The usual English alphabet, the one that I'm using to write here, has 26 letters.
The Hawaiian alphabet has 13, one of which is the 'okina', the apostrophe used as a glottal stop, which is basically a stutter in sound. They also have an accent mark to elongate a sound, which is called a kohako.
They have 5 vowels, like normal, and 8 consonants, along with the okina for a thirteenth. Their alphabet is A, E, I, O, U, plus H, K, L, M, N, P, W.
The first time I heard about this, I thought of the words I know in Hawaiian and tried to figure out the letters from those. I got pretty close, but I didn't consider the okina because the apostrophe is considered punctuation in English, so I assumed the same for Hawaiian. The words I knew were Hawaii, Wiki, Mahalo, mele kalikimaka, and humuhumunukunukuapua'a, which covered all of the alphabet aside from the okina, so I drove myself crazy trying to figure out what the 13th letter was, and failed.
If you're interested or want to know more, please feel free to Google everything or look at the sources below.
Sources:
PoliLingua--Hawaiian Language History, Features, and Place in the Modern World
Historic Hawaii-- The First Printing, a written Hawaiian language
Hawaii Public Radio--A Teacher's Mission to Recover the forgotten Hawaiian Alphabet
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