jan-pinwin

[jan-pinwin]

toki pona li suwi li pona tawa mi.

taso mi pilin e ni: toki ma li suwi suli en toki pona li suwi lili.

toki. mi kama sona e toki pona. tenpo March pini la, mi open sona e toki pona. ona li musi li suwi tawa mi. :)

kulupu pi toki pona lon ala lon e lipu tumblr?

[jan-pinwin]

tan seme la mi mute li ken ala e ni?

All I’m saying is there’s 7.6 billions of us and only one God. We could take him out if we want to.

[jan-pinwin]

suwi a

[jan-pinwin]

on li suwi a a!

mi lili soweli. mi ken ike pona li ni!

[jan-pinwin]

waso Pinwin a!

waso Pinwin a! waso Pinwin a!

waso Pinwin a!

waso Pinwin li jo e oko jelo la, ona li waso Hoiho

[jan-pinwin]

mi mute li lon insa kulupu

linja anpa

[jan-pinwin]

jan pona toki e ni tawa mi: linja tan wan tawa tu la, nanpa pi toki pona li ike seme?

mi toki e ni tawa ona: nanpa pi toki pona li ike mute

[jan-pinwin]

mi wile e ni: jan pona mi ale li jo e sike suno sin pona.

[jan-pinwin]

"blue" li laso sewi

"green" li laso kasi

[jan-pinwin]

nimi "la" li ike ala tawa mi. taso nimi "lon" li ike tawa mi.

[jan-pinwin]

Toki Pona Overview pt. 1 (Words)

**sources: Wikipedia and tokipona.net**

Toki Pona is a minimal conlang.

The Vocabulary (essentially these are all the words in the language)

-words may be used as nouns, adjectives, verbs, or adverbs, therefore the meaning given in the picture is HIGHLY flexible

-writing systems: latin script (eg. “telo”), sitelen pona (i.e. hieroglyphic representation like the two waves above “telo”), sitelen sitelen (i.e. syllable based hieroglyphics), Tengwar script, and even Kanji 

-there is also a sign language format!

-FUN FACT: many of the words are derived from English, Finnish, Tok Pisin, Georgian, Dutch, Acadian French, Esperanto, Croatian, Chinese, and a few other languages

~ Alphabet & Pronunciation ~

9 consonants: p, t, k, s, m, n, l, j, w

5 vowels: a, e, i, o, u

-the letter sounds are very similar to English except “j” has a “y” sound (which is similar to Esperanto and German)

-vowel sounds do not change: father, met, peel, more, and food respectively represent the sounds of a, e, i, o, and u

-the first syllable of a word is always stressed

-most words have 2 syllables (70%), though some are 1 syllable (~20%) or 3 syllables (10%)

~ Pronouns/Possessive Adjectives ~

-mi: I, we, me, us, my, our

-sina: you, yours

-ona: any 3rd person identifier 

~ Nouns ~

-no NUMBER is expressed. singular and plural verbs appear the same

-lots of noun phrases/compound words must be used (eg. jan + utala = person + fight = warrior/soldier; telo + kili = liquid + fruit = juice)

-no proper nouns exist so they are expressed by noun + distinct adjective (eg. to refer to me [my name is Leeza], you would say jan Leeza [jan= person]. Note: you can also “tokiponize” a name)

~ Modifiers ~

the order is important from comprehension!

- noun + modifier 1 + modifier 2 is read as (noun + modifier 1) + modifier 2

that is…. jan pona lukin (person + good + look at) is read as ‘a friend who is looking,’ not ‘a good-looking person’

- noun + “pi” + modifier 1 + modifier 2 + modifier 3…..etc

this structure allows you to group as many modifiers as you need. “Pi” means of. Eg. jan pi pona lukin = a good-looking person

- demonstratives (ni), numbers, and possessive adjectives follow other modifiers 

~ Numbers ~

nanpa: number

wan: 1

tu: 2

luka: 5

mute: 20

ali/ale: 100

-there are two numerical systems which will be explained in a future post! They are probably the biggest drawback to the language because they’re not very efficient/distinct though.

[jan-pinwin]

[jan-pinwin]

sina o, kama poka mi

m-mi?

“You. Come. Here.”

“M-Me?”

[jan-pinwin]

“toki. kama pona o sitelen tawa Ilanta Kuliti. mi jan Misali. tenpo ni la mi toki e ma insa telo Misali”