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{{lipu pi toki ante}}Where possible, please provide a source and a complete date. When adding a new link, please archive it via both [http://web.archive.org/ Wayback Machine] and [http://archive.ph/ archive.today] or [http://archive.is archive.is].
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=='''2001'''==
*Archive and expand bare links into [[Project:Citing sources|proper references]] using [[:Category:Citation templates|citation templates]].
==='''08/08/2001'''===
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Toki Pona is published by jan Sonja on her website ''geocities.com/marraskuu1978''.<ref name=":2">https://tinyurl.com/y5a6xvj9</ref> It later moves to ''tokipona.org''<ref name=":3">https://tinyurl.com/y3bozetd</ref><ref>https://tinyurl.com/yxb5ubtq</ref><ref>https://tinyurl.com/y2ywd2ty</ref><ref>https://tinyurl.com/y3d9rpu5</ref><ref>https://tinyurl.com/yxo6kveh</ref> and ''kisa.ca/tokipona''.<ref>https://tinyurl.com/y5898a44</ref>
This article is <strong>not amenable to reading or editing due to its scope</strong>.
*Check priorities. Many events may not be considered significant enough to belong here, or may be more relevant to English-speaking communities than to Toki Pona itself, and should be moved to other articles. (See [[Wikipedia]] for an example.)
*Consensus appears to be to move from a fully chronological list of events, to summary-based prose. Collate the remaining spread-out, redundant play-by-plays into paragraphs at the first mention. Copyedit to remove redundant wording. Move full details to designated articles (again, see [[Wikipedia]]). Try to pare back to only the start date, inciting event, and outcome.
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It has also been suggested that this article be split into multiple articles and replaced with a summary (perhaps like a more involved {{sect|Toki Pona#History}}) afterwards. The exact course of action is [[Talk:History#Overhaul, including possible split|under discussion]].
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This is an overview of the '''history of [[Toki Pona]]''', including significant developments in the language and its [[communities]].


Where possible, please provide a source and a complete date. When adding a new link, please [[Project:Citing sources#Archiving sources|archive it]] via both [http://web.archive.org/ Wayback Machine] and [http://archive.ph/ archive.today] or [http://archive.is archive.is].
jan Sonja claims that the entire language has “150 words”.<ref name=":2" /><ref>https://tinyurl.com/y6johr8b</ref>


==2001==
On August 9, the website claims, “Toki Pona! The Natural, Simple Language. Toki Pona is a pidgin-like language designed to express basic human realities by reducing words and ideas to their most simple and universal meanings and avoiding unnecessary complexity. Inspired by the principles of Taoism and primitivism, the entire language has only 14 sounds and under 200 words.”<ref>https://tinyurl.com/y263395k</ref><ref>https://tinyurl.com/yynst2gd</ref>
===August 2001===
On 8 August, [[Sonja Lang]] made the first public post about Toki Pona on her website at {{w|GeoCities}}, under the username Marraskuu, meaning "November" in {{w|Finnish language|Finnish}}.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://wyub.github.io/tokiponaarchive/2001-08-08.html|title=simple, primitivist language|website=Wyubsite|author=Sonja Lang|username=Marraskuu|date=2001-08-08|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220808015056/https://wyub.github.io/tokiponaarchive/2001-08-08.html|archive-date=2022-08-08|access-date=2024-02-18}}</ref> In her post and email logs, Lang claimed that the entire language has "150 words". The website was later moved to [[tokipona.org]]<ref>Wikipedia. [https://web.archive.org/web/20040620163636/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toki_pona Toki Pona language]. ''Wikipedia''. Archived from the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toki_pona original] on 20 June 2004. Retrieved 19 November 2023.</ref> and kisa.ca/tokipona.<ref>Damian Yerrick. [https://www.pineight.com/tokipona/tpreview.html {{tok|Toki Pona li pona ala pona?}}]. Archived from the original on 18 October 2005. Retrieved 19 November 2023.</ref>


On 9 August, the website claimed:<ref>Sonja Lang (9 August 2001). [https://web.archive.org/web/20230102212711/https://wyub.github.io/tokiponaarchive/2001-08-09.html Sonja's Linguistic Surrealscape] (in English and Esperanto). Archived from the original on 2 January 2023 – via Wyubsite and via the {{w|Wayback Machine}}. Retrieved 19 November 2023.</ref>
On December 6, the word 'cute' is added to the description (“Toki Pona is a cute, pidgin-like language …”).<ref>https://tinyurl.com/y5zb8yne</ref>
<blockquote>
=='''2002'''==
Toki Pona! The Natural, Simple Language. Toki Pona is a pidgin-like language designed to express basic human realities by reducing words and ideas to their most simple and universal meanings and avoiding unnecessary complexity. Inspired by the principles of Taoism and primitivism, the entire language has only 14 sounds and under 200 words
==='''03/24/2002'''===
</blockquote>
A Toki Pona group on Yahoo! is created.<ref>https://tinyurl.com/yxqv8ysz</ref>
==='''03/24/2002'''===
Toki Pona is reviewed by Damian Yerrick,<ref>https://tinyurl.com/y3navbke</ref><ref name=":4">https://tinyurl.com/yyspmmfv</ref><ref>https://tinyurl.com/y4lv9jm6</ref> who “has pointed out problems that eventually were corrected”.<ref>https://tinyurl.com/y23nddsu</ref><ref>https://tinyurl.com/y6gb86hg</ref>
==='''03/24/2002'''===
A poll is created in the Yahoo! group about whether ''iki'' should be changed as it seems to be too long and too similar to ''ike''. The options are to not change anything, drop ''iki'' when it’s the subject and is understood, change ''iki'' to ''i'', or find another solution.<ref>https://tinyurl.com/y4a7xzbu</ref>
==='''03/26/2002'''===
A dictionary of country names is created by jan Sonja.<ref>https://tinyurl.com/y5m7prbf</ref>
==='''04/08/2002'''===
A Toki Pona article is created on Wikipedia by Chuck Smith under the title Toki Pona language.<ref>https://tinyurl.com/yy58n65w</ref><ref name=":3" /> At this time, the English Wikipedia has only around 30,000 articles<ref>https://tinyurl.com/y2yoa5sa</ref> (compared with 6.1+ million in 2020).<ref>https://tinyurl.com/ofxbort</ref>


Matthew Chrisholm ({{tok|jan Matejo}}), Lang's roomate at the time, seems to be the second Toki Pona speaker.
=== '''05/15/2002''' ===
jan Sonja is thinking about the need for a word that would mean "rock, stone, metal, material". She proposes the word ''kiwen'' as opposed to the previously used compound ''wawa ma ''and creates a poll.<ref>http://forums.tokipona.org/viewtopic.php?f=33&t=25</ref><ref>http://forums.tokipona.org/viewtopic.php?t=1#p51</ref> The results are 6 votes for ''kiwen'' and 2 votes for ''wawa ma''.<ref>http://forums.tokipona.org/viewtopic.php?t=17</ref>


