Results of the 2022 Toki Pona census

Go here for a list of pointers to resources mentioned in the census.

How much has the Toki Pona community changed since April 2021? Is it still growing exponentially? Are Ku suli words known or used? Find about this and much more in the results to the second Toki Pona census, version 2022.

August 27, 2022. After 1 year and 4 months since the first census, this second one is released. After 6 weeks, about the same time as for the previous census, it was closed with almost 2000 responses. Twice as many!

Hi, I’m jan Tamalu and I have coordinated this project, analyzed the data and made this website. This year we made some extra efforts to reach to people outside of the big communities. We did this by adding more translations to the form and by having a second form on a platform that could be used from mainland China. Some questions are new, like the one about the knowledge and usage of non-pu words. Some other questions changed, like the one about the languages that you speak, for which this time we asked about the level as well.

Thank you to everyone that contributed to this project. o lukin pona a!

What to know before jumping to the results:

For every question there are two graphs. The first one contains results from all the responses. The second one contains the information from the people that responded using Toki Pona only. Note that the first graph includes the Toki Pona respondents too.
Some questions allowed to select multiple answers. Such questions have “(MA)” in its title. Take into account that, for those questions, the percentages of the bars add up to more than 100%.
All questions were optional, but the first one. Each graph tells the number of respondents for each question.
Free-text answers have been randomly shuffled, but they are grouped by language, following the order of the “toki seme?” question.
In small screens some labels could be hidden or incomplete. You can tap/click on the graphs to reveal the missing info.

Intro

Language used

Most people used the English version of the form. Almost 14% of people used the Toki Pona version, which is greater than last time’s 10.8%.

Btw, read this post if you are interested in a board game about language inspired by Toki Pona.

Sections filled

One could leave the census after any section. Most people filled everything, as you can see below.

Toki Pona ability

Do you consider you know Toki Pona?

Anyone with any level of Toki Pona could respond the census, even if they had only just heard about Toki Pona, or if they were learning it. One quarter of people do not consider they know Toki Pona, which is much lower than the one third of last time. Of course, everyone among the Toki Pona respondents considers they know Toki Pona. Except for… 1 person?!?

Did you answer the 2021 Toki Pona census?

This is the first surprise. We asked people if they had filled the census that happened 1.5 years before this one. Most people had not filled it, which could indicate that there is a somewhat big turnover in the online communities. Take into account that the number of people that responded to this census is about 2 times as many as last time, so even if everyone filled the census again, this 16.9% could not be bigger than about 50%. Among the Toki Pona respondents, the people that had filled the census last time was 32.4% and this percentage could not be bigger than 41% even if everyone that responded last year using Toki Pona did it again and in Toki Pona. So the difference with respect to the actual value of 32.4% is not huge. Among this group, it could just be that people that had already filled the census 1.5 years ago did not feel like filling it again, or that a small percentage was not so much active during the period the census was running.

However, for the global group, it seems like there is a relatively large turnover of people.

Toki Pona level

Similarly to last time, the Toki Pona level of respondents is diverse, a normal distribution can be spotted in the global group, and as expected, it is biased towards a greater level for people that responded using the Toki Pona version.

Tap on the labels on small screens to see them fully.

How often is Toki Pona used?

The frequency of use also varies a lot. Almost 47% of people use Toki Pona at least once a week and this is about 64% for the Toki Pona group.

Toki Pona skills

People are generally confident about their grammar skills. At the same time, listening is considered the most challenging task, followed by conversing. Interestingly, the reported level has increased a bit since last time.

Why do people learn Toki Pona?

The main reason for learning Toki Pona was to have fun by learning it and using it, by a huge margin. At the end of the day, Toki Pona is an artlang. musi mute li kama tan toki pona. Below, you can also see the free answers given for this question.

Toki Pona music got recommended to me on YT and I liked it
A friend was learning it and got me into it
My friends were learning it and I didn't want to be left out
it's nifty :3
i wanted to be able to speak a conlang, and id known about toki pona for years (even was annoyed at it when i was 8 cos i made a minimalist conlang then, without hearing about tp lmao) and i had heard that it was meant to be very easy!
jan misali and the anthony mccarthy thread
I love languages
I wanted to test my ability to learn
friends were learning it
it feels very accessible and the origins of it play a part in how comfortable it makes me
as a stress relief tool
Eventually I want to use toki pona to write poetry.
friends speak it
i love the design of the language. i love minimalistic design.
My friend showed me it and it looked interesting
My friends spoke it
i thought it might help with learning other languages
to facillitate better communication between system members who, for various reasons, struggled to speak / write in english
I find sitelen pona and sitelen sitelen to be very beautiful and wanted to create art that featured them
General interest in conlangs
jan Misali
To make learning more languages easier (it didn’t)
Accessibility reasons during times when English is hard.
I'm a jan Misali fan
frens
As an autistic person, I’m interested in finding more accesible ways to communicate
I had heard that learning toki pona is a good way to understand one's language learning style
conlang interest
i wanted to figure out how it worked
a friend of mine learnt it and asked if i was interested in doing so too
I saw other people speaking if and wanted to understand them
Sonja's a friend of mine
I wanted to write in sitelen sitelen and draw art based on it
i am already multilingual, but toki pona is my fourth language which technically makes me a polyglot
Linguistics is one of my special interests :)
It kind of was around me
Friend introduced me to it
Vrchat community
Communicate with anyone in the world
i was bored
I found that I can use sitelen suwi as a mindfulness practice for my mental health.
I am autistic and needed a simpler language to greater improve my conceptual and communicative processing as well as have access to a language that is comforting to speak phonetically.
I have always been great at vocabulary in foreign languages, but not grammar. I felt learning a language that was so different from my native English, with so little vocabulary, would be good for training my mind to think differently/interpret non-English concepts better.
Mostly because I could - it’s simple enough that I saw no significant negatives to learning it, so I did. Also, I thought it might help me be more concise in other areas.
Also using toki pona in my content, any to come, and to converse in it with friends who already know toki pona pretty well..
Linguistic research
I'm a language enthusiast and conlanger! I'm also interested in the built-in positivity of the language and the community felt very welcoming (I'm trans).
I wanted to change the way I think to a more positive way.
the community seemed cool, wanted to join in
Use as fictional (to the other players) language in Dungeons and Dragons.
Sign language
It seemed like it would be an interesting experience.
It seemed cute and is popular with trans folks
General interest in conlang and linguistics
i already was bilingual before learning toki pona but i felt like that wasnt enough
My friend knows Toki Pona so he introduced me to it and the concept caught my interest.
jan misali
I learned to avoid complex words that people don't understand, instead using multiple simple words.
curiosity
I was paid £2
A friend who has a shared interest in linguistics and language told me about it.
linguistics/conlanging/polyglotism
some of my friends did so
i liked its similarity to japanese, which i was avoiding learning when i learnt tp
I wanted to learn it with my friend
bored
Fun frames for d&d characters
translating pornography into toki pona
all my friends speak it
a youtuber i was interested in was very passionate about toki pona
I was bored on winter holidays
a friend started learning and i learned what it was and was interested
I wanted to learn it because it looked like a very interesting and challenging linguistic experiment
Other languages are too hard for me to learn, & I quickly give up
A friend mentioned Toki Pona
I wanted to speak in toki pona with people speaking toki pona
conlangs fun
The community is very nice :)
concept intrigued me and i have others around me who learn it, so i kinda learn by osmosis
I saw a video by jan Misali and loved the concept.
i’ve always had an interest in conlangs, tp was next on my list
it's so funky i love it, i'm already multilingual but
i'm gay and trans
To learn how to learn other languages
i wanted to learn a language that wouldnt take forever to learn so i could help in learning other things
jan Misali tricked me into learning most of toki pona when i listened to "kulupu jan tenpo" on loop and i was swindled into learning the rest of the language
I learned it with a friend
I know english and Icelandic, and I wanted to broaden how language made me think. I'm not at all spiritual, but I love the idea of forcing yourself to think with different words to change your patterns of thought
languages are too complicated
my friend knows it
I wanted to start learning a language that was simpler than the other languages I was failing to learn.
I have a friend who also wanted to learn it so we could talk in code to each other.
I had free time
I like knowing random bs
Learning about a friend's interest
I think that talking about Philosophy, Maths and Quantum Mechanics/Quantum Field Theory in toki pona would be interesting...
I found Toki Pona aesthetically pleasing and wanted to learn it just to know it
wanted to learn with a friend of mine and talk with each other in a simpler way
Wanted to do more “simple thinking”
I wanted to achieve a sense of acomplishment.
I was interested in reading about the language, then after a while i realised i had started to understand it
I like the Toki Pona approach to language, conversation, etc.
toki pona was perfectly interesting and 'useless' to add to my collection of interesting but useless abilities
My friend spoke it and I was interested
It seemed like the easiest conlang to learn!
breakup boredem
jan fucking Misaliiiiii
The idea of a language with so few words was not something I could pass up
to use as a fantasy language for tabletop games
For roleplay purposes
i wanted to share an activity/interest with my son.
darned jan misali
A friend of mine also knew it so I wanted to join in
I have no idea
It's kinda weird... but, I also started learning toki pona to use sitelen pona symbols as mathematical constants :}
Starting point for learning future languages
thought it would be funny
jan misali does it and he's cool
It’s good for my mental health
lon kulupu pona la jan mute li kepeken toki pona
I enjoy learning languages
toki pona is based
Religious
A hobby in conlanging
Uni society
Toki Pona seemed like a fun language, and I heard about it from Tatoeba
I wanted to simplify my thinking and reduce intrusive thoughts.
I wanted to know what it was like to learn a language
The toki pona community seemed really friendly and I wanted to be part of a community like it (also the music is very good)
I find the concept incredibly interesting, I have a love for language, and a friend I appreciate shared it with me and we were planning on learning it together.
jan Misali
because i can >:3
Loved the look of sitelen pona
cute girl wanted to have someone to study with hehe
rickrolls
I wanted to continue enjoying Jan Misali’s youtube channel as they shift into uploading mainly toki-pona related videos
It's a cute language uwu
the community seemed funny and i wanted a taste of that humor tbh
I had a close friend who knew toki pona, and it was a fun skill to share
Wanted to play Scrabble in toki pona
I'm a fan of jan Misali's videos and the topic comes up rather frequently on their channel
I wanted to translate literary and musical works into toki pona.
i’m learning it with a friend :)
My friend was also learning it, so I wanted to learn as well.
I wanted to try training my dog in toki pona
The community seemed fun
I was interested in linguistics and how people could converse with a small vocabulary
A friend introduced me to it so we could learn and speak together
Intrigued by the smallness and glyphs
my boyfriend introduced it to me cuz he's SUPER interested in it so i've picked a little up for him really, i also think it's a rlly neat concept (along w/ other conlangs)
Magic
Toki pona community seemed cool
something cool to do with friends
my girlfriend wanted me to learn it (she kept flirting with me in tp)
this cute smart girl i had a crush on told me about it
I wanted to be a part of the community
instant gratification of learning a full language
I wanted there to be a universal language
Using toki pona as an intro to conlangs.
I wanted to learn a language that I could use to communicate with headmates who have limited understanding of English and/or have trouble understanding it due to complexity
I like conlangs, and I like the concept of the minimalism of Toki Pona
Wanting to learn a new language with the least effort possible
Was curious about what the world's smallest language was
Autistic specific interest in linguistics
Wanted to use it as a language in a LARP game
I want to use it as part of tabletop rpg campaigns--puzzles for characters, background flavor about the world, etc.
I wanted to journal in it
I like the idea behind the language
Boredom
I grow my brain
I wanted to watch every jan Misali video
personal interest in linguistics
Joining a community
i wanted to be able to more easily communicate my thoughts and feelings
my autism fixation is linguistics
watched too much jan misali
I wanted to learn another language, I wanted to be able to add one to the number of languages I can say I know, I wanted to learn a language quickly, I wanted to learn toki pona
To share in an interest that one of my close companions has.
I heard it helped in learning other languages
cause its easy
using toki pona as a basis for a fictional language for a one shot LARP
sitelen sitelen is the best writing system ever
Linguistic curiosity
I was introduced to it by my friends.
One reason I wanted to learn toki pona was to experiment with learning another language in the middle of my normal language learning pursuits to see how the knowledge of multiple new language would interact in my brain. I also wanted to see if it would boost my language learning ability. It has been a good experience and very encouraging for me as a language learner.
I wanted to write without others understanding me
OH THE MISLALI
conlangs are cool
I wanted to talk with my friends in a language that wasn't English
jan misali
I am a fan of the jan Misali channel and he got me hooked
Other people I know speak it
it seemd fun (it is)
I read an article about a Toki Pona society at my college and decided to look into it further.
Learn with Family
I wanted to learn Luka Pona.
I wanted to understand what other Toki Ponists I knew were saying
my girlfriend was learning it, and I wanted to share a hobby with her
i need to know 2 languages for credential reasons and toki pona is easy
jan li pona tawa mi li kepeken toki pona. mi wile toki tawa ona.
mi toki e toki pona tan jan ante li toki e toki pona. mi toki e toki pona tan toki Inli li ike a a a.
ona li pona
toki pona li pona tawa lawa mi. mi jo e jaki lawa Depression la, toki pona li pana e pona tawa mi.
mi pilin e toki pona li pana e pona tawa mi sona. kin la mi pilin e jan ma li ken toki pona la jan ma li ken sona toki pi e jan ante.
mi lukin e sitelen tawa pi jan Misali. mi wile sona e toki pona ona
mi ken kama sona e toki pona lon tenpo lili. mi ken sitelen e toki ni kepeken sitelen mute pi pona lukin !
toki pona e suwi (ken pali, ona ala jo mute sitelen).
mi sitelen e pilin mi la, jan ante li ken ala sona
mi kama sona tan jan Misali
kama sona e toki li pona mute tawa mi
mi wile sitelen kepeken toki pona
nasin sewi pona pi toki pona li pona tawa mi.
nasin pi toki pona li pona tawa mi, li pona e toki pilin mi
mi wile pona e lawa mi.
jan ante li toki e ni tawa mi: "mi pilin e ni: sina ken ala kama sona e toki pona lon tenpo lili.". tan ni la mi kama sona e toki pona.
tan wile kama sona e toki ante la mi open kepeken toki pona
tan mi lukin e sitelen tawa pi jan Misali
mi lukin e sitelen tawa pi toki pona lon tomo pi sitelen tawa Conlang Critic
mi kama jo e lipu pi toki Lojban la lipu Amazon li toki e ni: "jan ante li kama jo e ni!"
mi wile kama pona
mi wile pona e toki lawa mi
mi wile pona
mi wile sona e nasin pona
jan pona wan li suwi la ona li toki e mi - mi lukin e sitelen pi toki pona.
mi wile sona e kon pi toki mi pi pilin mi. mi kama sona e ni kepeken nasin mute. toki pona li nasin wan.
toki pona li pona e pilin mi e isipin mi / toki pona improves and simplifies my mood and thoughts.
mi kama sona toki pona tan ni: mi wile pona e lawa mi. mi open sona la lipu Wikipisija li toki e ni: "toki pona li lon tawa pona ni".
mi wile toki tawa jan la mi wile ala e ni: jan ante li sona ala e mi
mi wile sona e toki pali
toki pona li wile e wawa ala tawa kama sona. nimi mute pi toki pona li tan toki mama mi ni: toki Konton (Cantonese).
toki pona li pona e lawa mi. kepeken ona la mi ken toki e pilin insa mi tawa jan ante.
pona
mi pali e sona sin tan jan ante kepeken toki pona.
toki ilo li pona mute tawa mi
toki pali li pona mute tawa mi, taso mi sona ala e toki pali lon open sona mi pi toki pona. mi wile sona e ni: toki pali li ken seme? ona li sama toki majuna anu seme?
nasin pi tp li pona tawa lawa mi
toki pona li pona tawa pilin/lawa mi
jan li ken kama sona e toki pona kepeken tenpo lili
sona pi toki pona li wile e wawa suli ala e tenpo suli ala tan lawa mi!
toki pona li toki lili. mi ken kama toki pona kepeken tenpo lili. ni li pana e pilin wawa tawa mi.
mi pali e musi kepeken toki Toki Pona
mi tonsi li kule mute. toki pona li toki tonsi tawa mi
toki pona li suwi a tawa kute. kin la, jan Misali li kepeken toki pona li kepeken sitelen pona la, mi wile sona e toki len ona.
jan pona tu mi li kama sona e ona
tan jan pona mi li ken toki kepeken toki pona.
nasin pi toki pona li nasa pona li lili pona
toki pona li pona tawa mi la mi wile kama sona
Mi wile toki pona! Tenpo ni la toki pi jan ma li pana ala pali e ni: toki e lawa mute kepeken nimi pona.
mi kama sona e toki pona la mi kama wawa lon kama sona pi toki ante
mi wile sitelen e sitelen sitelen pi jan Josan, la mi wile sona e nasin pi toki pona
jan pona mi li sona e toki pona, mi wile e ni: ona li pilin pona tan sona mi pi toki pona. taso mi ni la mi kama sona e ni: toki pona li musi
mi jo e tenpo mute
mi wile sona e toki pi nimi lili lili
Quería ver que era la lengua
quería ver si me ayudaba con mi salud mental, y sí ayudó
Quería usar otra lengua en mis mesas de ttrpg
me interesan las lenguas construidas y toki pona me parecio facil
fun
Ich wollte sprechen, ohne dass andere mich verstehen und Spaß mit das Lernen dieser Sprache. einem Freund haben während
привлекла простая грамматика
인공어에 대한 지식을 쌓기 위하여
To simplify personal affairs
想和别人交流
人造语言万岁！
wanted to learn a conlang
J'aime les langues construites
友人に勧められたことがきっかけです。
人工言語制作に役立つ知見を得たいと思ったから
Estis interese, kia estas la lingvo de "120" vortoj
konstruitaj lingvoj interesegas min
jan misali
Mi volis lerni tre facilan lingvon
Al mi, planlingvoj estas interesaj
Mi akcidente eklernis legante kurson el interesiĝo

