Styles of Speech & Tokiponidos
Toki Pona speakers like have fun, and as a result, the language has various different styles of speech that you might come across informally.
There are also various languages based off of / inspired by toki pona, called "tokiponidos".
Styles of Speech:
ipisin epiku
ipisin epiku is a silly speech style, where you only use nimi sin.
nasin panke
nasin panke is a speech style created by French toki pona speakers from the toki pona francophone discord server. It has a lot of fun nimi sin derived from French words. The phrase "nasin panke" literally means "baguette way", since it is a French style of speech.
The sitelen pona symbols for the words "kikolo" and "pipolo" are based on the shadoks and the gibis from the TV show Les Shadoks.
- antikontitutonelema
- a big mess
- apelo
- apelo
- drinking with friends to relax
- kalapisituwi
- kalapis-
- kalapisituji
- kalapisituwi
- nonsense
- (nasin panke speakers will purposley spell the word "wrong" after the first three syllables)
- kikolo
- kikolo
- funny
- kikulo
- kikulo
- immature
- kokoliko
- kokoliko
- chickens / roosters
- kosikosa
- kosikosa
- so-so / neither good nor bad
- masalo
- masalo
- (interjection of dissappointment, used similarly to "pakala")
- olala
- olala
- oh là là!
- panke
- panke
- baguette
- pipolo
- pipolo
- something that's supposed to be funny, but isn't
- sapelipope
- sapelipope
- (interjection of dissappointment, used similarly to "masalo" but more dated-sounding)
- sikako
- sikako
- snails / slugs / gastropods
- wiwi
- wiwi
- yes / I agree
Tokiponidos:
tuki tiki
tuki tiki is a language based on toki pona, that tries to be even smaller and simpler than toki pona already is. Its name, "tuki tiki", literally translates to "roundabout language".
It only has 8 letters: a, i, k, l, m, p, t, and u.
Aa
- a
- all / only / exist / true
- ala
- no / not / nothing / what
Ii
- i
- (Used to add an object to a sentence.)
- iku
- thing / object / material / stuff
- ilu
- tool / use / using / way / method
Kk
- ka
- person / animal / alive / living being
- kati
- plant / leaf / page / non-moving animal
- ki
- possible / able to / can / maybe
- kiku
- rock / hard / land / place / ground / metal
- ku
- air / gas / emotion / vibe /sound
Ll
- la
- (Provides context)
- lapi
- calm / cold / sleep / resting / dim / fuzzy /dormant
- li
- this / that / they / them / she / her / he / him / it / its
- lika
- line / stick / limb
- lili
- little
- lu
- (Conjunction/preposition, used similarly to "lon" in toki pona)
