Hawai'ian, there were no " t"s in it at all, though the closely
In some cases, an old sound becomes a new sound across the board. Such
a change occurred in Hawai'ian, in that all the " t" sounds in an
older form of the language became " k"s: at the time Europeans encountered
Hawai'ian, there were no " t"s in it at all, though the closely
related languages Tahitian, Samoan, Tongan and Maori all have " t"s.