jan Wija

kepeken toki Inli la, they/them mi pana e sitelen e toki o toki tawa mi:)

[janwijalilon]

Header in English for anyone who stumbles across this somehow and is confused:

Hi! I'm jan Wija, and this is my sideblog where I post and interact in toki pona.

Toki pona is a small artificial language created by Sonya Lang. It was constructed around a philosophy of minimalism, and it only has about 120-140 words (depending on who you ask; some speakers use words that others don't.)

It doesn't take long at all to learn, so if you're curious, there are tons of online resources out there. My favorite beginner course to refer people to is https://wasona.com but there are plenty of others.

A dictionary of toki pona words is available at https://linku.la and https://nimi.li

toki a! mi jan Wija. ni li lipu lili mi poka lipu suli mi. lipu ni la, mi toki li pana e sitelen e lipu kepeken toki pona.

mi wile ala pana e toki sama kepeken toki pona a... a, o kama pona.

[jadebread64]

i've been learning and speaking toki pona for over a year now and while i personally think as fun as "la" is, it doesn't really need to be in english, but i totally get it. HOWEVER the word "o" is legitimately incredibly helpful and should be in english i cannot tell you how many times people will tell me something and i can't figure out if it's a statement or a command due to The Tism™ so "o" legitimately helps

mi kama sona e toki pona lon tenpo sike wan la mi pilin e ni: nimi 「la」 li musi mute. taso toki Inli li wile ala e nimi 「la」. TASO nimi 「o」 li pona suli. ona o lon toki Inli. tenpo mute la jan li toki e ijo tawa mi la mi ken ala sona e kon pi toki ona tan sipije mi. ni la nimi 「o」 li wawa e mi

󱦚󱤴󱤖‍󱥡󱤉󱥬‍󱥔󱤬󱥫󱥜󱥳󱦛󱤡󱤴󱥎󱤉󱥁󱦝　󱥂 「󱤡」 󱤧󱤻󱤼󱦜　󱥨󱥬󱦐󱤌󱥁󱤧󱤍󱦑󱤧󱥷󱤂󱤉󱥂 「󱤡」󱦜　󱥨󱥂 「󱥄」 󱤧󱥔󱥣󱦜　󱥆󱥄󱤬󱥬󱦐󱤌󱥁󱤧󱤍󱦑󱦜　󱦚󱥫󱤼󱦛󱤡󱦚󱤑󱤧󱥬󱤉󱤌󱥩󱤴󱦛󱤡󱤴󱤘󱤂󱥡󱤉󱤝󱥍󱦗󱥬󱥆󱦘󱥧󿶢󱤴󱦜　󱦚󱥁󱦛󱤡󱥂 「󱥄」 󱤧󱥵󱤉󱤴

[janwijalilon]

mi kute e kalama musi *ale li ante* lon tenpo ni. ona li pona mute aaaa

jan kalama pi toki pona li pona. sina o kute e kalama ona

[mondainelife]

mi pali e ni

[serrketine-lallonde]

I don't like Toki Pona and I sideye people who use 'jan' in their usernames.

[puppygirlniko]

mi wile toki tawa jan ante pi toki pona lon ma [tumblr] TASO, AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

[moth-to-a-moon]

fun fact that the rw fandom might find fun: wawa is the toki pona term for strength

[janwijalilon]

mi la, musi Rain World li pona - kin la, mi sona e toki pona. ni li musi mute a tawa mi lon tenpo ale.

[ko-elajase]

open li pini la

sike ale li ale sike

la pini li open

[jan-aki]

mama sina li suli wawa la nimi ona li "ma"

mi moli aaaa

[towersofviolet]

learn toki pona! then you can post nonsense that no one will understand

[jantesika]

I'm thinking about 'native' toki pona names (as I sometimes do), and I'm really not sure how they should work.

so, most names mean things. often, in the west, we don't think about that, but they do. "Sarah" means "chief", "Plato" means "broad", "Dolores" means "sorrows". it's more obvious in languages like japanese and chinese, where it's not uncommon for someone's full name to almost read like a miniature summary if you interpret the characters making it up.

so most names in toki pona are loans of names in another language. Sarah likely goes by jan Sawa or jan Sala, John probably uses jan Jon. but we could construct names by simply taking words and stringing them together. this would, of course, become unwieldy very quickly; no kid would really want to introduce themselves as "jan Kamawawakepekenlawa", that's absurd. but maybe "jan Mawakela" would work (how this abbreviation works isn't really set down, of course).

[life--is-not-daijoubu]

toki poners greeting each other with "toki" like they're choosing the talk option in the sims or something

[janwijalilon]

musi Silksong li kama lon tenpo lili

mi awen pilin suli tan ni. mi lukin ala e ni lon tenpo pini...

mi o awen pini musi Hollow Knight lon tenpo lili kama