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The reef triggerfish (Rhinecanthus rectangulus), also known as the rectangular triggerfish, wedgetail triggerfish [2] or by its Hawaiian name humuhumunukunukuāpuaʻa ...
The line, "Where the Humuhumunukunukuapua'a go swimming by," refers to the reef triggerfish, Hawaii's state fish, by its long Hawaiian name. Poi is a Hawaiian food staple made from taro root. There is one full line in Hawaiian, "Komo mai no kāua i ka hale welakahao," which literally translates to, "Come into our house while the iron's hot."
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After reading through the pronunciation part again I feel it is a proper way to introduce the pronunciation; common American-English way but including the proper Hawaiian way as well. I still don't think it needs to be the first sentence, it presumes that the pronunciation is the most important part of the article, more than what a uke is.
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In Portuguese, it represents a nasal near-open central vowel ([ɐ̃]), though it varies from near-open to mid-central vowel according to dialect. It also appears as a part of the diphthongs ãe, pronounced as /ɐ̃j̃/, and ão, pronounced as /ɐ̃w̃/.
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