Category Archives: Toki Pona

Reading toki pona is far more difficult than writing it. Valid toki pona can be read many ways and has garden paths (places where you need to back-track and re-think what you read). So as you read along, you need … Continue reading →

- Add jan Kipo’s spelling proposal to the tokipona.net speller. – Merge in jan Kipo’s tp base word word list – Implement a Hamurabi game localized for toki pona – Translate common urban plants and animals into toki pona – … Continue reading →

This is entirely based on jan Kipo’s work. The free command line parser. This generate the parser: agfl.exe tokipona.gra This executes the parser: agfl-run.exe tokipona.aob Should you run the parser, it will create a graph of the sentence. If it … Continue reading →

There are at least three dialects (or styles) of toki pona.  These dialects are driven by the interest of the user, not so much separate communities and some authors write with a little of two, three or all of these … Continue reading →

Languages evolve through many mechanisms including rebracketing, where one word splits into two or they merge, often as a result of a misunderstanding or ignorance of the origin of the words. kepeken – to realize an ability, to manifest  an … Continue reading →

If you double all the parts of a sentence, you get something like this: C1 la C2 la S1 en S2 li V1 li  V2 e O1 e O2 Prep NP1 Prep NP2. With great power comes great responsibility. Unfortunately, we … Continue reading →

Toki pona is an isolating language.  The 125 morphemes do not fuse, so it is somewhat like Chinese.  This makes it tricky to discuss compounding and derivational morphology because the linguistic jargon that is established almost universally assumes that words … Continue reading →

A free morpheme is one that can act as a stand alone word. A compound word hard to detect because it is a semantic, not a syntactic phenomena.  You can observe someone utter blackboard, but you can’t easily tell if … Continue reading →