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==Coda nasal assimilation==
The coda nasal
==Glottal stop==
Vowels in hiatus may be split with a {{w|glottal stop}}, catching all airflow at the very back of the throat. This is the sound at the beginning and hyphen of English "uh-oh" {{IPA|[ˈ<mark>ʔ</mark>ʌ.<mark>ʔ</mark>ow]}}.
A Toki Pona example is a possible pronunciation of {{tp|[[tawa]] [[a]]}} {{IPA|[ˈtawa‿<mark>ʔ</mark>a]}}.
{{tok|jan Mato}} speculated that the glottal stop would develop in all instances of hiatus if Toki Pona were more widely spoken.<ref>{{cite web|url=//tokipona.net/tp/Sandhi.aspx|url-status=dead|title=Sandhi|author={{tok|jan Mato}}|username=|date=|website=tokipona.net|publisher=|archive-url=//web.archive.org/web/20130120091240/http://tokipona.net/tp/Sandhi.aspx|archive-date=Jan 20 2013|access-date=2024-03-12|quote=I suspect that if this were a spoken language, people would invent a glottal stop for the vowel/vowel sandhi and assimilate {{tok|nm}}/{{tok|nn}} into a single {{tok|m}} or {{tok|n}} sound.}}</ref>
==Glide==
Some speakers insert a {{w|semivowel}} glide at the end of vowels. In English, this occurs with the "long vowels" ay ee oh oo {{IPA|/ej ij ow uw/}}<ref>
Learners may do this unintentionally, leading to ambiguities between phrases like {{tp|[[mi]] [[jo]] pona [[e]] [[ni]]}} ("I'm holding this fine") and {{tp|mi [[o]] pona e ni}} {{IPA|[mi<mark>j</mark>‿o ˈpona e ni]}} ("I should fix that"). Practice keeping the vowels "flat" to avoid this.
Some proficient speakers add glides intentionally in certain contexts, to split the hiatus in phrases like {{tp|wile e}} {{IPA|[ˈwile<mark>j</mark>‿e]}}. There is very little risk of confusion with {{tp|[[je]]}}, {{a category|je}} {{tp|[[nimi sin]]}}, and the [[syllable]]s {{tp|*ji *wo *wu}} are [[wuwojiti|disallowed]], so {{IPA|[
==Crasis==
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