Toki Pona for Socialists
This is a Toki Pona community for socialists to chat, make art, and share their experiences with the Toki Pona constructed language!
Toki Pona is a philosophical artistic constructed language created by Sonja Lang in 2001. It is designed for talking about things by explaining them in simple terms. When the first official book released it had only 120 words, and since then has expanded to somewhere around 140 words!
As of the 2022 Toki Pona census there was around 1800+ speakers of the language. It's primarily spoken online and is considered one of the most popular conlangs (constructed languages) in the world.
Despite being a constructed language Toki Pona is a real language and is recognized by several institutions around the world!
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Focused on Mandarin, with some occasional effort into other languages to mix things up, cause I'm past the initial excitement early phase of the language, so I want to make sure I don't get bored or burned out on my efforts.
Probably a number of reasons, but for one, I want to be able to understand the culture more directly, instead of through western stuff. It's also just spoken by a lot of people and by well, a very influential anti-imperialist and socialist state, so there's that too.
No favorite word/phrase comes to mind, but I can say, I like the repeating a verb thing in Chinese to make it less formal, like 周末我们一起去公园走走吧！(zhōu mò wǒ men yī qǐ qù gōng yuán zǒu zǒu ba!) (Let’s go for a walk in the park this weekend!). (I lifted this example from a language site, I am not yet confident enough to draw one up on the fly from my knowledge of Mandarin.)