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
Sin English you should still spell voilà using diacritics English doesn't use, you're just inserting French text into English text so it's valid in that context
Toki : -)
Tidk man i just know that names get transliterated thats now the language works
Slmaooo, i also think most other languages that don't have 'v' use 'w' instead
M^~^
Tamerica gets called "amewika" and you just have to deal with it
SXD
Namewika
Nuwu
Ti mean specifically it wouldnt be amweika itd be "ma amewika"
Sif i learn toki pona i'm sticking with the standard rules lol
Tbecause for proper nouns you are expected to actually say what the named thing is
Tand "ma" is the word for land or region
Nthat's actually awesome
Tthats why nova's name beccame "jan nowa"
Nit's basically an escape word for the name
