nasa renaissance

The subject of this article is an experimental or hypothetical style that is not understood by most speakers, or is used only in specific small communities. Learners should avoid using it.

The nasa renaissance is a highly experimental and nonstandard style of Toki Pona, developed by ilo Powa over several months of absence from the ma lili and ma kule communities, and published to ma pona pi toki pona in July 2023.

Grammar

Ideophones

Any reduplicated interjection becomes an ideophone, "symbolism for any sensory or emotional experience." For example, suno suno may represent the sensation of a reflective surface shining. In sitelen pona, ideophonic interjections are often written in a mu (mumu)-shaped cartouche.

Superlatives

Reduplicating a head or modifying it with ale makes it a superlative, roughly equivalent to nanpa wan. lili lili remains ambiguous.

Semiparticle anu

anu is treated like kin and taso, and modifies phrases instead of separating them. anu seme is sometimes replaced with seme anu as a result.

Preverb marking

Main article: Preverb marking

ta and ni can mark preverbs.

Semantics

Categorical definitions

Extending a semantic phenomenon of words defined as adjectives in Toki Pona: The Language of Good, every content word is treated as containing ijo [word] in its semantic space. For example, pali can mean ijo pali and thence "worker". This style is sometimes called "X = ijo X".

Spatial kepeken and sama

As prepositions, kepeken and sama are given the additional spatial senses of "through" and "alongside", respectively, as it was noticed that all of the other prepositions can convey spatial information.

Three-color system

By removing laso and jelo from the color system, walo, loje, and pimeja are left to convey brightness, warmth or saturation, and darkness, respectively.

nimi sin

aku

Main article: aku

aku
Pronunciation	/ˈa.ku/
Usage	2023: Not notable (1%) Most speakers don't understand this word.
Book and era	No book
Part of speech	Content word

aku (sitelen pona: akuaku) is a marginal content word relating to surprise and to flavors such as sourness, created "in order to expand the taste words".

anta

Main article: anta

anta
Pronunciation	/ˈan.ta/
Usage	2023: Not notable (1%) Most speakers don't understand this word.
Book and era	No book
Part of speech	Content word

anta (sitelen pona: antaanta) is a marginal content word relating to oil, created "in order to expand the taste words".

ata and ulu

ata
Pronunciation	/ˈa.ta/
Usage	2023: Not notable (0%) Most speakers don't understand this word.
Book and era	No book
Part of speech	Preverb, content word

ulu
Pronunciation	/ˈu.lu/
Usage	2023: Not notable (0%) Most speakers don't understand this word.
Book and era	No book
Part of speech	Preverb, content word

ata and ulu are marginal content words and preverbs relating to timeframes. They allow for more explicit descriptions of sequential events.

ata, from Latin -ata, describes the time after a completed action, and as a preverb means "to have (done) (something)". By constract, ulu, from Latin -ulus, describes the time before a coming action, and as a preverb means "to be about (to do something)".

inta

Main article: inta

inta
Pronunciation	/ˈin.ta/
Usage	2023: Not notable (0%) Most speakers don't understand this word.
Book and era	No book
Part of speech	Semiparticle

inta is a marginal semiparticle roughly meaning "at least" or "definitely", and "actually".

jule

Main article: jule

jule
Pronunciation	/ˈju.le//j/ sounds like English Y, as in "fjord" or "hallelujah".
Usage	2023: Obscure (4% ↗︎ ) Most speakers don't understand this word.2022: Obscure (1%)
Book and era	No book (post-ku)
Part of speech	Content word

jule (sitelen pona: julejule) is an obscure content word relating to wavering, either physically, or in possibility or opinion.

kana

Main article: kana

kana
Pronunciation	/ˈka.na/
Usage	2023: Not notable (1%) Most speakers don't understand this word.
Book and era	No book
Part of speech	Content word

kana (sitelen pona: kanakana) is a marginal content word relating to unreal imagery.

kasan

kasan
Pronunciation	/ˈka.san/
Usage	2023: Not notable (0%) Most speakers don't understand this word.
Book and era	No book
Part of speech	Content word

kasan, from Malay kacang, is a marginal content word relating to legumes, seeds, nuts, beans, soy, lentils, and other hard-shelled fruit.

lapan

lapan
Pronunciation	/ˈla.pan/
Usage	2023: Not notable (1%) Most speakers don't understand this word.
Book and era	No book
Part of speech	Content word

lapan, from Arabic لَبَن (laban; "milk, dairy products") is a marginal content word relating to dairy and other creamy, fatty, rich, and smooth things.

nowi

Main article: nowi

nowi
Pronunciation	/ˈno.wi/
Usage	2023: Not notable (1%) Most speakers don't understand this word.
Book and era	No book
Part of speech	Content word

nowi (sitelen pona: nowinowi) is a marginal content word relating to connections, mutuality, and exchange, originally coined to replace esun.

siwala

siwala
Pronunciation	/ˈsi.wa.la/
Usage	2023: Not notable (0%) Most speakers don't understand this word.
Book and era	No book
Part of speech	Content word

siwala (sitelen pona: siwalasiwala), from Tagalog tiwalà ("trust, faith, belief"), is a marginal content word relating to "the quality of being outside of understanding but accepted as reality; the quality of being not wished to be understood by one for the benefits associated with not understanding".

teki

teki
Pronunciation	/ˈte.ki/
Usage	2023: Not notable (0%) Most speakers don't understand this word.
Book and era	No book
Part of speech	Content word

teki, from Japanese 出来事 (dekigoto; "incident, event") is a marginal content word relating to cases, circumstances, situations, events, states of affair and being, and status. Its semantic space overlaps that of tenpo.

See also

• sole