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Microblogging anno 2008
Mini: The Minimal Language
S.C. Gruget | Jul 29, 2020
https://minilanguage.medium.com/mini-the-minimal-language-3f3710e28166
Search for Simplicity
Saturday, October 16, 2004
Toki Pona
Toki Pona is "the simple language of good".
I first came across it a couple of years ago, but it keeps popping back into my mind, so I though I would share it. Toki Pona is a simple spoken language. It is so simple infact that you can become fluient in about a month. I first found it when I was looking for a simple spoken language to that I could teach a computer, but thats another story. There are user groups, and lessons,etc.
Check it out!
Posted by Nigel Thorne
The Littlest Language
What you speak is what you think. Or is it the other way round?
Badri Sunderarajan | Dec 17, 2017
https://medium.com/snipette/the-littlest-language-11bb2301dcfc
ROBERT LINDSAY | SEPT 25, 2010
Tiki-Tiki Has 250 Words?
#TakiTaki #level340 #selo340 #nimi340 #minilang #toki_lili
#pidgin #selo250 #level250 #refutation
Taki Taki claim discussion
http://www.wordorigins.org/index.php/forums/viewthread/5141/
European Day of Languages 2019
Language diversity will be celebrated on the 26th of September. In Prague, you can take part in linguistic games in Campus Hybernská and Lucerna Gallery.
The Council of Europe declared the 26th of September the European Day of Languages in order to celebrate the diversity of languages. Linguistic diversity is rapidly decreasing, and disappearing as quickly as the much-discussed diversity of animal and plant species.
We currently know about 6,900 languages, about 500 of which are likely to disappear in the foreseeable future. It is said that every two weeks, one language disappears. Extreme predictions suggest that in 150 years, the only active languages in the world will be English, Spanish and Chinese.
Do you know Taki Taki?
English is believed to be the world's richest language, with 600,000 words. Czech has 300,000 words. The longest English word is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis with 45 letters, while the longest Czech word has 30 letters. Taki Taki, a language with only 340 words, has the smallest vocabulary. It is spoken in Suriname, a country on the north-eastern Atlantic coast of South America.
Languages are fascinating, which is the reason why linguists and language lovers are fighting to preserve as much linguistic diversity as possible. The promotion of linguistic diversity is also the objective of the European Day of Languages in Campus Hybernská and Lucerna Gallery.
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http://www.praha.eu/jnp/en/news/european_day_of_languages_2019.html
Which language has fewest words?
https://www.quora.com/Which-language-has-fewest-words
#TakiTaki #level340 #selo340 #nimi340 #minilang #toki_lili
#pidgin
Taki Taki claim refutation
Taki Taki claim 2018
Fact of the day:Taki-taki which is Sranan language, spoken in western French Guiana and Suriname, contains only 340 words.#Factoftheday #Translation #Languages #Sranan.
https://twitter.com/StarTranslation/status/1009411837010612226
Taki Taki claim 2013
I bet you can find a time to learn Taki taki language which has only 340 words! Doesnt it look so easy?
https://dutchinmotion.blogspot.com/2013/11/sranan-tongotaki-taki-language.html
only 340 words?
my uncle john's bathroom reader calender claims that "The Taki language, spoken in parts of Guinea, consists of only 340 words". is there any truth to this?
Your uncle john's bathroom reader calender is wrong, if it's about Sranan language: just have a look on this Sranan-English dictionary. It may be about another "Taki" language spoken in Papua New Guinea, but I don't know anything about it. Croquant 20:59, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
thanks. i knew a wikipidean would be able to debunk that uncle's john's dubious claims.216.234.58.18 20:13, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
Taki Taki : smallest natlang
annno 2005
Language with the fewest words: Taki Taki (also called Sranan), 340 words. Taki Taki is an English-based Creole spoken by 120,000 in the South American country of Suriname.
https://www.vistawide.com/languages/language_statistics.htm
A few years later it had already some 10 000 words ...
#TakiTaki #Sranan #Surinaams #toki_lili #natlang #SmallestLanguage #minilang
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My friend, Pigdog's Mr. Bad, recently introduced me to the wonderful language of Toki Pona. Unlike Esperanto (another of Seņor Bad's hobbies), Toki Pona is a constructed language that favors simplicity over clarity, and touts itself as "the language of good. The simple way of life."
The Toki Pona language consists of 119 words. By virtue of Toki Pona's extremely small vocabulary, and order-independent syntax, the language is good at talking about feelings and simple relationships, but not about the finer points of politics or silicon-on-insulator microchip fabrication techniques. Tokiponists believe this is exactly as it should be.
It only takes about a day of effort to learn, though the trouble comes when you have nobody to speak with but yourself. Mr. Bad himself admits that he has onl had Toki Pona conversations in email and instant message conversations which, sadly, rips away the simplicity latent on the very phonemes and the way the mouth moves to pronounce them.
Perhaps Toki Pona will become my Chinese as it's used in Firefly, the underlanguage for muttering under my breath. Then again, what place does a happy language have as a muttering language. Well, it could be an interesting experiment anyhow.
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Minimalism in languages
I'm always collecting things in my head to blog, and once in a while two seem to match up in an odd way, forcing them to the front of the queue. Today's tidbits are about minimal languages, Toki Pona and K, minimal verbal and programming languages, respectively.
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