tk pon
tk pon is a Toki Pona abbreviation system created by jan Misali, following their toki pona ASCII syllabary. It is intended to be immediately legible to Toki Pona speakers.
Rules[edit | edit source]
The rules are the criteria a word needs to meet to be a proper abbreviation in tk pon. They were created by jan Misali, and paraphrased below from a site owned by him, seximal.net.
- A potential abbreviation is a sequence of letters that meets the following
- Letters were only be deleted when making the abbreviation. Letters were not inserted or rearranged.
- The first letter of the abbreviation is the same as its unabbreviated Toki Pona word.
- The spelling is not the same as a separate existing Toki Pona word.
- There are no consecutive vowel.
- A proper abbreviation is a potential abbreviation that unambiguously applies to a single Toki Pona word.
- Words may have several proper abbreviations.
Cheat Sheet[edit | edit source]
The following is a cheat sheet with the minimal length tk pon abbreviations for all the nimi ku suli.[1]
| word in Toki Pona | tk pon abbreviation |
|---|---|
| a | a |
| akesi | ak |
| ala | ala |
| alasa | als, asa |
| ale | ale |
| anpa | ap |
| ante | at |
| anu | anu |
| awen | aw |
| e | e |
| en | en |
| epiku | ep, ek |
| esun | es |
| ijo | ij |
| ike | ik |
| ilo | il |
| insa | in, is |
| jaki | jk |
| jan | jn |
| jasima | js, jm |
| jelo | je, jl |
| jo | jo |
| kala | kala |
| kalama | klm |
| kama | kama |
| kasi | kas |
| ken | ken |
| kepeken | kep, kpe, kpk, kpn, kke, kkn |
| kijetesantakalu | kj |
| kili | kli |
| kin | kin |
| kipisi | kip, kpi, kps |
| kiwen | kw |
| ko | ko |
| kokosila | kok, kos, kol, kko, kks, kki |
| kon | kon |
| ku | ku |
| kule | kle |
| kulupu | kup, klp, kpu |
| kute | kut |
| la | la |
| lanpan | lan, lnp, lnn, lpn |
| lape | lpe |
| laso | ls |
| lawa | lw |
| leko | lek, lko |
| len | len |
| lete | lt |
| li | li |
| lili | ll |
| linja | lij, lnj, lja |
| lipu | lip, lpu |
| loje | loj, lje |
| lon | lon |
| luka | lka |
| lukin | lun, lki, lkn |
| lupa | lup |
| ma | ma |
| mama | mm |
| mani | man |
| meli | mel |
| meso | mes, mso |
| mi | mi |
| mije | mj |
| misikeke | mis, mik, msk, mse, mke, mkk, mek |
| moku | mok, mku |
| moli | mol |
| monsi | moni, mosi, mnsi |
| monsuta | mot, mnu, mnt, mna, msu, mst, msa, mta |
| mu | mu |
| mun | mun |
| musi | mus |
| mute | mte |
| n | n |
| namako | nam, nak, nma, nmk, nmo, nko |
| nanpa | np |
| nasa | nsa |
| nasin | nsi, nsn, nin |
| nena | ne |
| ni | ni |
| nimi | nim, nmi |
| noka | nok, nka |
| o | o |
| oko | ok |
| olin | ol |
| ona | ona |
| open | op |
| pakala | pak, pkl |
| pali | pali |
| palisa | ps |
| pan | pan |
| pana | pana |
| pi | pi |
| pilin | pil, pln |
| pimeja | pm, pe, pj |
| pini | pni |
| pipi | pp |
| poka | poka |
| poki | pki |
| pona | pon |
| pu | pu |
| sama | sam, sma |
| seli | seli |
| selo | selo |
| seme | sem, sme |
| sewi | sew |
| sijelo | sj |
| sike | sik, ske |
| sin | sin |
| sina | sina |
| sinpin | sip, snp, sni, snn, spi, spn |
| sitelen | st |
| soko | sok, sko |
| sona | son |
| soweli | sow, sol, swe, swl |
| suli | sul |
| suno | sun, sno |
| supa | sup, spa |
| suwi | suw |
| tan | tan |
| taso | tas, tso |
| tawa | tw |
| telo | tl |
| tenpo | tp |
| toki | tk |
| tomo | tm |
| tonsi | ton, tos, tns, tni, tsi |
| tu | tu |
| unpa | un, up |
| uta | uta |
| utala | ul |
| walo | wal, wlo |
| wan | wn |
| waso | ws |
| wawa | ww |
| weka | wk |
| wile | wi |
External links[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Jan Misali. (n.d.). Seximal offtopic: Tk Pon. seximal. seximal.net/tk-pon