David Peterson wrote:
> Yes, but as I mentioned, I disagree with the practice. Since
> it's impossible to have two like vowels next to each other without a
> glottal stop inserted in between, why write an apostrophe?
Are there no long vowels in Hawaiian? I was under the impression that
there were.
> au [au]
> a'u [a?u]
> 'au [?au]
> 'a'u [?a?u]
If a glottal stop is automatically inserted between like consonants,
does that mean that au and 'au would become homophonous after a word
ending in a? Or does that only occur within a word?
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