When did people start learning Toki Pona?

The exponential increase at almost a rate of 2x per year seems to keep holding a! We got approximately twice as many respondents in the census this year while the census was open for the same amount of time. And now here you can see this exponential growth in the year that people started learning Toki Pona. If we divide the 2021 number by the 2020 number we get 1.95, and if we scaled the 2022 bar by 4/3 (the census was closed in the second week of October so only 3/4 of the year had passed) and divide it by the 2021 one we get 1.88.

Part of this phenomenon could be due to the fact that people that learned Toki Pona more recently hang out more in the communities and have a much higher chance of responding the census.

But as we pointed out last time, there are other observations showing this exponential growth. At the time of writing, the number of reddit subscribers to /r/tokipona shows a consistent exponential increase of slightly less than a factor of 2 increase per year. So these data along with the fact that many people here did not fill the census 2021 all seem to indicate that the growth in the online communities is exponential, but at the same time the number of people that leave them or that just don’t hang out that much there anymore is also growing exponentially, but the exponential number of people that come in is larger than the one of those that come out.

Also, the exponential cannot be seen for 2022 for the Toki Pona group, most likely because people that recently learned Toki Pona still need some time to be confident enough with the language as to answer the form in Toki Pona.

Here we have the same graph but in logarithmic scale. In this graph, a growth at the pace of a straight line means an exponential increase. One can appreciate how the data grow like a line since at least 2014, with a bump in 2020. This bump (an increase significantly greater than a factor of 2) was not present in the census 2021.

Community and Toki Pona

Do people own pu or Ku?

A new book by Sonja Lang came out between last census and this one, so we added it to the question about whether you own pu. Despite 83% of people responding a Toki Pona census for the first time, the data were similarly to last time: slightly less than 50% of people own at least one of the books. This notable consistency means that if we knew how many times pu has been sold, by some simple computations one could make a pretty good estimate about the number of jan pi toki pona that are out there.

More people among the group of Toki Pona respondents own the books written or compiled by Sonja Lang.

Non-pu words?

With a new word list that was compiled in the Toki Pona dictionary after the last census, it was pretty natural to ask people whether they know and/or use these words. We asked about the Ku suli words and allowed people to add any other words that they used for Toki Pona. The graph shows the most frequent words that were mentioned (the ones that represent at least 1% of the total) and the rest of the responses can be seen below the graph. Some of these did not use the format we asked for, so they were not considered for the graph. Some people specified the Ku suli words again, and these were not taken into account for the graph either.

The conclusion about these graphs is that except for tonsi, monsuta, kijetesantakalu, ku, and kin, the rest of the words are not used by the majority of people, and more than half of the default list is not even known by most people. So be careful when communicating outside of your bubble! As expected, the people that responded in Toki Pona know most of these words but still, its usage depends a lot on the word. Funnily enough, for this group some words like epiku and oko are used much less in comparison to how much the other words are used with respect to the popularity order in the global group.

In any case I feel there will always be people that think that Toki Pona should stay as a small language, since being small is part of its essence (e.g. just pu words and small additions, or even pu without some words), and there will be others that like to use some other words freely since Toki Pona is all but prescriptive.

i use a lot of them, i'm too lazy to type them all but i do use "neja", "po" a lot due to an inside joke
pa
ete, kan, ke, kese, kuntu, loka, mulapisu, pata, peto, umesu, waleja, sulumen, likola
mulapisu
mulapisu
wiki, aja
nimisin
Amokusu
pa
Linluwi
konwe
i know a lot if not all of them, but i tend to only use them when pu words just arent doing it for me.
yutu, kulijo, nimisin, wuwojiti
wekama, mulapisu, oki, ke, kamalawala
I sometimes cheat by saying English words then claiming they're "nimi sin". Does that count? If not, please ignore
Kosukoli
ola
tuli
ete, sutopatikuna
i guess sutopatikuna as a joke
siji (magic)
wuwojiti, kulijo
nja
kuto, esa, sepe
gaming, sutopatikuna
ipi
sutopatikuna, wuwojiti
mijomi, melome
nimisin,
suwi
No
sikomo
popo
kan, pata, tuli, ipi, kapa, pasila, jami, pika
ki
jume,
te (old toki ma, replaces "e ni:")
ja
(and only sometimes the following:) majuna, mulapisu, pasila, kuntu, alu
kulijo (not in serious conversation), kuntu (very rarely), oke (i use this while speaking to non toki pona speakers, too)
Apeja
No
ok, yes, no
i didnt even know they werent pu but theyre ku so.
yukeposi, kulijo, natu, peto, jume
titan
sutopatikuna
kulijo
epiku, kijetesantakalu, n
soko, tonsi, n, ku, kijetesantakalu, monsuta, epiku
inakite
ola, molusa, nele
yume
ete
pasila, jami
meso, pata, peto, Pingo, soko, wasoweli,
Sikomo
isipin (only when i feel "pilin" or "toki insa" aren't accurate)
kipisi, n
'msa' as an abbreviation for mi sona ala, 'lti' as an abbreviation for lon toki inli, i use various nonstandard grammar when communicating insystem
tenpo ale la mi kepeken nimi “isipin”, nimi “kulijo”
enko
kiwen, ko
kewi, komapo
Pingo
wuwojiti
owe, kan, ete, Pingo, jule, kamalawala, ki, ola, kulu, pa,
likujo, kulijo, suweli
pika, linku, kosan
alu
None that I can think of.
molusa, pa
mulapisu
jume
Yupekosi, waleja
soto - left, teje - right
ete, isipin. usawi
neja
konwe
oni, pala, nele, maybe others
konwe
Pingo, jume
kan
momento, lipasa
saja
loka, pasila
Puwa
monka
awase
kese, konokolo (autism/similar space nimisin)
a variety of nimi sin created by my friends, i to mean specific inside jokes
pa
owe,
misikeke, jalan, jonke, kamalawala, kan, kapa, likujo, mulapisu, pasila, pata, peta, peto, pipo, sutopatikuna, tuli, waleja, wawajete, wekama
enko, ki, molusa, pasila, wekama, , any others if I'm writing music
epiku, jume
likujo, omekalike, pika,
kewi, komapo
kuntu, peto,
molusa
jonke, nimisin, wasoweli, wekama
nejo
sutopatikuna
pa
enko, ete, jami, kepen, kosan, lajotu, molusa, mulapisu, natu, nimisin, nja, ojuta, Pingo, ten, wekama, wuwojiti, yutu
mije, meli, nimisin
kisa, nja, kulijo, nimisin, wuwojiti
leko, soko, tonsi
amonkasi
Pingo
kulijo, sutopatikuna, jonke, nja
melome
wekama
ete, kapesu, kulijo, te/to, uwasi
son'ala, jans
ke
all from the Linku, including yupekosi, Pingo, et cetera.
Taki
pata
nja
kijetesantakalu, kijetesantakalu, kijetesantakalu, kijetesantakalu, kijetesantakalu, kijetesantakalu, (mi toki nanpa kepeken sitelen nanpa kijetesantakalu)
oni, kan, kuntu, peto, Pingo, sutopatikuna
mulapisu
Kiki
ke
pika
Kiki
supa
jume, konwe, kuntu, omen, owe
Nope
kese
konwe,
nimisin, ete, wekama, likujo, molusa,
lipasa, ojuta, likujo
polinpin, konwe
epiku, ete, ewe, kipisi, jasima, unikijetesantakalu lanpan, misikeke, kalamARR, meso, tonsi, monsuta, ju, kamalawala, kan, soko, ke, kese, kijetesantakalu, kokosila, ku, kulijo, kuntu, leko, likujo, loka, lu, mulapisu, n, neja, toma, nu, pata, peto, Pingo, polinpin, pomotolo, samu, su, sutopatikuna, suke, tuli, u, umesu, waleja, wasoweli, peta,
Left, right
molusa, leko, supa
neja, mulapisu
pika, konwe
enko
pokusanpu
epiku, pa
Yupekosi
kuntu, mala
ali, kamalawala, kese,
All the nimi ku lili, pela
sutopatikuna
ewe
sate, pa, puwapuwa
ewe
sutopatikuna
ete (beyond, distant, marginalise), linluwi (network, internet), lisa (squeeze, restrict, narrow), suta (authority, control, domination), waleja (context)
poni
ke
pika
sikomo, kamalawala, okepuma
nalanja
awase, jami, je, kan, kese, kiwen, kosan, kulijo, kuntu, loka, melome, mijomi, molusa, nele, opasan, seme, waleja, four others that I created for personal usage, any others I only use as jokes
nimi ni: "soto", "teje" (tawa "poka open", "poka pini" lon nasin sitelen ni)
ala
nimi "isipin", jan ante li kepeken nimi nasa la mi kepeken ona kin
ala
pata
leko, tonsi
oko, kin, soko, ku, tonsi
likujo, jami
kan, ete, pata
mi kepeken lili e nimi soto e nimi teje. mi kepeken kin e nimi pu lili lon nasin sitelen UCSUR.
kuntu, pata, alu
tonsi, monsuta, ku, soko
kuntu, peto
mi kepeken ala e nimi ante pi pu ala.
eni
pomotolo, (kijosin)
ete
mi kepeken nimi ku. mi sona ala e nimi ale mi a a
ala
ki
,
tokana
kulijo
ki
ala
tri, polinpin, mijomi, su te
kan, kisa, pata
api
natu
okepuma
ete, kamalawala
tenpo mute la mi kepeken nimi ni: apeja, kan, pata, kapa, pasila. tenpo lili la mi kepeken nimi ni: isipin, mulapisu (musi taso), natu, sutopatikuna (musi taso), yupekosi (musi taso), i, iki, ipi, jalan.
monsupo
ki (pi nasin pi jan Seli), si, wi
tonsi
mi kepeken e nimi "kiki" e nimi "pata"
ke
mise, mulapisu
ete, kisa
epiku, jasima, kijetesantakalu, kin, kipisi, ku, lanpan, likujo, misikeke, monsuta, n, namako, oko, pakin, tonsi
"soto, " "teje, " "kiki, " "unu, " "kapesi, " "peto, " "tulu, " "po, " "misa, " "kuntu"
mi kepeken e nimi ante pi pu ala lili lili. mi kepeken mute e sitelen ", "
natu
kuntu, konwe
u
Sitelen ala
pata, tuli, nalanja, waleja, kan, pasila, peta
sutopatikuna, kan, ali
tenpo mute mute la mi kepeken e nimi pu taso.
owa, ola
ala
wiki, poni
kamalawala, mijomi, melome
kamalawala
ola
ojuta :)
masiki (nimi sama pi nimi "misikeke")
mulapisu
mi kepeken ala.
mi kepeken mute la mi sitelen ala
mi kepeken ala
ne para hacer una pregunta
ola
Majuna
kijetesantakalu, monsuta
Yes
i, peto, sikomo, jumi, oni, sipi, itomi
su
У меня с друзьями есть 2 сленговых слова, которые больше нигде не используются. Мы сами их придумали.
kutopoma
melome
Tak używam wiele więcej podstawowych słów
tonsinan
kamalawala
majuna - mi uzas ĝin
pesuto
umesu
pata, tuli, omekalike, ete