==='''05/16/2002'''===
===December 2001===
On 5 December, the web domain [[tokipona.org]] was registered.<ref>{{cite web|url=//lookup.icann.org|title=ICANN Lookup|author=|username=|date=|website=icann.org|publisher=Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers|access-date=2024-03-11|quote=[tokipona.org] '''Created:''' 2001-12-05 01:53:40 UTC
Another poll on the Yahoo! group about ''iki'' opens as the result of the previous one is to find a new solution. The options are to not change anything, change ''iki'' to ''ipi'', change ''iki'' to ''ona'', or find yet another solution.<ref>https://tinyurl.com/yyj7cxgp</ref>
}}</ref>
==='''05/19/2002'''===
The ''AEI pi toki pona'' drawing is created by jan Nikita,<ref>https://tinyurl.com/y365h2ql</ref><ref>https://tinyurl.com/y4vq3ujv</ref> who seems to be the third speaker of Toki Pona.<ref>https://tinyurl.com/y5pja3a8</ref> This alphabet chart becomes well recognised as it is part of jan Pije’s pronunciation lesson from the beginning<ref>https://tinyurl.com/yc7ha382</ref><ref>https://tinyurl.com/y3wjap6h</ref><ref>https://tinyurl.com/y236uw7w</ref> and as it later appears in Eliazar Parra Cárdena’s ''toki pona en 76 lecciones ilustradas''.<ref name=":5">https://tinyurl.com/3jao-1w</ref> From September 2008 to January 2019 it is part of the Toki Pona article on Wikipedia. It is then removed because it is judged that English speakers already know the Roman letters, thus being unnecessary. The image of ''sitelen sitelen'' word symbols is inserted instead.<ref>https://tinyurl.com/y2vjo89j</ref><ref>https://tinyurl.com/yy22uzut</ref>
==='''05/31/2002'''===
Following a poll, ''iki'' changes to ''ona''.<ref>https://tinyurl.com/yxe9qa9c</ref><ref>https://tinyurl.com/y4pqgjwm</ref>
==='''07/08/2002'''===
The idea of making Toki Pona a 3-vowel language is explored by jan Sonja.<ref>https://tinyurl.com/yyw7saao</ref><ref>https://tinyurl.com/yxhefeum</ref>
==='''07/16/2002'''===
The Toki Pona phonetic conversion guidelines are created by jan Sonja.<ref>https://tinyurl.com/yxjls7v6</ref>
==='''10/10/2002'''===
The ''kili lili'' poem is created by jan Pije.<ref>https://tinyurl.com/y3ogvrml</ref> It is later included in his ''o kama sona e toki pona! ''course ''Lesson 5: Adjectives, Compound Nouns, Adverbs'', becoming a well-recognised poem among the community.<ref>https://tinyurl.com/y4oyc4le</ref>
==='''11/01/2002'''===
''ali'' becomes an alternative to ''ale'', ''en'' is used between head nouns instead of modifiers, ''kan'' no longer exists, and ''kin'' is used for emphasis of any word.<ref>https://tinyurl.com/y3yhavtl</ref><ref>https://tinyurl.com/yyjrfrxn</ref><ref>https://tinyurl.com/y38uc4nx</ref>
=='''2003'''==
==='''02/12/2003'''===
The question type ''anu seme'' is created by jan Sonja.<ref>http://forums.tokipona.org/viewtopic.php?f=33&t=112</ref>
==='''07/25/2003'''===
jan Pije completes his ''o kama sona e toki pona!'' course.<ref name=":6">http://forums.tokipona.org/viewtopic.php?f=33&t=150</ref> This is later translated into other languages and it continues to be one of the main sources of learning Toki Pona even today. The website address moves several times from ''angelfire.com/cantina/tokipona'',<ref name=":6" /> through ''geocities.com/tokipona'',<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20041103094626/http://www.geocities.com/tokipona/</ref> ''tokipona.nytka.org'',<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20050204090644/http://tokipona.nytka.org/</ref> ''tokipona.esperanto-jeunes.org'',<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20050408021016/http://tokipona.esperanto-jeunes.org/</ref> ''bknight0.myweb.uga.edu/toki'',<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20130127031933/http://bknight0.myweb.uga.edu/toki/</ref> to ''tokipona.net/tp/janpije''.<ref>http://web.archive.org/web/20130401061245/http://tokipona.net/tp/janpije/</ref>
=='''2004'''==
==='''??/??/2004'''===
''toki pona en 76 lecciones ilustradas'' is published by Eliazar Parra Cárdena in Spanish.<ref name=":5" /> These illustrated lessons are later translated into English (2009, Dave Raferty),<ref>https://aiki.pbworks.com/f/tp+in+76+lessons+English.pdf</ref> Esperanto (2013, Marek Blahuš),<ref>http://tokipona.info/Lecionoj/%c4%88efpa%c4%9do</ref> and French (2006, only the first 32 lessons).<ref>https://w.esperanto-jeunes.org/fichiers/tokipona/manuel-de-toki-pona-fr.pdf</ref>
==='''03/31/2004'''===
jan Sonja asks on Wikipedia-l mailing list how to add a Wikipedia in Toki Pona.<ref>https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2004-March/014972.html</ref><ref> https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2004-September/017330.html</ref>
==='''04/04/2004'''===
The Toki Pona Wikipedia is created on the address ''tp.wikipedia.org''.<ref>https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2004-April/015010.html
</ref> There are disputes about the address and about the existence of such Wikipedia version itself.<ref>https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2004-April/thread.html#start</ref><ref>https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2004-April/015017.html</ref><ref>https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2004-April/015019.html</ref><ref>https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2004-April/015021.html</ref><ref> https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2004-April/015023.html</ref><ref>https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2004-April/015024.html</ref><ref>https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2004-April/015031.html</ref><ref>https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2004-April/015028.html</ref><ref>https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2004-April/015029.html</ref><ref>https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2004-April/015032.html</ref><ref>https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2004-May/thread.html</ref>
==='''05/28/2004'''===
The Toki Pona Wikipedia reaches 100 articles.<ref>https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikimedia_News/2004#May_2004</ref>
==='''11/16/2004'''===
The Toki Pona Wikipedia is closed by Jimbo Wales, the co-founder of Wikipedia.<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Jimbo_Wales/Archive_C#Closed_wikipedia(s)</ref><ref>http://forums.tokipona.org/viewtopic.php?f=33&t=342</ref><ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20041122013238/http://tokipona.wikipedia.org:80/wiki/lipu_lawa</ref><ref>https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Klingon_Wikipedia</ref> It later moves to Wikia.
=='''2005'''==
==='''01/03/2005'''===
The Toki Pona article on Wikipedia is nominated for deletion for the first time.<ref name=":7">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Toki_Pona</ref>
==='''01/21/2005'''===
The result of the discussion about the first nomination for deletion of the Toki Pona article on Wikipedia is ''keep''.<ref name=":7" />
=='''2006'''==
=='''2007'''==
==='''05/07/2007'''===
A request for a new language code ''ISO 639-3'' is made by Marcos Cramer. Amongst additional supporters on the document are Abel Johannes Kiefte, Helmut Voigt, and Marek Blahuš. ''tok'' is chosen as a preferred three letter identifier. The request reports that there are “10-30 fluent speakers; several hundred with reasonable ability”.<ref>https://iso639-3.sil.org/sites/iso639-3/files/change_requests/2007/2007-011.pdf</ref>
==='''05/30/2007'''===
The Toki Pona article on Wikipedia is nominated for deletion for the second time.<ref name=":8">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Toki_Pona_(2nd_nomination)</ref>
==='''06/08/2007'''===
The result of the discussion about the second nomination for deletion of the Toki Pona article on Wikipedia is ''delete''.<ref name=":8" />
==='''07/09/2007'''===
The deletion of the Toki Pona article on Wikipedia is discussed in a deletion review.<ref name=":9">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Deletion_review/Log/2007_July_9</ref>
==='''07/09/2007'''===
''The Globe and Mail'' (Siobhan Roberts) publish an article ''Canadian has people talking about lingo she created''.<ref>https://www.theglobeandmail.com/technology/canadian-has-people-talking-about-lingo-she-created/article20399052/</ref><ref>http://tokipona.org/Toki_Pona_Globe.pdf</ref><ref name=":10">http://forums.tokipona.org/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=2203</ref><ref name=":11">https://archive.is/EX9Yl</ref>
==='''07/14/2007'''===
The decision to delete the Toki Pona article on Wikipedia has been overturned “in light of new information” upon discussion in the deletion review.<ref name=":9" />
==='''07/18/2007'''===
''Times and Transcript'' (Nick Moore) publish an article ''Moncton native creates unique ‘good language’''.<ref name=":11" /><ref>http://forums.tokipona.org/download/file.php?id=27&mode=view</ref><ref name=":10" />
==='''07/18/2007'''===
jan Sonja is interviewed in French by Denis Robichaud on ''3-60'', Radio-Canada, Première Chaîne (Atlantique) in an 8-minute interview.<ref>https://archive.is/GBLbR</ref>


On 6 December, the word "cute" was added to the description ("Toki Pona is a cute, pidgin-like language").<ref>Sonja Lang (6 December 2001). [https://web.archive.org/web/20221207210239/https://wyub.github.io/tokiponaarchive/2001-12-06 Sonja's Linguistic Surrealscape] (in English and Esperanto). Archived from the original on 7 December 2022 – via Wyubsite and via the {{w|Wayback Machine}}. Retrieved 19 November 2023.</ref>
==='''07/21/2007'''===
''Telegraph-Journal'' republish the ''Times and Transcript'' (Nick Moore)’s article ''Moncton native creates unique ‘good language’'' as ''She’s talking in a new tongue''.<ref>http://forums.tokipona.org/download/file.php?id=28&mode=view</ref><ref name=":10" /><ref name=":11" />
==='''07/25/2007'''===
The deleted Toki Pona article on Wikipedia moves back to mainspace.<ref name=":11" />
==='''07/25/2007'''===
jan Sonja is interviewed by Kevin Sylvester on ''Sounds Like Canada'', Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, CBC Radio One in a 20-minute interview.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20080609063658/http://www.cbc.ca:80/radioshows/SOUNDS_LIKE_CANADA/20070725.shtml</ref><ref name=":11" />
==='''08/24/2007'''===
''Los Angeles Times'' (Amber Dance) publish an article ''In their own words -- literary''.<ref>https://dedalvs.com/misc/latimes/full_story.html</ref><ref name=":11" />
==='''08/27/2007'''===
jan Sonja is interviewed in French by Michel Doucet on ''Le Réveil'' on Radio-Canada, Première Chaîne (Atlantique) in a 13-minute interview.<ref>https://archive.is/AVtNj</ref><ref name=":11" />
==='''09/02/2007'''===
''Pittsburgh Post-Gazette'' republish the ''Los Angeles Times'' (Amber Dance)’s article ''In their own words -- literary'' as ''Invented languages: They're not just for Klingons anymore''.<ref>https://archive.is/1aVc</ref><ref name=":11" />
==='''10/20/2007'''===
Jan Sonja is interviewed by Jane Farrow on ''And Sometimes Y'', Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, CBC Radio One.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20120815203525/http://www.cbc.ca:80/andsometimesy/pastshows.html?s3-ep7</ref><ref name=":11" />
=='''2008'''==
==='''02/18/2008'''===
The ''ISO 639-3'' language code request is rejected as “the ISO 639-3 Registration Authority has determined that the request for this new code element is premature. The propagation of a new constructed language is often a short-lived interest of limited scope; few constructed languages have lasting impact in the world community of languages to become more than mere novelties. Toki Pona seems to fit the novelty category, as an intentionally “minimalist” language. During 2007 there was some media interest in Toki Pona, in which its novel aspects were highlighted. If Toki Pona survives the next few years and continues to develop, both in applications and in user base, then the RA will be open to consider a new request for assignment of a code element for Toki Pona.”<ref>https://iso639-3.sil.org/request/2017-035</ref><ref>https://iso639-3.sil.org/sites/iso639-3/files/change_requests/2007/CR_Comments_2007-011.pdf</ref>
==='''09/03/2008'''===
The Toki Pona article on Wikipedia is nominated for a Language and literature good article for the first time. The review seems to be quite a weak one, considering Wikipedia’s reviewing guidelines are already in existence.<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Good_article_criteria&oldid=228989565</ref> The review simply reads the following: “I believe that this article is worthy of Good Article status. It's prose is excellent, and goes into depth about its subject. Certain sections of the article could be expanded slightly, but it has done enough to recieve good article status.”<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Toki_Pona/GA1</ref>
=='''2009'''==
==='''04/01/2009'''===
In the Yahoo group, the word ''kijetesantakalu'' is presented by jan Sonja as an April Fools' Day joke: “Although some of the new words I am considering are still in the testing phase, I can safely say that one word that has made the cut is "kijetesantakalu", a noun for any animal from the Procyonidae family, such as raccoons, coatis, kinkajous, olingos, ringtails and cacomistles. I took it from the Finnish word kierteishäntäkarhu, meaning kinkajou.”<ref>http://forums.tokipona.org/viewtopic.php?f=33&t=1033</ref>
==='''11/18/2009'''===
Toki Pona merchandise is created by jan Sonja.<ref>http://forums.tokipona.org/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=1183</ref>
==='''12/01/2009'''===
The writing system ''sitelen suwi'' (later known as ''sitelen sitelen'') is published by jan Josan.<ref>http://tokipl.wikidot.com/art-pisma</ref><ref>http://forums.tokipona.org/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=1199</ref>
==='''12/10/2009'''===
jan Mato proposes creating a contract in Toki Pona, and realises the idea with jan Josan.<ref>http://forums.tokipona.org/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=1201&start=30#p6046</ref><ref>http://forums.tokipona.org/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=1222&start=0</ref><ref>http://forums.tokipona.org/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=1265&p=6372</ref>
==='''12/16/2009'''===
jan Kipo proposes calling jan Josan’s writing system ''sitelen sitelen'' as opposed to ''sitelen suwi''.<ref>http://forums.tokipona.org/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=1222&start=10#p6115</ref>
=='''2010'''==
==='''01/20/2010'''===
''The Routledge Linguistics Encyclopedia'' (3rd ed.) by Kirsten Malmkjær mentions Toki Pona in chapter ''Artificial languages – Recreation'' on p. 34. The mention reads, “Toki Pona is a language exploring the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis, designed to encourage positive thoughts.”<ref>https://www.amazon.com/Routledge-Linguistics-Encyclopedia-Kirsten-Malmkjaer-dp-0415421047/dp/0415421047/ref=mt_hardcover?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid=1564498868</ref><ref>https://www.academia.edu/12110642/The_linguistics_encyclopedia</ref>
==='''03/13/2010'''===
It has been requested to check whether the GA status of the Toki Pona article on Wikipedia is in need of reassessment. The reviewer criticises many unreferenced sections, inconsistent citation formatting, over reliance on primary sources and personal websites, and too much unnecessary detail. The assessment has been placed on hold and given chance to the contributors to improve the article. No one steps in and even the article’s contributor says “it doesn't feel particularly GA to me. More fun than encyclopedic”.<ref name=":12">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Toki_Pona/GA2</ref><ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Sonjaaa&oldid=371038617#GA_reassessment_of_Toki_Pona</ref>
==='''03/20/2010'''===
The Toki Pona article on Wikipedia is delisted from Language and literature good articles.<ref name=":12" />
==='''03/21/2010'''===
“After being closed and its database locked some time ago, the Tokipona Wikipedia has been completely removed.”<ref>https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_News/2010#March_2010</ref><ref>https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposals_for_closing_projects/Deletion_of_Toki_Pona_Wikimedia_projects</ref>
==='''06/20/2010'''===
A version of the ''AEI pi toki pona'' drawing by jan Nikita is created with ''Elena'' being replaced with the then-nonexistent ''esun''.<ref>http://forums.tokipona.org/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=1487</ref>
==='''10/31/2010'''===
The ''r/tokipona'' subreddit on Reddit is created by jan Mimoku.<ref>https://old.reddit.com/r/tokipona/</ref>
=='''2011'''==
==='''02/05/2011'''===
The ''toki pona'' group on Facebook is created.<ref>https://www.facebook.com/groups/sitelen/about/</ref>
=='''2012'''==
==='''02/05/2012'''===
The Toki Pona article on Wikipedia is nominated for deletion for the third time.<ref name=":0">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Toki_Pona_(3rd_nomination)</ref>
==='''02/13/2012'''===
The result of the discussion about the third nomination for deletion of the Toki Pona article on Wikipedia is ''keep''.<ref name=":0" />


