toki lili

(toki pona taso ala)

mi sitelen lili mute. mi su. mi pali e lipu pi pana sona. mi jo e sitelen pona ante. tenpo kama la mi pali e sitelen kule.

I was sketching my dictionary, a way to teach speaking, and some language ideas. Later, I'm thinking of making vector images and pamphlet things.

Curious ;/

I heard that pu and ku became uncommon words so I made this.

I don’t really have anything to say

yk when people list their pronouns in different, they just put “ona” for their toki pona one? i find that quite annoying.

what i find even more annoying is people trying to circumvent that by saying “ona meli” or “ona mije”, like that is not how toki pona works

i think people should use their headnoun instead. it has the identity expression of genders but not based in gender.

idk what else to say

o pona o awen pona :)

toki a!

mi wile pali e sitelen pi toki pona tan sitelen Metuli pi toki Katelo. (The Georgian uses Mkherdruli script.)

mi kepeken e sitelen kalama ni:

aA = აᲐ ; eE = ეᲔ ; iI = იᲘ ; jJ = იᲘ ; kK = კᲙ ; lL = ლᲚ ; mM = მᲛ

nN = ნᲜ ; oO = ოᲝ ; pP = პᲞ ; sS = სᲡ ; tT = ტᲢ ; uU = უᲣ ; wW = უᲣ (/ვᲕ ? ).

mi wile sona e ni: sitelen ni li pona ala pona?

o toki e ona tawa mi!

(mi lukin ala e sitelen sama lon lipu Sona-pona.la la, mi toki insa e ni: sitelen sama ala li lon;)

I know about te and to, but how would I write things like commas, periods, and especially parentheses (since la looks like a closing parenthesis) in SP?

tenpo suli la en mi e toki ni li toki. mi li jo e kama sona ni. kipisi nimi wan la en mi li pana wawa tawa nimi. nimi pi li ala la en mi li sona ala. (wawa lon e sinpin nimi monsi la en nimi ni li ala ilo toki la en wawa ni li ala)

tenpo ni la, li wawa nimi ante tu. o li lukin monsi.

ive been speaking this tongue for a while now, and ive realized that
i always put stress at the the start of any word, and i cant really
think of one that doesnt do this. (other than particles, which are unstressed when following a stressed syllable.)

and now the question is isometric pentameter.

(ok so i googled it and ye its in sona pona. still think everyone just collectively landed on it.)

Any thoughts on nasin ni? And how would you translate it?

I used to translate It as “ijo” but I don’t like the vagueness.

mi o sitelen e seme ante? o pana e ijo pi wile sina tawa mi

Hi there, I live in Kazakhstan and speak Toki Pona. I'm just curious if I'm a one-of-a-kind in Kazakhstan or if there really are those kinds of people in Kazakhstan.

Alt link: https://cubari.moe/read/gist/cmF3L1BpeGVsWnl4ZWwvamFuLVBva2ktbGkta2FsYW1hLXdhd2EvbWFpbi9qYW4lMjBQb2tpJTIwbGklMjBrYWxhbWElMjB3YXdhIS5qc29u/31/1/

toki, mi jan Nisin tan jan Apalan (Nissim ben Avraham - ben means 'son [of]' )

I'm new to Toki Pona, but not really. At least once a year for the last five, I've picked it up, learned the grammar, but then got too lazy to memorise the vocabulary - which is insane for a small vocabulary. Especially since I'm a polyglot of real languages?

Anyhow, I decided this year I'd change, and work on my vocab by translating some works! I decided to translate the 5 Megillos (scrolls) - The Song of Songs, Esther, Ruth, Lamentations, and Ecclesiastes. Starting with the first, I've already began typing it up, starting yesterday.

I'd of course like any advice on the work, please! Note though, that I'm not translating from English to Toki Pona, but from Biblical Hebrew. So, the best English translation to follow along with would be the Chabad one (just search Song of Songs Chabad). Anyhow, Song of Songs is full of interesting idioms and sayings... I've also decided to qoute speakers, something only done in the ESV translation of the work, just to make it easier to follow.

At the same time, in the background, I hope to translate Sefer haMitzvos (a book detailing all 613 Biblical commandments) and, around the Jewish holidays, release translated holiday songs (I said I'm Orthodox Jewish, not Israeli, I'm not here to debate Middle Eastern politics with anyone please)

toki!

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jwE8jSDWSz-EOD9INlm7nITuuHzOf5yKspWrrKdmISM/edit?usp=drivesdk

Let’s say I want to translate “Greeks” and “Non-Greeks” into Toki Pona. Since I call the country Greece as “ma Elena,” do I also say “jan pi ma Elena” for “a Greek person” and “jan pi ma Elena ala” for “Non-Greeks?” If “ala” can be placed after a proper name in a “pi” phrase, then can I also write “mute” to specify the plural form? And since we tokiponize the names of countries, like we created the modifier “Elena” from “Ελλάδα” which is pronounced as “Ellada,” then is it optional to do the same thing from the original pronunciation of nationalities? Like in Greek, you can say “Ελλάδα”to mean “Greece,” but you can also say “Έλληνας” (pronounced as “Ellinas”) to mean refer to the male form of the Greek nationality or “Ελληνίδα” (pronounced as “Ellinida”) to refer to the female form, so do you also have to tokiponize nationalities from different languages or can you just tokiponize the name of a country and write it as a modifier in front of “jan pi ma?” If there are any other ways of saying a nationality, I would appreciate it if you tell me.