Teaching Toki Pona

Yes, Toki Pona is a language people like teaching! Around 40% of people reported to have taught Toki Pona to other people (100% minus percentage of people that responded with a “No”).

working on a course
Only some barebones basics for fun, in person.
Learning it together with my girlfriend
But I sure have tried XD
in the process of teaching a person
Attempted, but didn't get far
Most of my friends have learned soweli and nothing else.
i wanted to teach my mom but she cannot remember “i love you” she says mi olue see nay
I have introduced a friend to toki pona, but I can't teach.
ive given others resources, but not directly taught
I’ve told others about it
I would like to, but the people I know aren’t receptive to new things, so :shrug:
No, but I might if I have the desire to do it
no, but i infodumped about it several times
i am half planning to teach a small group in school if people are interested and i have time
I have explained basic concepts to interested friends, but not really taught the language in full
I tried to get others to learn it, but they didn't want to
Started teaching someone but they became uninterested quickly
i TRIED to
Ish? I've gotten others into it, and have given them resources to learn
Ive taught the basics to some of my friends in person
I have introduced toki pona to others and taught them very few words.
tried with friends, none are interested
I've tried 😅
I’ve never taught vocabulary or grammar, but I have shown a few sentences to people I know
I have made attempts (tm) but no one was interested
not yet
Yes, in VR
I try to plant seeds
I've tried, but people either aren't I tested enough to start, or not committed enough to to finish.
Or at least i tried to
Only the occasional thing in kama sona
I created a server for teaching and learning.
have described it in brief, but not fully taught
I told my friend about the language, but that's about it.
very basic sporadic stufd
I have taught a small amount in person and text chat
i have tried to but no one i know really cares
I've taught a few basic words as i learned them, but nothing in-depth.
Tried, but didn't get through
Yes, in VRChat
I’ve answered a few question.
Learning as a team - helping each other
Trying to learn with a couple of friends
I hosted a series of zoom classes on it
I convinced someone to learn it
I've tried
Yes, to my D&D group
I’m planning on teaching it to a friend
not really, but I did make a small google doc compiling the sources I have used to share with people
I haven’t taught it. Just introduced others
I have shown Toki Pona to other people in VRChat using a custom avatar with a dictionary.
Not yet, but I do want to try it
told somebody to watch jan misali's vids on it once
I mean, I tried. They didn't really want to learn though.
I have created a toki pona pidgin with non-toki pona speakers, but I have not taught toki pona.
I am "teaching" a group of middle schoolers (but really, learning together)
VRChat
Not yet, but i know somebody who wants to learn it and will probably start teaching them at some point
My attempts resulted in failure.
Going to start teaching our partner soon in person and w/ text chat
i taught using texting and showing them other resources (i was the first in the group to learn it)
I've helped a couple of people out in ma pona's #pana-sona channel, but I wouldn't say I really taught much of anything.
I teach it to the friend who wanted to learn it among others too. I tutor while learning.
I have translated jan Lentan’s course if that counts?
Depends what you count as teaching, nothing formal but i'll drop a few words with translations in twitch chats here and there.
I had a friend who started learning toki pona around the same time I did and they literally never told me until like a year later
I’ve tried to
But gosh dang I’ve tried
I am trying but nobody cares :(
Yes, in VRChat
I linked a course to friends
I plan to teach others in person, but haven’t convinced them yet.
I have TALKED about teaching Toki Pona to my sibling
i showed some of my friends the jan misali course if that counts
I am planning on doing so
I've shown others the very basics in person and got them interested.
Yes, in VRChat
I am looking forward to teaching Toki Pona to others
mi pana e sona tawa jan pona mi
mi pana sona e jan wan
mi wile pana sona e jan tomo mi. taso ona li wile ala.
mi toki tawa jan pona mi kepeken toki pona, taso jan li wile kama sona ala.
mi pali e lipu pi kama sona. taso, lipu mi li pini ala la jan ala li ken lukin e lipu mi.
mi pana e sona tan lawa mi taso
mi pona e sona tawa jan pona mi
lon, mi pana e sona tawa jan wan taso pi kama sona
mi pana lili e sona lon ma Wijasa (VRChat)
mi pana e sona lili tawa jan pona mi. taso ona li wile ala toki mute
mi pana e lipu tawa jan pi kama sona.
tenpo kama la, mi wile pana e sona pi toki pona tawa jan pona mi.
mi pana e sona pi toki pona tawa jan olin mi.
mi pana e sona tawa jan pona mi.
mi pana sona e lili tawa jan poka mi, taso tenpo mute la, ona li wile ala.
mi pana e sona lon tomo sona pi ma mi.
tenpo la mi toki pona lili tawa jan olin, mi wile pana e sona tawa jan pona mi a! taso ona li wile ala kama sona , -
mi pana e sona pi toki pona tawa jan olin mi
mi pana tawa jan pona mi. ona mute li wile ala sona a a
napisałam artykuł dla jan Lentan
口述道本语的存在并说明道本语的意义
写了一本道本语教程，同学自己打印了但她根本没冲着道本语来所以最后也没学
Oui, dans le cadre familial
kepeken ilo VR!
via VRChat

How people learned Toki Pona

The course 12 days of Toki Pona by jan Misali keeps being the resource most people used for learning Toki Pona initially. This time even more so, with 61.1% of people selecting this option vs 52.8% last time. We are still in the video era of the internet. pu is still used about the same as last time, while jan Pije’s course has declined in favor of jan Lentan’s that has increased significantly (jan Pije’s is not accesible anymore, which is as far as I know partly because it was teaching a somewhat old version of Toki Pona). In any case, people use multiple resources: the tail of this distribution is fatter than last time and the percentages add up to 221.5% and there is also the resources specified in the free answer part of this question.

