The microlanguage filters out the noise of our excess thoughts and points to the centre of things. What happened when i tried to learn toki pona in 48 hours. Nasin tan would pick phrases that imply a ignorance of science, or better yet a phrase that is equally compatible with a naive or scientific view of the world. This is a swadesh list of words in toki pona, compared with that of english. After learning toki pona for a week, ive got an idea toki pona is perfectly suited for hieroglyphic writing. As sonja says in the book if english is a thick novel, then toki pona is a haiku. Without memorization, there is no way to know that waso pona means chicken and has a canonical jan sonja usage attested on the wiki. It was first published online in 2001 as a draft, and later in complete form in the book toki pona.
Thinking and speaking in toki pona is calming and enlightening. Like a pidgin, it focuses on simple concepts and elements that are relatively universal among cultures. Best place for intermediate and advanced, also a good place for beginners to practice reading by posting translations. Sonja lang in past time sonja elen kisa, a canadian translator and linguist, made the language. 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. Help us in creating the largest englishtoki pona dictionary online. It was designed by translator and linguist sonja elen kisa of toronto. Click download or read online button to get toki pona book now. The pdf, html, ebook and txt files are generated from the latex files per. Learn toki pona to understand the basics of language learning. This excellent book will get you started i highly recommend getting it and learning a new way to think and talk. In all honesty, toki pona has a small following, but the toki pona community does include at least three. Toki pona is a constructed language designed by canadian translator and linguist sonja lang. There are no big issues in toki pona, if you use it as it was intended.
Jan 08, 2015 what happened when i tried to learn toki pona in 48 hours using memes toki pona is an invented language that borrows from dutch, english and chinese. The loanwords from cantonese are also easier to understand since chinese dialects sound similar to one another. It was designed by translator and linguist sonja lang formerly sonja elen kisa of toronto. Like a pidgin, it focuses on simple concepts and elements that are. Like a painter, the speaker can combine them to achieve any hue on the spectrum. Toki pona 1 what it is and how to pronounce it by chris huff. It makes our dictionary toki pona english real, as it is created by native speakers people, that uses language for every day. 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 fits the image lang had for toki pona of being spoken by people on a small island, living on the beach. Toki pona uses 5 vowels, 9 consonants, 14 letters and only 120 words. Toki pona is an oligoisolating constructed language, created by canadian linguist and translator sonja lang as a philosophical language for the purpose of simplifying thoughts and communication.
I consider myself fluent in the sense that i meet with another speaker and we have occasional conversation. Toki pona and invented languages decentralised teaching. Help us in creating the largest toki ponaenglish dictionary online. It was first published online in 2001 as a draft, then in its complete form in the book toki pona. I have created a font for the sitelen pona hieroglyphs. Unlike esperanto, toki pona is a constructed language that favors simplicity over clarity, and touts itself as the language of good. A formal grammar for toki pona university of hawaii. Its consonants lack voicing, gemination, and clusters, while vowels are only monophthongs and do not register length. Toki pona in 76 lessons, a document distributed as part of the creative commons. Akademie del lingue nuli linguistikal klasifikatione lingual familie. Read about it in business insider, the guardian, wikipedia, the globe and mail, the atlantic, the new yorker. In toki pona, you use the same five vowels, but they are they only have one strict pronunciation.
Facebook has some great toki pona groups to support your learning and expression, with thousands of group members. It is based on simple ideas that are known to all cultures. Fundamental all languages toki pona terms by etymology. The toki ponalanguage content on this website may not necessarily reflect the same grammar, usage, style, etc. Deutsch 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 language that simplifies ideas to their most basic elements.
