this video is much better than most videos I've seen about toki pona lmao. I think it's a little misleading to say "thousands of speakers claim improve mental health" because so far, we don't have much more than a couple thousand speakers at all, most of which haven't really reported that. But there's some truth there, and I can say that for me at least it's totally true. The "30 hours" claim is false and propagated by an Atlantic article that a lot of other articles copied it, and I'd say it's a false claim. Also, it's just as easy to think about negative stuff in toki pona. Your pronunciation is pretty good as well, and your translations are great.

@lipamanka

Жыл бұрын

​@JustASurvivalcraftWolf a sina wawa ni lon toki pona la o toki tawa mi kepeken toki pona la mi sona e ni. sina toki e lon anu seme. toki sina li pakala anu seme. pilin mi la sina sona ala. sina wawa mute sama mi la o toki.

@lipamanka

Жыл бұрын

@JustASurvivalcraftWolf not for you, because you aren't fluent. For me, a fluent speaker who's been speaking for three years, it is fairly easy.

@jan_Masewin

10 ай бұрын

I'd just revise it to say all the grammar and vocabulary can be crammed within two days, but any degree of actual fluency takes weeks to months

@DuckinMyHat

10 ай бұрын

@@jan_Masewin I second this, but it took me the past 3 days rather than 2. tenpo lili la sina ken kama sona e toki pona! jan Masewin li toki e lon! jan mute ante li kama sona e toki pona la pona mute : )

@wiegraf9009

8 ай бұрын

A language you can't think negative thoughts in would be both quite useless and also quite impressive

I get it. It's like there are missing concepts but for the best, so speakers have to elaborate in order to understand themselves and the situation better. The idea is very smart!

Seeing people in the comments FLUENT in this language is amazing. Can’t wait to be one of them

@Ainslie0827

4 ай бұрын

real same!

@little1133

3 ай бұрын

o kama sona pona! im late intermediate right now, although i might have dropped back down to intermediate because i haven't used it in a while

@Theuncletoeticklingtoddler

3 ай бұрын

@@little1133 guess what? Just bought the Toki Pona dictionary! Cant wait to start. I held it off because of schoolwork but I hope I can learn it!! :D

@little1133

2 ай бұрын

@@Theuncletoeticklingtoddler awesome!!!

@Glammetall

28 күн бұрын

@@Theuncletoeticklingtoddler how is it going? :)

Some things to complete the information in the video somewhat: - not the smallest language, only the smallest that has an ISO 369-3 code - I'd like to see the reports of 1000s of people claiming that benefit - 30 hours (in total, not counting pauses) can work, but not a weekend to become conversational imo sona mi la sitelen tawa ni li pana ala e sona ale. - lon la toki pona li lili, taso toki ante li lili mute a. a taso toki ante ni li jo ala e nimi ISO. - jan ale ale ale ale ale ale ale ale ale ale li toki ala toki e kama pi pilin pona tan toki pona taso? mi wile sona e ni a. sona ni li kama tan seme? - tenpo ilo suli mute luka luka li ken a pana e sona pi toki pona. taso sina weka tan pali sona la sina moku la sina lape la ni li lon ala tenpo pi toki mi. sina wile toki tawa jan ante la tenpo suno tu wan taso li ken ala pana e sona ale. ni li pilin mi.

@mikhailshishin5701

Жыл бұрын

What’s the smallest language

@IamSamys

Жыл бұрын

@@mikhailshishin5701 depends on how you look at things. There's a constructed language called U that has a single word but it only ever means one thing. There are a whole lot of minilangs that can range from 4 to a couple of hundreds. This video is about the only one of those to have an ISO 639-3 language code: toki pona

@ImDayv27

3 ай бұрын

​@@IamSamyswhat does ale ale ale ale ale mean? Does it mean 1000? xD

@IamSamys

3 ай бұрын

@@ImDayv27 500. toki pona's number systems is additional, so if you have ale=100, that makes what you said 100+100+100+100+100. (There's an extension to that counting system that can shorten down very very big numbers above a couple of hundreds, but it's backwards compatible, so in that extension, you also said 500)

@ImDayv27

3 ай бұрын

@@IamSamys ohh I see. That's interesting. Imma do more research about toki pona! Btw I didn't know that the term conlang existed before realizing that i am not the only weird one who makes up their own language xD. Happy to see that there's a community for it!!

I never even bother learning anything remotely conlang, but I might actually at least try thanks to this new knowledge. Thanks!

@randompost4180

7 ай бұрын

Listen we as people are always changing so don’t be to great to learn a completely different language even if it’s a “conlang” nothing stays the same forever, English won’t be English as we know it 500 to 1000 years from now.

@little1133

3 ай бұрын

o kama sona pona!

It is also a great stepping stone for learning other languages. Much like the recorder is a great instrument to start off with for learning other instruments, Toki Pona allows you to learn the very basics of language learning to learn other languages that are more complex.

Everyone else adding words to language; toki pona gets it done with 120

@jownadel1526

2 ай бұрын

lon la mi mute li pana a e nimi mute a tawa toki pona a a We absolutely add more words to toki pona lol

Wait till bro finds out about the ~30 word toki “ponidos” toki pona ists have made 😂. pona tawa sina!

@etruscanetwork

9 ай бұрын

tuki tiki

@the_unforseen8224

9 ай бұрын

@@etruscanetwork my thoughts exactly

@Someone-ov1ro

9 ай бұрын

Everyone here speaking in Toki pona and i have no clue 😭

@etruscanetwork

9 ай бұрын

@@Someone-ov1ro li li tuki pula ala, li li tuki tiki

@randompost4180

7 ай бұрын

@@etruscanetworkgoogle actually translated it 😮

Bro. I love your accent on speaking Toki Pona. And I swear. You are damn handsome! You are eye-catching for me.

