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Toki Pona is a philosophical artistic constructed language known for its small vocabulary. It was created by Canadian linguist and translator Sonja Lang for the purpose of simplifying thoughts and communication. It was first published online in 2001 as a draft, and later in complete form in the book Toki Pona: The Language of Good in 2014. A small community of speakers developed in the early 2000s. While activity mostly takes place online in chat rooms, on social media, and in other groups, there were a few organized in-person meetings during the 2000s and 2010s.

I saw some post were some people said they know how to speak Toki Pona so I decided to create a community!

  • @janPiteJanseke
    3•3 years ago

    Speaking , writing and than reading , listening are indeed not self-evident … Toki Pona has only some 123 words and almost all are polysemic (having different meanings) and plus have different usages (noun, verb, adjective, adverb) … learning the root words is the surest start and can help to get used to circumlocutions as ‘moving house’ “tomo tawa” for ‘car’ … “waso nasa” (stupid bird) for ‘duck’ … “telo nasa” (crazy water) for alcohol [bear/wine/whiskey/cognac/… whatever the context has on disposal ; a bit more difficult if the context is richer on these beverages, but indicating ‘loje’ on top of it when it is red wine you want, can already help you out of most of the potential troubles]