==2002==
=== '''05/31/2012''' ===
===March 2002===
jan Sonja asks several people whether they would be willing to take over Toki Pona: “I've privately asked a few active people if they would be interested in managing Toki Pona. It's an option I need to consider.”<ref>http://forums.tokipona.org/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=2147</ref><ref>http://forums.tokipona.org/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=2147&start=10</ref>
On 24 March 2002, a Toki Pona group was created on {{w|Yahoo! Groups}}.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20020405050554/http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tokipona/ Yahoo! Groups : tokipona]. Archived from the original on 5 April 2002. Retrieved 19 November 2023.</ref> The group was polled on whether the now-obsolete third-person pronoun {{tp|[[iki]]}} should be changed, as it was deemed to be too long and too similar to {{tp|[[ike]]}}.<ref>tokipona@yahoogroups.com (24 March 2002). [http://forums.tokipona.org/viewtopic.php?t=1 New poll for tokipona]. ''Toki Pona Forums''. Retrieved 19 November 2003.</ref>


On the same day, Toki Pona was reviewed by Damian Yerrick,<ref>Damian Yerrick. [https://web.archive.org/web/20051017142651/https://pineight.com/tokipona/tpreview.html {{tok|Toki Pona li pona ala pona?}}]. ''Pin Eight''. Archived from [https://pineight.com/tokipona/tpreview.html the original] on 17 October 2005. Retrieved 19 November 2023.</ref><ref>Damian Yerrick. [https://web.archive.org/web/20030207173358/http://www.pineight.com/2002/ 2002 News Archive]. ''Pin Eight''. Archived from [http://www.pineight.com/2002/ the original] on 7 February 2003. Retrieved 19 November 2023.</ref> who "has pointed out problems that eventually were corrected".<ref>Damian Yerrick, Justin B. Rye. [https://web.archive.org/web/20020604102640/http://www.cs.rose-hulman.edu/~yerricde/tokipona/jbr.txt [Personal communications<nowiki>]</nowiki>]. ''cs.rose-hulman.edu''. Archived from the original on 4 June 2002. Retrived 19 November 2023.</ref>
=='''2013'''==
==='''03/10/2013'''===
The (unofficial) ''Toki Pona Sign Language'' is created by Christopher Huff.<ref>https://chuff.wordpress.com/tpsl</ref><ref>https://chuff.tumblr.com/post/45011424771/chris-huffs-toki-pona-sign-language</ref><ref>https://thelabyrinthmaker.tumblr.com/post/132632048934/chris-huffs-toki-pona-sign-language</ref><ref>http://forums.tokipona.org/viewtopic.php?t=2199</ref>
==='''03/15/2013'''===
The Toki Pona article on Wikipedia is nominated for deletion for the fourth time.<ref name=":1">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Toki_Pona_(4th_nomination)</ref>
==='''03/23/2013'''===
The result of the discussion about the fourth nomination for deletion of the Toki Pona article on Wikipedia is ''keep''.<ref name=":1" />
==='''07/12/2013'''===
Eliazar Parra Cárdena’s ''toki pona en 76 lecciones ilustradas'' is translated by jan Male from Spanish into Esperanto and published under an Esperanto publishing house with its own ISBN,<ref>https://www.esperanto-buchversand.de/CardenasEliazarParraBlahusMarek--tokiponaenilustritajlecionoj---L2837---</ref> becoming the first printed textbook of Toki Pona. It is first available at the ''Somera Esperanto-Studado'' (Summer Esperanto Study) 2013, a week-long event that takes place every summer in Martin, Slovakia. jan Sonja writes a preface praising the relationship between Esperanto and Toki Pona and expressing thanks to jan Male and Eliazar Parra Cárdena. The second edition appears during the ''Konferenco pri Aplikoj de Esperanto en Scienco kaj Tekniko'' 2014 in Modra, Slovakia.<ref>http://tokipona.info/PriLaLibro</ref><ref>https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/SES_2013</ref>
=='''2014'''==
==='''03/05/2014'''===
jan Mali publishes her first Learn toki pona in a fortnight video on YouTube.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzWrG9iM9ac</ref>
==='''04/25/2014'''===
jan Sonja is seeking graphic designers for the cover of her book.<ref>https://www.facebook.com/groups/sitelen/permalink/682346201819768/</ref><ref>https://www.facebook.com/groups/sitelen/permalink/694205550633833/</ref>
==='''05/25/2014'''===
''Toki Pona: The Language of Good'' or ''pu'' is published by jan Sonja.<ref>https://www.amazon.com/Toki-Pona-Language-Sonja-Lang/dp/0978292308</ref><ref>http://web.archive.org/web/20140812052841/https://www.createspace.com/4802024</ref>
==='''06/15–19/2014'''===
Christopher Huff gives a one-hour talk at the ''Polyglot Gathering'' in Berlin.<ref>https://chuff.wordpress.com</ref><ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20150406065946/http://languagefan.com/tag/toki-pona/</ref><ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKYp7niDLFo</ref>
==='''07/18/2014'''===
jan Sonja is interviewed by Kris Broholm on ''Actual Fluency Podcast'' in a 45-minute episode ''AFP 20 – Sonja Lang: Toki Pona, Conlanging and the meaning of life''.<ref>https://actualfluency.com/afp-20-sonja-lang-toki-pona-conlanging-meaning-life/</ref>
==='''07/20/2014'''===
A ''sitelen pona'' font for ''sitelen pona'' is created by jan Wesi. jan Same later works on this and creates his ''linja pona'' font.<ref>https://www.facebook.com/groups/sitelen/permalink/726728637381524/</ref>
==='''12/11–12/2014'''===
17 people try to learn Toki Pona in 48 hours in an ''Actual Fluency'' meetup called ''TokiPonathon 2014''.<ref>https://actualfluency.com/toki-pona/</ref><ref name=":13">https://www.theguardian.com/education/2015/jan/08/toki-pona-invented-language-memrise</ref><ref>https://blog.memrise.com/is-it-possible-to-learn-a-new-language-in-48-hours/</ref>
=='''2015'''==
==='''01/08/2015'''===
''The Guardian'' (Ellie Violet Bramley) publish an article ''What happened when I tried to learn Toki Pona in 48 hours using memes'', having taken part in the 2014 ''TokiPonathon''.<ref name=":13" />
==='''07/15/2015'''===
''The Atlantic'' (Roc Morin) publish an article ''How to Say (Almost) Everything in a Hundred-Word Language''.<ref>https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/07/toki-pona-smallest-language/398363/</ref>
==='''07/26/2015'''===
''Toki Pona: The Language of Good'' is now available in a Kindle edition.<ref>https://www.amazon.com/dp/B012M1RLXS</ref><ref>https://www.facebook.com/groups/sitelen/permalink/911336902254029/</ref>
==='''09/26–28/2015'''===
Organised by jan Elin and jan Wena, 9 people (jan Elin, jan Wena, jan Male, jan Mimoku, jan Tomi, jan Piki, jan Jana, jan Mika; jan Masin in the video one does not seem to understand much) from 5 countries (Russia, Czechia, Netherlands, Germany, Slovakia) meet in Brno, Czech Republic to enjoy studying and using the Toki Pona language together. As all of them are Esperantists, Esperanto is their second language besides Toki Pona. During the first day there is a Skype chat with jan Sonja. On the second day jan Male has a presentation about the history of Czechia in Toki Pona and jan Wena, jan Jana, and jan Mimoku watch a total lunar eclipse. They go to see the town and there is a town tour in Toki Pona. jan Male and jan Wena also use Signed Toki Pona to communicate while eating. A signed postcard is sent to jan Sonja. jan Elin and jan Male have participated in the ''Somero Esperanto-Studado'' (SES) by E@I which happens every summer in Slovakia. jan Elin thought it would be a good idea to organise a meeting to learn Toki Pona. jan Wena came up with the name ''Eŭropa Tokipona Studado'' (''EToSo'') or kama sona pi toki pona lon ma Elopa (kama kulupu Etoso).<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkKSRbuI8Qw</ref><ref>http://tokipona.info/Renkonti%C4%9Doj</ref><ref>https://tokipona.fandom.com/wiki/kama_sona_pi_toki_pona_lon_ma_Elopa</ref><ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNY7lu1Tw0Y</ref><ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHQtsPzv728</ref><ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hfSbvd4NWo</ref><ref name=":14">https://www.facebook.com/tokipona.info/posts/764004307058940?__tn__=-R</ref><ref>https://www.facebook.com/tokipona.info/posts/763130200479684?__tn__=-R</ref><ref>https://www.facebook.com/tokipona.info/photos/a.384254255033949/750266688432702/?type=3&theater</ref><ref>https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokipono#Renkonti%C4%9Doj</ref><ref>https://www.facebook.com/groups/sitelen/permalink/939665856087800/</ref>
==='''10/16/2015'''===
jan Same vectorises jan Josan’s ''sitelen sitelen'' and releases the files for free. He also expresses the wish of creating a font but admits he does not know how to do that, encouraging others that do.<ref>https://imgur.com/a/0FqKm</ref><ref>http://forums.tokipona.org/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=2453</ref>
==='''11/08/2015'''===
jan Sonja is interviewed by Helen Zaltzman on ''The Allusionist'' podcast in a 20-minute episode ''Allusionist 25: Toki Pona''.<ref>https://tokipona.fandom.com/wiki/Where_is_Toki_Pona_used%3F#Interviews_with_Sonja_Lang</ref><ref>https://www.theallusionist.org/transcripts/tokipona</ref>
==='''12/30/2015'''===
Following jan Same’s vectorising of ''sitelen sitelen'', jan Olae resumes to work on a ''sitelen sitelen'' renderer.<ref>https://github.com/olafjanssen/sitelen-sitelen-renderer/blob/master/LICENSE</ref><ref>https://livingtokipona.smoishele.com/examples/liveinput/liveinput.html</ref><ref>https://github.com/olafjanssen/sitelen-sitelen-renderer/</ref><ref>http://forums.tokipona.org/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=2453#p14088</ref>
=='''2016'''==
==='''04/12/2016'''===
The ''toki pona taso'' group on Facebook is created by jan Tomani.<ref>https://www.facebook.com/groups/tokiponataso/about/</ref><ref>https://www.facebook.com/groups/sitelen/permalink/1040560162665035/</ref>
==='''04/24/2016'''===
''pu'' is published in French by jan Sonja under the title ''Toki Pona: la langue du bien''.<ref>https://www.amazon.com/Toki-Pona-langue-bien-French/dp/0978292359</ref>
