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Toki Pona/ModOne
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Phonology
Toki Pona is a language of very minimal sounds, in order to be easily pronounced by the greatest number of people. Its consonants lack voicing, gemination, and clusters, while vowels are only monophthongs and do not register length.
Vowels
In Toki Pona, you use the same five vowels, but they have only one strict pronunciation, similar to Spanish or Japanese vowels.
VowelPronounced Like...afatheremetipeeloboneumood
Consonants
Excluding j, the phonetic sounds of the nine consonants used in Toki Pona are the same as English, and there is flexibility in how one can pronounce it.
ConsonantPronounced like...kkill or gillslletmmannnearppoke or boatssalt or zoottalk or dogwwater*jyet