Toki Pona

mi jo e kili.
ona li pona li lili.
mi moku lili e kili lili.

Toki Pona (toki pona) is a constructed language by Sonja Lang, a philosophical attempt to understand the meaning of life in 120 words.¹

Words

kasi kasi

plant, vegetation, herb, leaf

ma ma

earth, land, outdoors, world, country, territory, soil

ma kasi ma kasi

garden

Resources

Learning

• tokipona.org – The official site, from which you can buy the Toki Pona book.
• lipu sona pona – A Toki Pona course, introducing ten words per lesson.
• pimeja – An interactive dictionary.
• More resources for learning Toki Pona

Other resources

• linja pona (“simple line”) – A font for the sitelen pona script, which is used on this page.

Works

• jan pi weka tan ma tomo Omela – A translation of The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas (Ursula K. Le Guin) by equa.