Monday, November 16, 2009
simplify the language: Toki Pona
Toki Pona = simple language or good language, was created to say the maximum using the minimum: 123 words and 14 sounds.
Toki Pona is based on the spontaneous tradition of creating a common language by people who speak different languages.
It focuses on the universal elements of life: person, food, water, good, giving, sleeping, ... and eliminates all concepts that go beyond the basic needs of survival and communication.
The fundamental concept is Pona = good, simple.
It is a language that, instead of disconnecting from direct experience through abstract and complex concepts, reconnects speech to the environment in which it occurs, now to communication.
Its 123 words have very different origins .
Google Translate of the Portuguese blog article at
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simplificar a linguagem: Toki Pona
