The Smallest Language In The World!

In this video, I learned the smallest language in the world, Toki Pona! Discover the tiniest and easiest language with me. Toki pona is the worlds simplest language and has only 120 words.

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toki! mi ken toki kepeken toki pona. mi wile pona e toki sina. I can speak toki pona. I would to make a few corrections.

EDIT: oops i see lipamanka already gave advice. i guess you can ignore this.


"en" shouldn't be used between sentences. It can only be used between subjects of a single sentence. For example, we can say "soweli en jan li moku" to mean "the animal and the person eat."

It should also be noted that stress goes on the first syllable. We say PAkala, not paKAla.

The second sentence should be "sina jo e mani ala, " since mani is the direct object of the verb "jo." Similarly, the third sentence should be "sina jo e jan olin ala." It is worth noting that jan olin might be interpreted as a romantic partner. jan pona is a safer, widely understood way to say friend.

Finally, it would be more accurate to say "ilo pi kon pona" since otherwise you'd technically be describing the *ilo* as the thing that is *pona.* Admittedly, though, "pi" isn't the most intuitive part of toki pona grammar.

good luck if you keep learning!
sina awen kama sona, la o pona tawa sina!

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言好哩好小去找，只言好新哩好新。toki pona li pun liw taw mi, tow tipunsin li punsin. (tiki pona li pona lili tawa mi, taso tipunsin li pona sin).

[robothingy]

quick correction: 'en' is used only when combining subjects together [ex. jan en soweli li moku - the person and the animal eat].

also, 'e' is used to indicate the object in a sentence [ex. jan li moku e moku suwi - the person eats sweet food]. you'd remove 'e' from "sina e pakala" and add 'e' to "sina jo mani ala"

additionally, 'jo' is not one-to-one to the english word 'have'. 'jo' is more strictly tied to the sense of owning something. 'jo [e] jan olin ala' would mean more "you dont own your friends" rather than "you have no friends"

personally, i'd do "sina nasa. sina pakala. sina jo e mani ala. jan ala li jan olin sina", meaning "you're strange. you're a mistake. you dont have/own any money. no one is your friend." pretty harsh words regardless lol

this is still pretty good though! hope you keep learning if you find it interesting enough. its quite the fun language

[P.S, regarding "ilo kon pona", to indicate that 'kon' is directly relating to 'pona' (as in, it has a good smell rather than pona and kon being separate, you'd use 'pi' to separate it from the rest of the word. "ilo pi kon pona"]

[tam-]

Slight grammar correction it would be:
toki, sina nasa li pakala li jo ala e
mani li jo ala e jan pona