The Hawaiian language has its own punctuation, such as the okina. Which of our English punctuation marks is akin to the okina?

The okina is small apostrophe-like mark that acts as a glottal stop, sometimes described as being similar to the sound between the syllables of "oh-oh". You can see it often in Hawaiian, including in the spelling of almost every island: Hawai'i, O'ahu, Molokai'i, etc.

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