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2) The word order is head final, because the predicative word must come second. In this way SostiMatiko usually does not need a copula. We can say e.g.
“fraso taxo, wergo varo” = “word quick, action heavy (i.e. schwer, difficult)” = to say IS easy, to do IS hard. In tokipona i don’t know how to say that, not only because there are NO words for quick, heavy, or difficult, but also because “word quick” would mean “quick word” and NOT “to say IS quick”.
(And, the head-final word order is the familiar word order in English, Chinese, all languages of India, Japanese, Corean, Turkic languages and in general it is the most common in the modern world).

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jansegersNov 9, 2017

a letter to a tokiponist

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1) i see tokiponists want something to connect SostiMatiko with toki pona. I think yes, we can connect, through the main concept of minimality in both vocabulary and grammar, and generally avoiding compounds (although SostiMatiko was NOT inspired by tp, it was born quite independently. I tell you how elsewhere). If you use SostiMatiko with only -o for nouns, -i for active verbs and -a for adverbs, it is pretty analogous to tp, only it has almost double vocabulary in order to avoid ambiguity.

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