| mi ken lukin e ali pi toki pona kepeken seme? o pana e sona sina lon ni kepeken toki Inli: | Where is Toki Pona practically used? What can you do with Toki Pona? Add here in English (this page is for supplementary use with the ISO-code application, following the 2007 and 2017 rejected requests, we hope toki pona will be recognised and assigned an ISO-code.). |
Media
News coverage of Toki Pona as a living and growing language
- The Guardian 2015, What happened when I tried to learn Toki Pona in 48 hours using memes
- The Globe and Mail another link 2007, Canadian has people talking about lingo she created
- The Atlantic 2015, How to Say (Almost) Everything in a Hundred-Word Language
- Business Insider 2015, The world's smallest language has only 100 words — and you can say almost anything [republished from The Atlantic (2015) above]
- The New Yorker 2012, Utopian for Beginners [TP only mentioned]
- Oxford Dictionaries 2018, Exploring Toki Pona: do we need more than 120 words?
- Termcoord 2016, The biggest or the smallest vocabulary? Everything will be ‘pona’!
- Redorbit 2015, Speak in a made-up language to feel better
- New Scientist 2015, Appy Talk
- Canada Institute of Linguistics 2018, What is a Language?
- The Irish Times 2018, Podcast of the week: The smallest language in the world
- Hawaii Public Radio 2017, The Nerdiest Languages You Need to Learn are Invented
- Times and Transcript 2007, Moncton native creates unique 'good language'
- Telegraph-Journal 2007, She's talking in a new tongue [reprinted from Times and Transcript (2007) above]
- Los Angeles Times 2007, In their own words -- literally [TP only a part of the article]
- Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 2007, Invented languages: They're not just for Klingons anymore [reprinted from Los Angeles Times (2007) above; TP only a part of the article]
- Antedote Toki Pona for Deeper Insights
- Medium 2015, July 23, 2015: Can a language survive with just 123 words?
- Schott's Vocab, The Opinion Pages in The New York Times; 2010, Questions Answered: Invented Languages [TP only mentioned]
- Unidivers (in French)
- Ulyces (in French)
- Sasapost (in Arabic)
- Focus (in Russian)
- Linguis (in Russian)
- Geektimes (in Russian)
- Naukablog (in Russian)
- Uczmysiejezykow (in Polish)
- Nyelv és Tudomány (in Hungarian)
Interviews with Sonja Lang on Toki Pona
- Allusionist (2015, Allusionist 25: Toki Pona, 20 minutes, interviewed by Helen Zaltzman)
- Actual Fluency Podcast (2014, AFP 20 – Sonja Lang: Toki Pona, Conlanging and the meaning of life, 45 minutes, interviewed by Kris Broholm)
- Skylarking, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, CBC Radio Two. (2008, interviewed by André Alexis)
- 3-60 Radio-Canada, Première Chaîne (Atlantique) (2007, 8 minutes, interview by Denis Robichaud, transcript translated to English by Sonja herself)
- Le Réveil Radio-Canada, Première Chaîne (Atlantique) (2007, 13 minutes, interviewed by Michel Doucet, transcript translated to English by Sonja herself)
- Sounds Like Canada Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, CBC Radio One. (2007, 20 minutes, interviewed by Kevin Sylvester)
- And Sometimes Y Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, CBC Radio One. (2007, interviewed by Jane Farrow)
Podcasts
- Conlangery #07: Word Creation 2011, 50-minute podcast about constructed languages, Toki Pona is a featured language in this episode
Books
- Toki Pona: The Language of Good (2014. Sonja Lang. Tawhid. ISBN 978-0978292300)
- Toki Pona: la langue du bien (French Edition) (2016. Sonja Lang. Tawhid. ISBN 978-0978292355)
- Total sale: 3,000+
- A Toki Pona Survey of Being (2016. Daniel Deleanu. LogoStar Press. ISBN 9781329834200)
