It seems Maltz is also working with the Americanized pronunciation of "wiki", which is what many people use when referring to Wikipedia and its derivatives, rather than the original Hawaiian.

On Wed, Aug 2, 2017 at 1:07 PM, SuStel <sustel@trimboli.name> wrote:

On 8/2/2017 12:57 PM, Michael Roney, Jr. wrote:

I'm not sure who Matlz's Hawaiian tutor is, but shouldn't "wiki" be transliterated as {wIyqIy}?

Hawaiian has a glottal stop, and "wikiwiki" doesn't have one.

Maltz also uses the property of the glottal stop to stress the syllable it appears in. By the general stress rules, wIyqIy would be pronounced with stress on the qIy, while wI'qIy is stressed on the wI'. (He could have said it was wIy'qIy, but he didn't.)

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