togjbo

togjbo, also nicknamed Poor Man's Toaq, is a non-serious proposal to turn Lojban into a tonal language. It has, in total, 6 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:

valsi	English	Equiv.
.í	Yes/No Question	ixu
.ì	Performative	ica'e
.ī	Wish	i mi djaci lonu?
.i	Assertion	iju'a
.ǐ	Promise	inu'edo'u
.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:

valsi	English	Equiv.
á	Noun	lo X
à	Verb	cu X
ā	Tanru Continuuer
ȧ	Preposition	fi'o X
ǎ	Rafsi	~ me la'e ra'oi X
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.

valsi	Equiv.
a	X fa
á	X fe
à	X fi
ā	X fo
ȧ	X fu
ǎ

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