This video is all about toki pona a minimalist constructed language. In this project, i developed a machinereadable formal grammar for toki pona and. Jan 08, 2015 what happened when i tried to learn toki pona in 48 hours using memes. Either you follow the dow, or you follow the dao toki pona is a planned language designed by sonja elen kisa. Sonja lang in past time sonja elen kisa, a canadian translator and linguist, made the language. I began my study of the minimalist language by finding a free pdf file of the e book called toki pona. Like a pidgin, it focuses on simple concepts and elements that are relatively universal among cultures. As sonja says in the book if english is a thick novel, then toki pona is a haiku. 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. When you translate fromto, a lot of subtleties are lost which is exactly what toki pona intends. It was created by sonja lang, approximately around 2001.
Toki pona lessons booklet free download as pdf file. The language of good 16, authored by sonja lang, the creator of the language. A formal grammar for toki pona university of hawaii. Mar 23, 2018 this video is all about toki pona a minimalist constructed language. Toki pona uses 5 vowels, 9 consonants, 14 letters and only 120 words. Help us in creating the largest englishtoki pona dictionary online. It is not created to be an international auxiliary language a language for communication between people speaking different languages. Toki pona, a not entirely useful language night of the. With that said, enjoy the lessons, and good luck learning toki pona. You should now be able to decide whether or not youd like lean learn toki pona. With only about 120 words, this philosophical language could hold the key to unlocking wide ranges of expression with very little vocabulary. Files are available under licenses specified on their description page.
It was created by canadian linguist and translator sonja lang for the purpose of simplifying thoughts and communication. See for the website of toki pona, including the official toki pona book 2014. Glosbe is a collaborative project and every one can add and remove translations. In practice, toki pona speakers use the phrase mi mute to mean we, though the. All structured data from the file and property namespaces is available under the creative commons cc0 license. This site is like a library, use search box in the widget to get ebook that you want.
It was first published online in 2001 as a draft, and later in complete form in the book toki po. Jan kalas toki pona lessons wikibooks, open books for an. The microlanguage filters out the noise of our excess thoughts and points to the centre of things. Read about it in business insider, the guardian, wikipedia, the globe and mail, the atlantic, the new yorker. Its been such a long time since i went back and looked at my notes and learn toki pona.
Training your mind to think in toki pona can lead to deeper insights. The main challenge that i have encountered is the necessity of creativity and logic to form a word because of the limitation, the speakers need to. Later, she published a book describing the grammar, vocabulary, and additional features of her language. Thinking and speaking in toki pona is calming and enlightening. Sep 08, 2017 i began my study of the minimalist language by finding a free pdf file of the e book called toki pona. The toki pona derivative roila probably would be a form of toki pona pi nasin nanpa. Yet if i had started feeling disheartened by the toki pona experience, speaking to this pair made me want to arrange a.
A small community has coalesced around the language since she posted it online and this selfpublished book is the result of numerous requests she received to create a book. However, this book was published demonstrating her way of speaking toki pona, and encourages others. Toki pona is an oligoisolating constructed language, created by canadian linguist and translator sonja lang 1 2 as a philosophical artistic language for the purpose of simplifying thoughts and communication. The best learning resource is a tutorial 2 by jan pije bryant knight, an early fluent toki pona speaker. This creative work by wikibooks editors is based on the toki pona language, currently published in the official toki pona book and website. This is a delightful little manual about the authors conlang, toki pona. Thats how you end up with words like english cool, which means lowish temperature, except when its about people, or blue, a particular color, except when its about feelings. 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. A language one uses or might use to communicate by speaking and. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading toki pona. The classic list is from about 2007 and had 118 words as compared to about 125 depending on what you count. One great resource to check out is innovative languages p. 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.
How to speak toki pona, translation problems, advice, memory aids, tools and methods to learn toki pona and other languages faster lingva lernado. The toki pona presentation, done by my friend chris huff, was one of the most popular ones so i knew i had to get sonja on the show to pick her brain on languages, conlanging and toki pona of course. At some point in your life, you have to make a choice. Toki pona is a constructed language that works like a pidgin, that is to say it is minimalist language with a vocabulary of only 120 words. Toki pona is just a toy language for lack of a better adjective, somewhat like yoga for the language for lack of a better simile. It was first published online in 2001 as a draft, and later in complete form in the book toki pona. The toki ponalanguage content on this website may not necessarily reflect the same grammar, usage, style, etc.
