Abbreviations

This subject is nonstandard and may not be understood by most speakers.

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

kepeken

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 often 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.

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	alaala	x	X
e	ee	>>	»
ken	kenken	k	K	κ
la	lala	)
li	lili	>	›
mi	mimi	p	P	ρ
nanpa	nanpananpa	#
sina	sinasina	b	6
wile	wilewile	w	W	ω

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