I saw a negative review of it on social media, thought it wasn’t bad at all and that I should try learning it
lon tomo kanlenkisi (conlang critic discord)
Youtube
Just started
VRChat, kilipan's nasin-toki
quizlet set of toki pona words
discord
Songs written in Toki Pona (especially ones that explain the reason for translations thoroughly like those by jan Misali)
getting ku was a huge help in actually taking the stride of learning and using the language
Clozemaster
Newer videos by jan Misali
Toki Pone Cheatsheet
I don't remember which book I used first, but I got into it again once I got pu
Reading stuff on Discord and wordlists, listening to Toki Pona music
The 2 sided page toki pona cheat sheet
Quizlet
practice among headmates
jan Misali's newer course
flashcards
Just by conversing with others! I understood it a lot better earlier this year, but I’ve been so busy I haven’t been keeping up with it :(
nasin sona musi
toki pona online dictionary (unknown)
Starting to take jan Misali course, but doing independent reading as well
the tp minecraft language pack
Online Dictionary
toki pona pal app
something I thought was pu but I don't think it was
i heard of someone
jan misali mentioned it and i wanted to see
jan Sa's cheatsheet, kama sona discord channel, compensible stores and side-by-side translated stories produced by Fingtam Languages
Using Clozemaster
Jan misali’s new course as well
jan Misali’s new toki pona lessons &
soweli Tesa's lipu sona mi pi toki pona
By myself or using Glosbe
lipu pi jan sin pi toki pona
online pu dictionaries and conversation
lipu sona by soweli Tesa
mostly the community itself, glosbe, and reading through lipu Linku
Glosbe toki pona
i learned some words from 12 days of toki pona, and some from some online dictionary i found, then stopped learning for a really long time and learned the rest by playing the toki pona minecraft server back when it was in 1.16.3 and looking up words in a dictionary that i didn't know
Ku!
I wrote text-based flash card software for it (https://github.com/MrPixelized/toki-pona-word-list)
kama sona (Discord), Learn Toki Pona (Discord)
tokipona.net
Toki Pona Pal
'nasin sona musi' game on itch.io
"toki pona pal" (android phone app), "nasin sona musi" https://jamesmoulang.itch.io/nasin-sona-musi
Some iOS app called "Toki Pona"
Toki Pona VR
Consistent effort over a long period of time
a really sketchy pdf that sonja lang specifically told me was inaccurate
cheat sheets
specifically the pdf dated from 2005. i think it's by jan Pije? but not on the site. i can't find it rn so i can't check.
Glosbe
Assuming jan Pije's course is called Toki Pona the language of good – the simple way of life, and written in december 2005, then jan Pije's course is true. Otherwise I learned from that one.
from Sonja personally and from Nikita Ayzikovsky
immersion
jan Misali's ongoing remake of 12 days of Toki Pona
i used a really unorthodox method, so i watched the first 2 episodes of jan Misali's new 12 days of toki pona lessons, then i went in lipu Linku and memorized a ton of the words, and then i practiced texting and talking in toki pona
reading Reddit posts
I’m kind of just learning by checking out memes on /r/tokipona and /r/mi_lon
toki Pona app
A personal Quizlet deck
wouldn't say I learned it but I learned from these
iPhone app called Toki Pona
Clozetmaster
kama sona discord server
Using Quizlet
jan misali's new lessons
An app
Self taught
looking at a dictionary and trying to construct sentences
still learning
Scrabble
Just trying to translate things
app
Ma Toki Pona VR (VRChat)
I'm learning using a variety of resources I can find online for free & cross referencing to make sure I have the correct understanding
Quizlet
"Learn Toki Pona" iOS app
The "Toki Pona Pal" app for Android
Using quizlet
jan Misali's more recent toki pona videos, his song translations, and copious amounts of Google searches and Wiktionary
Lipu Linku, talking to Lipamanka
nasin sona musi
Always looking into more ways to learn too.
Kama sona
Lipu sona by soweli Tesa
Discord and Reddit
youtube re sitelen pona, other toki pona iOS apps
some other course
Using Quizlet
Saw some youtube videos on it
Theres was a video about it
Lessons of Toki Pona google doc, i dont know who made it
Google the chart and made flash cards
lipu Linku
Duo Lingo
James Mulang's: nasin sona musi
jan Misali’s other introductory training course, which is not complete yet
jan Kekan San's weekly lessons in VRChat
mostly just the cheat sheets listed on the tokipona.org website, and then using ma pona for anything those can't provide
different sources
An app called “toki pona” developed by Martin Voigt
jan Misali's OTHER toki pona video series (toki pona lessons)
jan Misali’s newer course
jan Misali's new series, Ma Toki Pona VR
Toki pona ceatsheet by Blinry, Lipu sona pona
glosbe/en/mis_tok
jan misali's more recent toki pona content
discord server(s)
LangFocus Channel
jan Misali's new toki pona lessons started in 2021
Lipu Linku, jan Juli's nasin-toki, /r/mi_lon
I believe by practice with a few dictionaries and translators
Years ago with the group where Sonja shared toki pona, way before pu
Reading and listening to toki pona text and music
Randomly: was looking for language with most words, then found the one with least words
I use a small-ish dictionary in a text file to look up words when I forget. It includes pu and ku suli words.
The ones I selected are what I plan to learn with
Quizlet
two different toki pona apps on ios that are named "toki pona"
Remnote
Language Exchange Discord Server
Self teaching
Wiktionary
Astrodonut's video series "learn toki pona in a fortnight"
the realy nice dude in the subreddit woohoo out's offering to teach people for free
Rewrote the dictionary shared in the official discord server in a little notebook
flash cards and a discord server
reading/listening to content, then referencing documentation of the language
TOFU learn
nasin sona sitelen pona thingy
pretty sure it was jan Misali
handmade flash cards
Using Sitelen Pona fonts
translating /r/mi_lon memes
lipu linku
All of the ones i checked + quizlet and some of astrodonunt's "Learn Toki Pona in a Fortnight." Mainly ma pona.
Astrodonunt
jan Sa's cheat sheet
VRChat lessons tan jan Kekan San
toki pona translator
Using Quizlet
davidar’s course on github
jan Misali's new toki pona course
Lessons of Toki Pona
Conlang Critic
From a couple different sources like musi lili's course on sitelen pona, looking up other videos on the matter, though I didn't learn from any of them except for Jan misali's explanation of the word "la"
i'm not learning right now
quizlet
By programming a lipu nimi
Learn toki pona in a fortnight
roommate speaking it to me
kama sona pi toki pona
ku
Flashcard app called Optimem
The "Lessons of Toki Pona" google doc. Link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Kb1ppS0H6-5z8HcFtVsNI0j_vRNRmJpBNFYR6Vv4Bm0/edit#!
a pdf of pu words + grammar, and just using it
nasin toki pona
ku
I used the toki pona in a page sheet along with quizlet
I found pictures online showing the grammar, how to structure sentences etc
Found the language via reddit, learned mostly through internet - found out jan Misali had a course later on
iOS apps named Toki Pona and Toki Trainer
The old, currently non-existent, tinycards lesson
Reading on the "toki pona taso" Matrix group
Optimem flashcard app
toki pona ios app, blinry.org cheat sheet
i haven't yet, selections are what i have started with
Using an app
currently learning through the sequel to 12 days of Toki Pona by jan Misali
Learn toki pona in a fortnight
nasin sona musi (James Moulang)
lessons from a fluent friend
The purple Toki Pona app on iOS. A little using Clozemaster and example sentences
Toki Pona app
Linku, devurandom.xyz
Chatting in the Discord server
jan Misali's new course, soweli Tesa's course
toki pona cheat sheet pdf
nasin sona musi
Toki Pona in a Fortnight by astrodonut
Discord server, jan Misali's work in progress toki pona series
Learn toki pona in a fortnight
Manual flash cards
i partially used jan Misali’s course, and then used jan Sa’s cheat sheet to learn a lot of the rest of the grammar
I study every weird and word combination so I can be the teacher for them.
Conlang Critic discord server
Toki Pona cheat sheet, lots of help from friends!
started with jan Misali's newer series, but i dont remember how i learned the rest.
“Toki Pona” learning app
Clozemaster, an interactive PDF, and the game "nasin sona musi"
jan Misali's new ongoing course
I saw videos on tiktok and then started to search
I also used Wiktionary’s toki pona dictionary
toki pona in a fortnight course by astrodonut. I also used multiple word lists online, namely these ones: https://theotherwebsite.com/tokipona/ https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/0/d/1t-pjAgZDyKPXcCRnEdATFQOxGbQFMjZm-8EvXiQd2Po/htmlview# I stopped relying as much on online word lists when I bought the toki pona dictionary since it was often a better tool.
/r/tokipona
A horrid collection of every source I could find
Homemade flashcards, various other guides
toki pona (martin voigt)
Looking between a word list and memes from /r/mi_lon
youtube
one of the old wevsite-based courses that I can't find anymore...
Learn Toki Pona in a fortnight
soweli Tesa's course (https://sowelitesa.kittycat.homes/lipu-sona/), kama sona Discord server
The new jan Misali course was what motivated me to start learning
Toki Pona app
nasin sona musi by James Moulang
Using dictionaries
I would browse through things in toki pona and when I wanted to know what a word meant, I would search for the definition
I have not learned toki pona yet
nasin sona musi
ma pi toki pona VR (VRChat)
A YouTube video covering fun languages to learn.
Flash cards I made
glosbe, and some youtube videos i dont know the name of.
kulupu pi toki pona pi lipu Pepu (Facebook)
handmade flashcards
lipu nimi mute pi toki pona
sitelen tawa sin pi jan Misali
toki pona lon tenpo esun tu, tan jan Minasa
mi toki mute lon kulupu. jan kulupu li pana e sona lon wile sona mi
Toki Pona in a Fortnight
mi toki tawa jan pi lipu Siko, mi kama sona e nimi kepeken lipu "Google"
ma toki pona VR. mi toki kepeken toki pona tan kulupu ni!
flashcards (ilo Kuwisile - Quizlet)
Glosbe
lipu Linku
Wiktionary
lipu pi jan Pije lon toki Posuka (ona li ante lili)
lipu lili pi jan blinry pi jan Sa
jan Kapilu en jan ante li pana e sona pi toki pona tawa mi
http://tokipona.net/tp/janpije/dictionary.php + https://zrajm.github.io/toki-pona-syllabics/dictionary/ + wikitionary -> mi lanpan e sona pi nimi - mi sitelen e ilo - ilo li alasa e nimi mute
musi Manka
kulupu kama sona lon ilo Siko li pona e toki mi. kin la mi lukin e sitelen tawa mute.
kulupu sitelen sin tan jan Misali
Ijo "Discords"
mi pana sona e mi kepeken lipu
(mi lon tenpo kulupu pi ma Wijasa la mi kama sona e nasin sin lili pi toki pona)
mi lukin e lipu mute
i sorted the sitelen pona PDF semantically by copy pasting them in MS Paint until they were etched into my retinae.
'Learn toki pona in a fortnight' by astrodonut
lipu Wesi en lipu Pesipu
wikipedia
Toki pona in a fortnight
ilo Kuwise (Quizlet)
lipu Wesi
ma pona pi toki pona li pana mute tawa mi. ni la Jan Pije li pana lili.
lipu Linku
nasin "toki pona complete" pi ijo "Memrise"
mi kepeken ilo ante kin. taso, ona li ilo seme la, ni li kama weka tan sona mi lon tenpo lon...
lipu Wikipesija (toki Inli en toki pona), lipu "nimi ale pona" lon lipu Kukolo (Google Docs), ku, sitelen tawa pi jan Minasa/Astrodonunt - "learn toki pona in a fortnight", pali e musi Manka kepeken e toki pona
lipu Wisonewi (wiktionary), lipu Wesi
lipu Linku
kurso en Esperanto
Hay un pdf de 21 mpáginas que lo explica muy bien en español. (¡Y en otras lenguas!)
Reddit, info graphics and a pdf in Spanish
Clozemaster, Tatoeba
toki pona cheatsheet
Toki Pona in a fortnight, Astrodonunt aka best toki pona channel
Un manual de tokipona en español pdf
lipu Linku - toki pona dictionary
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Kb1ppS0H6-5z8HcFtVsNI0j_vRNRmJpBNFYR6Vv4Bm0/edit#!
Facebook challenge 2020
lipu sona lon lipu Wikipu
викиучебник, дискорд сервер kama sona
Russian Wiki Textbook
꺼무위키
Kurs w internecie
"the tokirap" from jan Misali (dictionary of words in my notebook)
QQ
道本相关群聊
Trying to translate into Tokipona by myself
QQ
网络社区（qq)内的道本语法（七页）
没学
QQ群
是@顾伦 Koliuen 道本语中文教程
lvogel leçons en français
Toki Pona in 14 days, de l'Université de Reddit
http://lvogel.free.fr/tokipona/
jan Piluno (french "12 days of toki pona" courses)
Cours en 17 leçons en français http://lvogel.free.fr/tokipona/ (traduction et adaptation en français des cours de jan Pije en anglais et de Jim Henry en espéranto, d'après l'auteur du cours)
jan Nesapa のコース
jan Nesapa (YouTube)
toki pona programeto en la App Store
Indonezia libro pri tokipono
Vikipedio ankaŭ por la gramatiko

Communities

Discord and Reddit are still the most represented communities. Interestingly, the percentage of people in Discord has grown from 74.1% to 86.3% and the Reddit one has decreased from 65.6% to 55.1%. This is despite the exponential growth we showed on Reddit above, which just means that the Discord community has been growing even faster! Some new platforms have got Toki Pona communities, like Mastodon and VRChat, which we have extracted from the free answer part of this question.

Remember you can click on the bars to see their labels and numbers if they are missing in small screens.

jabber (xmpp) chats.
Tumblr
Tumblr
None
Whatsapp
Ponapona
jiti
Many toki pona learners on Neocities!
Scratch
ActivityPub social servers (mastodon et. al.)
GC with friends
Tumblr
Scratch
Tumblr
Formerly in ma pona pi toki pona
I will join some once I'm more confident in my skills
scratch
toki.social, Scratch, Minecraft
Language Club (my own server)
Matrix
scratch
small group of friends
matrix
"toki pona taso" Element group and Lemmy's toki pona community
In-person local meetups at school
Small WhatsApp community
Gemini
Revolt (kulupu pi toki pona [https://nightly.revolt.chat/invite/kDbDVkDQ])
ma ante pi ijo ante. yk, the superior
The Toki Pona XMPP group
I am a member of Discord, but it is confusing and don’t use it
urbit
fedi & tumblr
Will be joining many of the communities soon.
Scratch
Scratch (kulupu pi toki pona)
Matrix
Small discord server with my friends dedicated to getting them to learn toki pona
fediverse, matrix
Discord, Tumblr
Discord (Learn Toki Pona)
#toki:matrix.org
Tumblr.
None
Matrix
kulupu pi toki pona (scratch studio)
Whatsapp group with friends
irc
translating touhou games into toki pona (not so much a community though)
tp gc
none :( i sometimes browse twitter, reddit, tiktok and youtube but i havent participated
minecraft
mi lon kulupu ala.
Revolt
ilo Masi, ilo Lemi
mi sona ala e kulupu pi toki pona
ilo Matrix
ilo Jutu en ilo Seka
mi lukin e lipu Wesi lon tenpo lili taso
ilo WhatsApp
chuff’s toki pona videos, Toki Utala app
mi toki e jan 🧁 - mi wawa ala e sona pi toki pona
toki tawa jan ante li ike tawa mi, taso mi wile toki tawa jan ante.
kulupu pi ilo Siko pi ma pona pi toki pona ala
ilo IRC
ilo sete en ilo insaka? (snapchat and instagram), mi toki tawa jan pona mi
##tokipona lon nasin Libera.Chat
ilo Masoton (toki.social), ilo Pitu (seka.pona.la)
ilo IRC (Libera.Chat ##tokipona)
ilo IRC pi kulupu Lipewa
ilo XMPP
toki@inn.treeblue.space (XMPP) (taso jan ala li toki lon ni)
toki pona ma Pasila
ninguna
vk.com/tokipona
Fediverse
ma toki pona VR, Projekto Babel
Neniu cximomente :)
tokisocial, kvankam mi preskaŭ neniam uzas ĝin. Mi ne estas en ma pona pi toki pona.
Matrix Servilo „tokipona" kaj toki.social

Particles - head nouns

Unsurprisingly, most people use jan as head nouns before their names. There is a non-insignificant number of people using other head nouns. For instance, a consistent 4% of people use kulupu, which is commonly used by plural systems.

lon
konokolo (nimisin, "autism")
I use jan publicly, otherwise there's a number I use privately and interchangeably
monsuta , namako
tonsi
ko
meli
I usually have the head noun excluded when conversing in English with people who know of toki pona.
ko
kili
soko
pipi tomo
nimi
len, suno, ala, lipu, poki, telo
nasa, ola
taso
soko
monsuta
tonsi
fae (but half-jokingly)
jan kijetesantakalu
tonsi/mije
soko
“jan usawi” when i'm feeling mystical
right now i use jan but im considering changing it
been experimenting with "ilojan" for "cyborg". dunno if that's phonetically correct, but theres this disabled poet formally named Jillian Weise who uses Cy as an honorific, and as a disabled person myself, i think thats neat
lon, ala
kiwen
jan mute
I use "mun" but as part of my online tag. I don't actually think of myself as mun in any way
soko
kiwen
I wasn't aware there was an alternative to jan, so I have to look into that
kili
janso (jan + soweli)
soko
kijete
is mije considered one?
suno
misa
kon
mute
waso telo
ko
telo
tomo, ma
jan soweli because I am a furry
my name is just "lipu," nothing else more, just the word "lipu"
no head nouns
None (for onomatopedia like "GYAAAH!")
sitelen
jan akesi
I am not sure yet
Kese
telo
akesi pi luka waso
mun
pan
poki
monsuta
This is cringe furry garbage
did not realize this was an option
pan
mute, aja, waken, seme, maybe others
pali
lon linluwi la mi sike
soko
tonsi
tonsi
mun
kili
monsuta
custom-made word "jansa"
Lon
meli
lili, tonsi
Nasa
poni
tonsi
molusa, nasa
I'm too new to know
mun
we are called kulupu, some of us are called other things.
I don't know what those are yet
poki nanpa pi...
tonsi
sona
soko
kiki
kili loje
kije
tonsi
unpa
tonsi
jasima, kon
mijo
kili, sewi
Any
Well now that we know we can do this, a lot. Very inclusive <3
kili (ni li musi taso)
mi sona ala
kapesi
sike
ala, jan ala
mi jo ala e nimi pi toki pona. taso sina ken kepeken e nimi "jan"
lipu
ona
wan,kala
soko
isipin
wawa
mu
monsuta
kiwen, monsuta, ala
tenpo lili la, me kepeken nimi "tonsi."
kon
tonsi, meli
pan (ni li nimi pi musi taso)
mi kepeken e nimi 'jan'. taso nimi ante li lon poka pi nimi 'jan'. mi wile ala toki e nimi mi lon ni, taso ona li sama ni: jan [nimi ante pi toki pona] [nimi pi toki pona ala]
ala, tenpo, seme
usa
len
kili
ma, toki
ko
ni
jan akesi seli
nasa
mi toki lon mi la, mi kepeken nimi "waso". taso, jan ale li ken kepeken nimi pi wile sina. mi kiwen tawa sina la, o kepeken nimi kiwen. nimi ale li pona tawa mi.
ona
ola
ma
o pana e nimi lawa. nimi mi li ken jan Tewan. taso ona li ken ante.
mi kepeken e nimi musi “pepwi pekog” lon tenpo
kule
tonsi
tonsi
jan tonsi
pan
monsuta poki (pour pokémon)

