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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