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… There are Wikipedias in Esperanto, Ido, Interlingua, Interlingue, Lojban, Volapük,
and Novial, all constructed languages with a sizeable community of users, but Toki
Pona has been removed for lacking any societal grounding …
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The history of Toki Pona
The history of Toki Pona
The history of Toki Pona
== History ==
An early version of the language was published online in 2001 by Sonja Lang, and it quickly gained popularity. Early activity took place in a Yahoo! group. Members of the group discussed the language with one another in English, Toki Pona, and Esperanto, proposed changes, and talked about the resources on the tokipona.org site. At its peak member count, the group had a little over 500 members. Messages in the group were archived in the Toki Pona forum using phpBB.
Lang later released an official book on the language, Toki Pona: The Language of Good, in 2014. It is also sometimes referred to as pu in the Toki Pona community. In 2016, the book was also published in French. Although other resources for the language have been created by the community, the major sources for learning continue to be Lang's book and online lessons developed by Bryant Knight or "jan Pije", an early adopter of Toki Pona.
In 2008 an application for an ISO 639-3 code was rejected, with a statement that the language was too young. Another request was rejected in 2018 as the language "does not appear to be used in a variety of domains nor for communication within a community which includes all ages".Toki Pona was the subject of some scientific works, and it has also been used for artificial intelligence and software tools, as well as a therapeutic method for eliminating negative thinking by having patients keep track of their thoughts in the language.
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Toki Pona Yahoo Groups Archive
Jansegers Memory Lane Online
Still usefull
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http://hamme.digitalzones.com/
http://genotest.scriptmania.com/
http://totafrancia.1colony.com/
Mainly links
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http://jansegers.worldbreak.com/
http://jansegers.communityarchitect.com/
http://jansegers.scriptmania.com/
https://www.quicktopic.com/22/H/hcLzNwSJ8SY
Archives
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https://web.archive.org/web/20100430154147/http://webmaster.freecities.com
https://web.archive.org/web/20070306173638/members.fortunecity.com/jansegers
Usefull Archived Pages
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https://web.archive.org/web/20070113225848/http://vocabulaire.eduinfo.com:80/
https://web.archive.org/web/20070401074150/http://genre.eduinfo.com:80/
[...]
Philosophy
A number of philosophies or principles have inspired me to create a
language such as Toki Pona.
Toki Pona is semantically, lexically, and phonetically minimal. The
simplest and fewest elements are used to create the maximum effect.
In many ways, Toki Pona resembles a pidgin. When people from
different cultures need to communicate, they must focus on the
concrete, simple things that are most universal to humanity.
Toki Pona follows the principles of Taoism, which advocates a simple,
honest life and noninterference with the course of natural events.
I have also been inspired by anthropological primitivists such as
Sahlins and John Zerzan, whose writings critique the totality of
modern civilization, recognising the superiority of natural,
primitive cultures.
Toki Pona can lead to an interesting game of semantic decomposition.
Just as one can decompose a mathematical fraction such as 4/8 to 1/2,
we can break down language to its most basic and tangible units of
meaning and discover what things really mean.
According to reductionism, complex ideas and systems can be
completely understood in terms of their simpler parts or components.
Since Toki Pona expresses things in their most natural and simple
way, an inherent idea of goodness is transparent throughout the
language. Health is good body. Happiness is feel good. Toki Pona
itself means good language.
Above all, Toki Pona must be fun and cute. As everything seems to be
oversimplified and ideas focus on the good, one could almost imagine
a race of little cartoon creatures speaking in Toki Pona.
END QUOTE
From the Toki Pona archives
Viktoro | 2002
I just would like to call attention to what I consider a good pidgin
design, that of Toki Pona: See http://www.tokipona.org/
Quoted from the website:
BEGIN QUOTE
Simple and Natural
Modern languages are cluttered with complex methods to express the
simplest things.
What is a geologist but a person who studies the earth? Is there any
useful difference between the words talk, speak, and say? Toki Pona
breaks down all advanced ideas to their most basic elements. If you
are hungry, you want eat. To teach is give knowledge.
This allows us to drastically reduce the vocabulary and grammatical
structures needed to say what we have to say. Less is more.
[...]
Toki Pona official website of 2007
The only snapshot I could find back of that time ...
But quite interesting
Toki Pona
2001
Objective: test a language of an extreme simplicity
Aproximately 50 speakers
Only 123 words
14 letters
Principles used by the Spiki :
- Association of several simple words to create a complex word
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