Kokanu

Kokanu, formerly known as Toki Ma, is a Tokiponido and an International auxiliary language notable for being compared against Toki Pona. It has around 360 words, all from different languages around the world. It also has free word order, with the subject, verb and object all being marked by particles.

Phonology

Consonants

Kokanu has 11 consonant phonemes, two more than Toki Pona, with the addition of /tʃ/ and /h/.

	Bilabial	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Nasal	m	n
Plosive	p	t	tʃ ⟨c⟩	k
Fricative		s			h
Approximant		l	j	w

Vowels

Kokanu has five vowel phonemes, similarly to Toki Pona.

	Front	Back
Close	i	u
Mid	e	o
Open	a

Likanu

Likanu is an abugida writing system developed for Kokanu using only Unicode characters. The inherent vowel is a, and a syllable-final n is typically marked by a macron, but a variety of other diacritics are possible. Vowels are always written after their consonanants. To start a word with a vowel, the letter "o" is used as a null consonant.

Latin script	Likanu
(null consonanant)	o
p	ʜ
t	ʌ
k	x
w	ɕ
l	ʋ
j	ɂ
m	ɞ
n (syllable initial)	ƨ
n (syllable final)	◌̄/◌̃/◌᷆/◌̾
s	ɤ
c	ɛ
h	ɵ
-a	(no change)
-e	◌ȷ
-i	◌ı
-o	◌ʃ
-u	◌ſ
.	:
:	–
,	,/､
?	≈
!	ʭ
{	‹
}	›
" (opening)	｢/◖
" (closing)	｣/◗

Example texts

Kokanu	Likanu	Toki Pona	Literal translation	English
mi le makan in kuwosi un mi le lo sun jan ne.	ɞı ʋȷ ɞx̄ ōı xſɕʃɤı ōſ ɞı ʋȷ ʋʃ ɤ̄ſ ɂ̄ ƨȷ:	mi moku e kili. mi tawa tan ma ni.	I [verb marker] eat [direct object marker] fruits and I [verb marker] move from place this.	I eat fruits and I leave.
te makan in kuwosi, le tope.	ʌȷ ɞx̄ ōı xſɕʃɤı､ ʋȷ ʌʃʜȷ:	kili li pona tawa jan.	[relative clause verb marker] eat [direct object marker] fruit [verb marker] good.	Eating fruit is good.

External links

• Official website
• Interactive dictionary
• r/kokanu on Reddit
• Likanu documentation and generator
• Discord server (invite link)