Originally posted by petlover
Cassandra- kakanakala ( Too many A's!!!)
Actually, you will never find 2 consonants together as a vowel always follows a consonant in the Hawaiian language. Also interesting to note is that the Hawaiian alphabet only consists of 7 consonants and 5 vowels!
P K H L M N W
A E I O U

Another little FYI.....
Most mainlanders pronounce "Hawaii" as hawaiyi. In Texas, that even becomes hawaiya. No local person in Hawaii says it either way. The most important point is the transition from one "i" to the other. "Hawaii" in Hawaiian is properly written "Hawai`i" and pronounced hawai`i, where the apostrophe stands for a glottal stop, a brief closure of the throat, like a little cough.
http://www.friesian.com/hawaii.htm