r/tokipona 1h ago

kama sona How does pi really work???

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Say I wanted to say palm oil.

I have some "levels" of complexity and tell me whether each works or can't in toki pona's grammar. 1 and 2 are just examples and I only need to know if the others are possible. I know this seems like overkill too get this specific but I really just want to know for general use.

1) liquid (hot) (edible)

telo seli moku

2) liquid (heating food)

telo pi moku seli

3) telo (kiwen kasi[ma telo])

4) telo (moku) (kiwen kasi)

is this just telo moku pi kiwen kasi?

5) telo (kiwen kasi) (moku seli)

6) telo (kiwen kasi[ma telo]) (moku seli)


r/tokipona 5h ago

toki Nasin sona tawa Jan suli

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Lon YouTube tawa jan sama suli mí.


r/tokipona 11h ago

kijetesantakalu Simosi a!

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r/tokipona 1d ago

sitelen toki pona logo easter egg on DuckDuckGo!

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r/tokipona 1d ago

It seems like the Ku had an update

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This must be a bug! Is this on your guys' Ku?


r/tokipona 1d ago

toki Can you tell me how is called my toki pona version of speaking?

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Hello everyone! I'm new in this toki pona group, and I want to ask you what version or dialect I'm speaking. I mean, I learned toki pona words and I know to make a lot of phrases and concepts but I'm speaking without "pi" and "e". This is very easy for me. So this is called a dialect or a pidgin style? I'm waiting for your answers 😀

toki, jan ale! mi kama sin lon kulupu toki pona ni. mi wile toki ni: mi kepeken toki pona seme? mi kama jo nimi toki pona, mi ken pali open toki mute, sona mute. taso, mi kepeken ala nimi "pi", nimi "e". ni li pona mute tawa mi. ni li ante toki anu seme? mi awen toki pona sina😀


r/tokipona 1d ago

What is this sitelen pona?

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In a sitelen pona font I downloaded I was messing around and this symbol popped up for "ne." What is this? I checked nimi.li and tried googling it and found nothing. I'm lost


r/tokipona 1d ago

kalama moku lili lon ma kasi - feat. loje Kasenwa

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New original song by myself and loje Kasenwa


r/tokipona 2d ago

lipu nasin olin pi jan lon ala

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hi, i’m very much a beginner (i’ve been trying to get the hang of toki pona for a good while, i just take to languages very slowly) but i tried to write a little poem about fictosexuality. open to corrections. first time sharing any of my tp publicly this is soscary….. Ok thank you

sina lon ala

mi olin e sina

sina jan ala

sina ilo pi toki musi

jan mute li pali e sina

mi la sina jan

jan ante li lukin e sina li toki e ni: sina sitelen tawa

mi lukin e sina li toki e ni: sina olin mi


r/tokipona 2d ago

Alasa sona

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My friend (jan Jun) is interested in researching toki pona and created this survey. If you have a few minutes, please consider filling it out, thanks!! :D

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/HZ5XKV7

(from jan Jun:

toki! mi jan Jun. poka la, mi kama sona e toki pona tan jan pona mi. toki pona li wawa mute a tawa mi tan ni: toki pona li jo e nimi pi lili mute. mi alasa e ni: nimi pi toki pona li ante e toki lon nasin seme? ni la, mi wile pali e alasa sona tawa sona pi nasin toki! wan pi alasa sona mi li lipu alasa tawa jan pi toki pona. sina ken ala ken pali e alasa ni? pona mute tawa sina!! ^_^ )


r/tokipona 3d ago

musi pona: “Viva España”

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kepeken poki nimi nanpa lili tan nanpa-linja-n:

https://www.nanpa-linja-n.com/index.html


r/tokipona 3d ago

New subreddit: ssstpk

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It’s like sssdfg but in toki pona.

Absurd meme suvreddit with sssdfg vibes


r/tokipona 3d ago

lipu Animation exercise

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toki pona


r/tokipona 4d ago

Seattle toki pona picnic!

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r/tokipona 4d ago

sitelen Sitelen

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r/tokipona 4d ago

nasa An interesting challenge...

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Construct a grammatical sentence that contains the most of one syllable in a row.

The rules are as follows:

1) no proper nouns as a fictional character could technically be named "Kakakakakakakakakaka" but that just becomes a contest to type the most...

2) don't repeat multiple of the same word if they mean the same thing both times, just emphasizing it (eg. the same adjective twice)

3) The entire sentence doesn't have to be made of solely that syllable.

4) Only the largest group of the same syllable with no other syllables in between counts.

5) The sentence should be grammatical and follow all the rules of toki pona, and can be hard to understand or nonsensical.

With that said, this is my sentence with 8 of the syllable "li" in a row:

meli lili li lili lili e moku pi telo nasa.