==='''05/25–29/2016'''===
''EToSo'' 2 takes places in Ede, Netherlands.<ref name=":14" /><ref>https://www.facebook.com/events/953868601375449/</ref>
==='''10/17/2016'''===
''sitelen pona'' glyphs for the extinct words ''kin'', ''kipisi'', ''leko'', ''monsuta'', ''namako'', ''oko'', and ''pake'' are created by jan Same.<ref>https://www.facebook.com/groups/sitelen/permalink/1167595453294838/</ref>
==='''12/03/2016'''===
A standard font (OpenType Font), ''linja pona'', is created by jan Same with the help of jan Wesi’s ''sitelen pona'' font. To write compound glyphs, the space between the two words has to be omitted. To use cartouches, square brackets and underscores before each glyph has to be used.<ref>https://www.facebook.com/groups/sitelen/permalink/1213011375419912/</ref><ref>https://imgur.com/a/vHFzm</ref>
=='''2017'''==
==='''02/23/2017'''===
Conlang Critic (jan Misali) publishes his ''Conlang Critic Episode Twelve: Toki Pona'' video on YouTube.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLn6LC1RpAo</ref>
==='''03/18/2017'''===
''linja pona'' version 2 is released by jan Same. Several new compound glyphs are introduced as well as a new system of writing them – now to write a compound, a hyphen has to be put between the two words. The ''monsuta'' glyph is slightly modified and new ways of typing ''a'', ''e'', and ''o'' are introduced.<ref>https://www.facebook.com/groups/sitelen/permalink/1327034427350939/</ref><ref>http://musilili.net/linja-pona/</ref>
==='''03/20/2017'''===
The ''toki pona central hub preparation document'' opens up by jan Tomani.<ref>https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Dzs-imNeZ8TMgdHUiiungJ4Yf97CJk9ylhQPXjWLsJU/edit</ref>
==='''04/11/2017'''===
''linja pona'' version 3 is released by jan Same.<ref>https://www.facebook.com/groups/sitelen/permalink/1351269838260731/</ref>
==='''06/27/2017'''===
jan Sonja is interviewed in French by Sylvain Lumbroso, Jean-Yves Ginchereau, and Marion Vignal on ''Podcast Quadrivium Radio'', Québec Science in an episode ''Tout dire avec 120 mots''.<ref>https://www.quebecscience.qc.ca/balados/tout-dire-avec-120-mots/</ref>
==='''07/18/2017'''===
The ''tomo pona'' website (''toki pona central hub'') is created by jan Tomani.<ref>https://www.facebook.com/groups/sitelen/permalink/1455645704489810/</ref>
==='''08/28/2017'''===
A request for a new language code ''ISO 639-3'' is submitted for the second time.<ref name=":15">https://iso639-3.sil.org/code_changes/change_request_index/data/all?title=&field_change_instance_af_idnt_cd_value=&field_change_instance_afctd_name_value=toki+pona&field_change_request_region_grp_tid=All&field_change_request_lf_group_tid=All&field_change_instance_chnge_type_tid=All&field_change_request_act_status_tid=All&items_per_page=50</ref>
==='''09/01/2017'''===
Toki Pona competition in writing articles on ''Wikipesija'' takes place on Facebook.<ref>https://www.facebook.com/groups/sitelen/permalink/1499393043448409/</ref>
==='''10/18/2017'''===
The ''toki pona taso group'' on Facebook changes from public to closed.<ref>https://www.facebook.com/groups/tokiponataso/permalink/1887188004933466/</ref><ref>https://www.facebook.com/notes/toki-pona/closed-group-open-heart/1541086135945766/</ref><ref>https://www.facebook.com/notes/toki-pona/wrong-pona/1109021089152275/</ref>
=='''2018'''==
==='''01/23/2018'''===
The second ''ISO 639-3'' language code request is rejected.<ref name=":15" />
==='''02/28/2018'''===
The ''toki pona taso'' group on Facebook hits 500 members.<ref>https://www.facebook.com/groups/tokiponataso/permalink/1955721724746760/</ref>
==='''03/23/2018'''===
Langfocus publishes his 13-minute video ''Toki Pona: "The Language of Good"'' on YouTube.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4y7tf3VJAM</ref> This results in a great number of people getting interested in Toki Pona and also joining the groups on Facebook. The Toki Pona article on Wikipedia reaches its peak. Before the video usually about 200 people visited the page every day. On the day of the publication it is 650, the next day the number reaches as high as 1819, and the two following days, 997 and 633, respectively.<ref>https://tools.wmflabs.org/pageviews/?project=en.wikipedia.org&platform=all-access&agent=user&start=2018-02-24&end=2018-04-24&pages=Toki_Pona</ref>
==='''03/27/2018'''===
''Oxford Dictionaries Blog'' (Simon Thomas) publish an article ''Exploring Toki Pona: do we need more than 120 words?''.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20190511184141/https://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2018/03/27/toki-pona-invented-language-120-words/</ref>
==='''05/15/2018'''===
Toki Pona hits 300 speakers on Amikumu.<ref>http://web.archive.org/web/20180515175827/https://amikumu.com/statistics/</ref>
==='''09/28–29/2018'''===
Two Toki Pona crash courses are given at a polyglot festival ''LingvaFest’'' in Bratislava, Slovakia by jan Wena.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20181128100303/http://www.lingvafest.sk/programme/</ref><ref>http://www.lingvafest.sk/2018/wp-content/uploads/sites/9/2018/09/lingvafest-2018-program.pdf</ref><ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20181128100024/http://www.lingvafest.sk/language-crash-courses/</ref><ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20181128104041/http://www.lingvafest.sk/lingvafest-2018-en</ref>
==='''11/09/2018'''===
''seme li sin?'' creates his first Toki Pona news weekly video on YouTube.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88gCYeN3gWE</ref>
=='''2019'''==
==='''01/08/2019'''===
The Toki Pona article on Wikipedia is nominated for a ''Language and literature good article'' for the second time.<ref name=":16">https://tinyurl.com/y2qy24pk</ref>
==='''01/12/2019'''===
''linja pona'' version 4 is created by jan Tepu who wants to merge his updates with jan Same’s version 3. He has “updated the font to use OpenType features to dynamically compose compound glyphs, rather than relying on including precomposed glyphs in the font. As a result, this version allows over 6,000 new compound glyphs”.<ref>https://tinyurl.com/y2ymb642</ref><ref>https://tinyurl.com/y27puqmw</ref><ref>https://tinyurl.com/y5ty5eqw</ref>
==='''01/15/2019'''===
''tomo pi sitelen pona'' website by jan Tepu opens up with the first texts using ''linja pona'' version 4.<ref name=":17">http://archive.fo/HeIc8</ref><ref>https://tinyurl.com/y5z563lm</ref>
==='''01/28/2019'''===
''sitelen pona'' lessons from scratch and a dictionary are added by jan Tepu to his website.<ref name=":17" /><ref>https://tinyurl.com/y4vlhpc2</ref><ref>https://tinyurl.com/yxjr7b3d</ref><ref>https://tinyurl.com/yyrsq9qr</ref>
==='''04/01/2019'''===
''kijetesantakalu'' celebrates 10 years of existence with some mentions on Twitter. April Fool’s Day seems to be referred to as ''tenpo suno kijetensakalu''.<ref>https://tinyurl.com/yxvmy2uq</ref><ref>https://tinyurl.com/yxdxl2ln</ref>
==='''06/04/2019'''===
''The Little Red Riding Hood'' is translated by jan Same. It is available in the Latin alphabet, ''sitelen sitelen'', and ''sitelen pona''.<ref>https://tinyurl.com/y47qk6e3</ref>
==='''06/09/2019'''===
The Toki Pona subreddit ''r/tokipona'' hits 2,000 members.<ref>https://tinyurl.com/yxrn5noa</ref>
==='''06/18/2019'''===
The ''ISO'' page on Wikia is changed to ''Where is Toki Pona used? '' because “Extent of the page has grown, and can be used much broader than original scope.”<ref>https://tinyurl.com/y2zc7zad</ref>
==='''06/25/2019'''===
The ''Toki Pona sitelen Emoji Keyboard'' app on Google Play is created by jan Dev Bali.<ref>https://www.facebook.com/groups/sitelen/permalink/2336193946434977/</ref>
==='''06/25/2019'''===
The first video of the ''o kama sona e sitelen pona'' 13-lesson series (+ Introduction) is published on YouTube by jan Same.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uze2LKVN-2E&list=PLJjeLfR6etE69KRFWQB1guBjfWIw8NN75&index=1</ref><ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGddpKcF6FI&list=PLJjeLfR6etE69KRFWQB1guBjfWIw8NN75&index=2</ref>
==='''06/30/2019'''===
jan Daniele Vacon Sartirani publishes the first of his comic series ''nasin nasa'' in ''sitelen sitelen''.<ref>https://www.facebook.com/groups/sitelen/permalink/2345917122129326/</ref><ref>https://tapas.io/series/Nasin-Nasa</ref><ref>https://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/nasin-nasa/list?title_no=303628</ref>
==='''07/07/2019'''===
The ''r/sitelenEmoji'' subreddit is created by jan Dev Bali.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/sitelenEmoji/comments/ca3pz3/sitelenemoji_has_been_created/</ref>
==='''07/12/2019'''===
sitelen pona glyphs for ''apeja'' and ''kijetesantakalu'' are presented by jan Same following a series of polls on Facebook.<ref>https://www.facebook.com/groups/sitelen/permalink/2355123914541980/</ref><ref>https://www.facebook.com/groups/sitelen/permalink/2355080587879646/</ref><ref>https://www.facebook.com/groups/sitelen/permalink/2352892101431828/</ref><ref>https://www.facebook.com/groups/sitelen/permalink/2351528398234865/</ref>
==='''07/14/2019'''===
The last video of the ''o kama sona e sitelen pona'' 13-lesson series is published on YouTube by jan Same.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8tc_Gp_P4Y&list=PLJjeLfR6etE69KRFWQB1guBjfWIw8NN75&index=14</ref><ref>https://www.facebook.com/groups/sitelen/permalink/2370649696322735/</ref>
==='''07/16/2019'''===
The ''Toki Pona'' group on Facebook hits 4000 members.<ref>https://www.facebook.com/groups/sitelen/permalink/2374590769261961/</ref>
==='''07/20?/2019'''===
Toki Pona hits 500 speakers on Amikumu.<ref>http://archive.fo/F4ONo</ref>
==='''07/21/2019'''===
The ''Toki Pona Pal'' app on Google Play hits 5,000+ installs.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20190721160706/https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.Moosader.TokiPonaPal</ref>


