The Authentic Orthography
Forests, Birds, First Man · Man (from Proto-Polynesian *tane)
Why tāne.com is the correct form
Tāne
The name in its original Polynesian form. The original script is preserved in scholarly transliteration systems.
TANE
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.
Tāne
The Unicode restoration recovers what ASCII destroyed. This is philological accuracy — not decoration. The domain encodes to Punycode, but the browser displays the truth.
tāne.com → xn--tne-1oa.com
The non-ASCII characters in Tāne are encoded while the ASCII remains visible. To the DNS, it is Punycode. To humanity, it is Tāne.
How tane becomes Tāne
| Step | ASCII | Unicode | Type | Scholarly Note | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | t | → | T | Same | Same |
| 02 | a | → | ā | Length | Macron: long /aː/ |
| 03 | n | → | n | Same | Same |
| 04 | e | → | e | Same | Same |
Why Tāne is classified as Tier-1 Macron-Preserving
The Polynesian original Tāne contains both stress AND at least one long vowel. However, there is only one historically valid Unicode restoration. The ASCII fallback is modern English, not ancient canonical. This is the full scholarly orthography — a single-tier Tier-1 name.
See how Tāne behaves in the PUNYCODEX Type Tool — with predictive autocomplete, character-by-character breakdown, and scholarly constraint validation.
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