:Help:IPA/Hawaiian

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! colspan="3"| Consonants

| style="text-align:left;" | Honolulu

| style="text-align:left;" | hat

| style="text-align:left;" | Kamehameha{{IPA|[k]}} and {{IPA|[t]}}, spelled k, are variants of a single consonant. {{IPA|[k]}} is almost universal at the beginnings of words, while {{IPA|[t]}} is most common before the vowel i. {{IPA|[t]}} is also more common in the western dialects, as on Kauaʻi, while {{IPA|[k]}} predominates on the Big Island.

| style="text-align:left;" | sky

| style="text-align:left;" | Honolulu, LānaʻiIn some dialects the letter l tends to be pronounced {{IPA|[n]}}, especially in words with an n in them. On the western islands it tends to be pronounced as a tap, {{IPA|[ɾ]}}.

| style="text-align:left;" | lean

| style="text-align:left;" | Maui

| style="text-align:left;" | moon

| style="text-align:left;" | Lānaʻi

| style="text-align:left;" | note

| style="text-align:left;" | Pele

| style="text-align:left;" | spy

| style="text-align:left;" | Waikīkī, wikiwiki

| style="text-align:left;" | steal

| style="text-align:left;" | wikiwiki{{IPA|[w]}} and {{IPA|[v]}}, spelled w, are variants of a single consonant. {{IPA|[w]}} is the norm after back vowels u, o, while {{IPA|[v]}} is the norm after front vowels i, e. Initially and after the central vowel a, as in Hawai{{okina}}i, they are found in free variation. {{IPA|[w]}} also occurs, though it is usually not written, between a back vowel (u, o) and a non-back vowel (i, e, a).

| style="text-align:left;" | vision

| style="text-align:left;" | Loa {{IPA|[ˈlowə]}}, Kīlauea {{IPA|[tiːlɐwˈwɛjə]}}

| style="text-align:left;" | wall

| style="text-align:left;" | Hawai{{okina}}i, O{{okina}}ahu

| style="text-align:left;" | uh-oh!
(a catch in the throat)

| style="text-align:left;" | Honolulu {{IPA|[honoˈlulu]}}

| style="text-align:left;" | placed before the stressed syllableStress falls on the penultimate vowel, with diphthongs and long vowels counting as two (that is, a final long vowel or diphthong will be stressed). Longer words may have a second stressed vowel, whose position is not predictable.

! colspan="3"| Vowels

| style="text-align:left;" | Lāna{{okina}}i

| style="text-align:left;" | father

| style="text-align:left;" | O{{okina}}ahu, Moloka{{okina}}iShort a is pronounced {{IPA|[ɐ]}} when stressed and {{IPA|[ə]}} when not.

| style="text-align:left;" | nut

| style="text-align:left;" | Hawai{{okina}}i, Mauna Loa

| style="text-align:left;" | sofa

| style="text-align:left;" | Kēōkea

| style="text-align:left;" | hey

| style="text-align:left;" | PeleShort e is {{IPA|[ɛ]}} when stressed and generally when next to l, n, or another syllable with a {{IPA|[ɛ]}}; otherwise it is {{IPA|[e]}}.

| style="text-align:left;" | bed

| style="text-align:left;" | Kaho{{okina}}olawe

| style="text-align:left;" | Spanish seta

| style="text-align:left;" | Waikīkī

| style="text-align:left;" | beat (long)

| style="text-align:left;" | wikiwiki

| style="text-align:left;" | beat (short)

| style="text-align:left;" | {{okina}}ō{{okina}}ū

| style="text-align:left;" | more (long)

| style="text-align:left;" | Honolulu

| style="text-align:left;" | more (short)

| style="text-align:left;" | {{okina}}ō{{okina}}ū

| style="text-align:left;" | cool (long)

| style="text-align:left;" | Honolulu

| style="text-align:left;" | cool (short)

| style="text-align:left;" | kiu

| style="text-align:left;" | cue

| style="text-align:left;" | kākou

| style="text-align:left;" | mole

| style="text-align:left;" | poi

| style="text-align:left;" | queen

| style="text-align:left;" | heu

| style="text-align:left;" | roughly like go (some dialectsThese dialects include Southern England (including Received Pronunciation), English Midlands, Australian, New Zealand, the Southern American, Midland American, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Western Pennsylvania and younger Californian English. Other dialects of English, such as most other forms of American, Northern England, Welsh, Scottish and Irish English, have no close equivalent vowel.); Portuguese and Spanish neutro

| style="text-align:left;" | lei

| style="text-align:left;" | May

| style="text-align:left;" | MaunaIn rapid speech, {{IPA|/ɐw/}} and {{IPA|/ɐj/}} tend to be pronounced {{IPA|[ɔw]}} and {{IPA|[ɛj]}}, respectively.

| style="text-align:left;" | cow

| style="text-align:left;" | Waikīkī

| style="text-align:left;" | light

| style="text-align:left;" | haole

| style="text-align:left;" | Spanish caos

| style="text-align:left;" | koaea

| style="text-align:left;" | Spanish trae

| style="text-align:left;" | {{okina}}ōuli

| style="text-align:left;" | American no way; RP, Aus, NZ Norway

| style="text-align:left;" | kēia

| style="text-align:left;" | may you

| style="text-align:left;" | kāu

| style="text-align:left;" | RP far west

| style="text-align:left;" | kāia

| style="text-align:left;" | RP far younger

| style="text-align:left;" | {{okina}}āoka

| style="text-align:left;" | crowd

| style="text-align:left;" | māea

| style="text-align:left;" | {{example needed}}