What’s new?
- pona: cozy place for art, learning, peace ☮️
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Toki Pona server on a new alternative to Discord - Common Sitelen Pona added to UCSUR
- Toki Pona glyphs ready for future Unicode adoption
- Letter of support from Rebecca Bettencourt
- same definition to appear in Book 5 to be released in the very near future and also in Toki Pona: The Language of Good (2nd ed.) inshallah
- Feature film by director Fredric King, TikToker Vivian Jenna Wilson and Madame Lang
nimi ali pu n a
alliterative polyglot poetry, fresh dictionary examples and shoutouts to celebrated Toki Pona artists on the community’s creative rights to play and evolve beyond prescriptivist dogma
tokipona.org supports
What is Toki Pona?
- Fun and simple language
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Quickly growing worldwide
- Spoken in 2025
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Teens online
love Toki Pona culture
- playful
- inclusive
- no redundancies
- Popular conlang, second only to Esperanto
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Totally versatile
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Fluent speakers comfortably use Toki Pona in
- everyday situations
- technical language without jargon
- professional associations
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Fluent speakers comfortably use Toki Pona in
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Recognized by institutions
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ISO 639-3 issued the official code ‘tok’,
confirming Toki Pona as a world language - Taught in universities since 2002
- Madame Lang has been invited to give university talks, drawing 120 attendees
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ISO 639-3 issued the official code ‘tok’,
- Friendly and creative communities
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Quick start
- Ways to learn Toki Pona
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Toki Pona FAQ
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Toki Pona and Esperanto
- Ideas, vocab, sounds, alphabets, and cultures
- Who loves them and why?
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Common misconceptions
beginners have about Toki Pona - Conlang collaboration
Toki Pona and Esperanto support each other - Meet Madame Lang and her work
- Kids who discover Toki Pona
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Toki Pona and Esperanto
Recent Bluesky post
Intro videos
- The world’s tiniest language? (Toki Pona) | enhanced reboot (Langfocus)
- Conlang Critic episode 12: Toki Pona (jan Misali)
- I tried traveling with the world’s smallest language (Griffin / Wordsatwork)
- How can a language only have 120 words? (RobWords)
- A good Toki Pona language overview (LingoLizard)
- I learned the world's simplest language (Oats Jenkins)
- Toki Pona: the world’s smallest language (RuffDraft EMHS)
Books from the founder and community
pu
pu
guidebook
lessons and exercises
free update
nimi&ali pu n&a
nimi ali pu n a
praising people’s pivotal powers
ku
ku
two‑way dictionary
11,000 examples
su
su #1
illustrated Wizard of Oz
in Sitelen Pona
sunosama.org
su2 su #2
- ĥorlibreto de internacia komunsorto
- choral libretto of international shared destiny
M’nonc’ Georges: What are these?
anpa sewi: freshly printed first edition librettos for a choral work co-authored by many friends from around the world in a mix of many languages who believe in the general theme of “we all co-exist and collaborate under the same sun as good neighbours in solidarity”
Indigenous allies
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
Witness
As a French settler from Sikniktuk, I witness and consent by republishing the Mi’kmaw Sovereignty Dossier filed by Kji-Saqamaw Scott E. Peters to Charles the Third. Devolution to the UK. 👑
Mi’kmaw Independence Day on 1 Oct 2025! 🎉
— Madame Lang
kulupuᏣᎳᎩla sitelen pi kon pona
ᏥᏍᏆ waso
ᏥᏍᏆ waso
ᎢᎦᎢ suno
ᏯᏂᏌ soweli-mani
ᏌᏌ waso&telo
Mùkó èdè Gúosà?
The Complete Dictionary of Guosa Language
by Ìgbìnéwéká Alex G.
Kindle ebook
and
paperback
Great Writers Media, LLC
672 pages
Merch
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T-shirts, mugs, magnets, etc
(hand-wash to preserve durability)
Videos, music, podcasts, games
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o pilin e toki pona
by jan Telakoman
(full immersion video learning method) - music by jan Usawi, jan Sotan, kqa, and playlists on Spotify and YouTube
- kalama sin podcast entirely in Toki Pona
- YouTube
- ma Seka video sharing
See also: music, videos, podcasts, games, audiobooks, dubs
Texts, publications, and literature
- book-sized works by jan Ke
- jan Sitata: toki musi pi ma Palata: a book by Hermann Hesse
- Beginner Texts by teacher Lakuse
- Toki Pona Stories (Fingtam) with English translations
- lipu kule: a webzine
- lipu sona Wikipesija: a free encyclopedia
- lipu monsuta: spooky zine (5 issues)
- utala pi lipu musi lili: annual contest of short creative texts
- toki lili: 27 poems
- lipu Lapo: library of poems, song lyrics, articles, and original texts in Toki Pona
- lipu tenpo: a magazine with over 30 issues
See also: literature, books, comics, magazines, poetry, and corpuses
Community-made resources and tools
- lipu sona pona (Toki Pona course available in German, Esperanto, Russian, Portuguese, Polish, Spanish, etc.)
- nasin Toki Pona—a good way to speak, a grammar reference by jan Juli
- lipu nimi, a simple dictionary based on free ku data
- Cheat Sheet, updated by jan Sa (also available in many other languages)
- CEFR proficiency level scale for Toki Pona
- lipu pi jan Ne
- o sitelen pona e mi! (name glyph chooser)
- telo misikeke (grammar checker)
- Luka Pona Sign Language (LPSL)
Follow or contact the creator of Toki Pona
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major announcements! 
Instagram tokipona.lang- Email:
- Website improvements: send a correction to the writing team
Communities
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Toki Pona server on a new alternative to Discord
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- pona, hosted by misa suli
sharing art in Toki Pona and any language, cozy gaming, learning any skill together, book club hosted by jan Tepo and Amatullah Lang - Dozens of independent Discord communities exist! Find your vibe.
- pona, hosted by misa suli
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- Follow the creator of Toki Pona: @tokipona.org
- Pin this feed of Toki Pona posts: Toki Pona
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World map:
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Toki Pona li lon ma!
Add yourself and meet your Toki Pona neighbours!
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Toki Pona li lon ma!
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Telegram
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r/tokipona
(a lot of creative sharing, but sometimes dominated by beginners)
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r/tokipona
- Mastodon: toki.social
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Facebook:
Toki Pona
(less active but still used by some)
Find a translator
Need a text translated or proofread? I highly recommend the work of:
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jan Tepo:
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jan Polijan:
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Madame Lang:
(French and
Esperanto also)
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jan Ne:
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jan Sepulon:
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jan Tepan:
(German also)
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jan Apikela:
This is skilled labour, which they might offer voluntarily or could come at a standard professional rate.
Fonts (Common Sitelen Pona)
Friends of Toki Pona
- Lojban (lojban.io):
- regular grammar inspired by predicate logic
- built for over 60 years
- dozens of contributors and hundreds of supporters
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.