The Authentic Orthography
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Why makemake.com is the correct form
MakeMake
No indigenous writing system is securely attested for individual polynesian names. The form shown is a modern scholarly transliteration.
MAKEMAKE
Stripped of its identity, the name was reduced to plain Latin letters. The original orthography — stress, length, breathing — was erased by systems that only understand A-Z.
MakeMake
The Unicode restoration recovers what ASCII destroyed. This is philological accuracy — not decoration. The domain encodes to Punycode, but the browser displays the truth.
makemake.com → makemake.com
The non-ASCII characters in MakeMake are encoded while the ASCII remains visible. To the DNS, it is Punycode. To humanity, it is MakeMake.
How makemake becomes MakeMake
| Step | ASCII | Unicode | Type | Scholarly Note | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | m | → | M | Same | Same, capitalized |
| 02 | a | → | a | Same | Same |
| 03 | k | → | k | Same | Same |
| 04 | e | → | e | Same | Same |
| 05 | m | → | M | Same | Same, capitalized |
| 06 | a | → | a | Same | Same |
| 07 | k | → | k | Same | Same |
| 08 | e | → | e | Same | Same |
Why MakeMake is classified as Tier-2 Basic
The Polynesian form MakeMake preserves neither stress nor length in this Unicode restoration. This makes it a single-tier Tier-2 Basic name — still a scholarly step above plain ASCII, but without the distinctive phonetic features that define higher tiers.
See how MakeMake behaves in the PUNYCODEX Type Tool — with predictive autocomplete, character-by-character breakdown, and scholarly constraint validation.
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