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''togjbo'', also nicknamed ''Poor Man's Toaq'', is a non-serious proposal to turn Lojban into a tonal language. It has, in total, 5 tones:

* '''falling:''' à or a1
* '''rising:''' á or a2
* '''high:''' ā or a3
* '''low:''' ȧ or a4
* '''fall-rise/rise-fall:''' ǎ or a5
* '''neutral tone:''' a

Tones can have both lexical and syntactic functions. Neutral is like a "default" tone. Any particle that isn't reassigned has a neutral tone.

There are five sentence starters:

{| class="wikitable" 
|-
! valsi
! English
! Equiv.
|-
| style="font-weight:bold;" | .í
| Yes/No Question
| ixu
|-
| style="font-weight:bold;" | .ì
| Performative
| ica'e
|-
| style="font-weight:bold;" | .ī
| Wish
| i mi djaci lonu?
|-
| style="font-weight:bold;" | .i
| Assertion
| iju'a
|-
| style="font-weight:bold;" | .ǐ
| Promise
| inu'edo'u
|-
| style="font-weight:bold;" | .ı
| Warning
| i.e'u
|}

'''.ī''' is distinct from an imperative in that it's not a command, it's expressing desire that things should be like that.

''.ī plíse fàrlu'': I wish that the apple falls.

For brivla, this is how tones work:
{| class="wikitable" 
|-
! valsi
! English
! Equiv.
|-
| style="font-weight:bold;" | á
| Noun
| lo X
|-
| style="font-weight:bold;" | à
| Verb
| cu X
|-
| style="font-weight:bold;" | ā
| Tanru Continuuer
| 
|-
| style="font-weight:bold;" | ȧ
| Preposition
| fi'o X
|-
| style="font-weight:bold;" | ǎ
| Rafsi
| ~ me la'e ra'oi X
|-
| style="font-weight:bold;" | a
| Part of the brivla
| 
|}

For brivla, any syllable except where the stress normally goes in regular Lojban gets the neutral tone.

If you want to use a brivla with another article than ''lo'', make the brivla tone á anyway.

For ''noi/poi'' and ''be'', you can specify the default slot by the tone.

{| class="wikitable" style="font-weight:bold;"
|- style="font-weight:normal;"
! valsi
! Equiv.
|-
| a
| style="font-weight:normal;" | X fa
|-
| á
| style="font-weight:normal;" | X fe
|-
| à
| style="font-weight:normal;" | X fi
|-
| ā
| style="font-weight:normal;" | X fo
|-
| ȧ
| style="font-weight:normal;" | X fu
|- style="background-color:#c0c0c0;"
| ǎ
| style="font-weight:normal;" | 
|}


'''prénu poi cìtka''': a person that eats.<br>
'''prénu pói cìtka''': a person that's eaten.