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Toki Pona is a constructed language first published online in mid-2001. It was designed by translator and linguist Sonja Elen Kisa of Toronto. Toki Pona is a minimal language. Like a pidgin, it focuses on simple concepts and elements that are relatively universal among cultures. Kisa designed Toki Pona to express maximal meaning with minimal complexity. The language has 14 phonemes and 120 root words.... Read enhanced Wikipedia article

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Toki Pona incorporated elements

Engineered language Sonja Elen Kisa's Toki Pona is based on minimalistic simplicity, incorporating elements of Taoism.

Philosophical language Sonja Elen Kisa's Toki Pona is based on minimalistic simplicity, incorporating elements of Taoism.

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Toki Pona mailed communities

Toki Pona Traffic on the Toki Pona mailing list and other online communities suggests that dozens of people are proficient in reading and writing.

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Toki Pona inflected verbs

Toki Pona Toki Pona does not inflect verbs according to person, tense, mood, or voice.

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    Toki Pona

    Toki Pona is a constructed language first published online in mid-2001. It was designed by translator and linguist Sonja Elen Kisa of Toronto.
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    International auxiliary language

    Sona and Toki Pona are well known examples, although Toki Pona is not primarily a priori.
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    Philosophical language

    The term ideal language is sometimes used near-synonymously, though more modern philosophical languages such as Toki Pona are less likely to involve such and exalted claim of perfection.
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    Logogram

    A purely logographic script would be impractical for most languages, and none is known apart from one devised for the artificial language Toki Pona, a purposefully limited language with only 120 morphemes.
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    Artistic language

    Some conlangers design languages based on a philosophy or experiment, such as Laadan (feminism), Toki Pona (minimal pidgin) or mezangelle (electronic hybrid).
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    Sonja Elen Kisa

    Sonja Elen Kisa invented the planned language Toki Pona, a philosophical language based on the philosophy of Taoism.
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    Characteristica universalis

    The objectives of Sonja Elen Kisa's constructed language Toki Pona, and the 'Symbolator' or 'idea-computer' (Goppold 1994) resemble in some respects a less ambitious version of the characteristica universalis.
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    Hardest language

    planned languages such as Esperanto, Interlingua, and the even simpler Toki Pona
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    Constructed language

    Blissymbol · Enochian · Esperanto · Glosa · Ido · Interlingua · Ithkuil · Klingon · Láadan · Lingua Franca Nova · Lingua Ignota · Loglan · Lojban · Nadsat · Newspeak · Novial · Quenya · Sindarin · Solresol · Teonaht · Toki Pona · Volapük
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    List of constructed languages

    Blissymbol · Enochian · Esperanto · Glosa · Ido · Interlingua · Ithkuil · Klingon · Láadan · Lingua Franca Nova · Lingua Ignota · Loglan · Lojban · Nadsat · Newspeak · Novial · Occidental · Quenya · Sindarin · Solresol · Teonaht · Toki Pona · Volapük

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