Styles of speech

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A style of speech is a set of linguistic variants.

List of styles of speech

• Head dropping
• pu-rism

Word avoidance

• en't
• gendern't (avoiding meli, mije, and sometimes tonsi)
• jan't
• jon't
• lon't
• nanpan't
• pin't
• tenpo dropping

Community-specific styles

• kulupu pi toki pona pi ma Anku dialect
• ma pona pi toki pona dialect
• nasin panke