Abbreviations

The subject of this article is nonstandard and will not be understood by most speakers.

If you are a learner, this information will not help you speak the language. It is recommended to familiarize yourself with the standard style, and to be informed and selective about which nonstandard styles you adopt.

This is a list of nonstandard abbreviations in Toki Pona, generally only used in informal settings.

kepeken

kepen
Pronunciation	/ˈke.pen/
Usage	2024: N/ANot applicable This word has not been surveyed for. Most speakers likely don't understand it.2023: Obscure (3% ↗︎ )2022: Obscure (1%)
Book and era	No book (post-pu)
Part of speech	Content word

kepeken is tied with sitelen as the longest nimi pu. It has accrued many abbreviations, such as kepen and kpkn.

The three-letter abbreviations kkn, kpk, and kpn cannot be mistaken for any other nimi ku or nonstandard word. kep only overlaps with okepuma, an obscure nimi sin. The possible two-letter abbreviation kk conflicts with several nimi ku. However, it is unique among nimi pu, though probably extremely unclear. Every other two-letter abbreviation is more ambiguous.

kijetesantakalu

kijetesantakalu is sometimes shortened to kijete or kije. Some speakers dislike this, as the original point of the word was to be overly long, while proponents of these abbreviations may like and use the word for unrelated reasons, like using it as an identity symbol.

tenpo

For how to express 10, see Numbers.

ten
Pronunciation	/ten/
Usage	2024: N/ANot applicable This word has not been surveyed for. Most speakers likely don't understand it.2023: Not notable (1% → )2022: Obscure (1%)
Book and era	No book (post-pu)
Part of speech	Content word

ten is a marginal proposed abbreviation of tenpo. It can be written the same in the logographic writing systems, as first proposed by nimi Elemenopi in July 2020. An alternative sitelen pona glyph for ten (ten2ten2) is shaped after an hourglass, and can be drawn in one stroke as a twisted quadrilateral, though it could be confused for a stylized loje (lojeloje).

ten occurs in the contraction ten'ni of the phrase tenpo ni, which according to jan Kipo^{[citation needed]}This claim needs references to reliable sources. is characteristic of jans.

kulupu

Main article: kulu

The word kulupu is rarely shortened to kulu. It is most commonly used as a number word meaning 6, especially in base 6 number systems.

anu seme

The phrase anu seme is sometimes shortened. Shortenings include ansem, anusem, and simply anu, among others.

From sitelen pona

See also: sitelen akesi

Some words are abbreviated based on their corresponding sitelen pona glyphs.

Abbreviations from sitelen pona

Word	sitelen pona	Abbreviations
ala	ala	X x
anu	anu	Y y
e	e	>> »
en	en	+
ken	ken	K k κ
la	la	)
li	li	> ›
mi	mi	P p ρ 9
nanpa	nanpa	#
pi	pi	L
sama	sama	=
seme	seme	?
sina	sina	b 6
wan	wan	1
wile	wile	W w ω

These are often combined, such as kxk for ken ala ken, wxw for wile ala wile, y? for anu seme, and #1) for nanpa wan la.

Headnouns

When referring to someone, their headnoun may be abbreviated as a single letter and attached to the name word without a space, such as soweli Keju becoming sKeju. Modifiers get their own letters, so akesi wawa Lupon becomes awLupon. Abbreviating headnouns in this way is attested as early as 2009.

Numbers

Number words may be written as their first letters, capitalized and without spaces between them. For example, ale ale mute luka luka wan could be written as AAMLLW.

See also

• Acronyms
• tk pon, an abbreviation system by jan Misali