Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights[38]. pimeja li tawa insa kon mi. However, the changes in pronunciation required by the simple phonetic system often make the origins of other words more difficult to see. lon meli la, wan sewi li pona e sina. Proper names are written inside a cartouche-like symbol using a series of symbols, where each symbol represents the first letter of its word. sama la mi weka e pali ike pi jan ante. An early version of the language was published online in 2001 by Sonja Lang, and it quickly gained popularity. 'many') to signify "twenty" and ale (lit. etc. [2], When a second modifier is added to a phrase, for example jan pona lukin, it modifies all that comes before it, so ((jan pona) lukin) = "friend watching", rather than (jan (pona lukin)), "person good-looking". For example, nena replaced kapa (protuberance) early in the language's development for unknown reasons. Bye! Similarly, ali was added as an alternative to ale (all) to avoid confusion with ala (no, not) among people who reduce unstressed vowels, though both forms are still used. The latter system, sitelen sitelen, was created by Jonathan Gabel. Symbols representing a single adjective may be written inside or above the symbol for the preceding word that they modify. Part 7 of Spectral Extrema; Language: English Words: 1,206 Chapters: 1/1 Collections: 2 Comments: 2 Kudos: 2 Hits: 128 [27] Later, the pronoun ona replaced iki (he, she, it, they), which was sometimes confused with ike (bad).[25]. a. interj ah! [2] Both its sound inventory and phonotactics are compatible with the majority of human languages, and are therefore readily accessible. In this case, lukin modifies pona and pona lukin as a whole modifies jan.[2][14], Demonstratives, numerals, and possessive pronouns come after the head like other modifiers. Now, I shall explain what Toki Pona is. ", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Toki_Pona&oldid=1002189063, Constructed languages introduced in the 2000s, Short description is different from Wikidata, Languages with neither ISO nor Glottolog code, Articles containing Tok Pisin-language text, Articles containing Esperanto-language text, Pages using Sister project links with hidden wikidata, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 23 January 2021, at 07:00. [3], The statistical vowel spread is fairly typical when compared with other languages. [2] In 2007, Lang reportedly said that at least 100 people speak Toki Pona fluently and estimated that a few hundred have a basic knowledge of the language. [5][6] 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[2] and 2010s. jan mute li toki e ni: "o kama! It enables you to type almost any language that uses the Latin, Cyrillic or Greek alphabets, and is free. jan ali li jo e ken pi pilin suli. jan sewi Jawe li kama e ni: jan li lon ma mute li ken ala pali e tomo. [3] It is also sometimes referred to as pu in the Toki Pona community. See also []. jan Meli o, at the end of a sentence. 'all') to signify "100". [1][2] Although the simplified conceptualization of colors tends to exclude a number of colors that are commonly expressed in Western languages, speakers sometimes may combine these five words to make more specific descriptions of certain colors. The simplest number system uses these five roots to express any amount necessary. wan sewi li poka sina. nimi sina li sewi. jan o pali e wile sina lon sewi kon en lon ma. [27], Besides nena and ona, which replaced existing roots, a few roots were added to the original 118: pan (grain, bread, pasta, rice), esun (market, shop, trade), alasa (hunt, gather), and namako (extra, additional, spice), another word for sin (new). It was created by Canadian linguist and translator Sonja Lang for the purpose of simplifying thoughts and communication. tenpo ali la sina jo e ma e wawa e pona. Originally published 118 words in 2001, with several words added later. --So back in the Cookleta heyday, there was a little challenge called "100 Places to Fornicate" (I think it was 100) Anyhoo, the gist of the idea was that Cook had a check off list of all the places he wanted to have sex and somehow he manages to get Archie to help him check of those places....I got numbers 14 & 77. Toki Pona Dictionary. For example, interjections such as a, ala, ike, jaki, mu, o, pakala, pona, toki, etc. ma sina o kama. V and CVN syllables are each around 10%, while only 5 words have VN syllables (for 2% of syllables). [2] Their use relies heavily on context. I decided to do it on Viesa, my English code. The classic word list was complete and had things to say about part of speech that have since become controversial. For instance, Toki Pona is generally said to have around 120, 123, or 125 root words and 14 phonemes. jan Meli sewi o! jan Meli o[37] (Ave Maria, translated by Tobias Merkle, 2020). [Because *ti is an illegal syllable in Toki Pona, Dutch di becomes si. rod, stick, branch, cereal, grain, barley, corn, oat, rice, wheat, bread, pasta, give, put, send, place, release, emit, cause, good, simple, positive, nice, correct, right, buying and interacting with the official Toki Pona book, to apply (the official Toki Pona book) to…, to buy and to read (the official Toki Pona book), same, similar, equal, of equal status or