kijetesantakalu

kijetesantakalu/tok
Mustelids (clockwise from top left): skunk, red panda, raccoon, wolverine
Pronunciation	/ˈki.je.te.san.ta.ka.lu/.to.k//j/ sounds like English Y, as in "fjord" or "hallelujah".
Usage	2023: N/ANot applicable This word has not been surveyed for. Most speakers likely don't understand it.
Book and era	No book
Part of speech	Content word

kijetesantakalu is a common pre-pu word and nimi ku suli describing raccoons and other procyonid animals. It was coined by Sonja Lang as an April Fools' joke in 2009. It is by far the longest Toki Pona word currently in use. Due to the word's length, it is often pronounced with secondary stress on the syllable ta, or more rarely ka or san.

tan

nimi kijetesantakalu li tan nimi kierteishäntäkarhu pi toki Sumi. nimi ni li tan kierteinen ("jo e sike"), li tanhäntä ("palisa monsi"), li tan karhu ("soweli monsuta").

selo kon

Sonja Lang originally defined kijetesantakalu as "any animal from the Procyonidae family, such as raccoons, coatis, kinkajous, olingos, ringtails and cacomistles".

As of announcing the word, Lang was undecided on whether to include red pandas as kijetesantakalu. She resurfaced the issue on ma pona pi toki pona in 2021, suggesting that the semantic space expand to cover the Musteloidea superfamily, which also includes weasels, otters, martens, badgers, and skunks.

Reconstruction of Sinosauropteryx, a dinosaur likened to present-day {{{1}}}

Some speakers expand the semantic space of kijetesantakalu further to include other animals, such as the Japanese raccoon dog, and Sinosauropteryx, a small, chestnut-colored dinosaur with feather patterns of a bandit-like mask and a striped tail.

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ku

For Toki Pona Dictionary, respondents in ma pona pi toki pona translated these English words as kijetesantakalu:

procyonid³41–60% of respondents, Musteloidea²21–40% of respondents

musi ala

jan pi mute lili li toki e ni: kijetesantakalu li suli tawa kulupu pi toki pona li musi ala. jan ni li lili e nimi tawa “kijete” anu “kije”. jan li nimi open e nimi ni li ken lili e ona. jan mute li jo e ante toki pi musi ona.

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sitelen pona

Glyph designed by jan Same, used in {{{1}}}

The most recognized sitelen pona glyph for kijetesantakalu (󱦀) was designed by jan Same in 2019. It won a glyph design contest for the font linja pona, and spread from there. The glyph is featured in the Esperanto edition of Toki Pona: The Language of Good.

sitelen ante li lon. ken la jan pi mute lili li kepeken ni:

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  Glyph variant designed by Jack Humbert, used in sitelen pona pona

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  Glyph proposal by Elemenopi

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  Glyph proposal by Heresdevking

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sitelen sitelen

The current sitelen sitelen glyph for kijetensatakalu was designed by jan Saki in 2021. jan Pensa and palisa jelo Natan have also created proposals for a full-body variant, inspired by the sitelen pona glyph.

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  Full-body glyph proposal by jan Pensa in 2021

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  Close up and full-body and designs proposals by palisa jelo Natan

History

Sonja Lang coined kijetesantakalu as an April Fools' joke in 2009. In the interim, she forgot about the word and did not remember it upon hearing it used in a voice chat. She was surprised that it became so popular.

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• nasin kijetesantakalu — Grammatical analysis
• nasin nanpa kijetesantakalu — Joke number system
• sutopatikuna

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kijetesantakalu/tok.

• "kijetesantakalu/tok" on lipu Linku
• "kijetesantakalu/tok" on lipu Wikipesija
• "kijetesantakalu/tok" on English Wiktionary