Write sitelen pona from the Latin letters, read it back, and find a Toki Pona name.
The sitelen pona font didn't load, so the glyphs can't be shown here. Copying as text still works.
- stacks two glyphs and + scales them: toki-pona.
Copy as sitelen pona gives UCSUR characters, which show as glyphs anywhere a sitelen pona font is installed (nasin nanpa, the font used here, is free) and as empty boxes everywhere else. For a chat or a post where you can't be sure, use the image.
Toki Pona has fourteen letters and short, simple syllables, so a name from another language gets reshaped to fit: Carl becomes Kale, Maria becomes Malija. Names are written with a capital letter, after a word saying what they name — jan for a person, ma for a country, toki for a language.
This works from spelling, which is only a guess at how a name sounds, so treat it as a first draft: say it aloud and adjust. The rules it follows: letters Toki Pona doesn't have become the nearest it has (r → l, f → p, v → w, b → p, d → t, g → k), every syllable ends in a vowel or n, and ti, ji, wo and wu become si, i, o and u.