Toki pona is a philosophical artistic constructed language known for its small vocabulary. Toki pona is a constructed language, first published as draft on the web in 2001 and then as a complete book and ebook toki pona. This creative work by wikibooks editors is based on the toki pona language, currently published in the official toki pona book and website. Toki ponamodone wikibooks, open books for an open world. Its consonants lack voicing, gemination, and clusters, while vowels are only monophthongs and do not register length. This fits the image lang had for toki pona of being spoken by people on a small island, living on the beach. Permission is granted to copy, distribute andor modify this document under the terms of the gnu free documentation license, version 1. One great resource to check out is innovative languages p. By default, qualifiers are cumulative unlike in lojban. It was created by canadian linguist and translator sonja lang for the purpose of simplifying thoughts and communication. In toki pona, you use the same five vowels, but they are they only have one strict pronunciation. The font is called linja pona, it means simple line. A small community of speakers developed in the early.
Information about toki pona, a constructed language designed to express a lot with just 120 words. Toki pona is a constructed language created by sonja elen kisa. It was invented by linguist sonja lang in 2001, and its called toki pona. And there is a story about a society after an acopalocaliptic moment whose members speak toki pona that has been tr. The vocabulary essentially these are all the words in the languagewords may be used as nouns, adjectives, verbs, or adverbs, therefore the meaning given in the picture is highly flexible. It was first published online in 2001 as a draft, and later in complete form in the book toki pona. Secrets of the shadowend the basic illusionist by nathan e. Toki means talk or language or speech or communication.
Sonja lang in past time sonja elen kisa, a canadian translator and linguist, made the language. It was my attempt to understand the meaning of life in 120 words. The following words belong to the classic official list. Toki pona is a constructed language designed by canadian translator and linguist sonja lang. That goal is to distil thought down to its very essence by means of as small a vocabulary as possible. 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. How to speak toki pona, translation problems, advice, memory aids, tools and methods to learn toki pona and other languages faster lingva lernado.
This excellent book will get you started i highly recommend getting it and learning a new way to think and talk. Quizlet flashcards, activities and games help you improve your grades. A formal grammar for toki pona university of hawaii. Thinking and speaking in toki pona is calming and enlightening. The language of toki pona toki pona study guide by jeremyheskett1989 includes 120 questions covering vocabulary, terms and more. Toki pona parser a tool for spelling, grammar check and. With linja pona, i wanted to create a standard font that was simple and that could be. Toki pona in toki pona it means good language or simple language is a constructed madeup language. 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. 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. Discover 3 alternatives like the allusionist us election lexicon and the allusionist postlove. Unlike esperanto, toki pona is a constructed language that favors simplicity over clarity, and touts itself as the language of good. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading toki pona.
Facebook is showing information to help you better understand the purpose of a page. Toki pona is a simple constructed language consisting of 120 words and 18 basic sounds. I realize in practical terms thats not really a different experience from just telling someone to get the pdf of a good course up on their phone browser or docs folder, but fundamentally i think that if someone goes to the ios store or android store and searches toki pona, having a good simple app jump out at them would facilitate engagement. The toki ponalanguage content on this website may not necessarily reflect the same grammar, usage, style, etc. Toki pona is a constructed language with a specific goal. The word toki pona means literally good language, or simple language. Like a pidgin, it focuses on simple concepts and elements that are relatively universal among cultures.
The language of good kindle edition by lang, sonja. My original translation trial of bible in toki pona, after learning toki pona within 3 hours. It was created by canadian linguist sonja elen kisa in 2001. The allusionist toki pona toki pona is the smallest. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled gnu free documentation license. I also enjoyed reading about this twoday toki pona learning binge. It has around 123 words, five vowels, nine consonants, and apparently you can become fluent in it with around 30 hours study. Help us in creating the largest englishtoki pona dictionary online. This document proposes a script for toki pona following the philosophy of the language. It was designed by translator and linguist sonja lang formerly sonja elen kisa of toronto. This is a swadesh list of words in toki pona, compared with that of english. Toki pona literal person colin meaning colin adjectives toki pona is a headfirst language. Toki pona terms that originate from other languages.
This is the article that first piqued nates and my interest in toki pona. They modify the entire preceding noun phrase or verb phrase rather than modifying only the preceding word. Although it is an artificial language with a very limited and closed vocabulary, toki pona still exhibits many of the features of a natural human language. Toki pona simple english wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. It is inspired by taoism and the sapirwhorf hypothesis. I consider myself fluent in the sense that i meet with another speaker and we have occasional conversation. Specifically, kisa proposes that toki pona encourages its speakers to think simply and to focus on basic reality rather than. This list describes many of the differences you may encounter. Toki pona is a constructed, minimal language, designed by the translator and linguist sonja lang. Kiel paroli tokiponon, tradukproblemoj, konsiloj, memoraj helpiloj, iloj kaj metodoj por.
Toki pona is a language of very minimal sounds, in order to be easily pronounced by the greatest number of people. Toki pona aims to express maximal meaning with minimal complexity. Glosbe is a collaborative project and every one can add and remove translations. Read about it in business insider, the guardian, wikipedia, the globe and mail, the atlantic, the new yorker. Toki pona parser a tool for spelling, grammar check and ambiguity check of toki pona sentences. Toki pona favors simplicity over clarity, and touts itself as the language of good. 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. Facebook has some great toki pona groups to support your learning and expression, with thousands of group members.
Toki pona is a constructed languageor conlang invented by sonja elen kisa. I have created a font for the sitelen pona hieroglyphs. It makes our dictionary english toki pona real, as it is created by native speakers people, that uses language for every day. It is not created to be an international auxiliary language a language for communication between people speaking different languages. In this project, i developed a machinereadable formal grammar for toki pona and. The allusionist toki pona a language with only 123 words is surprisingly hard. It is based on simple ideas that are known to all cultures. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. Irving cover art from the sleeping beauty and other tales from the old french, by sir arthur quillercouch.
The toki pona language content on this website may not necessarily reflect the same grammar, usage, style, etc. This video is all about toki pona a minimalist constructed language. With just 120123 words depending on how you count, i didnt think it was possible to say anything. Theres a language which is said to be the smallest language in the world.
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