toki pona - Lemmy
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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!

  • ghost_laptopOP
    2·
    4 years ago

    mi kama sona e toki pona tan luke tu tenpo suno. mi ike kepeken toki pona

    I tried to say that I’ve been learning Toki Pona for seven days now and that I’m still bad.

    • janPiteJanseke
      2·
      4 years ago

      pakala lili … ‘tan tenpo suno luka tu’ … little typo … numbers go after the nouns they qualify

    • DessalinesMA
      2·
      4 years ago

      pona a! ni li open pona (Great, that’s a good start)

      mi ike kepeken toki pona

      More correct would be “mi kepeken ike e toki pona” (I speak toki pona badly), cause adverbs go after the verb.

      The best learning materials I can suggest, if you haven’t already done them, to get going really fast, are :

      • lipu pi kama sona pi jan lentan (and the flashcards I made for their lessons above)
      • ma pi toki pona audio lessons that are on youtube, where jan kala speaks it fluently and fast.
      • ghost_laptopOP
        3·
        4 years ago

        Your deck is really awesome, I’m going to start using it once I get a bit more familiarized with the one I’m working on. I can suggest you another resource, ClozeMaster although it is proprietary and not so good with privacy but a marvelous tool.

        I am also watchin 12 days with toki pona of jan Misali. I’ ll take a look at the other videos. Thanks!

    • janPiteJanseke
      1·
      4 years ago

      Numerals are considered adjective and goes just like colors and normal adjectives after the headword (noun) … thus ‘tan tenpo suno luka tu’ is ‘for seven days now’