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title: Toki Pona
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draft: false
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tags:
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- conlang
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- vocabulary
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- simplicity
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summary: A constructed language with an extremely limited vocabulary
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links:
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wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toki_Pona
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official: https://tokipona.org/
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---
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I've enjoyed thinking about this #conlang a lot! I depend a lot on phrasing things precisely to express myself — even in everyday interactions (which can get confusing & frustrating when there's no way anyone else could be aware of the nuance in my word choice…) — so Toki Pona is incredibly interesting.
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With only ~120 words and 14 characters it's _tiny_, and forces you to talk around
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## alone - a poem
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_Quite an intense one! I'm yet to find other pre-translated toki-pona poems. Perhaps I'll try translating one at some point!_
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{{< translation "tok" "en" >}}
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ijo li moku e mi.\
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mi wile pakala.\
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pimeja li tawa insa kon mi.\
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jan ala li ken sona e pilin ike mi.\
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toki musi o, sina jan pona mi wan taso.\
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telo pimeja ni li telo loje mi, li ale mi.\
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tenpo ale la pimeja li lon.\
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wan taso
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I am devoured.\
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I must destroy.\
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Darkness fills my soul.\
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No one can understand my suffering.\
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O poetry! My only friend.\
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This ink is my blood, is my life.\
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And Darkness shall reign forevermore.
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{{< /translation >}}
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[source](https://www.tokipona.org/angst.html)
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## Poetry book
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[A collection of 27 poems](https://tokipona.org/toki_lili_27_poems_in_toki_pona.pdf) listed on the homepage
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## Computer-written poetry
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Someone [wrote code to write (semi-sensical) poetry](https://kevingal.com/blog/toki-poetry.html) in Toki Pona, which looks really fun.
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## Fonts
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There seem to be a number of fonts that people have created for the _written_ form of toki pona, like [Fairfax HD](https://www.kreativekorp.com/software/fonts/fairfaxhd/) which covers 'all the conlangs in the [registry](https://www.kreativekorp.com/ucsur/)' which will definitely be fun to play with.
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{{< figure src="../toki-pona-text.webp" caption="A sample of characters of Toki Pona written in the FairfaxHD font." >}}
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