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Confused about those pesky symbols we call the amata (glottal stop) and makarona (macron) here's a series of videos showing what they do to the sound of a vowel https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0-O5JR3zKMqeDBKAk9ksCVd9r0y5hjZS #CILW20
Or if u too busy for that. Makarona ā ē ī ō ū marks the vowels as long (approx twice as long) tama (child), tāmā (to clean) #CILW20
Amata is actully a consonant (a glottal stop). Its the sound in the middle of "oh oh" but it also effects the sound of the vowels it's next to a bit. #CILW20
Ara (Road) vs ʻara (sin) or piʻa (box) vs pia (beer) #CILW20
Amata is a loan word from the Arabic word hamza which means glottal stop. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamza sometimes it has an amata - ʻamata and sometimes it doesn't. Since its a loan word it doesn't matter #CILW20
/ʔ/ in Southern Kuki Māori is the reflex of /h/ and /f/ (wh) in Māori Aotearoa so whare/ ʻare kohi/koʻi hoki/ʻoki etc #CILW20
He northern varieties of Kuki Māori don't have the glottal stop. Rakahanga/Manihiki has /f/ and /h/ and Māngarongaro /s/ and /h/ #CILW20
Makarona is a loan from English macron (maybe or maybe not obvs)
