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Tokizin
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Language type
Not specified
Species
Human/humanoid
About Tokizin
Tokizin is a intermediate version of 
Toki Pona
Commonly used compounds have become grammaticalized to a certain extent. madomo "town or village" from ma tomo, magasi "forest" from ma kasi.
Vowel hiatus is resolved by inserting a /j/
Reduplication is used for variety and reciprocity. toki "speak" becomes tokidoki "conversation", ante "different" becomes antante "various".
In these compounds and reduplication, the initial consonant of the non-initial word may become voiced.
Prepositions have been combined with other words to create more complex meanings. lonsewi "above", tawasike "(go) around"
The preverb kama is used for both causative and reflexive meaning. lukin "to see" becomes kamalukin "to appear". It is used to mean "to become" something. lili "small" becomes kamalili "to shrink".
Toki Pona Commonly used compounds have become grammaticalized to a certain extent. madomo "town or village" from ma tomo, magasi "forest" from ma kasi.
Vowel hiatus is resolved by inserting a /j/
Reduplication is used for variety and reciprocity. toki "speak" becomes tokidoki "conversation", ante "different" becomes antante "various".
In these compounds and reduplication, the initial consonant of the non-initial word may become voiced.
Prepositions have been combined with other words to create more complex meanings. lonsewi "above", tawasike "(go) around"
The preverb kama is used for both causative and reflexive meaning. lukin "to see" becomes kamalukin "to appear". It is used to mean "to become" something. lili "small" becomes kamalili "to shrink".
Sample of Tokizin[view] toki wan en nimi ijo wan li lon kipisi ale ma. ona li tawa sunokama la ona li kamalukin e majanpa lon ma Sina, kinla ona li awen lon ni. kamala, ona li tokitoki e ni: "sinami o pali e leko o seli e ona." kamala, weka kiwen la, ona li kepeken leko. taki la, ona li kepeken e ko. ona li toki e ni: "o! sinami pali e madomo tawa sinami. o...[view all texts]
Language family relationships
Language treekulupu pona
⤷ Toki Pona
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Tokizin
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Toki Pona⤷
Tokizin[view] About kulupu ponaLanguages descendant from toki pona
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | |||||
| Nasal | m | n | ||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | t | d | k | g | ||||
| Fricative | s | z | ||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||
| Approximant | j | w | ||||||||
| Vowels | Front | Back | ||
| Close | i | u | ||
| Close-mid | e | o | ||
| Open | a | |||
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Tokizin. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
| TokizinOrthography [edit] | ||||||||
| Aa/a/ | Bb/b/ | Dd/d/ | Ee/e/ | Gg/g/ | Ii/i/ | Jj/j/ | Kk/k/ | Ll/l/ |
| Mm/m/ | Nn/n/ | Oo/o/ | Pp/p/ | Ss/s/ | Tt/t/ | Uu/u/ | Ww/w/ | Zz/z/ |
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | ||||||||
