Toki Pona
mi jo e kili. ona li pona li lili. mi moku lili e kili lili.
Toki Pona (toki pona) is a constructed language by Sonja Lang, a philosophical attempt to understand the meaning of life in 120 words.
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Words
- kasi kasi
- plant, vegetation, herb, leaf
- ma ma
- earth, land, outdoors, world, country, territory, soil
- ma kasi ma kasi
- garden
Resources
Learning
- tokipona.org – The official site, from which you can buy the Toki Pona book.
- lipu sona pona – A Toki Pona course, introducing ten words per lesson.
- pimeja – An interactive dictionary.
- More resources for learning Toki Pona
Other resources
- linja pona (“simple line”) – A font for the sitelen pona script, which is used on this page.
Works
- jan pi weka tan ma tomo Omela – A translation of The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas (Ursula K. Le Guin) by equa.
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Sonja Lang, Toki Pona: The Language of Good (p. 7) ↩