On 26 March, Lang published a dictionary of country names.<ref name="old-country-names">Sonja Lang [Sonja Elen Kisa] (26 March 2002). [http://forums.tokipona.org/viewtopic.php?t=5 New Dictionary of Country names!]. ''Toki Pona Forums''. Retrieved 19 November 2023.</ref>
=== '''07/26/2020''' ===
C. Ryan Moniz (jan inwin) publishes the '''''nimi ale pona''', ''a "comprehensive resource of ''toki pona ''words... [that] include[s] many words that do not appear in...more common lists, based on usage in online communities including forums, Facebook, Discord, and Twitter." One of the largest, if not ''the ''largest, Toki Pona dictionaries on the internet, it contains almost 200 words, many of which are "post-''pu''" and originate from the ma pona pi toki pona Discord server.<ref>https://docs.google.com/document/d/10hP3kR7mFN0E6xW3U6fZyDf7xKEEvxssM96qLq4E0ms/edit</ref>


==='''08/27/2019'''===
===April 2002===
On 8 April, Chuck Smith created an article about Toki Pona on the English [[Wikipedia]], titled "Toki Pona language".<ref>Chuck Smith (8 April 2002). [http://forums.tokipona.org/viewtopic.php?t=13 Toki Pona - Wikipedia article]. ''Toki Pona Forums''. Retrieved 19 November 2023.</ref> The article's existence was repeatedly contested, but it ultimately passed a good article nomination and had a fact featured on the main page in 2019.
The interactive fiction ''supa lape mi li ike'' is created by jan Sepulon.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/tokipona/comments/cvzj7b/beta_testers_needed_for_a_tp_game_musi_li_wile_e/</ref>
==='''09/03/2019'''===
The reviewer of the good article nomination of the Toki Pona article on Wikipedia is not responding,<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Toki_Pona/GA3</ref><ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:IJzeren_Jan#Talk:Toki_Pona/GA3</ref><ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Good_article_nominations&diff=908513028&oldid=908492735</ref> so another reviewer takes his place.<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Good_article_nominations&diff=913905283&oldid=9138964</ref>
==='''09/21/2019'''===
There is a vote on changing the symbols of the words ''pilin'', ''olin'', ''pini'', ''kama'', ''tan'', ''tawa'', ''sijelo'', ''unpa'', and ''sama'' in the s''itelen Emoji'' script.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/sitelenEmoji/comments/d7gmuc/vote_on_sitelen_emoji_changes/</ref>
==='''09/23/2019'''===
The first mention about a two-year-old Toki Pona native speaker appears.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/languagelearning/comments/d817si/if_a_dead_language_is_a_language_with_no_native/f16go0u/</ref><ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/tokipona/comments/da8lgj/native_toki_pona_speakers/f1ok7q5/</ref>
==='''09/29/2019'''===
A total of eight changes have been approved to the s''itelen Emoji'' script.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/sitelenEmoji/comments/dapdqx/changes_to_sitelen_emoji_that_were_approved/</ref>
==='''09/30/2019'''===
The Toki Pona article on Wikipedia has passed good article criteria, becoming a Language and literature good article.<ref name=":16" /><ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Toki_Pona&diff=918875037&oldid=913905169</ref><ref name=":18">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Toki_Pona/GA4</ref> After this, the former reviewer appears with additional comments.<ref name=":18" />
==='''10/04/2019'''===
Some facts from the Toki Pona article on Wikipedia are nominated to appear in the ''Did you know …'' section on the Main Page of Wikipedia.<ref name=":19">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Did_you_know_nominations/Toki_Pona</ref>
==='''10/13/2019'''===
A reviewer has indicated willingness to review the ''Did you know'' nomination of the Toki Pona article on Wikipedia.<ref name=":19" /><ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Did_you_know_nominations/Toki_Pona&diff=921067761&oldid=919691978</ref>
==='''10/21/2019'''===
The first of the ''musi nimi'' word puzzles is published by jan sitelen_ike.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/tokipona/comments/dl0mtn/ma_nimi_musi/</ref>
==='''10/28/2019'''===
The ''Did you know'' nomination of the Toki Pona article on Wikipedia has been approved.<ref name=":19" /><ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Did_you_know_nominations/Toki_Pona&diff=923370531&oldid=923282973</ref>
==='''11/04/2019'''===
Following the approved nomination, a fact from the Toki Pona article on Wikipedia appears on Wikipedia's Main Page in the ''Did you know?'' column for 24 hours. The text of the entry is: ''Did you know ... that Toki Pona, a constructed language devised in 2001, uses only around 120 to 125 root words? ''<ref name=":16" /><ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Recent_additions#5_November_2019</ref> This generates over 9,000 views, compared to about 280–380 views on a regular day.<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Did_you_know/Statistics#November_2019</ref><ref>https://tools.wmflabs.org/pageviews/?project=en.wikipedia.org&platform=all-access&agent=user&start=2019-10-20&end=2019-11-05&pages=Toki_Pona</ref>


=== '''11/05/2019''' ===
===May 2002===
On 15 May, Lang proposed the word {{tp|kiwen}} ("rock, stone, metal, material") to replace the previously used compound {{tp|wawa ma}} ("hardness of the earth").<ref>Sonja Elen Kisa (15 May 2002). [http://forums.tokipona.org/viewtopic.php?f=33 New word for stone, metal, mineral?]. ''Toki Pona Forums''. Retrieved 19 November 2023.</ref> A poll<ref>tokipona@yahoogroups.com (15 May 2002). [http://forums.tokipona.org/viewtopic.php?p=45#p45 New poll for toki pona]. ''Toki Pona Forums''. Retrieved 19 November 2023.</ref> resulted in 6 votes for {{tp|kiwen}} and 2 votes for {{tp|wawa ma}}.<ref>tokipona@yahoogroups.com (15 May 2002). [http://forums.tokipona.org/viewtopic.php?p=52#p52 Poll results for toki pona]. ''Toki Pona Forums''. Retrieved 19 November 2023.</ref>
jan Sonja creates the joke words ''mulapisu ''(pizza) and ''yupekosi ''(to behave like George Lucas and revise your old creative works and actually make them worse) on Discord.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/mi_lon/comments/drxev0/jan_sonja_li_pali_e_nimi_sin_suli_ni_pi_toki_pona/</ref><ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20200217124810/http://tokipona.net/tp/janpije/extinctwords.php</ref>


On 16 May, another poll on the Yahoo! group about {{tp|iki}} was created, and the result was to change {{tp|iki}} to {{tp|ona}}.<ref>tokipona@yahoogroups.com (16 May 2002). [http://forums.tokipona.org/viewtopic.php?t=1#p51 New poll for tokipona]. ''Toki Pona Forums''. Retrieved 19 November 2023.</ref>
=== '''11/23/2019''' ===
A Toki Pona meetup organised by jan Kaje takes place in Dallas, Texas, USA.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/tokipona/comments/du5p4z/dallas_meetup/</ref> There are about 11 attendees including jan Sonja. Later, a 6-minute documentary from the event is published by u/marcusbarkus.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/tokipona/comments/excwny/toki_pona_documentary/</ref><ref>https://drive.google.com/file/d/1IENgQQzOuGZGl8W2HkSrBuwyGk5w14fh/view</ref>


On 19 May, Nikita Ayzikovsky ({{tok|jan Nikita}}), who seems to be the third fluent speaker of Toki Pona,<ref>{{tok|jan Mato}} [{{tok|janMato}}] (17 March 2013).[http://forums.tokipona.org/viewtopic.php?t=2204 toki pona ancient history- Who was Lament?]. ''Toki Pona Forums''. Retrieved 19 November 2023.</ref> created {{tp|[[AEI pi toki pona]]}},<ref>{{tok|jan Nikita}}. [https://web.archive.org/web/20030104234356/http://lament.hypermart.net/pictures/tokipona.png [Image<nowiki>]</nowiki>]. Archived from the original 4 January 2003. Retrieved 19 November 2023.</ref> an alphabet chart that has become well recognized through its inclusion in other resources.
==='''11/25/2019'''===
The Toki Pona subreddit ''r/tokipona'' hits 2,500 members.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20191125115051/https://www.old.reddit.com/r/tokipona/</ref><ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20191124194758/https://www.old.reddit.com/r/tokipona/</ref>
==='''12/21/2019'''===
''linja pimeja'', a handwritten font for sitelen pona, is created by jan sitelen_ike.<ref>https://github.com/increpare/linja_pimeja</ref><ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/tokipona/comments/edsto5/linja_pimeja_li_nasin_sitelen_sin_pi_sitelen_pona/</ref>


