Abbreviations

The subject of this article is nonstandard and will not be understood by most speakers.

If you are a learner, this information will not help you speak the language. It is recommended to familiarize yourself with the standard style, and to be informed and selective about which nonstandard styles you adopt.

This is a list of nonstandard abbreviations in Toki Pona.

kepeken

kepeken is tied with sitelen as the longest nimi pu. It has accrued many abbreviations, such as kepen (listed in ijo Linku) and kpkn.

The 3-letter abbreviations kkn, kpk and kpn cannot be mistaken for any other nimi ku or word in Linku. kep only overlaps with okepuma, an obscure non-ku nimi sin.

Can we go further? While kk conflicts with several nimi ku, it is unique among nimi pu, though probably extremely unclear. Every other 2-letter abbreviation is more ambiguous.

kijetesantakalu

kijetesantakalu is often shortened to kijete or kije. Some speakers dislike this, as the original point of the word was to be overly long, while proponents of these abbreviations may like and use the word for unrelated reasons.

From sitelen pona

Some words may be written using symbols yhat the look like their corresponding sitelen pona glyphs. Examples include:

• p for mimi
• b or 6 for sinasina
• x for alaala
  • Can be unspaced in questions, e.g. kxk for ken ala kenken ala ken
• k for kenken
• w for wilewile
• > for lili

Headnouns

When referring to someone, their headnoun may be abbreviated as a single letter and attached to the name word without a space, e.g. soweli Keju becoming sKeju. Modifiers get their own letters, so akesi wawa Lupon becomes awLupon. was used at least as early as 2009.

See also

• Acronyms