Azerbaijani to Tahitian: making clear who is included in a shared plan
Biz does not identify every member of the Tahitian group
Azerbaijani biz can refer to the speaker with other people without stating whether the listener belongs to that group. Tahitian pronouns can distinguish both the number of participants and whether the person addressed is included. A short message about what we will do may therefore leave a choice that the target needs to make.
Tāua means the speaker and listener as a pair; māua refers to the speaker and one other person, excluding the listener. For larger groups, tātou includes the listener and mātou excludes them. These are differences in group membership, rather than alternative degrees of politeness.
Before translating an Azerbaijani travel arrangement, list the people who are actually going. Two guests telling a host about their own outing need a different group reference from a guest arranging an outing with that host. The English gloss we would hide that difference too, so an intermediate English translation will not automatically resolve it.
The same conversation can contain more than one we
An Azerbaijani message might say that we booked a room and that we can meet tomorrow. The booking could concern two guests, while the meeting includes those guests and their host. Repeating biz does not prove that both actions have identical participants.
Clarify each action separately in the source: who made the booking, who will stay, and who will attend the meeting. The Tahitian translation should be allowed to use different group references when the membership changes. Forcing one pronoun throughout the paragraph would preserve surface repetition at the expense of meaning.
This is especially useful when replying on behalf of a couple. A pair excluding the recipient is not the same as a larger exclusive group. If another traveller joins, update the group description before translating the reply again rather than changing only the passenger count at the end.
Do not infer an invitation solely from a general statement about a group’s plans. If the Azerbaijani writer intends to invite the listener, say so explicitly. Conversely, if the writer is only reporting arrangements, avoid adding an inclusive meaning that might make the listener expect a place on the trip.
Keep long vowels and the glottal stop in the spelling
Tahitian writing distinguishes long vowels and a glottal stop. These features are not decorative marks to strip from Latin text. Their written representation helps distinguish words and pronunciation, including the pronouns used to identify a group.
An Azerbaijani reader may find the Latin letters approachable while still overlooking a macron or a glottal-stop mark. Preserve the translated spelling when copying a meeting message into a calendar note or invitation. Do not simplify a pronoun until it merely resembles a sequence that is easier to type on the source-language keyboard.
For the final review, check each shared action against its participants, then check the copied pronouns character by character. A correct date and meeting point are only part of the arrangement. The Tahitian reader must also know whether the message includes them, excludes them, or refers to exactly two people.
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