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I would have tokiponized these as: (1) Lakan, (2) Jenki, (3) Nisole, (4) Łanełi (IMO x[K] is not really mappable to either <s> or <l>), (5) Witon, (6) Pen, (7) Pesawan, (8) Sinson, (9) Puku, and (10) Kulentolulen.

Listening to your accent I wouldn't guess that that was your hometown.

If I had a penny for every time this was translated in a language there isn't a lot of music in (Old French and toki pona) I'd have two pennies, which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice

I definitely heard Borouen

Love this video so so much!! What a fun time

Even for the average french, the pronounciation of Rouen is weird. It sounds like a very local way of saying it, which is definitively how we should tokiponise words, but the /ɑ̃/ sounds almost closer to a /œ̃/.

As an english speaker who isn't super familiar with toki pona (so forgive me if i don't get the phonology/phonotactics right!), here's what I came up with watching the video - Lakena (heard some sort of schwa-like sound at the end but not sure where it came from) - Kenkusi - Unsole - Lanesi - Wilekin (wanted *Wiletin here) - Pije - Esawan - Sinpon - Luwas (*Luwos) - Kulemtojalem (i got Kulem- and then had to slow down the video for the second half, hahaha) I think a few of these were swayed by audio quality, i couldn't hear the /f/ in isfahan and the /rm/ in perm at all, and i think the speaker for rouen breathed out at the end? Very interesting video concept, it was a joy to watch and play along!

mi jan pi toki Kanse la mi sona ala e tan pi kalama "PO" lon nimi "Rouen". ni li musi a. Nice work, and I hope there will be other experiments in the same vein. Actually I might even submit some town or people names from my region on my own to see how people would tokiponize them based on their sound only (with local accent)

My results: ma Lakawin ([aj] → "awi" not frequent enough) ma Jenjusi (Rank 2, 1, 1, 2, 3, 2) ma Ensule (Rank 3, 1, 1, 1, 1) ma Sanesili (Rank 1, 1, 1, 1, 5, 1) ma Wijetun (Rank 1, 3, 1, 6, 1) ma Pelen (Rank 1, 1, 1, 2, 1) ma Esowan (Rank 1 only) ma Kinkon (Initial "k" not frequent enough) ma Powa ([u] → "o" not frequent enough) ma Kelejontopolen (In general, ???)

this is so awesome!! a pity i didn't actually watch this during sptp but i'm so glad youtube recommended it to me now <3 truly entertaining and enlightening, thank u kala asi you have a bright future in content creation honestly

you completely glossed over the "a" turning into "e" in Llanelli

Just for fun my go at Thiruvananthapuram : Audio only: tilintapalin And from having access to the phonetic transcription: tiluwanantapulan

sitelen ni li pona mute! sina pona tan pali :)

16:03 Telentatalen Kulinteweten Ketentuten Tetetentuputun ♪Tanentamen Kerpinjininun? Didedobide Kijetesantakalu

Tiluwanantapulan Siluwanantapulan if you're picky

This was really interesting, although I'd have a few caveats about whether this is necessarily the best approach towards adapting loanwords. There is an issue with the fact that the primary language of poll takers could affect their perception of foreign words. For instance, consider how English speakers are far more likely to interpret the true-mid [e̞] in Spanish "tres" [tɾe̞s] as sounding closer to the [ei̯] in English 'trace' [tɹei̯s] (which has nearly the same vowel, although with an -i̯ glide) than to the [ɛ] in English 'tress' [tɹɛs] (which has a different vowel quality). Native Spanish speakers, on the other hand, would claim the opposite, as they don't perceive the [ɛ] in 'tress' as being significantly different from [e̞] but consider that the [ei̯] in 'trace' sounds completely different (closer to the Spanish diphthong [e̞i̯]). It could well be that English speakers taking the poll would judge the front-ness in [ø] to be more relevant than its roundness and adapt it as [e] where speakers of the local language might consider it more relevant to keep the roundness and adapt it as [o]. It would also be worth pondering whether phonetic realization (the actual sounds pronounced by the speakers) should really take priority over the underlying phonemes as perceived by natives. For instance, the first vowel in Russian's Россия [rɐˈsʲijə] is definitely closer to an /a/ than to an /o/, but Russian speakers should be aware that [ɐ] is a realization of unstressed [o] (as shown in alternations such as он [on] and они [ɐˈni]), so it's not so obvious whether Lasija would be a more faithful adaptation than Losija. And, of course, there might be all sorts of practical considerations. I'm thinking of something like how Barcelona is [bər.səˈlo.nə] in the local Catalan variety, which might justify an adaptation like Pasalona, but it's underlying phonetic representation is arguably /bar.seˈlo.na/ (as shown by Eastern Catalan [baɾ.seˈlo.na]), which might point us towards adapting it as Paselona. Then there's the fact that Spanish [baɾ.θeˈlo.na] is basically as prevalent within the city itself as the Catalan version, which should also favor Paselona (which, when combined with the previous argument, make for a strong case imo), but that could also open a nasty can of worms about the usage of local vs national varieties, regional and minority languages and so on. Then, again, there's no real reason why we'd need to pick just _one_ adaptation; multiple versions could easily coexist without causing too much trouble.

