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HISTORY & SHOUTOUTS (SKIP IF NOT INTERESTED)
Te Pona Wakarasonot’s Birthday: Jan 5th, 2:34 am (however, it only had the words for Yes, No, and Hello and was abandoned up until May 3rd 5:22 pm when more words were added, the name Pona Wakarasonot was coined and it kept being developed sometimes up to multiple times a day)
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), Kh/kh, X/x
Two consonants nor vowels can be touching. J follows neither 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
W can follow directly after any Consonant and before any letter but not as the first letter of a word directly followed by a consonant or last letter directly following a consonant
Kh does not follow that rule as it’s treated as a single letter but can't touch more Consonants on either side besides J and W
Google Translate Languages Used--
Tok Pisin
Finnish
Georgian
Esperanto
Japanese
Māori
Odia (as of Jun 22nd, added after the word Sä̤nä̤)
Others (like english, german, or french) are used in very small amounts but it's not a main language used and i don't GT them
A: /ɑ/ anywhere except /ɒ/ when its the final letter of the word
E: /eɪ/
I: /i/
O: /oʊ/
U: /uː/
J: /j/
K: /k/
L: /ɫ/
M: /m/
N: /n/
P: /p/
S: /s/
T: /t/
W: /w/
V: /v/
Ŋ: /ŋ/
D: /ɖ/
R: /ɾ/
Kh: /tʃ/
X: /χ/ (every word containing X comes from esperanto,not every esperanto word contains X)
Aj: /aɪʔ/
Ej: /eɪʔ/
Ij: /iɪʔ/
Oj: /ɔɪʔˑ/
Uj: /ɪuːʔˑ/
Aw: /ɑːwʡ/
Ew: /eɪːwʡ/
Iw: /iːwʡ/
Ow: /ɔːwʡˑ/
Uw: /uːwʡˑ/
Words ending in a consonant have a ᵊ at the end unless they end in Aj, Ej, Ij, Oj, Uj, Aw, Ew, Iw, Ow, Uw
J at start of word directly followed by consonant is: /jɨʰ/ + Consonant sound
J at end of word directly after a consonant is pronounced: /jɨ/
R-colored vowels do not exist in Pona Wakarasonot
If you transliterate into IPA, remember EVERY vowel before a J gets that treatment. Even if it doesn't look like it, always make sure to check if theres a vowel before EVERY J. Also, the Jɨʰ thing only happens when the J is at the end of a word with a consonant directly behind it. It CANNOT happen inside a word. J's can affect a vowel even if it's in another consonant, as long as the vowel is behind the J. And i have to make this very clear because this is the #1 mistake. Forgetting the Aj, Ej, Ij, Oj, and Uj combos. Wopitakawoleveja doesn't look like it has it but it does. WopitakawolevEJa. It's not eɪjɒ, it's eɪʔɒ. There is NEVER an exception. Sure, when talking people WILL understand you if you get it wrong but when converted to IPA, it MUST have the correct aɪʔ, eɪʔ, iɪʔ, ɔɪʔˑ, andor ɪuːʔˑ
While it's less common to forget the W's, it is still the exact same rule. Get your ɑːwʡ, eɪːwʡ, iːwʡ, ɔːwʡˑ, andor uːwʡˑ CORRECT.
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
-(J̥)iŋ: (acts like -Ing in English)
-(Ḁ)vira: (makes masculine)
-(J̥)Ino: (makes feminine)
-(Ï̥̈)ke̤n: (acts as German -chen)
-(T̥)er: (acts like english -er)
Wo(j̥)-: (acts like anti-)
-(K̥)atit: (makes offensive)
-(J̥)es: (multiple)
Mini(n̥)-: (small)
Meka(n̥)-: (big)
-(J̥)Ikan: (having the quality of)
Raka(J̥)-: (same use as * at the end of words in English)
R͜ej(u̥)-: (used like English Re-)
Ŋo̤(t̥)-: (Subject. See more in Personal Rules section)
Ope̤(t̥)-: (Object. See more in Personal Rules section)
Lerṳ(t̥)-: (Verb. See more in Personal Rules section)
-(J̥)ed: (Past tense)
Diacritic Marks
C means Consonant, E means Vowel, Y means Consonant or Vowel
Ë̈: Super stressed
Ë: Stressed
Ë̤: Unstressed (NOT THE AVERAGE DE-SU-UN-SU THING)
E̤: Destressed
Y̥: (on Suffixes) sonetimes not there depending on if the next letter is a vowel or not, does not change the sound of the letter
E͡C: LVSC
E͜C: SVLC
C͡E: LCLV
C͜E: SCSV
Stress & Length
Te Pona Wakarasonot has 5 stress levels
Super Stressed (SU)
Stressed (ST)
Unstressed (UN)
Destressed (DE)
Te Pona Wakarasonot also has 5 length levels
Long Vowel, Short Consonant (LVSC)
Average (AVAV)
Short Vowel, Long Consonant (SVLC)
Long Consonant, Long Vowel (LCLV)
Short Consonant, Short Vowel (SCSV)
This applies to words without the stress or unstress diacritic marks only
First syllable: destressed
Second syllable: super stressed
Third plus syllable: stressed
Last syllable (on words ending in consonant, the stressed part is the invisible ᵊ at the end): super stressed and elongated. This overrides the other syllable rules if the word is 3 or less syllables. So the default goes like the following
M
Mä̈
Ma̤m
Ma̤mä̈
Ma̤mä̈m
Ma̤mä̈mä̈
Ma̤mä̈mäm
Ma̤mä̈mämä̈
Ma̤mä̈mämäm
Ma̤mä̈mämämä̈
Ma̤mä̈mämämäm
ä̈
a̤m
a̤mä̈
a̤mä̈m
a̤mä̈mä̈
a̤mä̈mäm
a̤mä̈mämä̈
a̤mä̈mämäm
a̤mä̈mämämä̈
a̤mä̈mämämäm
Personal Rules
Order is traditionally SVO, however, you can change the order by adding the optional Ŋo̤t̥-, Ope̤t̥-, and Lerṳt̥- suffixes. So traditional order is Watasi Amo Sina however, you can do Lerṳt̥amo Ŋo̤watasi Ope̤sina
Outside of the dictionary, to make new compound words, you do [word]-(J̥)et(i̥)-[word] etc and if you want to make Te Pona Wakarasonot polysynthetic, you do [word]-(T̥)iti(t̥)-[word] etc
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