Styles of speech

Toki Pona has many styles 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

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

Historical styles

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

Main article: Historical usage

• Archaic words
• li pi
• pi X en Y

Phonology

• Denasalization
• Sandhi

See also

• Calendar systems
• Number systems

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