On 31 May, following the second poll, {{tp|iki}} was replaced with {{tp|ona}}.<ref>{{cite web|author=tokipona@yahoogroups.com|date=2002-05-15|url=http://forums.tokipona.org/viewtopic.php?t=1#p51|title=New poll for tokipona|website=Toki Pona Forums|access-date=2023-11-19}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|author=tokipona@yahoogroups.com|date=2002-05-15|url=http://forums.tokipona.org/viewtopic.php?p=55#p55|title=Poll results for tokipona|website=Toki Pona Forums|access-date=2023-11-19}}</ref>
== '''2020''' ==


=== '''01/07/2020''' ===
===July 2002===
On 8 July, forum user Viktoro proposed converting Toki Pona into a [[three-vowel]] language. Lang considered the idea, but ultimately rejected it.<ref>{{cite web|author=vixcafe|date=2002-07-09|url=http://forums.tokipona.org/viewtopic.php?f=33&t=52|title=New lessons coming soon! / Trivocalic - Toki Pona Forums|website=Toki Pona Forums|access-date=2023-11-19}}</ref>
jan Lili posts a one-page "cheat-sheet" for easily learning the bare basics of Toki Pona.<ref>https://tinyurl.com/y3v882q2</ref><ref>https://tinyurl.com/y65foyxt</ref> Comparisons are made to the ''lipu lili pona ''mini-booklet.<ref>https://tinyurl.com/y4sr3chl</ref><ref>https://tinyurl.com/yxvf85ab</ref>


On 16 July, Lang published the Toki Pona phonetic conversion guidelines.<ref>{{cite web|author=Sonja Lang|date=2002-07-16|url=http://forums.tokipona.org/viewtopic.php?f=33&t=61|title=How to convert a name into Toki Pona? - Toki Pona Forums|website=Toki Pona Forums|access-date=2023-11-19}}</ref> Some proper names for countries were updated, such as France becoming {{tp|ma Kanse}} instead of the previous {{tp|ma Lanse}}.<ref name="old-country-names"/>
=== '''01/30/2020''' ===
The Toki Pona article on Wikipedia is translated into Slovak and assigned a Good article status on the Slovak Wikipedia version.<ref>https://sk.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Toki_pona&diff=6975108&oldid=6394863</ref><ref>https://sk.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikip%C3%A9dia:Zoznam_dobr%C3%BDch_%C4%8Dl%C3%A1nkov&diff=6975154&oldid=6876304</ref><ref>https://sk.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Toki_pona&diff=6975264&oldid=6975190</ref>


=== '''02/01/2020''' ===
===October 2002===
On 10 October, Knight published the poem "{{tp|kili lili}}".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://forums.tokipona.org/viewtopic.php?t=71|title=toki ante mute - Toki Pona Forums|website=Toki Pona Forums|accessdate=2023-11-19}}</ref> It was later included in his {{tp|[[o kama sona e toki pona!]]}} course, becoming a well-recognised poem among the community.<ref>Bryant J. Knight. [https://web.archive.org/web/20041217043620/http://tokipona.nytka.org:80/lesson/lesson5.html "Lesson 5: Adjectives, Compound Nouns"]. ''{{tp|lipu pi jan Pije}}''. Archived from the original on 17 December 2004. Retrieved 19 November 2023.</ref>
u/marcusbarkus posts a teaser from a Toki Pona documentary he created from interviewing speakers in the Dallas and Fort Worth metropolitan area. The full-length picture will come out at a later date.<ref>https://tinyurl.com/yykwwzjm</ref><ref>https://tinyurl.com/y5lo87lq</ref><ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghC-hyGkHlY</ref>


=== '''02/17/2020''' ===
===November 2002===
On 1 November, {{tp|[[ali]]}} became an alternative to {{tp|[[ale]]}},<ref>{{cite web|url=http://forums.tokipona.org/viewtopic.php?f=33&t=87|title=ale and ali - Toki Pona Forums|website=Toki Pona Forums|accessdate=2023-11-19}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://forums.tokipona.org/viewtopic.php?f=33&t=85|title=ale => ale or ali - Toki Pona Forums|website=Toki Pona Forums|accessdate=2023-11-19}}</ref> {{tp|en}} was made to only join head nouns and not modifiers, {{tp|kan}} was deprecated, and {{tp|kin}} was used for emphasis of any word.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://forums.tokipona.org/viewtopic.php?f=33&t=81|title=the words "en", "kin" and "kan" - Toki Pona Forums|website=Toki Pona Forums|accessdate=2023-11-19}}</ref>
The first 2-year old native speaker of toki pona has apparently produced simple sentences such as ''mi wawa, mi tawa, mi olin e sina, ni li laso, ''and'' ni li loje'' (pronounced lon'ñe). The first ever unprompted spoken sentence by a native speaker is reportedly ''ni li palisa'', while pointing to an electric pole.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/tokipona/comments/f4vg1l/has_anyone_tried_teaching_their_kids_toki_pona/</ref>


==2003==
=== '''03/19/2020''' ===
===February 2003===
NalathniDragon (Nathan McCoy) creates the ''sitelen sike ''script.<ref>https://tinyurl.com/y5mjhuqp</ref>
On 12 February, Lang introduced the question type {{tp|[[anu seme]]}} (or what?), inspired by the German particle ''{{lang|de|oder}}''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://forums.tokipona.org/viewtopic.php?f=33&t=112|title=New question type|website=Toki Pona Forums|author=Sonja Lang|date=2003-02-12|access-date=2023-11-27}}</ref>


=== '''04/23/2020''' ===
===July 2003===
On 25 July, Knight completed the first version of his {{tp|[[o kama sona e toki pona!]]}} course,<ref name="pije-course-2003">{{cite web|url=http://forums.tokipona.org/viewtopic.php?f=33&t=150|title=New Lessons Complete.|website=Toki Pona Forums|author=Bryant J. Knight|username=pije3|date=2003-07-25|access-date=2023-11-27}}</ref> which would become a major learning resource until Knight shut his site down in 2020.
''akesi seli lili, ''an independently published book of short stories written in Toki Pona, is published.<ref>https://tinyurl.com/y2uqkj87</ref>


==2004==
=== '''04/28/2020''' ===
===March&ndash;November 2004===
u/AcipenserSturio posts the results of a poll showing community opinions on new ''pu ''words as well as non-official words created before and after the publication of ''pu. ''There are only 86 participants, however, and a larger follow-up poll has been planned.<ref>https://tinyurl.com/y2erv32y</ref>
On 31 March, Lang asked on the Wikipedia-l mailing list how to add a Toki Pona language edition of Wikipedia,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2004-March/014972.html|title=[Wikipedia-l] Adding a new language|website=lists.wikimedia.org|author=Sonja Lang|date=2004-03-31|access-date=2023-11-28}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2004-September/017330.html|title=[Wikipedia-l] Re: Gothic Wikipedia|website=lists.wikimedia.org|author=Andre Engels|date=2004-09-19|access-date=2023-11-28}}</ref> leading to the creation of an official [[Toki Pona Wikipedia]] on 4 April.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2004-April/015010.html|title=[Wikipedia-l] New wikipedias: tpi, tp, io|website=lists.wikimedia.org|author=Brion Vibber|date=2003-04-04|access-date=2023-11-28}}</ref> However, it was closed on 16 November.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Jimbo_Wales/Archive_C#Closed_wikipedia(s)|title=User talk:Jimbo Wales/Archive C {{sect}} Closed wikipedia(s)|website=English Wikipedia|access-date=2023-12-09}}</ref><ref>http://forums.tokipona.org/viewtopic.php?f=33&t=342</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041122013238/http://tokipona.wikipedia.org:80/wiki/lipu_lawa|title={{tok|lipu lawa}}|website={{tok|lipu Wikipesija}}|access-date=2023-12-09}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Klingon_Wikipedia|title=History of the Klingon Wikipedia|website=Wikimedia}}</ref> It later moved to {{w|Wikicities}} (later Wikia, Fandom) before being independently hosted as {{tok|[[lipu Wikipesija]]}}.


=== '''05/04/2020''' ===
===Undated===
[[File:Marek Blahuš, Eliazar Parra Cárdenas, Peter Baláž.jpg|250px|thumb|From left to right: Marek Blahuš, Eliazar Parra Cárdenas, and {{w|Peter Baláž (Esperantist)|Peter Baláž}} meeting in {{w|Modra}}, {{w|Slovakia}} in 2013]]
12 non-''pu ''words are added to the ''sitelen Emoji ''script, and several existing words are changed, following a community referendum.<ref>https://tinyurl.com/3m0j1yqa</ref>


In late 2004, Eliazar Parra Cárdena published the originally Spanish-language course ''[[Toki Pona in 76 illustrated lessons]]''.<ref name="cardena-76lessons"/> An Esperanto translation became the first published Toki Pona textbook on 12 July 2013, and would go on to appear at Esperanto meetups.
=== '''05/18/2020''' ===
A community poll selects a glyph for the new word "tonsi" (from the Mandarin word for "comrade" and defined as "non-binary," "transgender," and [in broader applications] "any member of the LGBT community.")<ref>https://tinyurl.com/y6lvl5gc</ref> The next day, jan Same adds the glyph to the ''linja pona.''<ref>https://tinyurl.com/y4v8n5y8</ref><ref>https://tinyurl.com/y2bxgk8n</ref>


==2005==
=== '''05/31/2020''' ===
{{Empty}}
jan Simejo creates the ''Toki Pona Keyboard ''app on Google Play, an app for quickly writing the ''linja pona'' font on mobile devices.<ref>https://tinyurl.com/y4s6xlsp</ref><ref>https://tinyurl.com/wh2t3</ref>


==2006==
=== '''06/01/2020 ''' ===
{{Empty}}
The Toki Pona subreddit ''r/tokipona ''hits 3,500 members.<ref>http://archive.is/2S1Nz</ref>


