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A tildes thread for toki pona, the minimalist conlang
Toki Pona is a minimalist conlang famous for having a vocabulary of under 130 words. There are communities of speakers on all major social media platforms. This is an introduction thread for...
Toki Pona is a minimalist conlang famous for having a vocabulary of under 130 words. There are communities of speakers on all major social media platforms. This is an introduction thread for speakers, learners or the toki-curious to introduce themselves. I'll advise on learning resources, or just answer general questions if anyone is interested.
I'm a toki pona speaker and creator of the YouTube channel 'seme li sin?' which translated news stories into toki pona.
mi wile e ni: kulupu wawa pi toki pona lon lipu Tetesu. jan ale pi toki pona li jan pona mi. sina ken la o kepeken e toki pona lon lipu ni!
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What are your favorite conlangs?
I saw this post. And it reminded me of a hobby I haven't paid much attention to for a while. Apparently there are at least two people who are moderately fluent at Toki Pona, soon to be joined by a...
I saw this post. And it reminded me of a hobby I haven't paid much attention to for a while. Apparently there are at least two people who are moderately fluent at Toki Pona, soon to be joined by a third.
In the meantime, I was wondering what conlangs you find to be interesting or unique?Edit - Also, do you speak any conlangs?
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Which is "Bouba", and which is "Kiki"?
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Redefining “racism”: Against activist lexicography
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The subtle linguistics of polite white supremacy
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Samfundssind – A word buried in the history books helped Danes mobilise during the pandemic, flattening the curve and lifting community spirit
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Paul Taylor - #Franglais - Bilingual stand-up comedy
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War of words as Nigerian English recognised by Oxford English Dictionary
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How should I refer to you? | Review of “What's Your Pronoun?”, by Dennis Baron
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I asked 64,182 people about “Jingle Bells, Batman Smells”. Here's what I found out
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How a climate crisis helped shape Norse mythology – a group of archaeologists, linguists and other experts have teamed up to analyse the inscriptions of the Rök Stone
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Ə: The most common vowel sound in English
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Children growing up after this crisis will use far more oral language after it ends
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Microsoft Word now flags two spaces after a period as an error
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Abso-bloody-lutely: Expletive infixation
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500-year-old manuscript contains earliest known use of the “F-word”
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How Bernie Sanders answers a question
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Appalachian English
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Swearing in the Woods
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Sámi are the only officially recognised indigenous people in the EU and some of their languages are on the brink of extinction
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Sweden's Rök runestone reveals inscriptions were as much about climate change fears as they were the history of ancient battles
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Why do we move our hands when we talk?
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Why I'm possessive about apostrophes
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Merriam-Webster's Time Traveler: Words by year of appearance
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Spirit scripts: Japan’s mysterious outcast alphabets
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A dialect dissection of Britney Spears
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Oslo's city council wants the Norwegian capital to have an official name in Sámi
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The musicians helping revive the Cornish language
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Interview with one of the developers of Interslavic: the constructed language used in "The Painted Bird" which aims to be mutually intelligible with all Slavic languages.
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Altaic: Rise and fall of a linguistic hypothesis
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How Hollow Knight's community crafted gibberish into a real language
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The language sounds that could exist, but don't
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My first conlang - How not to make a language
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The birth of the semicolon
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Why are there so many different types of “R”?
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Anyone here into conlanging?
I've been creating new languages for a few years now. I like to do it in my spare time, which becomes smaller and smaller each year, mostly from proto-languages that already exist. I'm currently...
I've been creating new languages for a few years now. I like to do it in my spare time, which becomes smaller and smaller each year, mostly from proto-languages that already exist. I'm currently working on a Slavic language in Belarus and Ukraine for fun. Anyone else into this stuff or wanna know more about conlanging in general?
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"Cymru am byth!" – How speaking Welsh became cool
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Why do people say "Jesus H. Christ," and where did the "H" come from?
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Why certain words are left out of our English Bibles
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Language wars: the nineteen greatest linguistic spats of all time
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How Cape Town’s “Gayle” has endured – and been adopted by straight people
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Esperanto superfans won’t rest until they’ve achieved world domination
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The Voynich Manuscript may have successfully been decoded
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Dictionaries recently added more than 1,500 words. Here are some new entries.
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Guam starts new effort to save dying CHamoru language
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The Anger of Achilles
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How British Sign Language developed its own dialects
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How Spanish got its ñ - the story behind that "n with a tilde"
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When it comes to learning a foreign language, we tend to think that children are the most adept. But that may not be the case – and there are added benefits to starting as an adult.
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