Tokipona (Toki Pona) – human language, created by Canadian girl Sonja Elen Kisa and pretend to be a very simple artificial languages. The first information about it appeared in the World Wide Web in 2001. Title Toki Pona is translated as "language good "(possible translation:" good language "," plain language "or" good talk ", see below for ambiguity). Kish during work on the creation of language was inspired by the teachings of Taoism and the works of philosophers primitives. There are also parallels with the writings of Anne . Tokipony outlook is reflected in its structure and content. In the lexicon of the language 118 words of the author's opinion – the most necessary.
Minimalism vocabulary is reduced as to what, for example, language names are missing animals and plants. However, in an informal dictionary tokipony have designations for countries, nations, languages, and the names of people (ma Nijon – Japan, toki Epelanto – Esperanto, jan Tana – Tanya). Simplified vocabulary tokipony combined with a simple phonology, grammar and syntax. At tokipone now say the majority of the web (in IRC-chat and discussion list on Yahoo! Groups), and outside it – in Canada, the usa, Europe, Israel, Japan and Russia. Tokipona not classified as a language of interethnic communication. Known primarily among web users, it serves as an example of Internet culture. Number of speakers tokipone approximately estimated to be several hundred people. Phonetics Language tokipona has 14 phonemes: 5 vowels (aeiou) and 9 consonants (jklmnpstw). Consonant phonemes not separated by voiced / voiceless, softness / hardness.
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