Toki pona is a philosophical artistic constructed language known for its small vocabulary. 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. These lessons can be downloaded in various formats. I consider myself fluent in the sense that i meet with another speaker and we have occasional conversation. This is a swadesh list of words in toki pona, compared with that of english.
Read about it in business insider, the guardian, wikipedia, the globe and mail, the atlantic, the new yorker. Sonja lang in past time sonja elen kisa, a canadian translator and linguist, made the language. Facebook is showing information to help you better understand the purpose of a page. Toki pona competition in writing articles on wikipesija takes place on facebook. If youre thinking about learning toki pona, hopefully this introduction will also give you a feel for what lies ahead. Although toki pona has a modest following, including a few more or less fluent speakers, i urge you to consider toki pona not so much for how well it can entertain you or how large of a following it has, but more for the insight it can give you as it helps you develop a simpler way of thinking. It is not created to be an international auxiliary language a language for communication between people speaking different languages. Constructedlanguage createdbysonjalangin2001 experiment. In all honesty, toki pona has a small following, but the toki pona community does include at least three. Glosbe is a collaborative project and every one can add and remove translations. Toki pona is a constructed language with a specific goal. It was designed by translator and linguist sonja lang formerly sonja elen kisa of toronto. When this graphic was made, toki pona had no nouns beginning with the letter e. Jan kalas toki pona lessons wikibooks, open books for.
If you get an error 404, please press the shift key and the reload button in your browser. Printable toki pona introduction and lessons documents. The toki pona language content on this website may not necessarily reflect the same grammar, usage, style, etc. The toki pona taso group on facebook changes from public to closed. Site last updated 31 august toki pona is a minimal language. Toki pona and invented languages decentralised teaching.
If learning the alphabet and pronunciation was easy for you and if you feel confident, go ahead and read the rest of this lesson now. Pdf toki pona the language of good the simple way of. So maybe we should really gather a group of volunteers and start a common project, to move things further. That goal is to distil thought down to its very essence by means of as small a vocabulary as possible. 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. This is the first in a series of weekly lessons on toki pona a conlang invented in with only words. 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 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. One might categorize current resources for the toki pona language in.
Toki pona favors simplicity over clarity, and touts itself as the language of good. With that said, enjoy the lessons, and good luck learning toki pona. Toki pona is a constructed languageor conlanginvented by sonja elen. This list describes many of the differences you may encounter.
It was created by canadian linguist and translator sonja lang for the purpose of simplifying thoughts and communication. Contribute to ahemmettertokipona development by creating an account on github. Paleo learning awesome things languages my love life my boo beach wrap speech and language. Toki pona simple english wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. During international congress of esperanto youth held in sarajevoaugustthere was a special session of toki pona speakers with 12 participants. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading toki pona. Mandarin lessons learn mandarin basic chinese how to speak chinese the words chinese phrases words in chinese china language chinese pinyin. It was created by sonja lang, approximately around 2001. Help us in creating the largest englishtoki pona dictionary online. Toki pona in 76 lessons, a document distributed as part of the creative commons.
The word li separates the subject from the predicate. Toki pona is a miniimalistic conlang created by the canadian translator and polyglot sonja lang formerly sonja elen kisa and first published online in 2001. Learn tokipona, a minimalist language that will allow you to express yourself with only 120 words. It is based on simple ideas that are known to all cultures. Her lessons are short, easy and approachable to grammarphobes. Unlike esperanto, toki pona is a constructed language that favors simplicity over clarity, and touts itself as the language of good. The evolution of toki ponathis refers to the real world evolution of usage. Toki pona in toki pona it means good language or simple language is a constructed madeup language. A small community of speakers developed in the early. The originally published lessons and word lists are analogous to style guides. Toki pona has the basic pronouns mi first personsina second personand ona third person. Toki pona is a constructed, minimal language, designed by the translator and linguist sonja lang. How to speak toki pona, translation problems, advice, memory aids, tools and methods to learn toki pona and other languages faster lingva lernado.
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. I have created the following page which resumes the attempts made so far. With just 120123 words depending on how you count, i didnt think it was possible to say anything. Pije, first published circa 2003, revised 2015 lessons 1. Toki pona combines aspects of minimalism, simplicity, taoism, neoprimativism, etc. Im glad youve decided to give these lessons a look. A toki pona language course written by bryant knight a. Toki pona is a language that breaks down advanced ideas to their most basic elements simplify your thoughts. It was first published online in 2001 as a draft, and later in complete form in the book toki pona. A request for a new language code iso 6393 is submitted for the second time. Toki pona uses 5 vowels, 9 consonants, 14 letters and only 120 words. After the lessons, you get a lot of nice source material to read and improve withreading toki pona is usually harder than writing it, so its good practice. As long as youve mastered the above material, you know everything you need to continue learning basic toki pona.
They do influence how people use the language, but from a field linguistics standpoint, they are not authoritative. A formal grammar for toki pona university of hawaii. Toki pona lessons language mechanics syntactic relationships. Welcome to my jkala lesson series for learning the conlang toki pona. Later, she published a book describing the grammar, vocabulary, and additional features of her language. Print in or enlarge to laminate and attach with pins, blu tac or magnetic strips.
It was my attempt to understand the meaning of life in 120 words. Basic concepts and tools for the toki pona minimal and. The tomo pona website toki pona central hub is created by jan tomani. See more ideas about language, fictional languages and the matrix movie. Hear a recording of this text by norbert mazik gloss person all verb come is way this. See all 2 formats and editions hide other formats and editions. In this project, i developed a machinereadable formal grammar for toki pona and then used a cky parser to recognize valid and invalid toki pona sentences. Hopefully this introduction will answer any questions you may have. She has a complete sign language based on just a few simple. The toki ponalanguage content on this website may not necessarily reflect the same grammar, usage, style, etc. Im daniel jan tani, and im going to be teaching you toki pona.
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