Historical usage

The subject of this article is historical information that is presented for completeness, and might not reflect current usage.

During its development at the start of the 2000s, Toki Pona had major differences from its current standard form. Various words and features changed and were added and removed. While a lot of information has been lost, since most of the activity at that time was on the unarchived IRC chatroom, there is still enough publicly accessible information to reconstruct early forms of Toki Pona.

Phonology

The phonology is not changed from its initial form. In July 2002, Toki Pona Forums user Viktoro proposed reducing Toki Pona to a 3-vowel system; jan Sonja explored the idea and ultimately rejected it.

Grammar

The most notable grammatical differences are the use of en for almost every definition of English "and", and the use of pi to mean "of". In current use, en only separates multiple subjects, and pi rebrackets a following multiword phrase as a modifier. anu was historically used as a question marker; see anu § History.

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