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
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
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
- ↑ Jan Misali. (n.d.). Seximal offtopic: Tk Pon. seximal. seximal.net/tk-pon