I hope that it is not all replaced by 'Hollow-a'. Until missionaries from New England began to write down phonetically the Polynesian-based words in the 1820's, Hawaiian was only a spoken language. There are only 12 letters in Hawaiian. U. Sometimes W is pronounce like V, but only in the middle of words. Consonants are always followed by vowels to make syllables of only two letters.
Words never end in consonants.
Nouns are not pluralized with S because there is no S in the Hawaiian language. All Rights Reserved.