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Какой язык выучить проще всего
13 August 2019

Конечно, тот, в котором всего 100 слов. И такой язык существует!

Изучение иностранного языка — отличная встряска для мозга, привыкшего к родным речевым конструкциям. Но иногда даже освоение относительно простого английского вызывает трудности. В этом случае (если хочется знать ин.яз., но лень тратить килочасы на его освоение) есть обходной путь — язык токипона, в котором чуть больше 100 слов. Серьезно, 100 слов!

Токипона — это искусственный, то есть ненастоящий язык, но у него тоже есть своя интересная история. Он был придуман в 2001 году канадкой Соней Ланг. Во время работы по созданию языка Ланг вдохновлялась учениями дзен-буддистов, которые считают, что все в мире нужно максимально упрощать. Вот он и упростила.

Логотип языка токипона
Логотип языка токипона
Придуманный язык Соня Ланг называет языком бога — из-за его простоты и доходчивости. Токипона устроен таким образом, что его слова, во-первых, многозначны (например, слово «pona» означает одновременно «добрый», «теплый» и «чинить») и понять, в каком значении используется слово, можно лишь по контексту (если человек говорит о погоде, то скорее всего имеется ввиду, что она теплая, а не то, что ее нужно починить), а во-вторых, слова комбинируются друг с другом и образуют интуитивно понятные конструкции: допустим, соединяем «мебель» и «сидеть» — и получается «стул». Название самого языка, кстати, как вы, наверное, догадались, переводится как «добрый язык».

Да, большинство из современных понятий не перевести на язык токипона, но создательница языка считает, что этого и не требуется — зачем говорить о «сложном» финансовом кризисе, если можно говорить о более простых и приятных вещах?

В общем, язык-мечта. Правда, поговорить на нем удастся только в интернете, но большинству и английский-то пригождается только в отпуске, так что почему бы и нет.

zen.yandex.ru/media/id/5d516b6

The Russian Toki Pona lessons

У чебник Токи Пона
sona pi toki pona

Создатель — Sonja Elen Kisa
Автор учебника — B. J. Knight (jan Pije)
Переводчики и редакторы учебника:
Oleg (jan Eliki), Artem (jan Atem), Konstantin (Mirinde Fekus), Mihajlov, Ivan Zenkov (jan Iwan)
Верстка — Бродяга

vk.com/doc295608293_437788079?

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Toki pona es un lenguaje artificial súper sencillo, un ejercicio de lingüística aplicada, para descubrir las condiciones mínimas de comunicación hablada entre los seres humanos

Aquí tenemos la primera lección de un curso de toki pona

#HiloDeCiencia

via @iulius

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Introduction to toki pona
M4rt4a | 2015

Hello,

lately I have seen a lot of posts with introductions of different languages. I find it extremely interesting, as a person who is interested in way more languages than I will ever be able to learn. But since my native language is already in the incubator I guess there is no point in explaining it.

Therefore I've decided to introduce something else, something I found out about two months ago and got into it right away. And that's toki pona.

It's a constructed language which was published online around 2001 by translator and linguist Sonja Lang. It has 120 root words, which you can use to create different ones.

For example:

suno means sun or light, ilo means tool or device

but if you combine it

ilo suno means flashlight

Other interesting thing are color names, there are only five of them: pimeja means black, walo means white, loje means red, jelo means yellow, laso means blue,

So what do you do if you want to get another color? Green, for that matter? You just have to use the same rules you would in art class, combine the colors - simple as that.

So for green you just add yellow and blue: green - jelo laso/ laso jelo

The situation is similar with numbers - in toki pona you have only wan (one), tu (two) and luka (five), the others are created by adding existing ones.

2 + 1 = 3

tu + wan = tu wan

the name 'toki pona' means 'good language' and its roots come from many different languages, like English, Finnish, Esperanto, Chinese etc.

I'm aware that there are people who think that learning new language is meaningful only when it is practical, when you can use it on a daily basis or when it helps you at work but I believe that knowledge alone has a very high value. Not to mention that language is fascinating.

With that being said, I hope you enjoyed it.

Best wishes,

Marta

February 1, 2015

forum.duolingo.com/comment/676

NB : There is an interesting conversation in the comments in not perfect Toki Pona, but nontheless very comprehensible ...

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On the Belgian TV a professor who is part of an European task force against diseases declares that there are CASES in ALL CHINESE PROVINCES of the virus now. He also says he don't understand why a global alert wasn't given ...

Just now on radio, a journalist announces that they would be two confirmed cases in FRANCE, one in PARIS and one in BORDEAUX.

Major thematic relations

Following major thematic relations have been identified:[2]

Agent
deliberately performs the action (e.g., Bill ate his soup quietly.).

Experiencer
the entity that receives sensory or emotional input (e.g. Susan heard the song. I cried.).

Stimulus
Entity that prompts sensory or emotional feeling – not deliberately (e.g. David Peterson detests onions!).

Theme
undergoes the action but does not change its state (e.g., We believe in one God. I have two children. I put the book on the table. He gave the gun to the police officer.) (Sometimes used interchangeably with patient.)

Patient
undergoes the action and changes its state (e.g., The falling rocks crushed the car.). (Sometimes used interchangeably with theme.)

Instrument
used to carry out the action (e.g., Jamie cut the ribbon with a pair of scissors.).

Force or Natural Cause
mindlessly performs the action (e.g., An avalanche destroyed the ancient temple.).

Location
where the action occurs (e.g., Johnny and Linda played carelessly in the park. I'll be at Julie's house studying for my test.).

Direction or Goal
where the action is directed towards (e.g., The caravan continued on toward the distant oasis. He walked to school.).

Recipient
a special kind of goal associated with verbs expressing a change in ownership, possession. (E.g., I sent John the letter. He gave the book to her.)

Source or Origin
where the action originated (e.g., The rocket was launched from Central Command. She walked away from him.).

Time
the time at which the action occurs (e.g., The pitcher struck out nine batters today)

Beneficiary
the entity for whose benefit the action occurs (e.g.. I baked Reggie a cake. He built a car for me. I fight for the king.).

Manner
the way in which an action is carried out (e.g., With great urgency, Tabitha phoned 911.).

Purpose
the reason for which an action is performed (e.g., Tabitha phoned 911 right away in order to get some help.).

Cause
what caused the action to occur in the first place; not for what, rather because of what (e.g., Because Clyde was hungry, he ate the cake.).

There are not always clear boundaries between these relations. For example, in "the hammer broke the window", hammer might be labeled an agent (see below), an instrument, a force, or possibly a cause. Nevertheless, some thematic relations labels are more logically plausible than others.

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catpad | 2004-12-22

Hello, fellow tokiponas,

I decided to make the process of learning Toki Pona even easier and funnier and prepared the visual "cards" that contain most of the words from the official dictionary.
I hope they will help you to memorize the words better!

tokipona.livejournal.com/5772.

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