This creative work by wikibooks editors is based on the toki pona language, currently published in the official toki pona book and website. Toki pona is an oligoisolating constructed language, first published as draft on the web in 2001 and then as a complete book and ebook toki pona. Btw ive made some roadlingua tpenglish dictionaries roadlingua is a dictionary software for palmos and pocketpc. Training your mind to think in toki pona can lead to deeper insights. Day in toki pona englishtoki pona dictionary glosbe. Toki pona is a language that breaks down advanced ideas to their most basic elements simplify your thoughts. So, whats toki pona for cyan, which two colours would you combine to create that colour. The toki pona language content on this website may not necessarily reflect the same grammar, usage, style, etc. The font is called linja pona, it means simple line. Stairway to heaven lyrics, from toki pona more information. Toki pona in toki pona it means good language or simple language is a constructed madeup language.
Toki pona the language of good the simple way of life. Sus son descomponer las cosas complicadas en partes pequenas, eliminar lo. Basic concepts and tools for the toki pona minimal and. In this project, i developed a machinereadable formal grammar for toki pona and. Take the phrase canada has two official languages, she says. The creator of toki pona is jan sonja, which isnt me. Toki ponas philosophy appealed to 22yearold oliver mayeux and 26yearold marta krzeminska, who both speak several languages and met while studying at soas in london. Laminate and attach with pins, blu tac or magnetic strips. Toki pona is a constructed language, first published online in mid2001.
And there is a story about a society after an acopalocaliptic moment whose members speak toki pona that has been tr. Since toki pona is a rather limited language in terms of its capabilities to express complex, nuanced emotions, theories, ideas, etc. Jan wasolitawas comment on on toki pona example two. It was my attempt to understand the meaning of life in 120 words. 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. I have a question that i suppose is related to the validity of the sapirwhorf hypothesis. Toki pona terms that originate from other languages. Toki pona is a constructit leid, first published as draft on the wab in 2001 an then as a complete beuk an ebeuk toki pona. The toki pona corpus texts come from a variety of locations and i believe its usage is acceptable, noncommercial fair use. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading toki pona. Glosbe is a collaborative project and every one can add and remove translations.
Kisa designed toki pona to express maximal meaning with minimal complexity. With linja pona, i wanted to create a standard font that was simple and that could be read easily at different sizes. Like a pidgin, it focuses on simple concepts and elements that are relatively. V roku 2001 bol prvykrat prezentovany na internete a v roku 2014 bol vo svojej kompletnej forme publikovany v knihe toki pona. It is not created to be an international auxiliary language a language for communication between people speaking. Spelling, grammar check and ambiguity check of toki pona sentences. It wis designed bi translator an linguist sonja lang umwhile sonja elen kisa o toronto. Toki pona is a language of very minimal sounds, in order to be easily pronounced by the greatest number of people. 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. Help us in creating the largest english toki pona dictionary online. Feel free to make derivatives to the extent you can or want to. It translates to ma kana ta li jo e toki sulitu, but the lit eral translation in toki pona is canada land has two big in keeping with its minimal ist mantra, toki pona is a lan guage with 14 basic sounds.
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. Toki pona texts post stories, news, essays, announcements, etc in toki pona here. This list describes many of the differences you may encounter. It might help sanda to recognize them when she learns any european natural languages in the future, although it may not affect much of her learning. This site is like a library, use search box in the widget to get ebook that you want. Parameter must be an array or an object that implements countable phpbb debug php. Im daniel jan tani, and im going to be teaching you toki pona. English or german words in tp texts is found when needed, as happens often in scientific writing kernel is a german word used. Toki ponas words come from various languages, mostly european. It was designed by translator and linguist sonja lang formerly sonja elen kisa of toronto toki pona is a minimal language. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets.
Jun 01, 2015 the content of this course inspired by. Toki pona simple english wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. It makes our dictionary english toki pona real, as it is created by native speakers people, that uses language for every day. Jul 06, 2019 esperanto ido interlingua interlingue lingua franca nova toki pona volapuk reconstructed proto languages protoaustronesian protobaltoslavic protobasque protogermanic protoindoeuropean protoindoiranian protoitalic protojapanese protoslavic vulgar latin. The language of good kindle edition by lang, sonja. 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. All content create by me is creative commons, by attribution. All tp words will get a visual appearance this way. Toki ponamodone wikibooks, open books for an open world.