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Toki Pona
You can find the Official Website here.
The language was developed by Sonja Lang as an experiment to understand how meaning can be developed in 120 words only!
toki pona is part of a very rich tradition and community called the ‘Conlangers’. Conlang is short for constructed language and is an interesting idea in itself.
In the following page I will document my adventures in the land of Toki Pona.
Here is a nice introduction video.
See you soon!
- Learning Vocabulary
- Toki Pona, the 120-Word Language - Christopher Huff at the Polyglot Gathering Berlin 2014
- 7 hour learn Tokipona stream!
Tutorial
- Noun + li + Noun - something is something
ijo - thing, jan - person, kili - fruit, lipu - document, meli - female, ni - this, soweli - animal ijo li ijo ni li jan ni li kili lipu li ijo jan li meli soweli li ijo meli li jan ni li lipu jan li jan soweli li meli soweli li ijo ni li lipu- Noun + li + Adjective - Something is Someway
telo - liquid, tomo - house, lili - little, pona - good, suli - big ijo li pona tomo li suli tomo li lili ni li telo telo li ijo tomo li ijo- Noun + Adjective - Describe the Noun
tomo suli jan pona meli lili telo suli- Noun + Noun2 - Use Noun2 as Adjective
lipu soweli tomo meli- More Examples
telo li pona telo kili li suli meli li lili soweli lili li pona jan ni li suli soweli meli ni li pona jan ni li pona tomo telo li lili ni li soweli lili jan lili li meli lipu suli li pona kili li kili telo- You and I - li is not needed with mi or sina
mi - I, mije - man, sina - you, kulupu - community, sin - new, wawa - strong mi meje sina sin tomo mi kulupu sina tomo sina li sin mije li jan pona tomo soweli li lili sina mije wawa kulupu sin li wawa ni li lipu sina- Noun1 + li + Verb + e + Noun2 - Noun1 does verb action to Noun2
jo - to have, kute - to listen, moku - to eat, pali - to make/do, sona - to know, toki - to talk ijo li pali e ijo mi moku e telo mije li sona mije li sona e ijo mi sona e toki pona mije ni li jan toki soweli suli li moku e sina lipu kulupu li wawa sina pali e moku sin jan sona li kute tomo sona li jo e lipu mi kute e sina kili li jo e telo kulupu li pali e tomo moku jan pali li jo e sona lili jan pona li moku e soweli meli li kute e meji kulupu lili li jo e toki sin.- More Adjective
ala - not, ike - bad, mute - many, pu - interacting with official toki pona book, sewi - sacred, wan - one/united