Toki Pona media

This time many more people have consumed Toki Pona songs and videos, most likely due to the new content of this kind that has been produced since last census. Memes in /r/mi_lon are still going strong. lipu tenpo stays about the same and only a few people in proportion have checked other contents. I encourage you to check them out, they are very cool things. For instance, jan Pepa en soweli Kawa is a favorite of mine.

the pu translation of the little prince
the stuff from the recent short story competition
online story translations, sona sin, monsuta zine
"kijetesantakalu o" the comic, "SONA SIN" News in Toki Pona
books translated by i dont remember
Random poems
I rarely consume Toki Pona media
twitter
Toki Pona games
reading stuff in ma pona
toki pona wikipedia
kalama musi tan jan Usawi
Some original books written partially in toki pona, it was a choose your own adventure style story
The dictionary (green coloured) and the complied vocab (black and white, two pages) (both online)
SONA SIN by Aronora (youtube, news in TP)
posts on lipu Wesi (r/tokipona)
toki pona translation in minecraft
various infographics (unknown)
Jan Misali
mi wile lukin e lipu ni. sina pona tan ni: sina sona tan ni: sina pana sona pi lipu ni e mi.
Wikipesija
soweli mu
Pretty much any jan Misali videos w/ toki pona, r/Prolangs features Toki Pona a lot
Luka Pona
a toki pona game called Soweli Mu https://teepuru.itch.io/soweli-mu
translation of monthy python and holy grail...
Lipamanka's blog
translations of fanfics into toki pona
do toki pona gemini capsules count?
memes on YouTube
Still finding new content!
art
minecraft with the language set to toki pona
uta monsuta and AstroRune toki pona
Very briefly a broadcast, "kalama sin" i think
anything produced from Toki Pona VR
jan misali
The short books included in the 'toki pona pal' app. The learning games as part of "nasin sona musi" https://jamesmoulang.itch.io/nasin-sona-musi
lipu Wikipesija, sitelen sin
everything jan Misali made about toki pona
sitelen unpa (porn, usually from reddit like r/sitelenunpa)
Lurking on ma pona
Reading story by Anne, and Little Red Riding Hood (trans)
kalama sin, "seme li sin?", and random stories translated into toki pona
toki pona games
A couple of zines with titles I do not remember
some things by jan Misali
memes from kama sona discord sometimes
stuff by jan Misali
lipu pi jan Inwin
Toki pona livestreams
discord memes
sitelen sin
uta monsuta
that news jawn on youtube
games on itch.io and Scratch
wikipesija.org
seme li sin, toki lili lon ma kasi, kalama sin
sitelen tawa "Biermädchen“
tenpo pini anu tenpo lon la, tenpo pini la mi lukin li kute e ijo pi toki pona pi mute nanpa wan.
sitelen tawa "seme li sin"
lipu Wikipesija
kijetesantakalu o
ale
kalama sin, toki mute pi jan ante lon ma pona pi toki pona
kalama sin, jan Sitata (tan kon Eman Ese. jan Kala li ante e toki), lipu pi kulupu SCP, http://utala.pona.la/
kalama sin, uta monsuta
sitelen musi pi ma pona pi toki pona
sona li wan :-p
lipu lili pi "jaki pona"
tenpo sike suno ante la mi lukin mute e ma pona pi toki pona e lipu tenpo. tenpo ni la mi lukin ala.
lipu pi jan Inwin
kalama sin, sitelen tawa pi ma Yutu (youtube)
musilili.net
mi lukin, mi kute e ijo mute lon tenpo pi mute lili. mi awen ala sona e nimi ijo.
jan Pensa li pali e ni: toki musi pi jan monsuta loje
kalama sin, utala musi pi jan Lakuse
lipu Wikipesija
ilo Instagram
musi Manka pi ma pona pi toki pona
sitelen pi nimi mute. toki e jan. ni sitelen.
seme li sin?
sitelen tawa "seme li sin"
Toki Pona Podcast https://santiyounger.com/ RSS address: https://anchor.fm/s/14859c9c/podcast/rss
r/tokipona, дискорд сервера
kijetesantakalu o
jan lawa lili
toki nasa
nasin suli pi jan Melin, meli lili pi len loje, wikipesija
Mi memoras videon, kie homo parolas pri plantoj tokipone

Writing systems

The data regarding writing systems is quite similar to the last census. The only significant difference is that now 71% of people reported to at least know sitelen pona, while this figure was 61% before. This might be due to new better systems to write and interact with sitelen pona in different platforms and the ensuing new content created in sitelen pona. It is nice that so many people are learning sitelen pona. To put this number in perspective, more people report to know sitelen pona than people that report that they know 8 or more of the 17 Ku suli words.

Sign languages of Toki Pona

As last time, almost nobody knows any sign language of Toki Pona. Although a significant number of people are interested and were interested last time, very few people have learned it. The number of people that know any Toki Pona signed language has increased though: from 5 to 9 people for toki pona luka and from 1 to 10 for Luka Pona. We show the regular plots and then the same plots with logarithmic so the bars are wide enough for you to click on them and see the numbers.

And these are the plots with log scale.

About you!

Age

Around half of the people responding were under 20, and around a third are in their 20s. Note that most bars specify a range of 10 years but we asked about the 20s by using two ranges. People that responded using Toki Pona tend to be older. The number of people under 20 has increased from 47% to 52.1% since last time, indicating that many of the new people in the community are in this segment.

Region

Toki Pona is known all around the globe. The biggest communities are in North America and Europe. Again, take into account that this doesn’t necessarily mean an overwhelming majority of people that know Toki Pona live in North America or Europe, just that the respondents were from these places. In proportion, the North America segment grew more than the Europe one, which could mean that the rate of growth for the North America Toki Pona community is larger.

Gender

Once more, more people reported that their gender is tonsi than people specifying meli. There were many more mije than anything else. However, note that the percentage for meli increased from 18.7% to 24% and correspondingly the one for mije decreased from 64.3% to 55.9%. Also, this time there is a slight higher multiplicity of answers: last time, percentages added up to 128.4% and this time they add up to 136.5%.

There are not very big differences between the global and the Toki Pona segments, except maybe slightly less people identifying as tonsi in the Toki Pona group.

Btw, read this post if you are interested in a board game about language inspired by Toki Pona.

Boxing people into genders, which are feally just arbitrary collections of descriptive words, is stupid. I'm not "masculine" or "feminine" or anything in between, if you gotta deacribe me use actual descriptors like "pretty" or "strong" or "short-tempered".
genderqueer
binary trans
tonsi tu (dual souled, kinda like bigendered, not the same as two s because I am not an American Indian)
I think mije but I'm not sure
demiboy
soweli loje
ferret
Genderfluid
possibly genderfluid/genderflux
gender fluid
trans man / transmasc
genderfluid, tonsi ko
many xenic and neogenders
demigender
kule, ilo, akesi, kasi
Demigirl
kasi kipisi - thorned plant
tonsi telo - genderfluid
N/A
i also use plenty of xenogenders
mostly mije
Im genderfluid, but generally present feminine.
Transfeminine Non-Binary
demigirl or (trans) girl either works
bigender / plural
Genderfluid
Enby (feminine-aligned / demigirl)
kule telo
non-binary but very feminine
i think mije but still questioning
Body is trans-masc but gender varies between system members. You could put this under “Systemgender”
telo - Fluid
demifluid / abimegender
How is "trans" a gender? Don't trans people switch from their biological gender to the one they prefer?
ijo
I'm a trans woman but you put trans and woman separate which is confusing
I am genderfluid
Pangender fem-leaning
I consider myself genderqueer, but use the umbrella term nonbinary for simplicity
system, so it's complicated
soweli
No, generally
i identify as mije tonsi
tonsi meli - feminine-leaning nonbinary
transmasc
ramigender
I often use xenogenders to describe my identity
genderfluid
miji - tonsi
male-ish cis. sometimes i feel like an ino
Genderfluid, demigirl-fem
plural, genders vary
“whatever” is the main word
ijo, soweli
ijo
I'm just me
mi meli li jo e palisa unpa
demigirl
genderfluid
waso
soweli kute
mi tonsi. taso, kule mi li tonsi ala. ona li nasin kama meli.
(kon mi li sama ala tonsi. taso kon mi la kule mute en kule ala li ken lon.)
sijelo mi li mije, taso ni li wawa ala tawa mi. mi mije ala, meli ala, tonsi ala. mi jan taso
does mi sona ala make my gender monsuta /j
tenpo open pi kon mi la, sijelo mi li mije. taso, mi sona ala e kule mi. ken la, mi mije. mi sona ala.
ante
mi mute li ante a
tonsi pi kule ale. ni li kon kule tonsi nasa mi
mi ante lon tenpo ante
akesi
ona li telo lili. ona li ken kama ante.
jan. (English: They/them or he/him, former preferred.)
mi toki pona ala e kon ni a... toki ni la mi wile toki lon ijo lili sama len sama kule namako sama kon kulupu.
para describirme uso "mije", que para mi solo describe mi sexo biológico, no adscribo al género (incluído agénero que sería lo más cercano)
非常规性别认可者
ni estas pluralsistemo, do respondi estas iom malfacile
meli tonsi

Religion

Atheism and Agnosticism were the most selected answers in the religion/philosophy question, adding up to around 3 out of 4 people. These data are very similar to last time.

Unitarian Universalism
kemeticism
pantheism
Humanism
[*confusion*]
Animism
Well I actually believe all objects exist, so kinda all but not really.
Not really religious
it’s complicated
converting to judaism
Witchcraft, questioning
pa
none
satanism
Spiritualism
None
Mysticism
Ambiguous Spiritualism
A personal system of beliefs
🤷
Pantheism
I'm incredibly syncretic and almost wish to desire to select all of these. but "Buddhist Jewish atheist" is good enough for a short survey i guess
Hellenism
i don't know-ism
personal belief pattern
not sure atm lol
different headmates have different belief systems, I selected the ones we practise most
southern baptist but my church was very gay
satanism
still unsure
Stoicism
Atheopagan eclectic witchcraft
kijetesantakaluism
Quaker, no longer calling myself Christian
but also like it's... complicated. i have a complicated relationship with religion
My beliefs are pluralist (I'm always picking up new ideas from different traditions and incorporating them into my world-view)..
No Idea
Reconstructionist Hellenistic Paganism
“Shamanism”
Questioning
None.
i do not practice religion
agnostic quaker
Discordianism
Optimistic skeptic
humanist (maybe? havent looked much into it)
raised Christian
Declining Mormon, interested in Buddhism, interested in self-discovery.
Wouldnt apply myself to any
theist
irreligion
Discordianism
norse heathenry
I would also consider myself a Satanist, which is basically atheist but more likely to strike a conversation.
Unitarian Universalism
Nonreligious
Questioning
Pantheism
Atru, Nälkä, Mekhanism, LTP
i sometimes believe in greek gods, sometimes all gods, sometimes none, i don't know, i'm more of a universe guy and fate guy
Pantheism
i am open to all nasin sewi
I just think it's all so neat!
none
Satanism
Unsure
Discordianism
varies between headmates
gnosticism
i believe in gods but respect none of them
Pantheism, Christianity
Personal guiding superstitons
Discordian
Atheistic Satanist (The Satanic Temple)
Animism
satanism
Entropism
Gnosticism, Hermeticism
spiritism
Catholicism (Roman Catholic)
questioning this too. no specific denomination decided
I feel drawn to some version of Atheistic-Shinto practice.
fyrnsidu (Asatru)
Kopimism
Humanitarianism
Zhanbunism
Shinto
non-wiccan witchcraft, a form of pantheism
Considering athiesm
Varies on system members, not a full list: Kemetic, Druid, Demonolater
Discordianism, Eclectic witchcraft, Chaos magick, personal belief systems
Agnostic
Ethical Veganism, as a philosophy and not a religion.
Intense Confusion
Deism
confucianism maybe ???????
hellenic polytheist
Agnostic spiritualism
Humanism
Don't know
not applicable, I hold no religious/spirutual beliefs, nor any interest in them.
omnism
fatalism
Not atheism, but my own seperate beliefs not connected to a particular religion
native american (mvskoke and tsalagi) spiritual beliefs
Complicated
Nonreligious
Just to belive.
Atheopagan
Modern Satanism
none, but I wouldn't call myself atheist or agnostic. I just don't care. my philosophy teacher called it apatheist
Deism
Jewish atheist
making up my own religion
non-dualism
Satanism
It’s complicated
Satanism
i think religion is the only thing seperating humans and other animals. i think it's super important but i was also raised atheist so idk what i believe in!
not sure
pastafarianism (as a "joke")
Anarxism, Chaos Magic
Satanism
Animist
I believe that a god theoretically could exist, but it's highly unlikely compared to other options like natural evolution, a boltzmann brain, or a simulation.
Satanism
Pastafarism
Mormon
Unitarian Universalist
unspecificed animism
Räelist
Jainism
Questioning, parts of multiple, shinto
Roman Catholic
Nihilism
Specifically I am a Norse Heathen
Unitarian Universalism
Pantheism
It is complicated
Satanism
deist
mi toki e ni: sewi li lon. taso seme?
mama mi li pana e sona pi nasin Kisijan. taso, ni li lawa lili e mi.
mi sona ala e lon pi jan sewi. taso jan sewi li lon la, mi wile ala pana e mi tawa ona.
nasin Jejusin, [o sona e ni: mi anu e anu 'nasin Jejusin' tan ni: sona mi la, ona en nimi Inli 'Judaism' li wile toki e sama. ni li lon ala la, pana sona mi li pakala.]
nasin sewi ale li pona
nasin mi li tan nasin Sinto li tan nasin Puta li tan nasin pona
sewi li lon ale. sewi li sama ala jan. sewi li ken sama wawa ale.
nasin pi monsuta pan sewi
satanism is pretty funny idk maybe ill join
jan toki pi jan sewi Jawe
ante
ale li nanpa (ni li ken nasin sewi ala)
mi sona ala e nasin sewi mi
ale li sewi
nasin Jejusin
nasin pi sewi mi
mi sona ala li pana wile ala
mi la sewi mute li lon
nasin Satan (Satanism)
nasin sewi mi li nasa lili tawa jan Jesuwa :P
nasin pi mama sewi
insa pi nasin sewi ali li sona sama. o lukin e ijo suli e jan ante. ijo ni li suli. ijo mi li lili.
nasin pi jan Puta, nasin pi jan Satan
mi sona ala. mi alasa
nasin Lakota
nasin Satan
mi lon kulupu ala pi nasin sewi, taso mi pilin sewi kepeken kulupu ala. mi pilin sewi tawa ale.
nasin Discordia
mi jan pi Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
nasin pi sewi Jesu pi jan Pelo (toki Inli la: Catholic)
gnosis, esoterismo
ambiguo
Voodoo brasileño
antitheism
FSM
Dyskordianizm
kijetesantakalu /j
共产主义支持者
海奥华
飞面神教
Diismo
Diskordianismo
Gnostikismo
Bahaa kredo

Languages

How many languages do tokiponists know?