- Toki pona en 76 ilustritaj lecionoj (2013. Eliazar Parra Cardenas. transl: Marek Blahuš ISBN 978-80-89366-20-0)
- The Routledge Linguistics Encyclopedia (2010. Kirsten Malmkjær. Routledge. [mention on p. 34]. ISBN 9780415424325)
- Mentions in books on Google Books (1,070 results)
Videos
- Toki Pona: "The Language of Good" (2018, 110,000+ views; Langfocus – linguistic channel with 600,000+ subscribers)
- Conlang Critic Episode Twelve: Toki Pona (2017, 40,000+ views, 8 minutes; Conlang Critic – 9,000+ subscribers)
- Film Theory: Can You Speak Groot? (Marvel Guardians of the Galaxy) (2018, 3,000,000+ views, Toki Pona only mentioned; The Film Theorists – film theory channel with 7,000,000+ subscribers)
Academia
Academic articles, papers on Toki Pona or using TP in their experiments
- Towards the Design and Evaluation of ROILA: A Speech Recognition Friendly Artificial Language (2010. Omar Mubin, Christoph Bartneck, Loe Feijs, Eindhoven University of Technology. Advances in Natural Language Processing.)
- Expressive Robots in Education (2010. Martin Saerbeck, Tom Schut, Christoph Bartneck, Maddy D. Janse. Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2010.)
- Using Language Tests and Emotional Expressions to Determine the Learnability of Artificial Languages (2009. Omar Mubin, Suleman Shahid, Christoph Bartneck, Emiel Krahmer, Marc Swerts, Loe Feijs. CHI '09 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems.)
- Basic concepts and tools for the Toki Pona minimalist and constructed language: Wordnet synsets; analysis of the vocabulary; synthesis and syntax highlighting of texts (2018. Renato Fabbri, University of São Paulo, Institute of Mathematical and Computer Sciences.)
- What you say is not what you get: Arguing for Artificial Languages Instead of Natural Languages in Human Robot Speech Interaction (2009. Omar Mubin, Christoph Bartneck, Loe Feijs.)
- Designing an Artificial Robotic Interaction Language (2009. Omar Rubin. Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2009.)
- Toki Pona: eine minimalistische Plansprache (2011. Marek Blahuš. Interlinguistische Informationen. Beiheft 18 (2011) 51–55.
- A formal grammar of Toki Pona (2012. Zach Tomaszewski.)
- Constructed Languages in the Whirlwind of the Digital Revolution (2017. Nenad Knežević. Proceedings from the Sixth International Conference at the Faculty of Foreign Languages: Language, Literature and Technology.)
- Still Hoping: The Relation of International Auxiliary Languages to Worldview and Perception (2018. Natalia C. Zorrilla. SocArXiv)
- Processing Toki Pona with Perl (with a video talk at London Perl Workshop 2015 and another one)
- Toki Pona, the 120-Word Language (Christopher Huff at the Polyglot Gathering Berlin 2014, 60-minute video presentation)
- Second Language Creation Conference, University of California, Berkeley; "The Problems with Success: What Happens When an Opinionated Conlang Meets Its Speakers" (2007, talk on Toki Pona by Dr John Clifford)
- Processing of Toki pona in Czech (2008/9. Tomáš Brukner)
- One of the (Hard) Sample Problems of the International Linguistic Olympiad
- Many more references on Google Scholar (340 results)
Conventions and gatherings where Toki Pona was actively used
- LingvaFest (2018, polyglot festival in Bratislava, Slovakia; 2 Toki Pona Crash Courses by Václav Zouzalík)
- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) (Toki Pona one-hour classes in 2002, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009)
- kama sona pi toki pona lon ma Elopa (2015, 9 people from 5 countries met in the Czech Republic to enjoy studying and using the Toki Pona language together)
