Appendix:Toki Pona/n

Toki Pona

Glyph origin

sitelen pona
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sitelen sitelen

The sitelen pona glyph is a combination of the exclamation mark radical with the Latin lowercase letter n. Compare a, kin, o.

Etymology

Onomatopoeic.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /n/, [n̩ ~ m̩]

• Audio

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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 70% of respondents in a poll from August 2023.