there's like 200 total words and everything is done by combining them
there's like 200 total words and everything is done by combining them
Ni should mayhaps learn about this
NOOH that's very little words
Ni heard you need like 10k of other languages to speak well
Ti say like 200, the smallest number of some dictionaries is 120
N:0
Tbut can be up to 300 that would be recogniseable to most speakers
Tbut only 120 are considered "essential"
Tactually its a thing that how someone says something can vary
Tso you could call a computer "art box" but someone else could call it "confusion box"
Tand both be meaning computer
Tor depending on who's talking alcohol is often either "strange liquid" or "strong liquid"
Tetc
Tmi toki toki pona tawa jan nopa a!
T(im speaking toki pona to the person nova!)
Ti can 100% talk your ear off about this language its one of my big obsessions
Ni don't see nova in that sentence
Ndid you use the word nova and not the name?
N:p
MHungarian does that too
Ttoki pona doesnt have a "v" sound
Ti was debating if i shouldve said nopa or nowa
Tthe rule is to "tokiponise" the word, say it as close as you can using the sounds that exist in the language
Tanother example is the name of the country spain "espania" in toki pona is "epana"
Tbritain is "pitan"
Tetc
Tmitchel is "misali"
Saren't you supposed to keep the spelling and pronounciation of names from the language the name originates from
Tsorta like hawaiian does famously resulting in the phrase "merry christmas" being translated into hawaiian as "mele kalikimaka"
MThough I'm advocating for Hungarian, I only know one word from the language.
M"Alma"
Tnope thats an import word from the slavs
Tcomes from kazakh originally
Tthere's a big kazakh city called alma
Tin most cases yea
Tbut in toki pona circles you are supposed to transliterate names
Ttoki pona's alphabet just omits the existence of letters it doesnt use
Tthere is no way to write v or z in toki pona
Sright
Si mean i just semi-frequently see like, Chinese text referring to e.g. an American company name by using the Latin alphabet
Tyea toki pona technically doesnt use the latin alphabet
Tit has a 14 letter alphabet based on latin
Sik, that's why i picked an example using two different writing systems
Tp, t, k, s, m, n, l, j, w, a, e, i, o, u
Tthats it
Tits basically a technicality but theyre not supposed to be latin script theyre supposed to be IPA script
Tcos its a pronunciation system
Ttoki pona actually because it has so few words usually uses a system called "sitelen" which is like heiroglyphs or chinese glyphs, where each word has its own symbol and you can combine them
Tthe english looking letters are a pronunciation guide basically
Nnowa definitely
Nuwufy is the correct way to do things
