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Grex Language Item 138: tokipona
Entered by mijk on Tue Mar 15 18:50:20 UTC 2016:

toki!


Introducing tokipona, the language of good. A full, fun language, with
only 120 words (and 14 phonemes/letters). 


http://tokipona.org/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toki_Pona

http://rowa.giso.de/languages/toki-pona/english/lessons.php updated and
comprehensive
https://aiki.pbworks.com/f/tp+in+76+lessons+English.pdf  older but still
good/fun - my first point of call :) i recommend these :) 

http://tokipona.net/tp/Transliterate.aspx?Tour=true  pick a name, and
join the club!

8 responses total.

#1 of 8 by mijk on Mon Jan 9 12:58:48 2017:

Just getting into tokipona , and i think it is an excellent step to
becoming bi-ligual/a polyglot. 

Its a real language, not just a toy. 

lon pona!
tan jan_Mijk

#2 of 8 by papa on Fri May 11 03:47:43 2018:

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#3 of 8 by papa on Sun May 13 16:25:18 2018:

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#4 of 8 by papa on Sun May 13 16:27:23 2018:

ma o, toki!

^^^ Is that how one says, "Hello, World"?

#5 of 8 by papa on Tue May 15 23:48:42 2018:

Toki Pona words grouped by part of speech

http://papa.myjp.net/scratch/wiki.cgi/TokiPonaWords

I want to keep going with Portuguese, but Toki Pona is hypnotically
interesting.

#6 of 8 by papa on Wed May 16 03:31:15 2018:

resp:5 The parts of speech are taken from  the official word list, but
comparing the list with usage in the jan Pijje lessons it seems that
the meaning of words and the parts of speech they can be used for is
more fluid than the list implies.

#7 of 8 by papa on Sat May 19 02:30:37 2018:

Here is another version of the vocabulary/part of speech matrix. It varies
from the table linked in resp:5 in being based on another versionof the TP
word list that has more complete part of speech categorization.

http://papa.myjp.net/scratch/wiki.cgi/TokiPonaClassicWordList

There are several versions of the Toki Pona word list on the WWW, but as a
help to learning the vocabulary I wanted a big chart that made the parts of
speech obvious. (Bearing in mind that "part of speech" is a more fluid
concept in TP by design.)

However, this chart is going to be peak Toki Pona for me, at least for a
while. Although it is a fascinating language, I can feel it competing for
brain space with Portuguese, which I've only been studying for 2 or 3 months.

Portuguese is a complicated mess like every other natural language, but it
is also ornately beautiful, and is the gateway to a culture and history shared
by more than 220 million people around the world. That's what I want to aim
for.

#8 of 8 by papa on Sat May 19 02:51:30 2018:

mi tawa. o pona!

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