What is Toki Pona?

• Fun and simple language
  • A complete language
    • only 120–140 basic words
    • easy to learn
    • free for everyone
  • Established and created by Sonja Lang in 2001
    • to look at the big picture
    • for personal and collective art therapy
    • for any purpose, even technical and professional
    • to acknowledge and empower all heirs of Toki Pona (Lesson 19)
• Quickly growing worldwide
  • Spoken in 2025
    • by tens of thousands
    • around the world
  • Teens online love Toki Pona culture
    • playful
    • inclusive
    • no redundancies
  • Popular conlang, second only to Esperanto

 

• Totally versatile
  • Fluent speakers comfortably use Toki Pona in
    • everyday situations
    • technical language without jargon
    • professional associations
• Recognized by institutions
  • ISO 639-3 issued the official code ‘tok’,
    confirming Toki Pona as a world language
  • Taught in universities since 2002
  • Sonja has been invited to give university talks,
    drawing 120 attendees
• Friendly and creative communities
  • Explore Toki Pona communities
  • Experts and beginners help each other
  • People create
    • magazines, books, and poetry
    • videos, podcasts, and games
    • friendships around the world
• Quick start
  • Ways to learn Toki Pona
  • Toki Pona FAQ
    • Toki Pona and Esperanto
      • Ideas, vocab, sounds, alphabets, and cultures
      • Who loves them and why?
    • Common misconceptions
      beginners have about Toki Pona
    • Conlang collaboration
      Toki Pona and Esperanto support each other
    • Meet Sonja and her work
    • Kids who discover Toki Pona

What’s new?

• nimi ali pu n a
  reaffirms community rights, praising people’s pivotal powers to provide fast-flourishing forests from lists of linguistic lexemes
• lili (hosted by misa suli)
  little place for art, learning, peace ☮️
  often visited by Sonja Lang
  
• Beginner Texts by teacher Lakuse
• tokipona.org supports
  • pu: our community rights in Lesson 19
  • su: our peacebuilding alliances
    
• Toki Pona library (show me the bibliography)

Intro videos

• A good Toki Pona language overview (LingoLizard)
• What is the easiest language? (jan Kekan San)
• How can a language only have 120 words? (RobWords)
• I learned the world's simplest language (Oats Jenkins)
• The world’s tiniest language? (Toki Pona) | enhanced reboot (Langfocus)
• Toki Pona: the world’s smallest language (RuffDraft EMHS)
• Conlang Critic episode 12: Toki Pona (jan Misali)
• Toki Pona in 18 minutes (ilo Tani)
• I tried traveling with the world’s smallest language (Griffin / Wordsatwork)

Mi’kmaw Sovereignty Dossier

Peace and Friendship
Treaties reaffirmed 🕊️🫱🏽‍🫲🏻

Three hardcover tomes:
amazon.co.uk  .ca  .com

Kji-Saqamaw Scott E. Peters

• TikTok: mikmawscotty
• Instagram: thunderbirdriverwalker

Read Sonja witnessing

kulupuᏣᎳᎩla sitelen pi kon pona

ᏥᏍᏆ waso

ᏥᏍᏆ waso

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The Complete Dictionary of Guosa Language
by Ìgbìnéwéká Alex G.
Kindle ebook and paperback
Great Writers Media, LLC
672 pages

Communities

•  (thriving home of Toki Pona)
  • writing systems (Sitelen Pona and many more)
  • ma pona pi toki pona (largest community!)
  • lili (new, little, for promoting art and learning together)
  • kama sona (for beginners to meet volunteer teachers)
  • ma mun (Toki Pona only)
• 
  • Follow Sonja Lang: @tokipona.org
  • Pin this feed of Toki Pona posts: Toki Pona
• World map:
  • Toki Pona li lon ma!
    Add yourself and meet your Toki Pona neighbours!
• Telegram
  • Toki Pona – jan li wile pona taso
• 
  • r/tokipona
    (a lot of creative sharing, but sometimes dominated by beginners)
• Mastodon: toki.social
• Facebook: Toki Pona
  (less active but still used by some)

Recent Bluesky post

Find a translator

Need a text translated or proofread? I highly recommend the work of:

• jan Sonja: (French and Esperanto also)
• jan Tepan: (German also)
• jan Ke Tami: (German also)
• jan Ne:
• jan Apikela:
• jan Tepo:
• jan Pensa: (Esperanto also)
• jan Kekan San:
• jan Sepulon:
• jan Polijan:
• jan Asiku:

This is skilled labour, which they might offer voluntarily or could come at a standard professional rate.

There are many more competent Toki Pona writers and speakers you can find elsewhere! The ones listed above have been personally vetted by Sonja Lang through an anonymous evaluation process.

Fonts (sitelen pona)

• sitelen seli kiwen
• nasin nanpa (font used in lipu su)
• Fairfax HD
• leko majuna
• linja suwi
• linja lipamanka
• linja pi pu lukin
• nasin sitelen pu mono

Friends of Toki Pona

• Esperanto Museum and Department of Planned Languages
  • explore the fascinating world of language invention
  • the world’s largest specialist library for around 500 conlangs
  • learn the multifaceted history of Esperanto and Toki Pona
• Lojban (lojban.io):
  • regular grammar inspired by predicate logic
  • built for over 60 years
  • dozens of contributors and hundreds of supporters
• Language Creation Society
  • promotes and supports conlang creation

In the news

Read about Toki Pona in World Literature Today, NY Times, Gizmodo, Radio-Canada, Business Insider, The Guardian, Wikipedia, TV Tropes, The Globe and Mail, The New Yorker, ساسة بوست, and more.