kipo.md

Dialectal Toki Pona (_^KIPO)

Particles
Prepositions
Content Words
Punctuation

Particles

pi

_^KIPO combines pi with _^PREDICATEs. (Cf. Toki Ike.)

	KIPO	SONJA
the person that went home	jan pi tawa tomo li …	jan li tawa tomo. ona li …

li

_^KIPO prefixes a li-_^SENTENCE with an _^OPTATIVE o.

	KIPO	SONJA
May she sleep well.	o ona li lape pona.	ona o lape pona.

Prepositions

When _^KIPO turns a _^PREPOSITIONs into a _^NOUN, the _^NOUN can have the meaning of the _^PREPOSITION's argument. (Cf. Toki Ike.)

	KIPO	SONJA
tool	kepeken	ilo

	KIPO	TEPAN
location, address	lon	ijo (context)
origin, source, cause, reason, motive	tan	mama
destination, target, goal	tawa	pini

_^KIPO describes sama as a reflexive or reciprocal _^PRONOUN. (Presumably, sama could be translated as original (what something is like) and could therefore be used as reflexive or reciprocal _^PRONOUN.)

	KIPO	TEPAN
She sees herself./They see each other.	ona li lukin e sama.	ona li lukin e ona sama.

_^KIPO describes pu (whithout calling it official) as the Toki Pona book (possibly derogatorily). (Apparently, pu might be used as a _^PREPOSITION meaning following, according to. As a noun, it could then mean what is being followed and so on. Alternatively, pu can be glossed as a noun meaning the official Toki Pona book, and by means of a rule that any noun can be converted into an adjective meaning "interacting with ...", the adjective pu means interacting with the official Toki Pona book).

	KIPO	TEPAN
the (official) Toki Pona book	pu	lipu Pu

poka

_^KIPO describes poka as a _^PREPOSITION. (_^KIPO also describes sike, taso and weka as _^PREPOSITIONs.)

	KIPO	SONJA
I'm walking next to you.	mi tawa, poka sina.	mi tawa lon poka sina.

e

_^KIPO turns _{^{PREPOSITIONAL PHRASE}}s into _^VERBs. This is unnecessarily _^UN-PONA, but does make sense. (Cf. Toki Nasa.)

	KIPO	SONJA
Where did you put the clock next to?	sina lon poka seme e ilo tenpo?	sina pana e ilo tenpo lon poka seme?

Content Words

When _^KIPO converts an _^ADJECTIVE into a _^NOUN, seemingly arbitrarily complex ideas may be implied.

	KIPO	SONJA/TEPAN
foreigner, stranger	ante	jan pi ma ante
preserves, canned goods	awen	moku awen
news	sin	toki (pi ijo sin)
day	suno	tenpo suno

When jaki and pimeja become _^NOUNs, they appear as if an ijo went missing. Apparently, this makes sense, if they mean something primordial (from a human perspective) like suno, sewi, seli and so on. (Cf. _^TEPAN.)

	KIPO	TEPAN
dirt, garbage, pollution	jaki	(ijo) jaki
poison	jaki (?)	jaki
shadow	pimeja	pimeja
pair, duo	tu	tu
unit, element	wan	wan
particle, part, piece	wan	lili

_^KIPO generalizes kulupu using it for any gathering of things physically or mentally, so not only for social constructs.

	KIPO	SONJA	TEPAN
gathering (of things)	kulupu (ijo)	(ijo) mute	mute (ijo) ⇒ kulupu (ijo)

Punctuation

_^KIPO uses commas to add _^PHRASEs (where they don't belong).

	KIPO	SONJA
I give you a room.	mi pana e tomo, tawa sina.	mi pana e tomo tawa sina.
many men of Athens	jan pi ma Asina, mute	jan mute pi ma Asina

_^KIPO uses a hiphen to denote the end of a _^SENTENCE after ni:.

	KIPO	SONJA
I know that Tom is happy.	mi sona e ni: jan Ton li pilin pona-.	mi sona e ni: jan Ton li pilin pona.