Despite that this year more people reported to know Toki Pona, the percentage of people speaking exactly 1 or 2 languages has increased, while the one for 3 languages remains the same and the one for 4, 5 and 6 languages decreased. Note that this year we specified that you would speak these languages with some degree of fluency, which could account for the change in the data. Around 5% of people said they know 6 or more languages, some of which could be other conlangs.

What languages do tokiponists know?

Most people are fluent in English. There is a great variety of languages represented here. Because this year we allowed to specify a language with its level, we got more information that was not there before. For instance, there is a large amount of people that are learning or know a bit of Japanese, despite that there are not so many fluent Japanese speakers. This new data also show that many people are learning or know a bit of Finnish and American sign language, which were two languages that scored much lower last time when we only asked whether you knew the languages.

The original options of this question were chosen to be the most common languages selected in the last census. People could indicate other languages that they knew and any relationship they had with them. In the graph, all languages that appeared at least 5 times (0.3%) are depicted. This question asked for your level in the language, so if you did not indicate it, this datum was not used for the graph. Some people specified again languages that were asked in the two questions with options (conlangs and default natural languages). These were not counted twice. We show the global plot twice: once with a regular scale, in order to appreciate the proportions, and another one with logarithmic scale, in order to make it easy to read it for the languages that were not so common. The free answer data was too sparse among the toki pona respondents, so we did not use it for the plot. In the free answer box below, all the data appears (the one that was used for the graph and the one that was not)

Recall that you can tap on the bars to see their labels and their numbers.

toki Alpa - Scottish Gaelic, toki Sukosi - Scots
toki Pokasi - Bulgarian - Български, beginner
toki Ekadi - Basque - Euskara, intermediate
Yiddish, ASL
Guernsey french , to help keep the language from dying out.
toki Mosijo - Hungarian - magyar
toki Epelanto - Esperanto - learning
toki Nepali - Nepali - nepali, conversational , heritage language
(don't know a tokiponisation) - West Frisian - Westerlauwersk Frysk, native, heritage language
toki Punsapi - Punjabi - ਪੰਜਾਬੀ, intermediate, heritage language
toki Nijon- mi ken kama sona pi kute
toki Epelanto - Esperanto, beginner
toki Lomuni
toki Keluke - Irish Gaelic - Gaeilge
toki Latin - Latin - lingua latina
Cajun French, Fluent
ASL
Moroccan Darija
toki Lesepe - Luxembourgish - Lëtzebuergesh, very low, forgotten (previously could consume media)
toki Male - Malay - Bahasa Melayu
Nepali
toki Sumi - Finnish - suomea
toki Jolupa - Yoruba, beginner , heritage language
my own conlang
Latin
toki Sopetesina - Slovak - Slovečina, beginner
Swiss German, fluent, not necessarily a language but i prefer to see it as one
toki Ingli, native. toki Epanja, intermediate. toki Nijon, beginner.
- Chilean Sign Language - Lengua de Señas Chilena (LSCh), A1
toki Italian, French, English
toki Losupan - Lojban - lo jbobau, intermediate
toki Pelalusi - Belarusian - беларуская, native
toki nowe - Norwegian - Norsk
Norwegian
Icelandic, Norwegian, Faroese
toki Inti - Hindi - हिंदी, toki Malaju - Malay - Bahasa Melayu
ASL
toki Pasi - Persian - - very basic knowledge, want to learn again فارسی
West Frisian, Anglish
toki Mijama - Burmese, beginner
Spanish: Can ask important questions, everything else I'm okay at except Japanese: I know hiragana and a couple kanji
BSL - studied to level 2 at university
toki Inli - English - English, native, toki Epanja - Spanish - Español, conversational, spoken with extended family, toki Italija - Italian - italiano, intermediate
Spanish - Intermediate Japanese - Intermediate English - Fluent
toki Lowasi - Croatian - Hrvatski, native
toki Losupan - Lojban - la .lojban., beginner
toki Mayowi - Māori - Te Reo , learning it for a friend
toki Mon Ta - White Hmong - hmoob dawb, beginner/learning
Dutch, native
toki Inli -English- fluent, toli pona -Toki Pona -intermediate toki Isita - Hebrew - Beginner toki Epanja - Spanish - Beginner
Toki Esi - Estonian - Eesti keel, fluent, native language
Romanian
toki Sopisi - Serbian - Srpski/Српски, native
toki Lowenki - Slovak - slovenčina, native
i can tell when someone is insulting me in Arabic, lol (heritage lang, grew up surrounded by it)
tagalog
Old Norse, Old English, Akkadian
toki Kuloasi - Croatian - hrvatski, native
toki Seki - Czech - čeština, toki Lowenki -Slovak - slovenčina
toki Ijo - Various - intermediate, I don't think programming languages count but I'm changing up the data anyway. potato potato potato oh this isn't a short answer
toki Inli - English - la angla, native, toki Epelanto - Esperanto - Esperanto, beginner
toki Lowasi - Croatian - hrvatski, native
thai intermediate
toki Pankala - Bangla - বাংলা, native but illiterate
French - really basic
toki Pokasi - Bulgarian - Български, native
toki luka Wensa - Swedish Sign Language, can converse, toki somi - Finnish - Suomi, learning , mother tongue
toki Epelanto - Esperanto - Esperanto, intermediate
American Sign Language
Vietnamese - Tiếng Việt, intermediate, heritage language
toki Malayu - Malay - Bahasa Melayu, toki Inti - Hindi - हिंदी
Esperanto beginner
toki Kanse - French - Français , heritage language, toki ? - Cantonese - 廣東話 , best friends heritage language, toki Losi - Russian - русский , heritage language, toki Posuka - Polish - Polski , heritage language, toki ? - Irish Gaelic - Gaeilge , heritage language, toki ? - Scottish Gaelic - Gàidhlig , heritage language
Serbo Croatian, learning
Minimal Māori, Minimal Central Arrernte, minimal Mongolian
toki Sumi - Finnish - Suomi
Galician, native. Na'vi, learning.
toki Lowensina - Slovenian - slovenščina, native, toki luka Lowensina - Slovenian Sign Language - slovenski znakovni jezik, intermidiate, toki Lowasa - Croatian - hrvatski, can converse
toki Lowasi - Croatian - Hrvatski, can converse
Te Reo Māori (know a bit)
ancient Greek, classical Latin
Lithuanian, native
toki Espanja - Spanish - Español, native, toki Inli - English - English, advanced
toki Panka - Bengali - বাংলা, fluent
Danish, learning
Klingon, beginner
toki Lesepe - Luxembourgish - Lëtzebuergesh, beginner, forgotten (previously intermediate) toki Sonko - Chinese - 中文, intermediate, semi-heritage (was heritage speaker, then forgot, but still have a general advantage with the language)
American Sign Language
toki Kulumu (?) - Crimean Tatar - qırımtatar tili, beginner, heritage language
Māori
Icelandic
toki mosijo, hungarian
toki Kalisa - Galician - galego, native
toki Panla - Bangla - বাংলা, learning
toki Sepijan - Serbian, learning, knowing russian helps but otherwise im just picking it up
toki Inli - English - English, fluent, toki pi mama mi - my mother tongue - my mother tongue, fluent
toki ? - Latin - Latina
my language is armenian
toki Kereko - Greek - Ελλαδα - learning basic
Esperanto, only a bit and i gave up
French,class
toki Epelanto - Esperanto - Esperanto, Beginner
toki Tuki - Turkish - tükçe
toki ordu - urdu, intermediate, mother tongue
toki Jedisu - Yiddish - יִידיש
toki sonko - Chinese - 中文, intermediate
toki Ukawina - Ukrainian - українська мова, learning, toki Epanja - Spanish - español, learning, toki Mosijo - Hungarian - magyar nyelv, learning
Español, required course, 日本語, learning for work/travel, English, native language
I do not wish to disclose
toki Epanja - Spanish - español, intermediate
toki Posansi/Erpasi/Seki - Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian - Босански/Хрватски/Српски, fluent, toki Makedonsi - Macedonian - Македонски, native
toki Ulukawi luka - Uruguayan Sign Language - Lengua de señas Uruguaya, advanced
Swedish sign language, fluent
toki Epilanto - Esperanto, intermediate
toki Inli - English - English, fluent, toki Tosi - German - Deutsch, intermediate
toki Inli - English - English, Native, toki Sonko - Chinese - 中文, learning
toki Wije - Vietnamese - Tiếng Việt, beginner
Irish
toki Satinija - Sardinian - sardu - native
toki Mosijo - Hungarian - magyar , heritage language
toki Epelanto - Esperanto - Esperanto, beginner
toki Apikan - Afrikaans - Afrikaans, learning, learning at school.
toki Esuka - Basque - Euskara, beginner
toki Tawi, Thai, ภาษาไทย, native
toki Nosiki - Norwegian - norsk
Tamil, Hindi
Latin - linguae latinae, academic language
my mother tongue - toki pi mama mi - nice format ngl, native/fluent
Greek
Ukrainian
toki Pisaja - Cebuano, know a bit, native languge
Esperanto, learning, Ithkuil, learning,
toki Tawi - Thai - ไทย, fluent
toki Tansi - Danish - Dansk, native language
Spanish- intermediate, english- fluent, toki pona- intermediate
toki Tami - Tamil - தமிழ், native
Toki Lasina - Latin - Latīna , Toki Nose - Old Norse - Donskmál
toki Abi - Arabic - العربية
toki Konton - Cantonese - 廣東話
British sign language, beginner
toki Pokasi - Bulgarian - български, native
American Sign Language
toki Lipuwalija - Ripuarian - Ripoarisch, intermediate, heritage language
Frisian, native
toki Tawi - Thai - ภาษาไทย - native/fluent
toki Hawaii - Hawaiian - ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi, intermediate , toki Navajo - Navajo - Diné Bizaad, beginner. (Couldn’t find any toki pona names for either of these languages anywhere, apologies).
toki Epanja - Spanish - Español, intermediate
Fluent Doric - a dialect of N Scotland
toki Epalanto, kama sona
Lithuanian, learning.
toki Tami - Tamil - தமிழ், learning
English, native, Spanish, intermediate
American Sign Language
toki indo - Indonesian - Bahasa Indonesia, heritage language
toki Inli - English - English, fluent, native language, toki Kanse - French - Français, learning
toki Tusun - Dusun, can converse, heritage language
german, toki mama, english, french, italian, turkish, greek, icelandic, toki pona, mi olin e ona.
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toki luka Mewika
toki Lowasi - Croatian - hrvatski
toki luka pi ma Mewika - American sign language - ASL
mi ken toki lili e toki ni: toki luka Mewika - ASL, toki Alan - Irish - Gaelige
toki Malasi - Marathi/Marāṭhī - मराठी
toki Inli - English - English
toki Takalo - Tagalog - Tagalog, tenpo pini la mi kama sona lili e toki Epanja e toki Kanse e toki Lasina e toki Anku. tenpo lon la mi sona ala e toki ni.
toki Apikan - Afrikaans - Afrikaans
toki Ukasina - Ukrainian - українська
toki Tuki - Turkish - Türkçe,toki Alapi - Arabic - العامية,toki Alapi - Arabic - العربية
toki Siseti - Swiss German - Schwizerdütsch
toki Kanton - Cantonese - 粵語
toki Luwenija - Slovenian - Slovenščina
toki Inli - English, toki mama, toki Kanse - French - français, mi kama sona tan tomo sona pi toki tu (toki Inli en toki Kanse) lon sike luka luka tu tu
toki Kali - Scottish Gaelic - Gàidhlig, toki Sukosi - Scots - Scots/Lallans
toki mosijo
toki Alapi - Arabic - العربية
toki Tanma - Danish - dansk
toki Lawi - Latvian - latviešu valoda
toki Kele - Irish - Gaeilge
toki Lasina - Latin - Lingua Latina
toki Italija- Italian- Italiano, toki Epanja- Spanish- español, toki Inli- English
toki Sumi - Finnish - suomi
toki Ukawina - Ukrainian - українська
toki Sopisi - Serbo-Croatian - Srpskohrvatski, toki mama
toki No anu toki Nosiki - Norwegian - Norsk
toki Iwisi - Hebrew - עברית
toki Tosi - German - deutsch, mi kama sona tan tomo sona lon tenpo sike tu wan
toki Epanja - Spanish - español, toki ni li sama la mi ken sona li ken toki lili.
"toki Apilikan - Afrikaans, toki mama mi", "toki Sepeli - Northern Sotho -Sepedi, mi ken toki e ni pona", "toki Isisulu - Zulu - IsiZulu, mi toki lili e ni"
toki Tosi - German - Deutsch,toki Kanse - French - français
toki Inli - English - English
toki Inli - English - English
toki Takalo - Filipino - tagalog
toki Esi - Estonian - eesti keel
toki Lowenki - Slovak - slovenčina
ona li mute la mi wile ala pana
toki Awisi - Haitian Creole - Kreyól ayisyen
toki Alape - Arabic - عربية, toki Elena pi tenpo pini - Koine Greek - Ελληνιστική Κοινή, toki Iwisi - Hebrew - עִבְרִית‎, toki Lasina - Latin - lingua latina, toki Inli pi tenpo pini - Old English - Englisċ
toki Mosijo - Hungarian - Magyar
mama mi li toki e toki Lowenki - Slovak - slovensky
toki luka Mewika - American Sign Language - ASL
toki Tansi
toki luka Epanja, mi kama sona tan jan pi kute ala
Árabe - Estudié 6 meses pero hablo y escribo mucho poco, Portuñol - español y portugués añadido, muy originario en región fronteriza brasileña con países hispanohablantes,
toki Catala - Catalan - Català
toki Potuke - Portuguese - portugués, puedo hablar fluidamente, lengua materna
Toki Kazakh
toki Kalisa - Galician - español, puedo hablar, toki Potuke - Portuguese- español, aprendiendo
toki ajasijen- haitian creole - kreyol ayasyen puedo hablar
toki Epanja - Spanish - Español, lengua nativa, toki Inli - English - English, fluido
toki Sisilija - sicilianu, puedo hablar
tplo Selonka - Schlesisch - ślůnska godka, flüssig
Toki epelanto, fließend
toki Lasina - Latin - lingua Latīna
Казахский, B2
toki luka Anku - 한국수어(Korean Sign Language) - (문자 없음, Not written), 중급
toki Anku - 한국어, 모어, toki Inli - 영어 - English, 중급, 국가교육. toki Nijon - 일본어 - 日本語, 초-중급,
toki Inli - English - English - płynny, toki Epanja - Spanish - Español - coś między początkującym a zaawansowanym, toki Nijon - Japanese - 日本語 - uczę się go od kilku miesięcy, toki Posuka - Polish - Polski - rodzimy
toki Milato-Mirad-仅仅只是了解
toki Konton - Cantonese - 粵語
toki Kalisa - ガリシア語 - galego, ネイティブ
La turka
toki Sonko pi tenpo pini - Classical Chinese - 文言文 (baze)
la angla (denaska), Loĵbano (flua), Esperanto (flua), Loglano (meznivela), Tokipono (meznivela), la hispana (meznivela), la japana (baznivela), la portugala (baznivela), Toango (baznivela)
la nengatuan