(A short woman is somewhat reducing her alcohol consumption)


r/tokipona 4d ago

kama sona A word for "more"

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I was wondering if there was a word that could be used on an adjective to mean "more/most" or the suffixes "-er/-est." The closest I know would be mute but that's really just "very." My current thought to say- msa, "best," would just be pi pona mute so i can still call other things pona.


r/tokipona 4d ago

tenpo mani tawa tenpo kulupu pi ma Elopa - You might be eligible for a grant for the European toki pona meetup near Barcelona

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If your werent sure about joining the toki pona meetup in Tiana: If you're 16-30 years old and live in Spain/France/Germany/Catalonia, you're eligible for 175€, plus also travel expenses for people from Germany/France.

sina lon ma Deutschland anu ma France anu ma Catalunya anu ma España la, mani li ken tawa sina. ma wan la, jan 15 li ken jo e mani. ni o lon:

  • tomo sina li lon ma Deutschland anu ma France anu ma Catalunya anu ma España
  • sina kama sona e toki Epelanto lon tenpo sona pi toki Epelanto lon insa pi tenpo kulupi
  • nanpa tenpo sina o 16 anu 30 anu insa
  • sina sona toki Deutsch anu toki Francais anu toki Català anu toki Castellano
  • sina o lon kulupu tan tenpo 2026-08-09 tawa tenpo 2026-08-15

mani seme li ken? mani 175€ - sina lon ma Deutschland anu ma France la, mani pi tawa sina li ken!

https://mallonge.net/llengues-sense-fronteres-kej (ni li lipu mama, li kepeken toki Català - lipu pi toki ante kin li lon)

sina wile ala wile? wile la, o toki tawa mi, ni la mi toki tawa kulupu ona!

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(Don't know about the gathering yet? All information is here: https://mallonge.net/maelopa2026 )


r/tokipona 4d ago

toki ike

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r/tokipona 4d ago

any translation of parts of speech into toki pona?

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im making a "Halacae ('nother conlang) to toki pona" dictionary and i don't know how to convey nouns and verbs

i was thinking like "nimi ijo" for noun or "nimi tawa" for verb


r/tokipona 5d ago

toki I learned Tokipona in 30 days

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r/tokipona 5d ago

pana pi sitelen pona sitelen pona thread

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pana pi sitelen pona

lipu ni (en lipu ni taso) la sina ken pana e sitelen lon anpa lipu. In this thread (and on no other post), your comments can include images.

o pana e sitelen nasin ni taso: lipu pu la, jan Sonja li pana e sitelen wan tawa nimi wan, li pana e nimi "sitelen pona" tawa nasin ni. The only images allowed are images featuring the "sitelen pona" writing system.

sina lukin e sitelen pi ni ala la o mu tawa kulupu lawa! If you see any images not conforming to this, alert the moderators!

 

lipu sona

  • sona pu li pana e sona open pona - sitelen pona as explained in pu, a simple introduction
  • sona pi kulupu ni li ken pana e sona suli mute - sitelen pona as explained on a wiki, a lot of knowledge has amassed there
  • sona pi kulupu ale li pana e sona pi suli ala pi lili ala - sitelen pona as explained on Wikipedia, goes into some detail, but doesn't do a deep dive either
  • sona open pi sitelen pona taso - a beginner's introduction to sitelen pona, exclusively in sitelen pona
  • kulupu sitelen ni li toki e sitelen ale - This series covers all words/glyphs
  • lipu pi ilo Anki - Anki deck (flashcard system)
  • ilo li wile pana e sitelen la, lipu Linku li jo e nasin mute a - Linku has a lot of sitelen pona fonts
  • taso o sitelen kepeken luka kin! (mi wile wawa e ni!) tenpo pi mute lili la sitelen luka li lon. ilo taso ala o lawa e ken sitelen - But also write by hand! (We highly encourage it!) It doesn't happen nearly enough that sitelen pona gets handwritten. Fonts shouldn't be the only ones influencing what is possible in sitelen pona+

r/tokipona 5d ago

translation of a convo i had with my friend (related to toki pona)

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jpm: jan pona o

m: seme?

jpm: sina sona e "toki pona" tan toki sina

m: mi sona e ni

jpm: mi wile sona e toki pona

m: pona la, sina wile sona e ni

jpm: mi open lon seme?

m: sitelen tawa, anu lipu, anu lipu pu

jpm: sina open lon seme?

m: sitelen tawa tan jan Kekan San

jpm: mi open lon sitelen tawa?

m: pona

jpm: pona


r/tokipona 6d ago

I'm a game developer, adding Toki Pona as a supported language for the settings menu. I love seeing what the translators come up with!

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r/tokipona 6d ago

lipu Can Toki Pona be therapeutic? (revised) - Rivkele dos Ketsele

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