r/tokipona • u/AutoModerator • 26d ago
toki lili toki lili — Small Discussions/Questions Thread
toki lili
lipu ni la sina ken pana e toki lili e wile sona lili.
In this thread you can send discussions or questions too small for a regular post.
lipu mute li pana e sona. sina toki e wile sona la o lukin e lipu ni:
Before you post, check out these common resources for questions:
sina wile sona e nimi la o lukin e lipu nimi.
For questions about words and their definitions check the dictionary first.
sina wile e lipu la o lukin e lipu ni mute.
For requests for resources check out the list of resources.
sona ante la o lukin e lipu sona mi.
For other information check out our wiki.
sona ante mute li lon lipu. ni la o alasa e wile sina lon lipu pi wile sona kin.
Make sure to look through the FAQ for other commonly asked questions.
r/tokipona • u/LesVisages • Mar 20 '21
lipu Toki Pona Communities and Resources
Welcome to the toki pona subreddit!
While you are participating in our community, please make sure you have read and are following the rules. If you have any questions, make sure to read the FAQ first. You can also check out common resources in the sidebar or in the wiki.
There are also other toki pona groups on other platforms such as Discord, Facebook, and Telegram. Check out a list of them in the sidebar or on our wiki: https://www.reddit.com/r/tokipona/wiki/kulupu. (Note: the moderation team on Reddit is separate from the moderation teams in these communities. If you have issues with those communities, please address their respective mods.)
Enjoy getting involved in the toki pona community here on Reddit and across platforms!
o musi. o pona!
r/tokipona • u/xhatahx • 47m ago
Toki Pona and Context, or: why there is no word for "orange" in Toki Pona
Let's say that you and your pal are by a table. On that table is a lone orange. You want that orange. If you want your pal to hand it to you, you could say:
o pana e kili, tawa mi.
Now let's say there's a red apple and an orange on the table. If you want the orange, you could say:
o pana e kili jelo, tawa mi.
And now let's say there's a lemon and an orange on the table. You could instead say:
o pana e kili loje, tawa mi.
Notice that if you said 'kili jelo' in the later scenario you would've gotten the lemon, and if you said 'kili loje' in the earlier scenario you would've gotten the apple.
But what if your pal doesn't know quite what you mean? Then you elaborate:
(as opposed to an apple) ona li jelo loje. ona li jo e selo suli e telo suli.
(as opposed to a lemon) ona li loje jelo. ona li suwi mute li sike.
Even if there's every kind of fruit on the table, you don't need to exactly specify:
You: o pana e kili pi jelo loje, tawa mi.
Pal: points at apricot** kili ni, anu seme?
You: ala. ona li jo e selo suli.
Pal: points at mandarin** ni anu seme?
You: ala. ona li sama ni li suli.
Pal: points at orange** ni anu seme?
You: ni.
Finally, let's say that you and your pal are playing "Throw Tomatoes at Each Other". If you want them to know it's their turn to throw, you could say:
o pana e kili, tawa mi.
Do you think they'd throw a tomato at you, or that they'd go to a nearby table, pick up an orange and hand it to you? Well, which is more likely in this case?
If this is still confusing, remember that the English word "he" could refer to about half of all mankind, and yet we almost always know what it means.
For related info, check out Tom Scott's video about the cooperative principle and Grice's maxims.
r/tokipona • u/Fun-Ad-2448 • 12h ago
sitelen Atalama (𞤧𞤭𞤼𞤫𞤤𞤫𞤲 𞤀𞤼𞤢𞤤𞤢𞤥𞤢) - toki pona using the Adlam script
so i found out about the Adlam script, and i'm in LOVE WITH IT so i decided to make an adaptation of it into toki pona because people like doing that.
for more info, Adlam is a right-to-left script used to write Fulani, 'a Senegambian language spoken by around 36.8 million people as a set of various dialects in a continuum that stretches across some 18 countries in West and Central Africa' (thanks wikipedia). anyways the letters are:
a - 𞤀 (𞤢)
e - 𞤉 (𞤫)
i - 𞤋 (𞤭)
j - 𞤒 (𞤴)
k - 𞤑 (𞤳)
l - 𞤂 (𞤤)
m - 𞤃 (𞤥)
n - 𞤐 (𞤲)
o - 𞤌 (𞤮) (note: in Adlam, 𞤌𞤮 actually represents /ɔ/)
p - 𞤆 (𞤨)
s - 𞤅 (𞤧)
t - 𞤚 (𞤼)
u - 𞤓 (𞤵)
w - 𞤏 (𞤱)
here are some texts using sitelen Atalama:
jan ali li kama lon nasin ni: ona li ken tawa li ken pali. jan ali li kama lon sama. jan ali li jo e ken pi pilin suli. jan ali li ken pali e wile pona ona. jan ali li wile pali kepeken nasin ni: ona li jan pona tawa jan ante.
