Wed, Jan 23, 2008

Humuhumunukunukuapuaa. Okay, pronounce that! The definition is: Varieties of humuhumu. There! Well, if you know that humuhumu is Trigger Fish, then you'd understand what humuhumunukunukuapuaa means. And people say English is hard to learn...

Then there's ua (pronounced oo a), which means rain.

Every syllable ends in a vowel sound.

Let's see, the 7 consonants are: h, k, l, m, n, p, w, so combined with the 5 vowels, that makes 12 letters that compose the Hawaiian language.