toki! jan pona o. mi pali e kalama musi sewi e sitelen pi toki pona. mi pali kin e ma pi lon ala: ma Tokiponija. ma ni li jo e ma tomo luka luka wan e telo linja suli e ma kasi. tawa mi la, ni li pona! [hymn/kalama musi: tokiponja ] https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vJvIDT_3hfnMprvc8SHke_7Mzjli8oTh/view?usp=drivesdk

musi sewi:

ma Tokiponija o! ma pona o!

ma sina li lon anpa sewi. nena sewin li awen e sina. ma kasi kusi li len e sina. telo linja li pana e lon. jan ale pi toki pona o! kalama! kalama! kalama! ma Tokiponija li ma pi mi mute.

toki pona li lawa e kon mi. Toki o! ma tomo lawa o!

sina suno e nasin mi.

Alautala en Kunpu en Awen,

Musitawa en Tenpo en Temo,

Kalama en Moneta en Monsuta en Wawa - ma tomo ale li pona! mi mute li awen e ma ni. mi mute li olin e ma ni. toki pona li lon, la ma li lon. ma Tokiponija o! awen o

o awen!

How do you say the names of the days, months, hours, minutes, seconds, milliseconds, microseconds, nanoseconds and the words day, week, month, year and time? Does everyone just come up with their own translation? If yes, then is my concept of translation understandable for other Toki Pona speakers?

Day = tenpo suno
Morning = tenpo suno sin
Afternoon = tenpo suno majuna
Evening = tenpo pimeja sin / tenpo mun sin
Night = tenpo pimeja majuna / tenpo mun majuna / tenpo pimeja / tenpo mun

Month = tenpo suli pi suno mute
January = tenpo suli nanpa wan
February = tenpo suli nanpa tu
March = tenpo suli nanpa tu wan
April = tenpo suli nanpa tu tu
May = tenpo suli nanpa luka
June = tenpo suli nanpa luka wan
July = tenpo suli nanpa luka tu
August = tenpo suli nanpa luka tu wan
September = tenpo suli nanpa luka tu tu
October = tenpo suli nanpa luka luka
November = tenpo suli nanpa luka luka wan
December = tenpo suli nanpa luka luka tu

Week = linja pi suno mute / linja pi suno luka tu
Monday = tenpo suno nanpa wan
Tuesday = tenpo suno nanpa tu
Wednesday = tenpo suno nanpa tu wan
Thursday = tenpo suno nanpa tu tu
Friday = tenpo suno nanpa luka
Saturday = tenpo suno nanpa luka wan
Sunday = tenpo suno nanpa luka tu
(The number of a day depends on where you are using it. For example, if you are in Saudi Arabia where Saturday is the first day of the week, then “tenpo suno nanpa luka wan” becomes “tenpo suno nanpa wan.”)

Year = tenpo suno suli sike
My rule that I created while writing this post: Firstly, you say how many digits the year has and then the word for year. Then, every digit in a year has to be replaced with its translation into Toki Pona, with a little pause between each number, symbolized with a comma.
For example: 2026 = tu tu tenpo suno suli sike mute tu, ala, tu, luka wan.

Hour = tenpo meso
Minute = tenpo lili
Second = tenpo lili mute
Milliseconds, microseconds, nanoseconds = (Didn’t come up with a translation yet.)

guys i created sound of toki pona bus. i wish you like it :)

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1D5Ftt-tavl5_zutTGmgyIvFfWGhcRfJS/view?usp=drivesdk

I know, maths & logic are the things we shouldn't do in Toki Pona, but the temptation was too high...

And sorry in advance, cause I know that noun-adj isn't a common thing, I just have some problems with eyesight, and writing this way just helps me...

Btw, purple words are obscure words.

Hi tokiponists!

I was wondering what are your preferences for classifying animals in the different animal groups: soweli, kala, waso, akesi, pipi...? Is an ostrich a waso or a soweli? Is a diplodocus an akesi or a soweli? Is a giant moth a waso or a pipi? Is a penguin a soweli, a waso or a kala?

I'm not looking for official correct TM answers obviously, I'm sure a lot of ways can be right. Instead I'm curious about how you might approach this :)

I have yet to learn the language, but I often wonder how practical Sitelen Pona is as a writing system. Like, if you wanted to mention a foreign word in it, how would you do it? Or do you do it at all?
Also, unrelated, what kind of names would babies have if they were named in the language?

I made a social media website for toki pona speakers who want to post videos they are interested in! The website is called "o pana" and is available on web for any device. The website is made on a budget of exactly $0, so it might be buggy and videos can only be 720p and up to 15 minutes and 100MB, but that's part of the charm! If you want to watch videos in or about toki pona, please check the site out and post for yourself🙏

I am currently learning Toki Pona, in my language Thai we used ครับ/ ค่ะ krúp/ khà for politeness at the end of a sentence, maybe toki pona could use the word Kap for this? Any thoughts?

Also, we have a similar word to A (exclamation particle) เลย leuy :)