Toki Pona

The 117-word vocabulary is designed around the principles of living a simple life without the complications of modern civilization. The words generally come from English, Tok Pisin, Finnish, Georgian, Dutch, Acadian French, Esperanto, Croatian, Chinese (Mandarin Chinese and Cantonese).

http://www.fact-index.com/t/to/toki_pona_language.html

http://archive.is/0niPr

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Toki Pona language

http://encyclopedia.kids.net.au/page/to/Toki_Pona_language

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I learned Toki Pona vocabulary using Memrise. When I did the course it had 117 words. It appears that someone had recently (beginning of May) conveniently updated it adding 3 new items (pi, esun and pan). Imagine my surprise and panic when I opened my lipu lawa on Memrise and a course that I had completed was suddenly *incomplete* 😮 o tempora o mores!

https://alelipona.wordpress.com/2014/06/02/new-findings/

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[...]

But if you really want another langauge, switch to Toki Pona.
It has only 117 words, yet it can express any concept or object.
It is linguistically, grammatically and vocabularically minimalistic.
Toki Pona is gender-neutral, and is derived from several languages, not just European ones.

O kama sona e toki pona tan ni:toki pona e pona!
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Daniel Ehrenberg

http://sci.lang.narkive.com/ELlE6pJd/learn-not-to-speak-esperanto

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with 117 words woudl this not make TP nearly devoid of grammar?

Anyone interested in turning this into a practice thread?

2009-02-16

http://forum.unilang.org/viewtopic.php?t=8360

It's a bit strange that someone in 2009 still refers to 117 words and not 118 or 120...

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