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| | Tahitian language -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) |
 | | Note the use of the apostrophe to denote a glottal stop—this is typical of (Click link for more info and facts about Polynesian languages) Polynesian languages, and when copying Tahitian words, one should take care to faithfully reproduce apostrophes as they are in actuality consonants, not punctuation, and are as important as any other letter. |
 | | Tahitian makes a phonemic distinction between long and short vowels; when written, long vowels are either marked with a diacritic (typically, a (A diacritical mark (-) placed above a vowel to indicate a long sound) macron) or reduplicated. |
 | | Both the Hawaiians and the Tahitians have lived in their respective archipelagos for millennia; no contact between the two cultures had, to anyone's knowledge, been made since their separation in ancient times. |
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