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
Tperson nova
Soh nice
MI wonder how it works with names like mine that have numerical characters, or otherwise.
Nto make sure it's not treated as a word
Nthat's amazing
Sa human language with strong typing
Slet's go
NEXACTLY
SLOL
Nthe rust of spoken language
Ti mean not like its unique in that tho right?
Mpfft
Tlojban does the same thing
Nso internet languages