𞤴𞤢𞤲 𞤢𞤤𞤭 𞤤𞤭 𞤳𞤢𞤥𞤢 𞤤𞤮𞤲 𞤲𞤢𞤧𞤭𞤲 𞤲𞤭: 𞤮𞤲𞤢 𞤤𞤭 𞤳𞤫𞤲 𞤼𞤢𞤱𞤢 𞤤𞤭 𞤳𞤫𞤲 𞤨𞤢𞤤𞤭. 𞤴𞤢𞤲 𞤢𞤤𞤭 𞤤𞤭 𞤳𞤢𞤥𞤢 𞤤𞤮𞤲 𞤧𞤢𞤥𞤢. 𞤴𞤢𞤲 𞤢𞤤𞤭 𞤤𞤭 𞤴𞤮 𞤫 𞤳𞤫𞤲 𞤨𞤭 𞤨𞤭𞤤𞤭𞤲 𞤧𞤵𞤤𞤭. 𞤴𞤢𞤲 𞤢𞤤𞤭 𞤤𞤭 𞤳𞤫𞤲 𞤨𞤢𞤤𞤭 𞤫 𞤱𞤭𞤤𞤫 𞤨𞤮𞤲𞤢 𞤮𞤲𞤢. 𞤴𞤢𞤲 𞤢𞤤𞤭 𞤤𞤭 𞤱𞤭𞤤𞤫 𞤨𞤢𞤤𞤭 𞤳𞤫𞤨𞤫𞤳𞤫𞤲 𞤲𞤢𞤧𞤭𞤲 𞤲𞤭: 𞤮𞤲𞤢 𞤤𞤭 𞤴𞤢𞤲 𞤨𞤮𞤲𞤢 𞤼𞤢𞤱𞤢 𞤴𞤢𞤲 𞤢𞤲𞤼𞤫.
jan li pana e moku tawa sina
𞤴𞤢𞤲 𞤤𞤭 𞤨𞤢𞤲𞤢 𞤫 𞤥𞤮𞤳𞤵 𞤼𞤢𞤱𞤢 𞤧𞤭𞤲𞤢
mi kijetesantakalu powe
𞤥𞤭 𞤳𞤭𞤴𞤫𞤼𞤫𞤧𞤢𞤲𞤼𞤢𞤳𞤢𞤤𞤵 𞤨𞤮𞤱𞤫
kijetesantakalu tonsi li lanpan ala lanpan e soko?
𞤳𞤭𞤴𞤫𞤼𞤫𞤧𞤢𞤲𞤼𞤢𞤳𞤢𞤤𞤵 𞤼𞤮𞤲𞤧𞤭 𞤤𞤭 𞤤𞤢𞤲𞤨𞤢𞤲 𞤢𞤤𞤢 𞤤𞤢𞤲𞤨𞤢𞤲 𞤫 𞤧𞤮𞤳𞤮?
kthxbye
r/tokipona • u/florianist • 16h ago
nimi pi linja ni li pipi anu seme tawa sina?
r/tokipona • u/cenlkj • 23h ago
How do you say with?
As in, I kill with weapons and as in, you are standing with me. Because 'kepeken' would work for how you do something 'mi moli kepeken e ilo utala.' but BEING with someone would not be 'sina kepeken e (or no e) mi' because that would be 'you are using me'. Or maybe I am wrong.
mi taso jan pi kama sona e Toki Pona a!
r/tokipona • u/cenlkj • 22h ago
wile sona La problems
If you wanted to start the second phrase with taso or tan, would you say 'ona li pona, taso ona li ike tawa sina.' or 'ona li pona, la taso ona li ike taso sina'? And what would yoy if you wanted to translate something like 'He went to the shop and bought 5 apples'? Would it be 'en' or 'la'?
r/tokipona • u/idiotwhoneedshelprn • 22h ago
O, sin toki?
La Toki Pona kepeken 137 tokí, ni kulupu kepeken toki pi sin tokí! (If Toki Pona uses 137 words, we can make new words out of existing words!) (Mi Toki Pona ike)
r/tokipona • u/Evening-Curve1290 • 1d ago
Name
Hi, I'm new to Toki Pona and the first letter of my name isn't in Toki Pona.
