HISTORY & SHOUTOUTS (SKIP IF NOT INTERESTED)
Pona Wakarasonot is a conlang created by Musician & Youtuber Volkutain/Wolkjutein (me!) in May of 2026, I have been working on it since its start and often add more words. Despite it having "Pona" in its name, it is unrelated to the minimalist conlang made by Sonja Lang, Toki Pona, though i was inspired to create my first conlang, Tytan, in 2024 by Toki Pona, and my alphabet is directly taken from Toki Pona with minor adjustments. I first fell in love with Etymology in 2024/23 and since then have made 3 conlangs (including Pona Wakarasonot) thiugh the first two only lasted about 100-300 words until i gave up. I have also made 40, and counting, substitution ciphers that mimic how conlangs sounded, though they never quite reached what i wanted, either having too many consonant clusters or being too long in word size. I realized if i wanted something realistic, there were no shortcuts available and i would have to actually create a real conlang. Aside from Conlangs, i also have a large interest in Natural Languages, ive tried learning Spanish and Norwegian, and i am currently learning German, all the while studying languages in general aside from those 3 though my interest is mainly Europe or Native American languages. Big thanks to LingoJam as they make it very easy to set up the translator, just put the word in one side and the other. Before, if j wanted to make a sentence, i would have to scroll through the list to find one word but now i can just type it and find it instantly. Without their translator, none of this wouldve been possible, ciphers or conlangs.
Special Mentions & Thanks: Sonja Lang, ILoveLanguages, LingoJam, Human1101, W0rdsatw0rk, Name Explain, NativLang,
ACTUAL INFO ON THE CONLANG ITSELF BELOW
Alphabet--
Vowels: A/a, E/e, I/i, O/o, U/u
Consonants: J/j, K/k, L/l, M/m, N/n, P/p, S/s, T/t, W/w, V/v, Ŋ/ŋ, D/d, R/r (alveolar flap)
Two consonants nor vowels can be touching. J follows neither either of these rules but J cannot touch 2 consonants on either side or itself. So Nja us fine but Njn is not, Aja is also fine, but Jj is not
Languages Used--
Tok Pisin
Finnish
Georgian
Esperanto
Japanese
Māori
A: /ɑ/ anywhere except /ə/ when its the final letter of the word
E: /aɪ/
I: /i/
O: /oʊ/
U: /uː/
J: /j/ but if its at the start or end and is only touching a consonant like in Anj or Jna, its pronounced as /jiː/ like Anyee and Yeena
K: /k/
L: /ɫ/
M: /m/
N: /n/
P: /p/
S: /s/
T: /t/
W: /w/
V: /v/
Ŋ: /ŋ/
D: /ɖ/
R: /ɾ/
R-Colored vowels do not exist in Pona Wakarasonot
Also, unless its already in the dictionary, compound words are allowed but only with 2 nouns. You will see that my dictionary breaks this rule a LOT but this mainly only applies to when you make new words, like Robocat or something
Common misspellings:
Pona Wakarasonat
Pono Wokorosanat
Poma Wakarasonot
Pona Vakarasonot
Pona Wakarasanat
Pana Wakarasanat
Pona Wakaratonos
Pona Wakarasnot
Suffixes
-(J)iŋ: (acts like -Ing in English)
-Vira: (makes masculine)
-Ino: (makes feminine)
-(I)ken: (acts as German -chen)
-Er: (acts like english -er)
Wo-: (acts like anti-)
-Katit: (makes offensive)
-(J)es: (multiple)
Mini-: (small)
Meka-: (big)
-Ikan: (having the quality of)
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