Toki Pona

Toki Pona

English

Alternative forms

• toki pona

Etymology

From Toki Pona toki pona (literally “good language”), formed from toki (“language”) (from Tok Pisin tok, from English talk) + pona (“good”) (from Esperanto bona (“good”), ultimately from Latin bonus).

Proper noun

Toki Pona

1. A minimalist constructed language with creole-like elements designed by Sonja Lang.
   • 2015 July 15, Roc Morin, “How to Say Everything in a Hundred-Word Language”, in The Atlantic‎:

     In contrast to the hundreds or thousands of study hours required to attain fluency in other languages, a general consensus among Toki Pona speakers is that it takes about 30 hours to master.

Translations

constructed language

Arabic: توكي بونا‎ (tuki buna) Belarusian: такіпона (takipóna) Catalan: toki pona Chinese: Cantonese: 道本語 (dou6 bun2 jyu5) Mandarin: 道本語／道本语 (zh) (Dàoběn yǔ) Chuvash: Токи Пона (Tok̬i P̬ona) Czech: toki pona Dutch: Toki Pona (nl) Esperanto: Tokipono (eo) Finnish: tokipona Hebrew: טוקי פונה‎ Hindi: टोकि पोना (ṭoki ponā) Japanese: トキポナ (ja) (Toki Pona) Korean: 도기 보나 (Dogi Bona) Limburgish: Toki Pona Persian: توکی پونا‎ Portuguese: toki pona (pt) Russian: токипо́на (ru) f (tokipóna) Spanish: toki pona (es) Swedish: toki pona Thai: ภาษาโทคิโพนา Turkish: Toki Pona (tr) Welsh: Toki Pona

See also

• Category:Toki Pona language