@mikhailshishin5701

Жыл бұрын

Ikr

mi toki e toki pona!

@little1133

3 ай бұрын

pona mute! sina sin ala sin tawa toki pona?

a! sina pona tan ni: sitelen kama li toki e pona! (ni li kalama e nasa tawa mi 💀)

my language that i sadly ended had 110 words (with 9 letters)

I'm in day 2 learning toki pona. It's pretty great.

What about ka? Only has six words

@FrauHaferniehl

4 ай бұрын

_Should i create a new language, with 5 words ...._

newspeak good ending

lukin la sina pona kin! nice to see an actually informative video about toki pona, Half as Interesting made a really messy one full of misinfo. i would still say that 30 hours is too short to truly learn the language but at least what you said was pronounced properly and had correct grammar.

sina toki e toki pona lon tenpo lili taso. O toki e toki pona lon sitelen tawa wan ali.

2 videos and i already know what pona means

mi sona e toki pona! toki pona li pona tawa mi! o sona e toki pona! mi wile wile sina sona e toki pona.

sina sona e toki pona, anu seme?

@jr.jackrabbit10

10 ай бұрын

mi sona mute, taso mi toki lili. tan la, mi jo ala e jan pona tawa toki.

@METRIKVX

9 ай бұрын

sina o toki lili!

@jr.jackrabbit10

9 ай бұрын

@@METRIKVX mi o toki lili? sina toki e ni tawa mi? mi awen pali e ni.

@METRIKVX

9 ай бұрын

@@jr.jackrabbit10 mi o sona ala e toki mi

@haXXiGD

5 ай бұрын

hi ozaki

Toki, jan pona mi!

Pona!

Eyes and leg are cery simmilar to Polish - oko, noga

@toonatr356

22 күн бұрын

Because they are cognates! Sonja Lang derived toki pona's words "oko" and "luka" from Serbo-Croatian words which are related to the ones in Polish! tan ona li nimi pi mama sama! jan Sonja li lanpan e nimi "oko", e nimi "luka" tan nimi pi toki Sepo-Kuwatija. toki Sepo-Kuwatija en toki Poli li jo e mama sama a!

sitelen tawa ni li pona. toki pona kin li pona. this video is good. toki pona also is good.

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It's like in nineteen eighty four ?

@Nerdy1729

3 ай бұрын

no, newspeak in 1984 was made to be unusable to suppress the thoughts of the masses. Unlike in newspeak, you can talk about anything in toki pona (and it isn't enforced by the government.)

toki pona li toki nanapa wan tawa mi. toki ni o kama toki ma a!

@IsaaacWithThreeA

2 күн бұрын

mi sama ala. toki pona li ike pona e nimi kulupu mute. taso mi ken lukin la toki pona e pona tawa jan mute.

Um actually ☝️🤓 it's 136

mi sona e toki pona

❤

But english has only 26 words, and the words can be used to form big words which can be used to form sentences

@Gatoblud

3 ай бұрын

letters, not words

@HanzCastroyearsago

3 ай бұрын

Oh the difference is that each word in toki pona conveys meaning to the ‘big word’ while english letters don’t convey meaning to the word

Lmao

Ō toki pana🤦‍♂️

well yesterday i made the new smallest language with 110 words and 9 letters

just so you know the 30 hours thing is not true. it's pretty simple to learn all the words and grammar (still more than 30 hours though) but fluency takes a lot longer. still less time than a natural language though

Primo

Not even close to the smallest language, I made one with only 60, and a language that only takes an hour to learn.

@srotoswinipaul2341

Жыл бұрын

Omg teach me please

@ImpossibleEvan

Жыл бұрын

@@srotoswinipaul2341 Do you really want to learn it?

@srotoswinipaul2341

Жыл бұрын

@@ImpossibleEvan yeah dude not kidding

@ImpossibleEvan

Жыл бұрын

@@srotoswinipaul2341 Sorry, I have literally never had anyone care, I will send the full document soon.

@srotoswinipaul2341

Жыл бұрын

@@ImpossibleEvan I'll love to go through the document, tell me when you are ready to send

Ok

@mintz4571

Жыл бұрын

Ok

@etruscanetwork

9 ай бұрын

Ok

I remember learning it about 2 years ago, toki pona (A great language, not a language of good, good language, etc.

I personally hate conlangs with a passion

@sucre4523

Жыл бұрын

me too. i think they’re fine in some instances, but they’re cringy because they’re not real. another issue i have with them is that they potentially take away learners from smaller/endangered languages. lastly, i think that they’re pretty useless.

@risharddaniels1762

Жыл бұрын

@@sucre4523 if there are thousands of speakers, how is it not real? It’s more real than natural languages that have died and that nobody speaks. If they can communicate, i don’t see what issue you could have with it other than some silly bias. Also, most people who get into conlangs are interested in linguistics in general, so no need to gatekeep.

@user-ty5tc2yc7w

Жыл бұрын

​@@risharddaniels1762 I AGREE

@ericm9495

Жыл бұрын

@@sucre4523 Do you really think there are people out there who would have learned an obscure endangered language, if it weren't for conlangs? I'm gonna learn this toki pona now, but its not taking me away from learning a natural small endangered language, since I wasn't intent on learning one to begin with. If anything I'm more inclined to learn about endangered languages now.

@Pining_for_the_fjords

11 ай бұрын

​@@sucre4523Conlangs aren't always about learning them or using them to communicate. Many are created simply for the enjoyment of the creator or to test certain ideas.

Nope. I made a language called, Mobado.