Toki Pona--December 29, 2001

Toki Pona is an unusual project to create a minimalist language. Its author Christian Richard was pretty effusive in praise for this site (thanks!), and his project is inspired by ideas from Zerzan, Taoism, and other sources. The aim is the retention of a symbolic language, but one that is "semantically, lexically, and phonetically minimal."

As an exercise, this would be a big jump for most of us, but if you are intrigued by linguistics, or are wrangling with the Sapir-Whorfian hypothesis, then a project like this might be fun. :)

http://www.primitivism.com/news.htm

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Toki Pona
the language of good – the simple way of life
Maraskuu Christian Richard, Canada
Pije
LATEX: Robert Warnke, http://rowa.giso.de
October 16, 2003

http://web.archive.org/web/20040106034946/http://rowa.giso.de:80/languages/toki-pona/english/toki-pona-lessons.pdf

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Toki Pona Richard, Christian (2001) [http://www.geocities.com/marraskuu1978/tokipona/tokipona.html]

https://web.archive.org/web/20020209063626/http://www9.brinkster.com:80/orasi/conlang/entries.asp?letter=t

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Sonja Lang

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonja_Lang

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Toki Pona - Model Language Profile

Language Name
Toki Pona
Language Author
Christian Richard
Year
2001
Site
http://www.tokipona.org
Language Type
personal language
Uniqueness
Toki Pona is a cute, pidgin-like language that naturally reduces ideas to their most simple and universal meanings. The entire language has only 14 sounds and about 120 words.
Design Principles
See http://www.geocities.com/marraskuu1978/tokipona/intro.html.
Dictionary
Yes
Etymologies
Yes
Grammar
Yes
Sample Texts
Yes
Unique Script
No
Primer
Yes
Babel Text
Yes
Lexicon Size
118
Submitted By
Jeffrey Henning
Date Submitted
Sunday, July 14, 2002
Date Edited
Sunday, July 14, 2002

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Even now new language projects are published almost every year. Internet search engines give an abundance of information about, for example, Lingua Franca Nova (1995) by C. George Boeree, U.S.A., Europanto (1996) by Diego Marani in Belgium, who intended it only as a joke, Latina Nova (1999) by Henricus de Stalo, Ludlange (2000) by Cyril Brosch, both in Germany, and Toki Pona (2001) by Christian Richard, Canada. As often as not these languages are invented for the amusement of the authors, but those who hope that their work may find general acceptance soon learn how difficult it is to attract even one other speaker for the new language.

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