Appendix:Toki Pona

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Toki Pona is a constructed language, designed by translator and polyglot Sonja Lang and first published as a draft online in August 2001.

A complete form of the language including 120 core words (known in Toki Pona as nimi pu) was published in the book Toki Pona: The Language of Good in English in 2014, which has since been translated into a number of languages. In 2021, Lang published her second book Toki Pona Dictionary including 17 new words categorized as essential based on data from one of the online Toki Pona communities. Along with the original 120 words, this set is referred to as nimi ku suli in Toki Pona. The book also included a number of other less common words, referred to as nimi ku lili.

Word list

Core pu words

The following 120 words are words described in the first book, Toki Pona: The Language of Good (2014).

See also the category Toki Pona words included in Toki Pona: The Language of Good

nimi ku suli

This set of words contains words listed as important in the Toki Pona Dictionary (2021).

Notes
  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Words that were listed as synonyms of other words in the dictionary of Toki Pona: The Language of Good, but are usually not used as full synonyms by people that use these words.

Other words

Additional words not listed above can be found in the following categories by usage:

Other categories also group words by sona Linku usage categories:

  • Toki Pona official site, which includes links to official Toki Pona books written by Sonja Lang:
    1. Toki Pona: The Language of Good (a.k.a. pu), which defines the words as proposed by Lang in 2014 in the Official Toki Pona Dictionary on pp. 125–134. Available in print and in a Kindle edition.
    2. Toki Pona Dictionary (a.k.a. ku), a work that describes how Toki Pona is used in a major Toki Pona community as of the year 2021, and makes some comments and corrections of material in the first book. Available only in paperback.
    3. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Toki Pona edition), the first in a series of illustrated story books (a.k.a. su), printed in the sitelen pona writing system
  • lipu Linku, a dictionary that includes many notable revived and community-made words (nimi pi pu ala), as well as annually updated usage percentages and sitelen pona glyphs
  • sona pona, a wiki on various Toki Pona topics that includes English prose descriptions and sometimes usage citations of words, including all words in Linku and more

See also


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