Toki pona, a language with only 125 words — Steemit

Toki pona is a constructed language created by Sonja Elen Kisa, a linguist and translator, at 2001. The language only… by ojamajo

Toki Pona

SimpleSpeak: the Natural, Simple Language

sina kama pona lon toki awen pi toki pona! (Welcome to the Toki Pona site!)

Natural, because it is meant to communicate basic human feelings, actions, concepts, and the realities of everyday life.

Simple, because it reduces words and ideas to their most simple meanings, avoiding unnecessary complexity. The entire language has only 14 sounds and 125 words.
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https://web.archive.org/web/20011116033216/http://www.geocities.com:80/Athens/8029/tokipona/tokipona.html

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Toki Pona: the Natural, Simple Language

Toki Pona is a cute, pidgin-like language that naturally reduces ideas to their most simple and universal meanings

The 125 most common words in the English language.

According to Sebastian Wren (2000) these words make up half of the words in text.

https://www.scilt.org.uk/Portals/24/Library/slr/issues/14/Thornber.pdf

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