Toki Pona

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Toki Pona is a minimalistic constructed language with only 123 words, 14 sounds/letters and 10 grammar rules.

- no consonant clusters, no diphthongs nor triphthongs, no tones
- no morphology : no declinations nor conjugations, no plurals, no diminuitives, no adverb formation
- no articles, no gender

Complex ideas are represented by combining the root words, e.g. bicycle : sike tu .

[sike = round; circle; wheel; ball ; tu = two; both; cut in two]

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Everything produced around Toki Pona is in principal under Creative Commons (apart from some sections of the official Toki Pona book) because of a mention on the original webpage of inventrice jan Sonja (Sonja Lang, formerly Sonja Elen Kisa)

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human body image from https://upload.wikimedia.org/w....ikipedia/commons/e/e

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book and printed jan Pije based course image from https://discourse.stonehearth.....net/t/conlang-learni

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44 minutes ago - Translate

ceigered
2009-aprilo-07
[...]
Toki Pona is unique in itself, unlike Interlingua and Ido the purpose is a bit different, more intended for simple and easy communication and the effects on the speaker (those latter two have always been intended as International Languages to some extent). Admittedly, Lojban is also unique as it has a different purpose, to be precise and neutral to an extent which casts shadows on Esperanto - the problem with that though is that it has a flow and grammar which can often scare off learners such as myself (I think though my biggest problem with it is that it resembles a programming language too much, which for me is frustrating because I can't make programs out of it![...]

https://lernu.net/eo/forumo/temo/4238/3

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1 day ago - Translate

Toki Pona allows for following allophones:

p [p] or [b]
k [k] or [g]
s [s] or [z]

I'm wondering if we can add in

w [w] or [v]

The word sewi comes from the Georgian word ზევით pronounced /zɛvɪtʰ/ and meaning 'upwards' - https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ზევით#Georgian

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