Tahitian alphabet

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The Tahitian alphabet is the Latin-based writing system adapted to represent the sounds of the Tahitian language, using a reduced set of letters and specific orthographic conventions.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf alphabet
writing system
associatedLanguageFamily Polynesian languages
basedOn Roman alphabet NERFINISHED
diacriticFunction mark stress
mark vowel length
excludesLetter B
C
D
G
J
K
L
Q
S
W
X
Y
Z
hasCaseDistinction uppercase and lowercase letters
hasCharacter ʻeta
hasCharacterType glottal stop
hasConsonantLetter F
H NERFINISHED
M
N
P
R
T
V
ʻ
hasLetter A
E
F
H
I
M
N
O
P
R
T
U
V
ʻ
hasVowelLetter A
E
I
O
U
languageWritten Tahitian language
orthographicConvention glottal stop written with ʻeta
long vowels marked with macron or doubling
stress sometimes marked with acute accent
phonemicPrinciple one letter per phoneme (with limited exceptions)
primaryUsage standard Tahitian orthography
regionUsed French Polynesia NERFINISHED
scriptFamily Latin script
usedFor writing the Tahitian language
usesDiacritics acute accent
macron
writingDirection left-to-right
writingSystemType Latin script

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Tahitian language usesAlphabet Tahitian alphabet