Verse:Mwail/Toki Ike

Ike, natively Toki Ike /to˦ki˧ i˦˥˨ke˨/, is a language with minimalistic consonants, vowels and phonotactics but with 10 tones. It is a parody of Toki Pona.

• tō = to speak
• -ki = nominalizer
• -si = honorific

Phonology

Phonotactics

Toki Ike phonotactics is identical to that of Toki Pona except:

• /ti/ is allowed but realized as [si]
• nasal codas are disallowed.

Toki Ike has 320 possible syllables, including tone. However, non-word-initial syllables may only have one of /˧ ˨/ tones.

Consonants

/k t n p w l/

/ti/ is realized as [si] and Romanized as si.

Vowels

/i e a o u/

Tone

Toki Ike syllables have 10 possible tones: /˥ ˦ ˧ ˨ ˩ ˧˩ ˦˥˨ ˥˦ ˧˥ ˩˧/, romanized ⟨ā̄ ā a a̱ a̱̱ a̖ a̰ ȧ á a̗⟩. /˧/ is the least marked tone.

Morphology

Toki Ike morphology is predominantly suffixing.