position, outside, surface, skin, shell, bark, shape, peel, knowledge, wisdom, intelligence, understanding, animal, especially land mammal, lovable animal, horizontal surface, e.g furniture, table, chair, pillow, floor, time, period of time, moment, duration, situation, indoor constructed space, e.g. Sonja Lang (née Sonja Elen Kisa) started developing Toki Pona as a way of simplifying her thoughts during depression. o lawa e mi tan ike. Inspired by Taoist philosophy, the language is designed to help users concentrate on basic things and to promote positive thinking, in accordance with the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis. optional consonant + vowel + optional final N, or V, CV, VN, CVN. For example, toki (speech, language) is similar to Tok Pisin tok and its English source "talk", while pona (good, positive), from Esperanto bona, reflects generic Romance bon, buona, English "bonus", etc. [4][14], Words that have been simply removed from the lexicon include leko (block, stairs), monsuta (monster, fear), majuna (old), kipisi (to cut), and pata (sibling). The word li always precedes the predicate unless the subject is a mi or sina. The classic list is from about 2007 and had 118 words (as compared to about 125 depending on what you count). [13], A more complex system expresses larger numbers additively by using phrases such as tu wan for three, tu tu for four, and so on. World languages. I must destroy. [2], The following sequences are not allowed: */ji, wu, wo, ti/, nor may a syllable's final nasal occur before /m/ or /n/ in the same root. International Linguistics Olympiad official website. [35], mama pi mi mute[2][9] (The Lord's Prayer, translated by Bryant J. Knight, 2005). The portions of the lexicon from other languages are 15% Tok Pisin, 14% Finnish, 14% Esperanto, 12% Croatian, 10% Acadian French, 9% Dutch, 8% Georgian, 5% Mandarin, 3% Cantonese; one root each from Welsh, Tongan (an English borrowing), Akan, and an uncertain language (apparently Swahili); four phonesthetic roots (two which are found in English, one from Japanese, and one which was made up); and one other made-up root (the grammatical particle e).[7]. Dothraki, Klingon, Laala, Lojban, Quenya, Solresol, Toki Pona. "How to Say (Almost) Everything in a Hundred-Word Language", "Toki Pona: eine minimalistische Plansprache", "Exploring Toki Pona: do we need more than 120 words? [23], The pronouns do not specify number or gender. Numbers in other languages. It has over 2000 members as of October 2020. I'm gonna work on a series of video lessons for Toki Pona. Как искусственный язык учит фокусироваться на главном", "Towards the Design and Evaluation of ROILA: A Speech Recognition Friendly Artificial Language", "Phoneme frequency table / Ofteco de fonemoj", "3. Inspired by Taoist philosophy, another goal of Toki Pona is to help its users focus on the essentials by reducing complex concepts into basic elements and remove complexity from the thought process. Lang later released an official book on the language, Toki Pona: The Language of Good, in 2014. [1][10] From these simple notions, more complex ideas can be created by simple combining. [18], Of the syllable-initial consonants, /l/ is the most common, at 20% total; /k, s, p/ are over 10%, then the nasals /m, n/ (not counting final N), with the least common, at little more than 5% each, being /t, w, j/. ", "Canadian has people talking about lingo she created", "In their own words – literally / Babel's modern architects", "Коротко и ясно. Like the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis, which states that a language changes the way its speakers think and behave,[5][10] Toki Pona tries to induce positive thinking. Originally, oko meant "eye" and lukin was used as a verb "see". tenpo ni la ona li ken pali e ijo ike mute. paper, card, ticket, be there, be present, be real/true, exist, be awake, of the parent, parental, maternal, fatherly, money, material wealth, currency, dollar, capital, monster, monstrosity, fearful thing, fright, mythical creatures, fear, woof! [2] Counting each root once, 32% of vowels are /a/, 25% are /i/, with /e/ and /o/ a bit over 15% each, and 10% are /u/. [10], Statements follow the normal structure of subject-predicate with an optional la phrase at the beginning. For this reason, they may be called "proper adjectives" or simply “proper words” instead of “proper nouns”. [12], Although it was not intended as an international auxiliary language,[11] people from all around the world use it for communication.[1]. jan li kama tan nasin pi kama suno li kama tawa ma Sinale li awen lon ni. [4][22], Toki Pona has around 123[1] root words. Why not share this page: If you need to type in many different languages, the Q International Keyboard can help. [5] In 2010 it was chosen for the first version of the vocabulary for the ROILA project. For numbers larger than two, speakers would use mute which means "many". [2], Syllables are of the form (C)V(N), i.e. To form a sentence, each of the signs is performed using the grammar and word order of Toki Pona. No one can understand my suffering. jan can mean "person", "people", "humanity", or "somebody", depending on context. A Yahoo! [13][25], An alternate system for larger numbers, described in Lang's book, uses luka (lit. awen. 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