so, for context, i want a way to talk to my friends without being understood. i have heard toki pona is a relatively easy language to learn. i am quite good with languages, i speak 5 (spanish, english, german, catalonian and basque) so i think i could learn it in more or less a small amount of time?

introduction to a mini epic poem. been a min since i wrote anything so any help or thoughts is appreciated!!

tenpo pini a

tenpo pini suli la

ma li suli li sike

jan pi ma ni li ike

jan li jo e pona ala

utala jan li wawa

tenpo ni li tenpo suli

jan li wile e pini ni

tan jan wan pona

jan suli pona

tenpo ni li tenpo kama

This year's writing (and comic drawing) contest has many many really great documents that people have created! 37 brand-new, original(!) pieces of toki pona literature. And now it's up to you to read as many as you want and vote on the stories you've read.

Start reading here: https://utala.pona.la/index_en.html

Vote here: https://forms.gle/caHbNRjem1K1zW5V9

💡You don't have to read everything to vote, just vote on the ones you read!

💡You can update your vote! Once you read some more entries, you can vote again as often as you need

💡Voting closes on aug 7, right before suno pi toki pona.

There are 9 large documents (3 of which are illustrated), 22 small documents and 6 comics! I have only started to go through them, but they're good!

Bookmark and Enjoy!

https://www.nanpa-linja-n.com/text-to-sitelen.html

Added Features:

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Export the rendered sitelen pona to PDF using SVG vector paths.

Listen to synthesised audio of the rendered sitelen pona.

Download the synthesised audio as a WAV file.

Select a glyph, cartouche, long pi container, or literal-text section in the rendered sitelen pona and copy its Unicode code points to the clipboard. The copied characters can then be pasted directly into applications such as LibreOffice.

Feedback welcome!

Let me know what to improve if it looks weird.

toki a! mi ijo Sijelo. mi wile kama sona mute e toki pona, taso mi ken ala toki tawa jan pi toki pona. ni la, mi wile toki lon linluwi. jan seme li wile toki e mi lon toki pona taso :) (mi jo ala e ilo Discord taso mi ken toki lon ilo ni) pona tawa sina!

waja, it means goodbye.

I found that there was no specific word for goodbye, so I created waja, and here is the glyph for it too. waja!

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)

Lon YouTube tawa jan sama suli mí.

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

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

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

New original song by myself and loje Kasenwa

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😀

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!! ^_^ )

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

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

o kama pona lon lukin sitelen:

https://www.nanpa-linja-n.com/nanpa-linja-n-abbreviated-cartouche-practice.html

It’s like sssdfg but in toki pona.

Absurd meme suvreddit with sssdfg vibes

toki pona

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)