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Toki Pona
minimalist language created by Sonja Lang / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Toki Pona is a constructed language. Sonja Lang, a Canadian translator and linguist, made this language.[1] The words toki pona mean "good language" or "simple language".
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Pronunciation | [ˈtoki ˈpona] |
Created by | Sonja Lang |
Date | 2001 |
Setting and usage | testing principles of minimalism, the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis[1] and pidgins |
Users | more than 3.100 (2016) |
Purpose | constructed language, combining elements of the subgenres personal language, international auxiliary language and philosophical language |
Sources | a posteriori language, with elements of English, Tok Pisin, Finnish, Georgian, Dutch, Acadian French, Esperanto, Croatian, Chinese |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | tok |
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Toki Pona uses simple ideas that all cultures know. However, Lang did not make Toki Pona as an international auxiliary language (a language to help people speaking different languages). She made it to test ideas about minimalism (taking out things that are not needed) and pidgins. She also used Taoist ideas.