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==History==
Some of the earliest Toki Pona texts feature an obsolete use of ''o.'' Placed before the subject of a sentence, ''o'' expressed the [[Glossary#optative|optative mood]] (used for wishes); before the predicate, it could only signal an [[Glossary#Imperative|imperative]] (used for commands). The following examples of optative sentences are taken from the earliest version of Toki Pona's Wikipedia page<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Toki_Pona&oldid=2842887</ref> (2004), but the vocabulary in the text suggests it was written in 2002.
{{Example|o nimi pi mi mute li kama suli!|May our name become important!}}{{Example|o jan li sona ala e toki pi jan ante.|May people not understand each other's languages.}}{{Example|o ona li lape pona.|Let her rest well.}}
Some speakers, such as {{tok|jan Kipo}} (John Clifford) and {{tok|jan Minasa}} (astrodonunt)<!-- hi juwan! little did you know i was also doing a smaller edit to the same page, i have no idea how to cite the yt video la sina kxk ni lon ni a -->, preferred using the particle {{tp|o}} as sentence-initial particle instead of it substituting {{tp|li}} or another similar particle.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://github.com/stefichjo/toki-pona/blob/master/kipo.md|title=Dialectal Toki Pona (KIPO)|website=GitHub|author=Stephan Schneider ({{tok|jan Tepan}})|date=2015}}</ref> Nowadays this is considered nonstandard.▼
▲''o'' stopped appearing before the subject early in the language's history.{{citation needed|date=2024-05-06}} Since then, the second sentence type with ''o'' (before the predicate) has subsumed the meaning of the former: the imperative and optative were merged. Some speakers, such as {{tok|jan Kipo}} (John Clifford) and {{tok|jan Minasa}} (astrodonunt)<!-- hi juwan! little did you know i was also doing a smaller edit to the same page, i have no idea how to cite the yt video la sina kxk ni lon ni a -->,
=={{tp|sitelen pona}}==
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