Helps to Pronunciation.
Reading edition
There are three simple rules which practically control Hawaiian pronunciation: (1) Pronounce each vowel. (2) Never allow a consonant to close a syllable. (3) Give the vowels the following values:
a = a in father
e = ey in they
i = i in machine
o = o in note
u = oo in tool
Notes in this chapter
Note 1 · Quoted by Melville in Typee, Chapter XXV. The chronicle of de Figeroas’s voyage—the voyage by which the Marquesas were discovered and the PoNote 2 · By Ivor H. N. Evans, M.A., Cambridge University Press, 1923. ↑Note 3 · Written kapu in Hawaiian and taboo by the mariners who came first amongst the Polynesians. I have been instructed to write the word tapu. ItNote 4 · If you draw a line from the tip of New Zealand to the top of the Hawaiian Islands, you will be able to indicate the true Polynesian area. OnNote 5 · And yet the Polynesians, so like us physically, have in their romances none of the familiar veins that one can discover in, let us say, the