Toki pona is a constructed language created by sonja elen kisa. It was created by canadian linguist and translator sonja lang for the purpose of. And fellow radiotopian nate dimeo, from the memory palace, decided we should learn it together. This is a subreddit for anybody interested in the pursuit of languages.
Although im not the creator of toki pona, i made this site because i like the language, and i want others to learn it. Help us in creating the largest englishtoki pona dictionary online. This document proposes a script for toki pona following the philosophy of the language. Simplicity is a core part of toki pona in fact, pona means both simple and good. Toki pona is a constructed language first published online in mid2001. Toki pona is a language that simplifies ideas to their most basic elements. The toki pona language content on this website may not necessarily reflect the same grammar, usage, style, etc. It was created by canadian linguist sonja elen kisa in 2001. As beautiful as toki pona is, it is built on an extreme. Toki pona is a simple constructed language consisting of 120 words and 18 basic sounds. Toki pona is a constructed, minimal language, designed by the translator and linguist sonja lang. Toki pona is a language invented by sonja elen kisa that only has 120 words and 14 sounds. With these fantastic impressions, youll experience the world through the most important word of.
Facebook has some great toki pona groups to support your learning and expression, with thousands of group members. It makes our dictionary english toki pona real, as it is created by native speakers people, that uses language for every day. Akademie del lingue nuli linguistikal klasifikatione lingual familie. It is an experimental language designed to test the limits of languages. Glyph list of the linja pona font dont hesitate to click on the picture to see the details to use compound glyphs, put a hyphen between two words exemple. Toki pona is a constructed language, first published online in mid2001. Toki pona parser a tool for spelling, grammar check and ambiguity check of toki pona sentences. This toki pona language seems to have been constructed to do two related things. It is not created to be an international auxiliary language a language for communication between people speaking different languages.
The toki ponalanguage content on this website may not necessarily reflect the same grammar, usage, style, etc. Sonja lang in past time sonja elen kisa, canadian translator and linguist, made the language. It was invented by linguist sonja lang in 2001, and its called toki pona. This excellent book will get you started i highly recommend getting it and learning a new way to think and talk. Like a painter, the speaker can combine them to achieve any hue on the spectrum. A lot of tokiponists would argue that this defeats the purpose of toki pona and they are right.
Quizlet flashcards, activities and games help you improve your grades. This creative work by wikibooks editors is based on the toki pona language, currently published in the official toki pona book and website. Jul 09, 2017 ever wanted to hear what animals sound like in a 125word language. Toki pona is an invented language that borrows from dutch, english and chinese. So with toki pona, i do kind of wonder if you and i are going to walk through some fields, on the one hand, i feel that me, the memory palace guy, and you, the allusionist woman, are going to want to have a very wordfilled conversation to dissect our experience. It is based on simple ideas that are known to all cultures. So maybe we should really gather a group of volunteers and start a common project, to move things further. Toki pona is a language of very minimal sounds, in order to be easily pronounced by the greatest number of people. A small community of speakers developed in the early. Thinking and speaking in toki pona is calming and enlightening. Toki pona favors simplicity over clarity, and touts itself as the language of good. Unlike print books, digital books are subject to vat.
Discover 3 alternatives like the allusionist us election lexicon and the allusionist postlove. I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in. It was my attempt to understand the meaning of life in 120 words. Facebook is showing information to help you better understand the purpose of a page. Ever wanted to hear what animals sound like in a 125word language. Without memorization, there is no way to know that waso pona means chicken and has a canonical jan sonja usage attested on the wiki. Nov 19, 2015 so with toki pona, i do kind of wonder if you and i are going to walk through some fields, on the one hand, i feel that me, the memory palace guy, and you, the allusionist woman, are going to want to have a very wordfilled conversation to dissect our experience. In toki pona, you use the same five vowels, but they are they only have one strict pronunciation. Toki pona aims to express maximal meaning with minimal complexity. What happened when i tried to learn toki pona in 48 hours using. Pages in category toki pona nouns the following 100 pages are in this category, out of 100 total. This list describes many of the differences you may encounter.
It was created by canadian linguist and translator sonja lang for the purpose of simplifying thoughts and communication. See more ideas about language, fictional languages and alphabet symbols. This is a swadesh list of words in toki pona, compared with that of english. It was designed by translator and linguist sonja elen kisa of toronto. Now the big secret about toki pona is that the number of lexicalized phrases phrases you have to memorize as if they were a word is huge, jan kipos dictionary has 1 thousand plus entries. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.
The allusionist toki pona a language with only 123 words is surprisingly hard. Its consonants lack voicing, gemination, and clusters, while vowels are only monophthongs and do not register length. Glosbe is a collaborative project and every one can add and remove translations. The microlanguage filters out the noise of our excess thoughts and points to the centre of things. A formal grammar for toki pona university of hawaii. Toki ponamodone wikibooks, open books for an open world. Enter your mobile number or email address below and well send you a link to download the free kindle app. Training your mind to think in toki pona can lead to deeper insights. Since the root vocabulary is only 118 words, my idea to map each root word to one unicode character appeared to be a feasible task. Read about it in business insider, the guardian, wikipedia, the globe and mail, the atlantic, the new yorker. Now, you expect a bit of pona pakala when learning any toki, but the levels of pona pakala are to the point where there is no toki. With these fantastic impressions, youll experience the world through the most important word of all. Toki pona is a constructed language designed by canadian translator and linguist sonja lang.
Toki pona simple english wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. At some point in your life, you have to make a choice. Toki pona lessons and dictionary unlike esperanto, toki pona is a constructed language that favors simplicity over clarity, and touts itself as the language of good. Toki pona is a pidgin of english, tok pisin, finnish, georgian, dutch, acadian french, esperanto, croatian, mandarin chinese, and cantonese elements, highly modified to fit a minimal phonology. I also enjoyed reading about this twoday toki pona learning binge. Toki pona terms that indicate people, beings, things, places, phenomena, qualities or ideas.
This is the article that first piqued nates and my interest in toki pona. Help us in creating the largest english toki pona dictionary online. And there is a story about a society after an acopalocaliptic moment whose members speak toki pona that has been tr. Toki pona is a language that simplifies ideas to their most basic element. Facebook has some great toki pona groups to support your learning. I learned how to read, speak and write in toki pona thanks to jan sonjas book. Toki pona is a philosophical artistic constructed language known for its small vocabulary. The wrongers will give you a list of pona pakala so that you can speak their holy pona in order to unlock the ability to pona with your fellow poners.
Microblogging fits well with the spirit of toki pona. Kisa designed toki pona to express maximal meaning with minimal complexity. The language of toki pona toki pona study guide by jeremyheskett1989 includes 120 questions covering vocabulary, terms and more. As a fluent speaker since 2003 i would give a hard minimum of 10 i have chatted with, 1 with whom i talk in real life on a weekly basis. Either you follow the dow, or you follow the dao toki pona is a planned language designed by sonja elen kisa. Toki pona in toki pona it means good language or simple language is a constructed madeup language. The language of good and millions of other books are available for amazon kindle. Toki lili is a microblogging community for speakers of toki pona. In this project, i developed a machinereadable formal grammar for toki pona and. It has only 120 words but is two days enough time to. Sonja lang in past time sonja elen kisa, a canadian translator and linguist, made the language. The 120root vocabulary 20 is designed around the principles of living a simple life without the complications of modern civilization. It was first published online in 2001 as a draft, and later in complete form in the book toki pona. I consider myself fluent in the sense that i meet with another speaker and we have occasional conversation.
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