Over the last year or so, I've been revamping my original undergrad dissertation on conlangs and turning it into an actual book. It'll be released... eventually, but in the meantime I wanted to share a whole bunch of resources I've come across specifically for Toki Pona, because there's a lot out there!
Toki Pona is a minimalist conlang created by Sonja Lang. It has grown into one of the most popular conlangs ever, with thousands of speakers. I'm not going to delve into the history here; I'm assuming that if you've stumbled across this page, you at least know a little bit about it, but I'll be including all sorts of links here that will tell you more if you're interested.
o kama sona e toki pona a!
About Toki Pona
- tokipona.net: The community-led landing page for Toki Pona.
- sona pona: The Toki Pona wiki.
- tokipona.org: Lang's landing page for Toki Pona.
- The longest video about the smallest language: A light-hearted documentary about Toki Pona. Spoken in French, has English subtitles.
- Sitelen Pona Publishers and Typographers Association: The landing page for the promotion and proliferation of sitelen pona, with the goal of adding sitelen pona to Unicode.
- luka pona: The landing site for Luka Pona Sign Language, a sign language designed for the Toki Pona Community. *LPSL is not a 1:1 signed version of Toki Pona and is taught almost exclusively in Toki Pona.
Learning Toki Pona
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Books
- Toki Pona: The Language of Good by Sonja Lang.
- Toki Pona Dictionary by Sonja Lang.
- Wasona: A great structured course. Each lesson has exercises at the end, similar to Duolingo, to get you thinking about how flexible Toki Pona can be.
- lipu sona: Another structured course.
- Learn Toki Pona!: Another structured course. Written version of the video version below.
- FAQ: Frequently asked questions and misconceptions about Toki Pona. Written by lipamanka.
- nasin toki pona: An in-depth grammar guide to Toki Pona [advanced].
- nimi: An interactive dictionary that includes written and signed Toki Pona.
- telo misikeke: A tool to check Toki Pona grammar and vocabulary.
- nimi pona: A limited live translator, similar to Google Translate. Can handle some better-known compound words but not whole phrases.
- lio nasin: A sentence parser for checking syntax [advanced].
- Learn Toki Pona! by jan Kekan San: Spoken in English, written in sitelen pona. Video version of the written version below.
- 12 days of toki pona by jan Misali: Spoken in English, written in Roman alphabet.
- o pilin e toki pona by jan Telakoman: Spoken in Toki Pona, written in Roman alphabet.
- tonsi tenpi
- blinry
- lipamanka
- Cheatsheets in other languages
Online courses
Online dictionaries & tools
Videos
Cheatsheets
Using Toki Pona
- sin kulupu: A biweekly newsletter rounding up Toki Pona news and art.
- ma Seka: A Toki Pona-only video platform.
- lipu tenpo: A Toki Pona magazine.
- kalama sin: A Toki Pona podcast.
- utala musi pi toki pona: A Toki Pona writing competition.
- suno pi toki pona: An annual online celebration of Toki Pona.
- Communities: A list of online Toki Pona communities.
- ma pona pi toki pona: The largest Toki Pona Discord server.
- All about sitelen pona: Various tools for using and making sitelen pona fonts.
- linja lipamanka
- nasin nanpa
- lipu Linku font repository
Sitelen pona
Analysing Toki Pona
- lipu Lapo: A corpus of creative work in Toki Pona.
- ma pona: A map of Toki Pona speakers around the world.
- Linku: A dataset of how Toki Pona is used in the community. Includes a dictionary and an annual survey.
- ilo Muni: A tool to track how often words are used across various social media platforms.
- Toki Pona census: An annual census of Toki Pona users.
- semantic spaces dictionary by lipamanka.
sina sona ala sona e toki pona? o pana e toki kepeken poki nimi anpa!