What conlangs do tokiponists know?

A significant amount of people (around one out of four) knows at least another conlang besides Toki Pona. This number has decreased from around one out of three from last time. Esperanto is the most commonly known conlang. Note that the scale here is logarithmic as well, in order to visualize the unfrequently known languages well.

Matoran, 2nd Edition
tokςavi, Draconic
D'ní
ling xian
dusolulu
raco, ailang, sanila, others
Tutnese, though I don’t entirely consider it a conlang rather a cultural language but I know sometimes people do so? If it counts??
tuki tiki
Interslavic
Peejosa
I am looking to learn Toki Ma and work on their website
I started learning esperanto 76 days ago, not sure if that counts
The other conlangs I am bit fluent in
Learning Esperanto
peejosa
tokilipu
Meyhendgar
a small conlang, dont even know if its supposed to be called a conlang, i'd say its an English phonetic cipher relex, with a few grammar tweaks
a conlang/ficlang i made, di'acala
Interlingue, Pandunia, Mini
English
...but I would like to, Láadan in particular!
Ligodu
I am learning esperanto, but can't really speak it well
kisuwi
god i wish
Interslavic
vjossa/viossa (a bit)
Some random small conpidgin
I’m only familiar a little with Esperanto.
baltai halaso
Ender
don't speak but learned esperanto a bit and interested in ido.
griuskant
Ok we know the grammar of kay(f)bop(t) so we’re like? Halfway there somehow?? Right??
Lang Belta
i know a little esperanto from duolingo but thats it
trying to learn esperanto !
globasa (learning)
mi isipin nasa e ni: toki Iwisi sin (Modern Hebrew) li toki sin
pifdofwaś
other eisenlangs, interlingua, elefen, sanila
Interslavic
Personal languages
Interlingua
my own, Kōey (WIP)
note: i am learning esperanto but not good
kawaba :3
tuki tiki
tana tata (tokiponido)
Okokier
Verdurian
I learned a bit of Na'vi but forgot most of it. I know my own conlangs in theory.
luka pona
mi kama sona e toki Mesulojanki (Međuslovjańsky język)
blissymbolics
Medzsuslovjanski
tuki tiki
mi kama sona e toki Polapu (Volapük) e toki Epelanto
toki pali ante tan mi en kulupu mi
toki Teko (ni li toki sin mi)
toki Elepen - Elefen
toki Towan - Toaq
Interlingua
Volapük
topo
Kittog, a conlang from South Korea, having some more speakers.
科夫语（Kofu Hara）
Je travaille sur la mienne, fortement inspirée du Toki Pona.
Volapuko
Volapük
Loglano

Free-answer section

We asked people to add anything else they wanted and we received many responses. Throughout all the census, we published the data as it is. In this section, we removed a couple of messages that were private messages directed to us regarding removing previous duplicated responses due to errors or misunderstandings, which we did.

Thanks to everyone for participating! See you maybe at the next one, for which we will probably wait more time than what we did last time. Until then: o musi kepeken toki pona.