- TokiPonathon, another link (2014, Actual Fluency meetup, 17 people tried to learn Toki Pona in 48 hours)
- Summer Esperanto-School (2013, Toki Pona course)
- International Youth Congress of Esperanto (IJK 2006, Sarajevo)
- Possible one-month Toki Pona course for 12/13-year-olds at a private school in Norway as an introductory to learning a foreign language [probably next autumn]
- to a lesser degree Toki Pona is used in countless Esperanto meetings
Materials
Toki Pona: The Language of Good (creator's book)
- see Media–Books above
Lessons
- o kama sona e toki pona (jan Pije)
- jan Lope's lessons (jan Lope, including German translation, regularly updated)
- A great number of courses on Memrise
- toki pona in 76 lessons
- italki (a teacher on a video chat learning website teaching Toki Pona)
- 12 days of toki pona by jan Misali (12 video lessons, 2015, 65,000+ views in total)
- Learn Toki Pona with Chris (5 video lessons, 2015–2016, 40,000+ views in total)
- Learn toki pona in a fortnight (14 video lessons, 2014, 30,000+ views in total)
- toki pona nimi
- toki pona on Wiki in more than 50 languages
- Wikibooks (jan Pije's lessons)
- Wikipesija Wiki-based encyclopedia in Toki Pona on many topics
- Dictionary
- wordlist
- A visual dictionary
- Very quick overview of Toki Pona
- Very quick overview of Toki Pona in 5 languages
- Reddit Toki Pona Course
- Sonja's site
- Language Creation Society
- Lessons in French
- Lessons in Slovak
- Lessons in Russian
- Lessons in Spanish
- Lessons in Esperanto
- Lessons in Catalan
- Lessons in Polish
- Lessons in Slovak
- Lessons in Japanese
- Lessons in Persian
- Lessons in Chinese
- Lessons in Esperanto
- Lessons in Dutch
- Lessons in Korean
- Lessons in Lingua Franca Nova
- Lessons in Catalan
Useful phrases
- Swadesh list in Toki Pona
- Tatoeba 25.000+ translated sentences
- Quizlet toki pona Basic Phrases
- Omniglot Useful phrases in Toki Pona
- Translatezilla useful phrases in Toki Pona
- Zompist The Zompist Phrasebook
- Flashcard Machine toki pona expressions
- Forum Essential words to know when travelling
- Toki Pona Phrases
- forvo.com pronunciation website with 180 words in Toki Pona
Literature
- Translations and Original work (including The Little Prince)
- toki musi lili 17
- Toki Pona's corpus
- suno pona
- poemoj.blogspot.com (until 2007)
- Toki Pona's corpus
- The Internationale
- Quickies (very short book summaries)
- Jesus' Sermon on the Mount
- A legal contract in toki pona (using sitelen sitelen)
- The Egg (translation)
- La Vie de Merlin (nasin suli pi jan Melin, translation)
- jan Linsi en soweli suli (The Elephant in the Room)
Videos and music
- mi moku li toki! Mukbang livestream (2018, 46-minute-long livestream in Toki Pona by astrodonunt)
- mi ken ala moli e pipi (2018, Futile Attempt of Killing Mosquito, original song)
- seme li sin? (2018, 9 (so far) 2-minute weekly news in Toki Pona)
- ma kasi pi ma Nu Silan // A Forest in New Zealand - Mini Nature Documentary (2017)
- toki pona raps (2015–2017, 7 rap videos)
- [Toki Pona mi sitelen lape (english subtitles)] (2018, a dream in Toki Pona)
- ijo sin #3 - seli kin! (Toki Pona Vlog) (2018, 9 minutes)
- monsuta pi wan taso (2017, 25-minute discussion on Discord)
- My Love Is But A Joke To You (Olin Mi Li Musi Taso Tawa Sina) (2012, 6-minute short film)
- Two Lonely Monsters (Monsuta Tu Pi Wan Taso) (2012, 6-minute short film)
- Geek Love Song (2009, I Love You in different languages, including Toki Pona)
- sitelen tawa pi toki pona (Playlist of 100+ videos from different people in lots of situations)
- Tenpo ale - (BoA's Everlasting Toki Pona Cover) (2009)
- Solstelano
- Pichismo (old stuff...)
