Hawaiian alphabet

Hawaiian alphabet
Script type
Alphabet
CreatorAmerican Protestant missionaries
Period
1822–present
DirectionLeft-to-right 
LanguagesHawaiian language

The Hawaiian alphabet (in Hawaiian: ka pīʻāpā Hawaiʻi) 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.

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