... Lang partially inspired by Sapir–Whorf hypothesis. Anyone interested in exploring the mechanics behind language and communications should take a look at Toki Pona in real life.
There are few additional words beyond the 120 that is given above. As a living language with active users, changes are to be expected. There are people composing songs and novellas in Toki Pona. Its only major fault I see is discarding Hindu–Arabic numeral system.
Below is a short video I found that helped me to learn about the basics. I have hardly put any effort and yet I am capable of coming up with few basic sentences. There are only 5 vowels and 9 consonants. Everything is designed from ground up to be easy to learn.
It is similar to Chinese in the sense that each word has a separate symbol and they are combined to create new symbols. These are called Logographic writing systems. Toki Pona can use the Latin alphabet for writing (only 14 letters are used).
There are few additional words beyond the 120 that is given above. As a living language with active users, changes are to be expected. There are people composing songs and novellas in Toki Pona. Its only major fault I see is discarding Hindu–Arabic numeral system.
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Below is a short video I found that helped me to learn about the basics. I have hardly put any effort and yet I am capable of coming up with few basic sentences. There are only 5 vowels and 9 consonants. Everything is designed from ground up to be easy to learn.
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It resembles the alphabet of Far Eastern languages. 😀
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It is similar to Chinese in the sense that each word has a separate symbol and they are combined to create new symbols. These are called Logographic writing systems. Toki Pona can use the Latin alphabet for writing (only 14 letters are used).
Hmm why only 14 letters are using?
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In order to keep things as simple a possible. The language is meant to be extremely easier for anyone from any language background to learn.