i will now be consuming all the toki pona media listed omg
hii :3
ale li pona
This isn’t very relevant to this form, but I really do wish that more resources were available regarding the toloponization(?) of words. The only good links I could find had their content deleted, and the others were difficult to understand. (I think Nepali fits toki pona standards for words? I’m not sure.)
jan Imuposuta li ike!
sina pona a!
I am not still learning Toki Pona- just still active in ma ante.
The concept of partially converse is hard, I can converse in many languages, but actually speaking them I would say there are only 5, I am too weak in all others.
uwulang best lang
This community is much more queer, accepting, and all around friendly than i had i expected/remebered. I'd say thats a huge part of why i enjoy it so much, because i feel like i belong here. Recently I was hit with a huge wave of depression and even contemplated suicide, but learning toki pona helped distract me for long enough to think with a clearer mind. I will be getting therapy, dont worry lol, but I want to express my graditude towards the community. I'd likely be dead in a ditch somewhere if it werent for all the wonderful people here. I'm nowhere near fluency, but I'll be striving for "conversationally suficient" for as long as I draw breath. Have a nice day, sina pona :)
sina pona <3
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help how do i type
TRANS RIGHTS 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️
The VRChat community is really amazing, more people every week, really friendly and welcoming (VR optional!)
Did you seriously ask if I speak Ithkuil and/or Kay(f)Bop(t)?
Kijetasantakalu started as a joke and I wish it had remained so.
Luka Pona learner, but not Toki Pona itself
I didn't know there was a Memrise course for this, but this survey alerted me to it - thank you very much!!
i like cheese
I love toki pona. It has been really good for my mental health :>
Perhaps what pu words people don’t use. kala Asi’s Linku census showed this. For instance, I rarely use ‹mije› and ‹meli›, and I don’t use ‹lukin› (instead, I used the pu synonym ‹oko›, in the pu meaning, that’s why I put ‘know but don’t use’ under the question for ‹oko›).
sina ale li pona mute a!
I enjoyed learning toki pona, but ultimately I don't enjoy trying to navigate the community, which I find to be a bit of a social minefield. There's a certain attitude of "there are no rules, you can make your own nasin" that's popularized by some depictions of the language, but at the same time, there's a cohort of "actual" speakers of the language/long-standing community members who have strong opinions about what is and isn't proper toki pona, but at the SAME time, there's not much of a clear codification about what is and isn't this proper toki pona, and there's zero clear indication of who might be "authorized" to make decisions or speak for this "core community". It's like some people want there to be an agreed-on canon made by the people with a certain seniority in the language, but the general community setting's attitude of "there are no rules we're descriptivists do what you want" prevents any kind of formal recognition of such a thing. And I just don't enjoy trying to figure out such a quagmire, so I've mostly abandoned my interest in toki pona.
Click to add text
I’d like to have been able to distinguish reading ability vs conversation, I’m much stronger in toki pona and French with reading than live conversation in both.
kurtoskalacs
What toki pona resources would help me? / A beginner hour in the evenings on the Discord.
133 or 127 depending from the angle
I highly appreciate the inclusion of Ithkuil and kay(f)bop(t) for the brave souls who dare say they speak it.
I am learning Esperanto
mu
Thank you, census organizers!
I am part of the ma toki pona VR group. the vrchat meetup group for learners and speakers of toki pona!
not sure of the transliteration of vietnamese / tiếng việt (sorry!), but i am a passive speaker (learning / know a bit ?)
I'd like to learn sitelen pona at some point/soon
A third option for people who knew toki pona on the first question would be nice
:)
Being developmentally neurodivergent the radical simplicity of toki pona is remarkably appealing.
I don't plan on purchasing pu or ku.
I have made friends in toki pona discord servers, although I have not met anyone that doesn't already speak english. That is something I would like to do.
jan poki jaki loje
My answers must be a mess, since i've studied toki pona, and was pretty fluent at it, but with time i forgot it and haven't yet picked it up again
Ma pona has a negative attitude to things outside a set of things that are 'pona', so it's not really welcoming if you're not aligned exactly, outside of trivial small talk or talk about the language. I've seen shit talk about toki ma, sitelen pona pona, certain nimi sin, and that one kana system. Doesn't really seem to be concerned with bad mouthing someone's expressive work if it's outside what vocal members like
Please make the gender data public, I'm curious because I see most of the active members are trans/NB/GNC
My knowledge of toki pona is currently very limited, but I would like to learn once I have time!
I feel this form could have asked more about how people got here and what they hope to get out of Toki Pona. I’ve seen a lot of interesting conversations in the Discord server about it’s importance to people and I think it would be neat to measure that in some way maybe.
Last year, there was this thing with separate analyses for people who chose to read the census in toki pona and those who chose any other language. it would be nice if this didn't happen this year, because it feels a bit discriminatory. i personally chose to use the English version of the survey because I know for sure it has been well tested and I vibe with English more than the other languages I am able to use. This is not a reflection of my skill level in toki pona.
sorry im high as balls rn i hope i answered rhe questions right
The “list of languages I speak” section is not nearly broad enough. Arabic has 490M speakers. 180M people speak Hindi. Wasn’t Included. Farsi has over 100M. Not there. almost 75M people speak Cantonese and it wasn’t an option. 10.5M people speak Swedish, which was included- and those other four weren’t? This is NOT a good selection of languages. (Sorry for the rant, but this should definitely be fixed next year.)
I would have liked to see a question on how head nouns are used instead of which head noun one uses, to know how many people believe "jan" to correspond to something like "person" versus something like "human person". I'd consider the former definition a more useful term, for example to distinguish between a soweli person and a soweli non-person, but I'd like to know how other people stand on this.
(learning Lojban, definitely can't have a full conversation in it yet lol but me taking this census la that counts as speaking it)
Need a "none" option for most of the languages list
no
Sorry, I had to romanize the endonyms for hebrew because LTR/RTL layout weirdness
I have only been learning Viossa for <1 month as of submitting on the 25th of September. It and Russian are the languages I've considered not to count under "In how many languages can you converse with some degree of fluency?" as I am still a beginner at both.
mi toki nanpa kepeken sitelen nanpa kijetesantakalu. ni li pona a li musi a tawa mi.
I do not have anything else to add.
toki Kimansiki - Zazaki - Kirmanckî is my heritage language, but I don't speak it, nor am I learning it. I have answered Asia as the continent I'm in but I'm in a transcontinental country and I'm often in Europe as well. Maybe a transcontinental option or the ability to select multiple continents would be better.
i've been in this community for a year and it has grew worse. every chill person i knew has already left. consider this as my goodbye.
i'm gonna be honest, i used to be a lot more fluent in toki pona, but i forgot most of it lmao. i should really start relearning it
I just wanted to thank you for making the form/sorting through the answers, big thumbs up
ala
Too many sign languages.
<3 Thank you for taking the time to organize and perform this community census! <3
I really enjoyed reading the results of last year’s census. Thank you for doing another! Also, I learned this language without owning pu or ku, but I hope to get both of them soon and improve my knowledge.
I'm surprised that the "What other languages do you know?" poll doesn't include Arabic.
I would like to see a question about "do you use toki pona for productivity?" For example, I help organize community events and we use toki pona in planning.
I'm disabled. That wasn't something asked in the demographic data but it might be interesting to ask as an optional.
mi olin e toki 💝💝💝💝
This was good. I hope you census conductors are doing well :) ni li pona. mi wile e ni: jan pali sina li jo e sijelo pona :)
Toki Pona is so cool! Initially I had no interest in the philosophical angle but as I learn it's becoming more interesting. Also, I feel that the potential similarity to early human language is very exciting!
I was banned from the discord tried to appeal and was almost let back in but was not accepted because of my profile picture I have since changed it and am hoping to be unbanned from the discord (memerman helped with he process last conversed with them on 4/20/22
I don't really use toki pona a whole lot, but it was fun and helpful for learning other languages. The main way I use it nowadays is with homework. For example, instead of writing in my notes, "because [A], there is [B]", I put, "[A] la, [B]". Or if I have a section about flora and fauna, I sometimes write kasi en soweli.
yoooo whats good
I first came to know about toki pona way earlier than I actually got to learn it in earnest. I think it was somewhere in the middle of 2000s. I was lazy to try it then.
I think one thing that would really help learners is a course similar to the Memrise one where each meaning of a work is quizzed. For example, for "laso", two cards would be in the course - one for "blue" and one for "green". This would help people reach fluency much faster in my opinion.
I am planning to learn toki pona
toki pona is really cool and has an awesome community. mi olin e sina mute a!!
Aspirations for the future of the language, such as sitelen pona inclusion in keyboard languages.
My knowledge of toki pona is steadily declining, because I haven't found a use for me.
Haven't really been able to practice toki pona cause eof everything, but interested in getting back into it. Excited to see the resources links,
This lipu gave me a cool list of things to look into (media, different kinds of luka pona, other conlangs...), so thanks! (also many of the "other" toki pona words I included were mainly jokes that I'd use in very specific circumstances)
I'd like to think I "know" toki pona, but I often struggle to come up with the intended meaning when presented with toki pona text. I can translate all the words, and maybe give some possible translations, but I'm not ever sure that what I read is what was written. I kinda wish that this was allowed to be expressed earlier, where instead of a simple "Check what you can do," it was a "Check how much you agree with," in that way you would be able to see how confident people are with their answers. Maybe you could even do both, for two different ways of checking that statistic.
I believe that 'pona' is a larger philosophical concept rather than just the word for 'good, simple'
hello have a nice day:) sina pona a
I am technically a jan meli tonsi - a transgender woman, however the word "tonsi" also implies that I am nonbinary which I am not.
Perhaps some questions on disability would be interesting - that is, to see what links there might be between disability and the Toki Pona community. The same would perhaps be interesting with regards to what content creators respondents follow/consume - again, to discover any links that might exist between them and the community, whether they are Toki Pona-adjacent or not [in the case of the latter, the link would be purely coincidental. but interesting nonetheless].
I'd be interested in seeing what percentages of people have translated works.
toki
Toki Pona is an amazing language and has a wonderful community. Thank you to all who help others learn, and especially to those who create guides.
local teen (me) is trying to translate the bee movie because he is nasa
I’ve just started learning Esperanto, but I wouldn’t say I can speak it.
I lied when I said I speak no other conlangs, they're just all homebrew languages of my own uwu
finish basic, romani basic, arabic basic, albanian basic, latvian basic, hungarian beginner, turkish beginner
Great census!! 11/10 epiku
mu!
Written and spoken proficiency could have be separated.
shoutouts to jan Kekan San and all the organizers of the VRChat meetups, you're all superstars!
This survey was a mess, I have small complaints about the "script" part. First of all, specifying/classifying the use of han characters to write toki pona into "Japanese" and "Chinese", this does not at all reflect the cultural dynamics between languages in sinosphere. You might have meant specifically using kana along with han characters to mean japanese, but what if you use kana for grammatical words while mostly using the mandarin usage for the characters, because you couldnt find adequate words for them? Besides, because of the shared history of classical chinese (not the same thing as Mandarin chinese, surprise! Just like how italian is not latin) a lot of the times han characters don't even have to be representing a particular culture! This is what I usually do when I use han characters for toki pona, I intentionally pick characters that are used in all of east asia! Also, did you know that different chinese varieties exist? and that they use wildly different words from standard chinese aka standard mandarin? They have their own words and characters for those. Are those included in "chinese"? Also isn't it weird that you translated "kanji/kana" as "sitelen Nijon" in the toki pona version, because now it's ambiguous! Do you check it if you only use kana but not han characters? By the way "native/fluent" "can converse" and "learning" are NOT the only major ways one can interact with languages. I decided to drop mentioning so many of the languages I only know a little but am not learning because you did not consider that possibility.
We're a plural system, which seems to be a common thing in the discord. I'm kind of curious how common that is in the toki pona community.
im curious to know what percentage of jan pi toki pona are furries or nasin unpa/olin ante (since tonsi is already covered here), because it's definitely higher than the general population.
I wanna say that I find this interactions between the community so nice, just keep it up =)
Can I have a hug
i am 14 years old (i think that yous should have included more specific ages under 20, because i remember seeing at one point that like 40% of the tp community is under 18 or smt)
The language is called ‘Nederlands’, not ‘Nederlandse’.
kijetesantakalu li pona tawa mi >:3
Thanks for doing this census, I’m interested to see the results!
Toki Pona is such a beautiful language. I'm using it daily for fun and mindfulness practice. It's actually helping my mental health as well. Thank you!
The Toki Pona community is fun so far! I hope you'll do great and that the community will grow larger so that I'll have more people to converse with...
I wished you asked about number systems. Toki pona needs base10 counting or its completely impractical. One of the things holding this lang back.
Im very flex with toki pona word order, sometines changing places of different arguments distinguishing them only with particles like li, e, tawa, kepeken etc and even ”en” as a generic subject marker, even if it was a bit of a joke by sonja lang
I have the Complete Esperanto textbook, as I am planning to learn it in the near future. Also, I now kind of what to learn uwulang as a meme, because I just found out what that is and omg.
Thank you, this was fun :)
I would consume more toki pona content if it was easier to find
Just started learning!
sina pona li jan suwi :3
It is difficult to assess whether you know a word "including its non-pu meanings" seeing as the amount of said non-pu meanings aren't specified. Suppose I know two meanings of "oko" and thus answer "know", but there are actually four others in common use that I have no idea exist. This may result in inaccurate data.
You should ask about politics in the next census. I want to know common political beliefs in toki pona. Also like philosophical beliefs and stuff.
Idk man I was extra stoned at a bar so maybe I said more than I needed to lmao
A useful question would have been a general one addressing how open people are to using non-Pu words.
I really would like to see a Duolingo or Babel level learning course for Toki Pona
toki :^)
Where are the questions about *wanting to learn* toki pona? I have been wanting to learn toki pona for maybe more than half a year by now, but I still have not had the time and/or motivation. I want to be able to write fiction in toki pona. There is a question about owning the 'official' books. I do not have them. But not because I do not want them, just because I cannot afford buying them yet.
Toki pona sign languages are over simplified and thus hard to remember, so I am searching signs that are somewhat same in finnish, swedish or american sign language and adressing those to toki pona words to be able to speak that with my friend
mi lon
wile sona pi toki luka la mi wile ken pana e ni: mi sona ala e lon pi toki ni taso mi ken wile kama sona e ona
mi o toki e ni: jan mute li lon kulupu pi toki pona. jan mute li sama. jan mute li ante. jan ale li sama ala. pilin mute li lon. nasin mute li lon. sona mute li lon. pilin en nasin en sona pi wan taso li lon ala. o ike ala tawa jan ante. o jaki ala tawa nasin ante. o len ala e sona ante. o pona taso. sina pona kin. ale li pona.
remember to get a drink etc :)
pona mute a!
toki mi li ken nasa lili, mi sona lili e toki mute, li sona mute e toki mute, li wile sona e toki mute. ni ale la mi toki e nanpa "luka" tawa lipu wile nanpa wan.
mi wile kama sona e toki Nijon. mi kama sona lon tomo sona. tomo sona la, sike suno nanpa tu.
toki Manin - Gaelg - Manx, toki Alan - Gaeilge - Irish, toki Iwisi - Hebrew - עברית
mi wile toki e toki Epelanto.
tenpo pini la lipu ni li lon la mi lon kulupu pi toki pona, mi sona e toki pona. taso mi toki ala lon lipu ni.
pana ken pi wile sona "sina pana ala pana e sona pi toki pona tawa jan ante?" la "lon" o lon ala o "pana"
mi kulupu lawa
lipu ni lon tenpo suno sike 2021 la mi sona ala e ni: mi pana ala pana e sona mi?
taso la mi wile toki e palisa jelo tan musi. tenpo pini la palisa jelo ante li lon tawa ale. ona li palisa jelo Komite. suli tenpo sina li sama 25 la ken la mama mama sina li moku e palisa jelo ni. taso ike li kama tawa palisa jelo Komite. o sona e ni: tenpo suli la jan li kama ante e nasin kasi e nasin soweli tan ni: jan li wile kama e moku pona. ni la palisa jelo li kama ante li kama pakala lili lon ni: sike lili mama kasi li kama weka li lon ala kasi a! sike lili ni li kama e kasi sin. ken la insa pi palisa jelo la sina ken lukin e ni: ijo lili pimeja li lon. tenpo pini la ni ale li sike lili mama kasi li kama ala. ni la jan li wile e kasi sin pi palisa jelo la ona o pali ante o kama e kasi pi sama mama. ni la kasi ale pi palisa jelo li sama. taso ni li ken e jaki. jaki li ken ike tawa kasi wan la ona li ike tawa kasi ale kin a. tan ni la palisa jelo Komite li kama moli li weka. tenpo lon la palisa jelo Kawente li lon. ike la jaki sin li kama lon li alasa moli e palisa jelo ni sama palisa jelo Komite. taso utala li lon. jan pi pali kasi li alasa awen e kasi ona. jan sona li alasa ante e palisa jelo Kawente li wile kama e ken awen lon ona. ale la o sona e ni: palisa jelo li pona a 🍌
wile mute
lon.
pali sina li pona pi mute a! sina wawa! pona tawa sina tan ni: sina pana e pona tawa kulupu pi toki pona.
a a a lipu Pepu li seme? ona li lipu Facebook anu seme?
ala :)
sina sitelen suli e nimi pi toki pona sama "Toki Pona". ni li nasa lon toki pona. ante la, sina pona. pona tawa sina
sina pali e ni la sina wawa a :)
jan mute pi toki pona li pona ala li sona lili. ku li ike, pu li pona.
toki Epelanto, toki Lasina, luka ASL
mi wile sona e toki French.
mi olin e soweli tawa meli, li olin mute e ko lete lupa ona.
sina pona tan alasa sona
mi sona ala e toki sin ante, taso mi wile kama sona e toki Epelanto e toki Losupan
nasin sitelen la sitelen Kansi (Kanji/Hanzi) pi toki Sonko en toki Nipon li wile kama wan nasin ni: o anu e sitelen pi kon sama lon toki ale (toki pona, toki Nipon, toki Sonko).
sina ale li epiku mute a!
ala
pali mi kepeken toki pona li lili. mi kama sona e lon pi toki pona tan sitelen tawa pi jan Misali. taso: kama sona nasin mi pi toki pona li tan jan Lope en jan ma pona pi toki pona.
tenpo sike pini la, sina toki e ni: sina kepeken nimi jan anu ante? ni li ike tawa jan mute. tenpo lon la, sina toki e ni: sina kepeken nimi jan anu nimi ante? (sama ni: jan Mumumu, soweli Mumumu, ijo pi ike mute Mumumu, ante ante ante...) ni li pona mute!
sitelen tawa Shinsekai Yori en jan Lenin li pona mute.
sina pona a a!
https://youtube.com/channel/UC8YRFfrcNc9AFDjI3s6mKSg
toki Nijon, toki Tosi, toki Wijosa
mi ken toki pona a!!!!! !!! !!!!!
mi pana e olin mi tawa ma toki pona VR. mi ken toki kepeken toki pona tan jan pona pi kulupu ni. jan pona mute li lon a!
wile sona ni la nimi mute lili pi ijo tan toki pona ala li nasa lili tawa mi. wan la, tan seme la nasin Islam li nasin Silami li nasin Isilami ala? ijo ante ale li pona tawa mi
toki a
toki sin ante la, mi sona lili e toki Epelanto. mi toki lili kin. taso, mi ken ala toki e ni lon lipu. mi sona e ni: ni li lipu pi toki pona. ken la ni li lili.
mi wile toki e ijo ante, taso, mi sona ala e toki pi wile mi. ni la, mi toki e ni taso.
mi wile toki e toki Sonko
wile sona sina la, mi pana e toki ni: mi sona e nasin pi sitelen pona. lon la, mi sona lili taso e sitelen pona. mi kama sona e ona. mi pana e toki pi lon ala tan ni: mi ken ala pana e toki lon.
Soy bilingüe de nacimiento (castellano y catalán).
En la primera pregunta de esta sección (¿En cuántas lenguas puede conversar con cierto grado de fluidez? (incluyendo toki pona)) no incluyo toki pona porque acabo de empezar a aprenderlo.
Quisiera que hubiera un curso completo en español para principiantes
We should make more toki pona songs T-T
Ich liebe diese Sprache. Ich finde die Grammatik sehr einfach sowie die Wörter (es gibt viele Übersetzungen, aber das ist das Prinzip einer Sprache mit ~120 Wörtern, also ich werfe es nicht vor :)). Ich freue mich darauf, in dieser Sprache fließend zu werden.
없음
mu
I have done this this census more as a person fascinated by the toki pona and not someone actively learning
祝道本语社区越来越好！o wile e kulupu pi toki pona li klama pona mute!
希顶语真的不是人造“语言”啊。
希望未来可以有除了汉语、英语、道本语之外的其他语言的问卷（例如西班牙语）
pona！
kulipu pi toki pona li jo e lawa lili. ni li ike tawa mi. mi wile e lawa suli tawa kulupu ni. A, mi awen e tenpo pona.
.e'o ko gasnu lonu cumki fa lonu spuda bau le jbobau (bonvolu provizi opcion por respondi en Loĵbano)

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