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!

  • SnowCode
    3·
    4 years ago

    How long does it takes to learn Toki Pona? I try but it takes me 10 minutes to write 1 sentence. (Btw, I tried to write this in toki pona but I couldn’t)

    • The &
      4·
      4 years ago

      For the most part, learning toki pona is all about talking it and writing in it. Without other people I couldn’t have learnt it. This is mostly because the meanings of words are very community-mapped.

      mute la, sina ken kama sona e toki pona kepeken nasin ni: sina toki e ona li sitelen e ona. kulupu li lon ala lon poka mi la, mi ken ala sona e ona. ni li lon tan ni: nimi li ante lon kulupu ante.

    • janPiteJanseke
      3·
      4 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]

    • DessalinesMA
      2·
      4 years ago

      Not too long (maybe a month) its like anything, repetition will make you a lot faster, the anki decks above would help with that.

      sina ken kama sona e toki pona kepeken tenpo suli seme? (you can learn toki pona using how long time?)

      mi wile sitelen e ona la, ona li wile tenpo suli. (when I try to write it, it needs a long time)