==2007==
=== '''06/23/2020''' ===
===May 2007===
jan Simejo starts to build a programming syntax language that solely uses ''linja pona ''glyphs.<ref>https://tinyurl.com/y4a2a769</ref>
On 7 May, Marcos Cramer ({{tok|jan Moku}}) requested the [[ISO 639-3]] language code <code>tok</code>.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://iso639-3.sil.org/sites/iso639-3/files/change_requests/2007/2007-011.pdf|title=ISO 639-3 Registration Authority|website=iso639-3.sil.org|access-date=2023-12-28}}</ref> The request was rejected on 18 February 2008.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://iso639-3.sil.org/request/2017-035|title=Change Request Documentation: 2017-035|website=iso639-3.sil.org|access-date=2023-12-28}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://iso639-3.sil.org/sites/iso639-3/files/change_requests/2007/CR_Comments_2007-011.pdf|title=Comments received for ISO 639-3 Change Request 2007-011|website=iso639-3.sil.org|access-date=2023-12-28}}</ref> Much later, a second request was made in 2017 and rejected in 2018.<ref name=":15">https://iso639-3.sil.org/code_changes/change_request_index/data/all?title=&field_change_instance_af_idnt_cd_value=&field_change_instance_afctd_name_value=toki+pona&field_change_request_region_grp_tid=All&field_change_request_lf_group_tid=All&field_change_instance_chnge_type_tid=All&field_change_request_act_status_tid=All&items_per_page=50</ref> Following a third request, the identifier <code>tok</code> was eventually adopted in January 2022.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://iso639-3.sil.org/code/tok|title=tok &#124; ISO 639-3|website=SIL International|access-date=2023-11-20}}</ref>


=== '''07/01/2020''' ===
===July 2007===
According to an article published in ''{{w|The Globe and Mail}}'' on 9 July:<ref>{{cite web|url=//theglobeandmail.com/technology/canadian-has-people-talking-about-lingo-she-created/article20399052|title=Canadian has people talking about lingo she created|author=Roberts, Siobhan|date=2007-07-09|website={{w|The Globe and Mail}}|access-date=2023-12-28|quote=}}</ref>
jan Tomenta creates the ''sitelen lili ''script: a shorthand proposal for ''sitelen pona.''<ref>https://tinyurl.com/y65casvk</ref>
<blockquote>
A Colorado programmer is developing an apocalyptic computer game with Toki Pona as the spoken language. An Israeli-German singer and member of the Stuttgart Chamber Choir is including it in a concert of musical pieces composed in constructed languages, alongside Esperanto and ''Star Trek''’s Klingon. &hellip; Pekka Roponen, a psychiatrist at the central hospital of Hameenlinnan, in southern Finland, &hellip; is studying the language’s usefulness in treating patients, having them keep track of their daily thoughts in Toki Pona.
</blockquote>


==2008==
=== '''07/05/2020''' ===
{{Empty}}
jan Simejo creates the ''sitelen musi'' script.<ref>https://tinyurl.com/sitelen-musi</ref><ref>https://tinyurl.com/yxc7hq4e</ref><ref>https://tinyurl.com/y6luowkb</ref>


==2009==
=== '''07/07/2020''' ===
===April 2009===
A Toki Pona course in ''Lingua Franca Nova'' (Elefen) emerges.<ref>https://tinyurl.com/y2hnz569</ref><ref>https://tinyurl.com/v-11-3-w</ref><ref>https://tinyurl.com/el-ef-11</ref>
In the Yahoo group, {{tok|jan Sonja}} presented the word {{tp|[[kijetesantakalu]]}} as an [[April Fools' Day]] joke:<ref>http://forums.tokipona.org/viewtopic.php?f=33&t=1033</ref>
<blockquote>
Although some of the new words I am considering are still in the testing phase, I can safely say that one word that has made the cut is "{{tok|kijetesantakalu}}", a noun for any animal from the Procyonidae family, such as raccoons, coatis, kinkajous, olingos, ringtails and cacomistles. I took it from the Finnish word {{lang|fi|kierteishäntäkarhu}}, meaning kinkajou.
</blockquote>


=== '''07/19/2020''' ===
=== October 2009 ===
On 1 October, jan Sonja closed the yahoo group and replaced it with the phpBB forum, citing that she wanted to have more direct ability to administrate the community. On the same day, she would replace the previous version of her website with a wiki based one at en.tokipona.org. This new wiki would see the list of official words updated with the deprecation of [[noka]] to be replaced with [[anpa]], and the introduction of several new words such as [[namako]], [[alasa]], [[kipisi]], and [[pu]]. Notably, [[kijetesantakalu]] was not included.
jan Telakoman publishes a final version of ''sitelen pona pona luka 2'', a modified, cursive method of drawing ''sitelen pona ''hieroglyphs.<ref>https://tinyurl.com/y5lzgzv3</ref> It evolved from his previously posted ''sitelen pona pona luka 1, ''which itself is a modified form of ''sitelen pona pona, ''which is itself a modified form of ''sitelen pona.''<ref>https://tinyurl.com/yxvqeep2</ref>'' ''


=== '''07/23/2020''' ===
===November 2009===
On 18 November, {{tok|jan Sonja}} created Toki Pona [[merchandise]].<ref>http://forums.tokipona.org/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=1183</ref>
Johnathan Gabel expands his ''sitelen sitelen'' script guide with two additional lessons.<ref>https://tinyurl.com/sitelen-0</ref><ref>https://tinyurl.com/sitelen-1</ref>


===December 2009===
=== '''07/25-26/2020''' ===
On 1 December, Jonathan Gabel ({{tok|jan Josan}}) published the writing system {{tp|[[sitelen suwi]]}}, later known as {{tp|sitelen sitelen}}.<ref>http://tokipl.wikidot.com/art-pisma</ref><ref>http://forums.tokipona.org/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=1199</ref> On 10 December, {{tok|jan Mato}} proposed creating a contract in Toki Pona, and realized the idea with {{tok|jan Josan}}.<ref>http://forums.tokipona.org/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=1201&start=30#p6046</ref><ref>http://forums.tokipona.org/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=1222&start=0</ref><ref>http://forums.tokipona.org/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=1265&p=6372</ref> On 16 December, {{tok|jan Kipo}} proposed renaming the writing system to {{tp|sitelen sitelen}}.<ref>http://forums.tokipona.org/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=1222&start=10#p6115</ref>
u/ElemenopiTheSequel publishes two major proposals for several new glyphs to be added to the ''linja pona'', including tuli, po, kapesi, kan, and mulapisu.<ref>https://tinyurl.com/y2xmle4h</ref> The second post outlines changes to certain glyphs outlined in the first post.<ref>https://tinyurl.com/y3uh28yj</ref>


==2010==
=== '''07/30/2020''' ===
===January 2010===
39 new non-''pu ''words are added to the ''sitelen Emoji ''script, both pre-''pu ''and post''-pu''. Many of the new additions are words found in the ''nimi ale pona ''dictionary.<ref>https://tinyurl.com/yxhtoebh</ref>
As of 20 January, ''The Routledge Linguistics Encyclopedia'' (3rd ed.) by Kirsten Malmkjær mentioned Toki Pona in chapter ''Artificial languages – Recreation'' on p. 34.<ref>https://www.amazon.com/Routledge-Linguistics-Encyclopedia-Kirsten-Malmkjaer-dp-0415421047/dp/0415421047/ref=mt_hardcover?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid=1564498868</ref><ref>https://www.academia.edu/12110642/The_linguistics_encyclopedia</ref>
<blockquote>
Toki Pona is a language exploring the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis, designed to encourage positive thoughts.
</blockquote>


=== '''08/01/2020''' ===
===October 2010===
On 31 October, {{tok|jan Mimoku}} created the [[r/tokipona]] subreddit, which would go on to accrue thousands of subscribers.<ref>https://old.reddit.com/r/tokipona/</ref>
kapesi Pake creates the ''sitelen sike kule'' (Toki Pona Color Dot Scale) [CDS] script.<ref>https://tinyurl.com/y4m5a2do</ref><ref>https://tinyurl.com/sitelen-sike-kule</ref><ref>https://tinyurl.com/Toki-Pona-CDS</ref>


==2011==
=== '''08/10/2020''' ===
===February 2011===
u/B13614 creates the ''sitelen ko ''script.<ref>https://tinyurl.com/y3bsyjzw</ref><ref>https://tinyurl.com/y6sj9nfc</ref>
On 5 February, the {{tp|toki pona}} Facebook group was created.<ref>https://www.facebook.com/groups/sitelen/about/</ref>


==2012==
=== '''08/12/2020''' ===
u/ElemenopiTheSequel creates the r/OffthePu subreddit and Discord Server for the purposes of creating new glyphs for '''every''' Toki Pona word in the extended ''nimi ale'' dictionary.<ref>https://tinyurl.com/yxhvmgwq</ref><ref>https://tinyurl.com/y5ad5f4s</ref><ref>https://tinyurl.com/y2j7stut</ref>


=== '''08/21/2020''' ===
===May 2012===
As of 31 May, {{tok|jan Sonja}} had asked several people whether they would be willing to take over Toki Pona:<ref>http://forums.tokipona.org/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=2147</ref><ref>http://forums.tokipona.org/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=2147&start=10</ref>
jan Pije retires his Toki Pona website and ''o kama sona e toki pona! ''lessons, citing issues in "keeping [the site] up-to-date" and coding problems that made the site difficult to render on mobile devices and desktops alike. An archive of his materials remain available to download via zip-files.<ref>http://tokipona.net/tp/janpije/</ref>
<blockquote>
I've privately asked a few active people if they would be interested in managing Toki Pona. It's an option I need to consider.
</blockquote>


==2013==
=== '''09/03/2020''' ===
===March 2013===
kapesi Pake creates the r/tokiponido subreddit for conlangs descended from and inspired by Toki Pona.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/tokiponido/</ref>
On 10 March, Christopher Huff created the (unofficial) ''Toki Pona Sign Language''.<ref>https://chuff.wordpress.com/tpsl</ref><ref>https://chuff.tumblr.com/post/45011424771/chris-huffs-toki-pona-sign-language</ref><ref>https://thelabyrinthmaker.tumblr.com/post/132632048934/chris-huffs-toki-pona-sign-language</ref><ref>http://forums.tokipona.org/viewtopic.php?t=2199</ref>


==2014==
=== '''09/03/2020''' ===
===March 2014===
jan Sonja creates the new word ''kokosila'' (to speak a non-Toki Pona language in an environment where Toki Pona is more appropriate) on Discord.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/tokipona/comments/im71mk/mama_pi_toki_pona_jan_sonja_li_pali_e_nimi_sin_a/</ref>
On 5 March, {{tok|jan Mali}} published her first "Learn toki pona in a fortnight" video on YouTube.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzWrG9iM9ac</ref>


