better known in Japan by its nickname Kaguya, )

Okina (Oquina)

'''Okina '''is a village of the municipality of Bernedo, in the province of Álava ( Basque Country, ) situated at about 15 kilometres of Vitoria-Gasteiz and in an altitude of 800 metres.

Usage examples of "okina".

These characters are the okina, or glottal stop, and the kahako, or bar indicating a long vowel.

In this article, I substitute an apostrophe where an okina is called for and I omit the kahako altogether.