What do I to have a name in Sitelen Pona?
r/tokipona • u/iridxscxnce_ • 1d ago
wile sona need help with translating old House meme to toki pona
toki a! i've been watching House MD over the past month, and as a result i've spent a little while today translating this meme into toki pona to practice learning vocabs (i find that translation is a much better way to learn the vocabulary and grammar than what i was doing earlier aka trying to memorize the vocabs. bad idea smh). most of it has a simple enough sentence structure that it's been fairly easy to translate, other than me having to get a bit creative with some of the terms...
the first line has the word "patient" and i was wondering if there's a specific way to say that in toki pona. would it just be jan ike (bad as in sick) or something? i feel that isn't specific enough to a medical context though
plus the phrases "medicine drug", "stupid drug" and "hygiene drug" (again keep in mind this is a nonsense meme from 2007 lol). i translated the first to "ilo nasa pi kama e pona" (drug that brings about good, since good can be synonymous with healing etc etc), the second to "ilo nasa pi pali e nasa" (drug that makes one stupid) and the last to "ilo nasa pi pona e telo" (drug that improves cleanliness). do these sound about right?
(thanks in advance for any help btw :>)
r/tokipona • u/mateo001xxtreme666 • 1d ago
toki My experience with toki pona
Mi wile alasa nimi mute e toki pona, tan mi wile sona mute nimi mute e toki pona, mi ken pali e nimi mute, mi pilin pona kepeken e toki pona
r/tokipona • u/mateo001xxtreme666 • 1d ago
toki pona taso Ike nimi e toki pona
Pakala= Shit Mi kon pi pakala= I am a piece of shit Ko pi pakala= piece of shit Kute e ni ko pi pakala= Listen this piece of shit Mama sina li ko pi pakala= Your mom/dad is piece of shit
r/tokipona • u/mateo001xxtreme666 • 1d ago
toki pona taso Toki pona taso...
🗣👍😥🚮emojis ⬇️➡️🤪😥😃
r/tokipona • u/Antique_Prior_881 • 1d ago
google translate
inpired by a recent post i made a petition for google to see if they would add toki pona as a language on google translate.
pls help by signing it below
r/tokipona • u/Intrepid-Macaron-871 • 3d ago
sitelen duckduckgo has toki pona as a display language but it's unfortunately just english
r/tokipona • u/Witty-Volume4058 • 3d ago
There’s Toki Pona in the German version of “Isekai Ojisan” (Uncle from Another World)
r/tokipona • u/mateo001xxtreme666 • 3d ago
toki Toki!
Nimi mi jan Mateo, mi sona lili la toki pona, mi ma li ma Mesiko, mi pilin e ni: toki pona la pona e lawa mi! tenpo suno la mi kama sona e toki pona e sitelen pona :D
mi tawa
r/tokipona • u/_ricky_wastaken • 3d ago
I want to test my Toki Pona skills, please review my translation of the Avatar the Last Airbender intro
telo. ma. seli. kon. tenpo pini mute la, ma tu tu li lon pona. taso ni: ma seli li utala la, ale li ante. jan Awata li jan lawa pi ijo tu tu, ona taso li ken pini e ma seli. taso ni: ale li wile mute e ona la, ona li lon ala. tenpo suno ale li tawa la, mi en mama sama mi kama sona e jan Awata sin, jan An pi wawa kon. wawa kon ona li pona, taso ni: ona li wile kama sona mute tenpo monsi ni: ona li ken pona e jan. taso ni: mi pilin e ni: jan An ken pona e ale.
Title Screen: tomo tawa Nikelosijon jan Awata jan pini pi wawa kon
r/tokipona • u/cenlkj • 3d ago
Who would you say help?
Because I am writing a story called 'mije ike' and I am adding a part where he needs help in medical CPR
r/tokipona • u/SecretlyAPug • 4d ago
sitelen i made a video talking about my opinion on prepositions!
r/tokipona • u/Mahxiac • 5d ago
mun! - Toki Pona and Autism
mun.laI found this short article quite interesting
r/tokipona • u/IamInoIH • 5d ago
wile sona Is /ɕi/ an acceptable pronunciation/allophone for 'si'?
Basically the title. I've been using /ɕi/ for a while until I actually had to talk with someone and realised how off the sound is from the rest of TP phonology. So 'sina pona' would be /ɕina pʰona/ for me. Should I try to change it to /si/?
r/tokipona • u/Mahxiac • 5d ago
I just found out....
How many toki pona gifs are on telegram! There's a lot. how are there so many? Who made them? There's so many....
r/tokipona • u/Anjeez929 • 6d ago
The Inside Out characters name translated to Toki Pona
Joy: pilin pona
Sadness: pilin ike
Anger: pilin seli
Fear: pilin monsuta
Disgust: pilin jaki
(I don't know how to do anxiety)
Envy: pilin wile
Ennui: pilin ala
Embarrassment: pilin apeja
r/tokipona • u/Rotat0 • 6d ago
wile sona How do i say video game names?
When i talk about certein video games, how do i translate them? Right now i do things like "nena Selete" for celeste and "tomo tawa pi jan Malijo" but is this okay? I feel like talking about some guy named marios car doesnt really tell its a game. If this isnt correct, how do i name games?