Now do Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch

this is a great video!! i hear the po- and i cannot imagine how you dont, audio is weird indeed

I think I can hear the P in Rouen. It's a pretty loud breathing on the mic noise that makes the word sound like P'ruã.

So cool ! As a french speaker i'd probably tokiponise Rouen as Luwan or Wawan. To me french 'r' is too unlike /k/ as it can be a uvular trill or an approximant in some context and is still/used to be an alveolar trill in some dialects so the choice to make it into a /k/ is weird to me. I can completely conceed that this is due to orthographical bias though. The /r/ in the clip you chose sound to me like a uvular trill and this probably caused people to hear a cluster like br or something due to the multiple "explosions" there are in a trill.kj

Moli means dead?

I feel bad for non-slavic people that they can't understand this masterpiece

ni li pona mute tawa mi!

i really like your predictions for how the language may evolve! ik when i speak toki pona out loud with my girlfriend we hardly ever use 100% "proper" grammar and will often mesh words together, similarly to english. so im sure if the language does become widely spoken, many different dialects will emerge, with each dialect forming based on what the speaker's native tongue is. since most toki pona speakers are native to english to my knowledge, im sure most dialects will still be understandable. but the language is most likely going to diverge in actual spoken speech, regardless of what the community thinks of the change. if it doesnt diverge, it means nobody is actually using it irl.

i know this is really late, but lipu Linku is my favourite toki pona dictionary and the main one I use. thanks for the good work :3 lipu nimi pi toki pona la, lipu Linku li pona ale tawa mi. pona :3

Took me a while to realize it it was just a list of all the toki pona words

2:09 mi li lukin e nimi ale- >;3

mi tawa e ma Seka tan e ni. ni li lon la, ni li pona!

sina lon seme?

Here’s the English lyrics is you don’t know the Toki Pona ;; Toki Pona ;; English ni li kili ;; This is an apple kili lili ;; A small apple kili lili loje mi ;; My small red apple ni li kili ;; This is an apple lon ma kili ;; Apple from the earth kili lili loje mi ;; My small red apple (1 repetit.) kili lili lili mi ;; My very small apple

Lyrics: ni, nanpa, nasa, nasin, nena, nimi, noka, namako sin, sike, sina, seme, sewi, seli, jaki, sijelo en, esun, suno, supa, suwi, suli, linja, palisa li, pali, lipu, jelo, lape, poki, kule, kalama wan, tawa, waso, wile, walo, lawa, kiwen, akesi tu, wawa, taso, telo, toki, weka, kute, soweli o, ante, mute, tenpo, tomo, pana, moli, pimeja e, pilin, pini, pipi, pona, pu, tan, lupa, pakala kin, ike, kala, kama, kasi, luka, kili, sitelen mu, lukin, oko, moku, monsi, sinpin, musi, kepeken ken, la, mi, lete, uta, unpa, selo, sona, utala a, laso, lili, loje, awen, ale, ala, alasa jo, mije, meli, mama, mani, sama, ma, mun, kapesi ko, ilo, leko, olin, tonsi, anu, open, kipisi kon, ijo, majuna, jan, ona, insa, poka, kulupu lon, anpa, monsuta, len, pi, pan, kijetesantakalu Translation: this, number, weird, way, nose, word, leg, extra new, circle, you, what, up, fire, junk, self and, trade, bright, surface, sweet, big, rope, stick do, work, book, yellow, sleep, container, colour, noise one, move, bird, desire, white, rule, solid, frog two, strong, but, water/liquid, talk, gone, hear, animal hey, change, many, time, building, give, death, dark the, emotion, end, bug, good, lipu pu, cause, pit, damage also, bad, fish, come, plant, arm, fruit, draw meow, appear, look, food, back, front, entertainment, use can, if, me, cold, mouth, erotic, skin, know, fight wow, blue, small, red, stay, all, naught, aim have, boy, girl, parent, money, similar, land, moon, grey semisolid, device, block, love, nonbinary, or, start, divide air, thing, ancient, person, them, inner, side, group exist, lower, scary, cover, that, grain, raccoon

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Pona mute

pona a!!!

i didn't expect to find a toki pona version of one of my favorite songs, guess it will be my primary "learning tool" now

oh god, the dictionary i maintain is in this video, and this video is over 2 years old, that was... that long ago that i made it?! It has been that long?! I'm so glad it's not the sort of dictionary that needs regular updates Anyway, i came here in the hopes of locating a copy of nimi ale epiku, would you happen to know where one is? Although, if its entirety is really contained in lipu linku i guess it doesn't matter.

Классно, почему только одна песня? Сначала гадал что за язык))

kalama ni li pona mute tawa kute mi :) mi wile sona e ni: toki Intalawi (interslavic) la kalama li seme?

Kute pona mute a!

kijesantalu

Mi lukin ala e lipu lon anpa sitelen la, Mi utala sona e kon pi toki sin 🤣

not sure if it was intentional but i love how the sitelen pona chosen for Wasinsan have mostly negative meanings (weka, anpa, ike, nasa). pona a!

to je mnogo dobro, ja ljubim!!!!❤

I can't read sitelen pona.

Majuna?

cool:) wish I could have participated. Started learning toki pona a bit too late for that. next year though

Is this Interslavic?

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