nasa renaissance
The nasa renaissance is a highly experimental and nonstandard style of Toki Pona, developed by members of the ma lili and ma kule communities, and published by ilo Powa to ma pona pi toki pona in July 2023.[1]
Grammar[edit | edit source]
Ideophones[edit | edit source]
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 (mu)-shaped cartouche.
Superlatives[edit | edit source]
Reduplicating a head or modifying it with ale makes it a superlative, roughly equivalent to nanpa wan. lili lili remains ambiguous.
Semiparticle anu[edit | edit source]
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[edit | edit source]
ta and ni can mark preverbs.
Prepositional weka[edit | edit source]
weka may be used as a preposition, meaning "absent", "except", or "without".
Semantics[edit | edit source]
Categorical definitions[edit | edit source]
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[edit | edit source]
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[edit | edit source]
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[edit | edit source]
aku[edit | edit source]
Pronunciation | /ˈa |
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Usage | 2024: N/A This word has not been surveyed for. Most speakers likely don't understand it.2023: Not notable (1%) |
Book and era | No book |
Part of speech | Content word |
aku (sitelen pona: aku) is a marginal content word relating to surprise and to flavors such as sourness, created "in order to expand the taste words".[2]
anta[edit | edit source]
Pronunciation | /ˈan |
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Usage | 2024: N/A This word has not been surveyed for. Most speakers likely don't understand it.2023: Not notable (1%) |
Book and era | No book |
Part of speech | Content word |
anta (sitelen pona: anta) is a marginal content word relating to oil, created "in order to expand the taste words".[2]
ata and ulu[edit | edit source]
Pronunciation | /ˈa |
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Usage | 2024: N/A This word has not been surveyed for. Most speakers likely don't understand it.2023: Not notable (0%) |
Book and era | No book |
Part of speech | Preverb, content word |
Pronunciation | /ˈu |
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Usage | 2024: N/A This word has not been surveyed for. Most speakers likely don't understand it.2023: Not notable (0%) |
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 contrast, ulu, from Latin -ulus, describes the time before a coming action, and as a preverb means "to be about (to do something)".
inta[edit | edit source]
Pronunciation | /ˈin |
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Usage | 2024: N/A This word has not been surveyed for. Most speakers likely don't understand it.2023: Not notable (0%) |
Book and era | No book |
Part of speech | Semiparticle |
inta is a marginal semiparticle roughly meaning "at least" or "definitely", and "actually".
jule[edit | edit source]
Pronunciation | /ˈju |
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Usage | 2024: N/A This word has not been surveyed for. Most speakers likely don't understand it.2023: Obscure (4% ↗︎ )2022: Obscure (1%) |
Book and era | No book (post-ku) |
Part of speech | Content word |
jule (sitelen pona: jule) is an obscure content word relating to wavering, either physically, or in possibility or opinion.
kana[edit | edit source]
Pronunciation | /ˈka |
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Usage | 2024: N/A This word has not been surveyed for. Most speakers likely don't understand it.2023: Not notable (1%) |
Book and era | No book |
Part of speech | Content word |
kana (sitelen pona: kana) is a marginal content word relating to unreal imagery.
kasan[edit | edit source]
Pronunciation | /ˈka |
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Usage | 2024: N/A This word has not been surveyed for. Most speakers likely don't understand it.2023: Not notable (0%) |
Book and era | No book |
Part of speech | Content word |
kasan, from Malay کاچڠ (kacang), is a marginal content word relating to legumes, seeds, nuts, beans, soy, lentils, and other hard-shelled fruit.[2]
lapan[edit | edit source]
Pronunciation | /ˈla |
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Usage | 2024: N/A This word has not been surveyed for. Most speakers likely don't understand it.2023: Not notable (1%) |
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.[2]
nowi[edit | edit source]
Pronunciation | /ˈno |
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Usage | 2024: N/A This word has not been surveyed for. Most speakers likely don't understand it.2023: Not notable (1%) |
Book and era | No book |
Part of speech | Content word |
nowi (sitelen pona: nowi) is a marginal content word relating to connections, mutuality, and exchange, originally coined to replace esun.[2]
siwala[edit | edit source]
Pronunciation | /ˈsi |
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Usage | 2024: N/A This word has not been surveyed for. Most speakers likely don't understand it.2023: Not notable (0%) |
Book and era | No book |
Part of speech | Content word |
siwala (sitelen pona: siwala), 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".[2]
teki[edit | edit source]
Pronunciation | /ˈte |
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Usage | 2024: N/A This word has not been surveyed for. Most speakers likely don't understand it.2023: Not notable (0%) |
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.[2] Its semantic space overlaps that of tenpo.
See also[edit | edit source]
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ ilo Powa [@flora_key]. (29 July 2023). Message in the
#the nasa renaissance and its results
thread in#toki-suli
. ma pona pi toki pona. Discord. Retrieved 4 April 2024. - ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 ilo Powa [@flora_key]. (30 July 2023). Message in the
#the nasa renaissance and its results
thread in#toki-suli
. ma pona pi toki pona. Discord. Retrieved 3 April 2024.