Styles of speech

Toki Pona has many styles of speech that are common to particular speakers, communities, or eras.

List of notable styles

• Abbreviations
• Acronyms
• Head dropping
• kepeken e
• meli Sonko
• Preverb marking
• pu-rism
• Reduplication

Community-specific styles

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

Phonology

• Denasalization
• Sandhi

Word avoidance

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According to jan Kekan San:

• jon't and palin't mainly refer to semantic shifts, with the actual word-avoidance styles being obscure
  (jo is at 99% reported usage, pali is at 100%)
• Could also cover niche or otherwise unused styles as teaching tools ("e.g. no pi, no modifiers, no preverbs, no second li, no colors but kule, no names") or for fun ("only third person, minimize the word list as much as possible, no e, no la")

Additionally:

• What are en't and lon't

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

Historical styles

Main article: Historical usage

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

• Archaic words
• li pi
• pi X en Y

See also

• Calendar systems
• Number systems

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