Toki Pona: the language with only 120 words.

A - Toki Pona is a constructed language. That means that someone decided what words and grammar to put in it, unlike natural languages, such as English or Urdu. Toki Pona has one main gimmick: it only has 120 words. Beyond that, Toki Pona is not very different from any other language in capability.

The number of speakers of Toki Pona is in the thousands. Toki Pona speakers are proud to be part of a community that emphasizes art and expression of identity. Toki Pona is a living language, and it's evolving through daily usage.

A - Toki Pona is highly context-dependent. This means that Toki Pona employs many of the same methods of communication that other languages do, it just doesn't allow for disambiguation via the usage of a more specific word. All other methods still work.

Speakers must pay more attention to surrounding events, prior knowledge, and presupposition (which is information implied by a sentence), in places where speakers of other languages would use or request a more specific word. Speakers may also clarify using an additional sentence.

• o pilin e toki pona, video course entirely in Toki Pona, using comprehensible input
• Learn Toki Pona!, a video series by jan Kekan San
• lipu sona pona, course by jan Lentan
• lipu sona, course by soweli Sika
• Many other options to learn from!

• r/tokipona, the largest Toki Pona subreddit
• toki pona - jan pi wile pona taso, Telegram community
• Toki Pona VR, a community for virtual meetups
• ma telo pi toki pona, community on Fluxer
• A big list of all communities

A - Toki Pona is spoken all over the world, but the highest concentration of Toki Pona speakers is in Europe and North America. Most Toki Pona speakers use it online, but a few also choose to attend IRL meetups!

Find local Toki Pona speakers near you on a lipu ma!

• tenpo kulupu pi ma Elopa, yearly meetup in Europe.
  Berlin 2024, Strasbourg 2025, Tiana 2026
• tenpo kulupu pi ma Amelika lete, yearly meetup in North America.
  Chicago 2024, Seattle 2025, New York 2026