A small community of speakers developed in the early. 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. Board index kulupu toki kama sona toki language learning. Teaching, book worms, free ebooks, ebook, language, books, reading, books to read, insight.
The dictionary below is copied as it appears in toki pona. What happens when an opinionated conlang meets its speakers. This list describes many of the differences you may encounter. Kiel paroli tokiponon, tradukproblemoj, konsiloj, memoraj helpiloj, iloj kaj metodoj por pli rapide lerni tokiponon kaj aliajn lingvojn. I consider myself fluent in the sense that i meet with another speaker and we have occasional conversation. Toki pona, the 120word language christopher huff at the. Toki pona is an oligoisolating constructed language, created by canadian linguist and translator sonja lang as a philosophical artistic language for the purpose of simplifying thoughts and communication. A number of tools and other resources for dealing with toki pona were developed by the community. I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in. The most complete list is supposedly 3 and includes videos, musical pieces, artistic texts, reference documents e. Toki pona is a language that simplifies ideas to their most basic elements. Basic concepts and tools for the toki pona minimal and. It was my attempt to understand the meaning of life in 120 words.
The community grew after the release of the official book and has continued to. Click download or read online button to get toki pona book now. How to count in toki pona, a constructed language designed to express a lot with just 120 words. This is the first in a series of weekly lessons on toki pona a conlang invented in with only words. Toki pona is a philosophical artistic constructed language known for its small vocabulary. What happened when i tried to learn toki pona in 48 hours. Kiel paroli tokiponon, tradukproblemoj, konsiloj, memoraj helpiloj, iloj kaj metodoj por. Toki pona combines aspects of minimalism, simplicity, taoism, neoprimativism, etc. Did you say words toki pona is an invented language that borrows from dutch, english and chinese. Mar 30, 2020 toki pona is a constructed language, designed by translator and linguist sonja elen kisa and first published online in mid2001. To explain a little bit about how toki pona works, lets firstly look at the phrase toki pona in the language. It was invented by linguist sonja lang in 2001, and its called toki pona. 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.
Toki pona is a constructed language designed by canadian translator and linguist sonja lang. Generally speaking, one can say that adjectives describe nouns. May 07, 2015 toki pona is a language that breaks down advanced ideas to their most basic elements simplify your thoughts. Toki pona is a constructed language, designed by translator and linguist sonja elen kisa and first published online in mid2001. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. It is based on simple ideas that are known to all cultures. In all honesty, toki pona has a small following, but the toki pona community does include at least three. I want to learn toki pona cos it looks like its the best, but i have no idea how to.
Toki pona simple english wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Toki pona and invented languages decentralised teaching and. 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. Toki pona is a relatively easytolearn language, im sure that anyone can learn it to the level where one can say basic phrases, like selfintroduction or making a request, in one week to one month. Toki pona and invented languages decentralised teaching.
If any of the numbers are links, you can hear a recording by clicking on them. Facebook has some great toki pona groups to support your learning and expression, with thousands of group members. Selected words edit ale everything, anything, life, universe, complete, or whole. Help us in creating the largest english toki pona dictionary online. Toki pona was my philosophical attempt to understand the meaning of life in 120 wordsi first published my microlanguage on the web in 2001in this book, i hope to present the language in its completed form. There are three important ways to approach the toki pona lexicon. Toki pona isnt meant as a universal language to be translated from nor to translate into unlike e. Unlike esperanto, toki pona is a constructed language that favors simplicity over clarity, and touts itself as the language of good.
One great resource to check out is innovative languages podcast programs. And there is a story about a society after an acopalocaliptic moment whose members speak toki pona that has been tr. It makes our dictionary english toki pona real, as it is created by native speakers people, that uses language for every day. Toki pona is a language that breaks down advanced ideas to their most basic elements simplify your thoughts. The language of good, by sonja lang while because time. I learned how to read, speak and write in toki pona thanks to jan sonjas book. Jan kalas toki pona lessons wikibooks, open books for. And fellow radiotopian nate dimeo, from the memory palace, decided we should learn it together. The language of good, by sonja lang publication is always being the best buddy for investing little time in your office, evening time, bus, as well as anywhere.
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