Discussion forums, microblogging
- Facebook group (toki pona taso) 660+ members (Toki Pona only, no English, very active, various posts from everyday life)
- Facebook group (toki pona) 3800+ members (very active, posts from everyday life, posts concerning linguistic points of toki pona)
- Facebook group (Learn Toki Pona) 1100+ members
- Reddit (1700+ subscribers, very active)
- yahoogroup
- Forum (15.000+ posts)
- livejournal group
- Discord groups
- Telegram group (and another one, and another)
- http://twitter.com/tokipona The @tokipona account appears to be quiet. @tokipona isn't jan Sonja.
- http://tokilili.shoutem.com/ Users here use toki pona all the time.
- http://twitter.com/#!/janMato/toki-pona-only A list of users using mostly/or only twitter
- Twitter hashtag #tokipona
Personal websites and blogs
- lipu pi jan Ke (Kevin's website)
- lipu pi jan Male
- lipu pi jan Tawi (Dave's website)
- Literary Adventures in TP
- Words of TP
- My Suburban Destiny
- Dave's TP blog
- ijo namako lon ma ali (news)
- memes
- toki soweli
- toki nasa
- lipu sitelen pi tenpo sin
- soweli toki
- o lukin
- tomo lipu
- soweli ni li mu pona
- Sonja's website
- NLP, Toki Pona and Ruby: part 1, part 2
- Several people on 43things willing to learn it, with reports of those who have done it already.
- Toki Pona, the Minimal Language, and How I Discovered It
- Plume
Websites and apps with a Toki Pona interface
- Amikumu - an app for finding people nearby who speak the same language, with a focus on small and minority languages
- Ages and Locations of TP speakers on Amikumu
- Toki Pona is 15th most spoken language there (January 2019, 391 speakers – 221 beginners, 114 intermediate, 50 advanced, 6 native)
- Lichess - a site for playing chess with other people online
- Wikipesija (partial Toki Pona interface) - a wiki-based encyclopedia in Toki Pona on many topics
- Classic games in Toki Pona (including Zelda, Super Mario, Batman, Jaws)
Apps on Google Play
Toki Pona Originals
- ilo nanpa toki pona calculator
- toki pona lipu nimi translator (words, phrases)
- tomo pi sitelen pona (a site in sitelen pona including lessons of sitelen pona in sitelen pona and a dictionary)
- ilo Nasintawatoki toki pona learning app based on the tatoeba.org database
- sitelen pona convertor as you write
- sitelen sitelen renderer
- sitelen sitelen interactive categories
- toki pona boggle game
Writing systems
- Official Toki Pona hieroglyphs
- sitelen pona
- sitelen sitelen
- linja pona (including translation of The Little Prince)
- sitelen kule: a colour-based writing system for toki pona
- Runes
- Tengwar
- Korean Hangul
- Emoji
- Toki Pona Script (Unicode characters)
- Chinese
- Cyrillic
- Modified Egyptian
- sitelen linja wan
- Japanese Kanji and Hiragana
- Ed Heil's script
- Arabic Script (video)
Spin-off languages or unrecognized dialects
- Mini (with its own Facebook group)
- Sapolim (not yet finished)
- ta lo ne
- Ta Ti
- toki pona enhanced (formalizes the syntax and the lexicon of toki pona employing advances in the science of Lojban)
- Toki IO
- Toki Pona has its own history (some words changed, some were added, some became obsolete, users themselves established the usage of some words)
Sign languages
- Official TP Sign Language (video)
- toki luka pi jan Chris Huff Chris Huff’s Toki Pona Sign Language
- http://luka.group.ipernity.com
- Solstelano (YouTube)