Appendix:Toki Pona/n

Toki Pona

Glyph origin

sitelen pona
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sitelen sitelen

• sitelen pona: From the letter n and the exclamation mark, by analogy with a, o, and kin.

Etymology

Onomatopoeic.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /n/, [n̩ ~ m̩]

• Audio:

  (file)

Interjection

n

1. used for thinking or humming
   1. repeated to represent how long the humming is
2. used to denote onomatopoeia

   Synonym: a

Usage notes

• This word was created by the Toki Pona community after the publication of Sonja Lang's book Toki Pona: The Language of Good (2014). It has since been recognized as essential vocabulary (nimi ku suli) by Lang in her 2021 publication The Toki Pona Dictionary.

• According to Linku, this word is classified as "widespread", being used by 73% of respondents in a poll from October 2024.