===April&ndash;May 2014===
=== '''09/09/2020''' ===
On 25 April, {{tok|jan Sonja}} sought graphic designers for the cover of her book.<ref>https://www.facebook.com/groups/sitelen/permalink/682346201819768/</ref><ref>https://www.facebook.com/groups/sitelen/permalink/694205550633833/</ref> On 25 May, she published ''[[Toki Pona: The Language of Good]]'' or {{tp|lipu pu}},<ref>https://www.amazon.com/Toki-Pona-Language-Sonja-Lang/dp/0978292308</ref><ref>http://web.archive.org/web/20140812052841/https://www.createspace.com/4802024</ref> a descriptive guide on how to speak Toki Pona, with 120 official words; some commonly used words at the time were cut from {{tp|pu}}, like {{tp|[[kipisi]]}}. This ended the [[pre-pu|pre-{{tp|pu}}]] [[era]] and began {{tp|[[tenpo pu]]}}.
The Toki Pona subreddit ''r/tokipona ''hits 4,000 members.<ref>https://archive.is/wrULK</ref>


=== '''09/28/2020''' ===
===June 2014===
From 15 to 19 June, Christopher Huff gave a one-hour talk at the Polyglot Gathering in Berlin.<ref>https://chuff.wordpress.com</ref><ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20150406065946/http://languagefan.com/tag/toki-pona/</ref><ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKYp7niDLFo</ref>
jan Melon published a complete translation of the UDHR in toki pona, the first such completed translation. It is a synthesis of earlier partial translations by Shawn Kilpatrick and jan Kanso; it also incorporates translations solicited from other Reddit users.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/tokipona/comments/j1sm83/lipu_lawa_pi_ken_jan_pi_ma_ale_toki_pona_udhr/</ref><ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/tokipona/comments/iugi4f/is_there_a_complete_udhr_in_toki_pona/</ref>


===July 2014===
=='''References'''==
On 18 July, Kris Broholm interviewed {{tok|jan Sonja}} on a 45-minute episode of ''Actual Fluency Podcast'', "AFP 20 – Sonja Lang: Toki Pona, Conlanging and the meaning of life".<ref>https://actualfluency.com/afp-20-sonja-lang-toki-pona-conlanging-meaning-life/</ref>

On 20 July, {{tok|jan Wesi}} created a {{tp|sitelen pona}} font. From 2016 to 2021, {{tok|jan Same}} worked on this and created the highly influential {{tp|[[linja pona]]}} font,<ref>https://www.facebook.com/groups/sitelen/permalink/726728637381524/</ref> with contributions to version 4 by David A. Roberts.<ref>https://github.com/janSame/linja-pona/pull/7</ref><ref>https://github.com/davidar/linja-pona</ref><ref>https://davidar.github.io/linja-pona/nimi</ref>

===December 2014===
From 11 to 12 December, 17 people tried to learn Toki Pona in 48 hours in an ''Actual Fluency'' meetup called TokiPonathon 2014.<ref>https://actualfluency.com/toki-pona/</ref><ref name=":13">https://www.theguardian.com/education/2015/jan/08/toki-pona-invented-language-memrise</ref><ref>https://blog.memrise.com/is-it-possible-to-learn-a-new-language-in-48-hours/</ref>

==2015==
===January 2015===
On 1 January, ''The Guardian'' published the article "What happened when I tried to learn Toki Pona in 48 hours using memes" by Ellie Violet Bramley, who took part in the 2014 TokiPonathon.<ref name=":13" />

===July 2015===
On 15 July, ''The Atlantic'' published the article "How to Say (Almost) Everything in a Hundred-Word Language" by Roc Morin.<ref>https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/07/toki-pona-smallest-language/398363/</ref>

On 26 July, a Kindle edition of ''Toki Pona: The Language of Good'' became available.<ref>https://www.amazon.com/dp/B012M1RLXS</ref><ref>https://www.facebook.com/groups/sitelen/permalink/911336902254029/</ref>

===September 2015===
From 26 to 28 September, nine Esperantists from different countries went to {{w|Brno}} for a [[meetup]] named {{lang|eo|[[Eŭropa Tokipona Studado]]}} ({{tp|kama sona pi toki pona lon ma Elopa}}; "European Toki Pona Study").

===November 2015===
On 8 November, Helen Zaltzman interviewed {{tok|jan Sonja}} in a 20-minute episode of ''The Allusionist'' podcast, "Allusionist 25: Toki Pona".<ref>https://www.theallusionist.org/transcripts/tokipona</ref>

===December 2015===
From 13 to 24 December, {{tok|[[jan Misali]]}} created a series of video lessons named [[12 Days of sona pi toki pona|''12 Days of {{tok|sona pi toki pona}}'']], making one episode per day. Despite this tight schedule and some resultant mistakes, the series would become one of the most common ways to learn Toki Pona in following years.

==2016==
===April 2016===
On 12 April, {{tok|jan Tomani}} created the {{tp|toki pona taso}} group on Facebook.<ref>https://www.facebook.com/groups/tokiponataso/about/</ref><ref>https://www.facebook.com/groups/sitelen/permalink/1040560162665035/</ref>

On 24 April, {{tok|jan Sonja}} published a French edition of {{lipu pu|en}} under the title {{lipu pu|fr}}.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.amazon.com/Toki-Pona-langue-bien-French/dp/0978292359|title=Toki Pona: la langue du bien (French Edition)|website=Amazon|author=Sonja Lang|date=2016-04-24|access-date=2024-01-03}}</ref>

===May 2016===
From 25 to 29 May, the second {{tp|EToSo}} takes places in {{w|Ede, Netherlands}}.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.facebook.com/events/953868601375449/|title=EToSo|website=Facebook|access-date=2024-01-03}}</ref>

===October 2016===
From 16 to 17 October, {{tok|jan Same}} created and proposed {{tp|sitelen pona}} glyphs for the "extinct" words {{tp|[[kin]]}}, {{tp|[[kipisi]]}}, {{tp|[[leko]]}}, {{tp|[[monsuta]]}}, {{tp|[[namako]]}}, {{tp|[[oko]]}}, and {{tp|[[pake]]}}.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.facebook.com/groups/sitelen/permalink/1167595453294838/|title=Toki!|website=Facebook|author=James Flear|date=2016-10-16|access-date=2024-01-03}}</ref>

==2017==
===February 2017===
On 23 February, {{tok|[[jan Misali]]}} published "Conlang Critic Episode Twelve: Toki Pona" on YouTube.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLn6LC1RpAo</ref>

===March 2017===
On 20 March, {{tok|jan Tomani}} opened the "toki pona central hub preparation document".<ref>https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Dzs-imNeZ8TMgdHUiiungJ4Yf97CJk9ylhQPXjWLsJU/edit</ref>

===June 2017===
On 27 June, Sylvain Lumbroso, Jean-Yves Ginchereau, and Marion Vignal interviewed {{tok|jan Sonja}} in French on {{lang|fr|''Podcast Quadrivium Radio''}}, Québec Science in an episode "{{lang|fr|Tout dire avec 120 mots}}" ("Say it all with 120 words").<ref>https://www.quebecscience.qc.ca/balados/tout-dire-avec-120-mots/</ref>

===July 2017===
On 18 July, {{tok|jan Tomani}} created the {{tp|tomo pona}} website (toki pona central hub).<ref>https://www.facebook.com/groups/sitelen/permalink/1455645704489810/</ref>

===September 2017===
On 1 September, a Toki Pona competition in writing articles on {{tp|Wikipesija}} took place on Facebook.<ref>https://www.facebook.com/groups/sitelen/permalink/1499393043448409/</ref>

===October 2017===
On 18 October, the {{tp|toki pona taso}} group on Facebook changed from public to closed.<ref>https://www.facebook.com/groups/tokiponataso/permalink/1887188004933466/</ref><ref>https://www.facebook.com/notes/toki-pona/closed-group-open-heart/1541086135945766/</ref><ref>https://www.facebook.com/notes/toki-pona/wrong-pona/1109021089152275/</ref>

==2018==
===February 2018===
On 28 February, the {{tp|toki pona taso}} group on Facebook reached 500 members.<ref>https://www.facebook.com/groups/tokiponataso/permalink/1955721724746760/</ref>

===March 2018===
On 23 March, Langfocus published a 13-minute video, "Toki Pona: 'The Language of Good{{'"}} on YouTube.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4y7tf3VJAM</ref> This interested a great number of people in Toki Pona and in joining the Facebook groups.

On 27 March, ''Oxford Dictionaries Blog'' published the article "Exploring Toki Pona: do we need more than 120 words?" by Simon Thomas.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20190511184141/https://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2018/03/27/toki-pona-invented-language-120-words/</ref>

===September 2018===
On 28 and 29 September, {{tok|jan Wena}} gave two Toki Pona crash courses at the polyglot festival LingvaFest in {{w|Bratislava}}.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20181128100303/http://www.lingvafest.sk/programme/</ref><ref>http://www.lingvafest.sk/2018/wp-content/uploads/sites/9/2018/09/lingvafest-2018-program.pdf</ref><ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20181128100024/http://www.lingvafest.sk/language-crash-courses/</ref><ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20181128104041/http://www.lingvafest.sk/lingvafest-2018-en</ref>

===November 2018===
On 9 November, {{tp|[[seme li sin?]]}} created his first Toki Pona news weekly video on YouTube.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88gCYeN3gWE</ref>

==2019==
===January 2019===
On 15 January, {{tok|jan Tepu}} opened the {{tp|tomo pi sitelen pona}} website with the first texts using {{tp|linja pona}} version 4.<ref name=":17">http://archive.fo/HeIc8</ref><ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/tokipona/comments/ahw1dh/texts_in_sitelen_pona/</ref> He added {{tp|sitelen pona}} lessons from scratch and a dictionary to the website on 28 January.<ref name=":17" /><ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/tokipona/comments/aklfe3/learn_sitelen_pona_from_scratch/</ref><ref>https://davidar.github.io/tp/kama-sona</ref><ref>https://tokipona.fandom.com/wiki/Where_is_Toki_Pona_used%3F?diff=11784&oldid=11783</ref>

===April 2019===
On April Fools' Day, the 10-year anniversary of the word {{tp|kijetesantakalu}} was celebrated, with some mentions on Twitter. The holiday seemed to be referred to as {{tp|tenpo suno kijetensakalu}}.<ref>https://twitter.com/search?l=&q=kijetesantakalu%20since%3A2019-02-01%20until%3A2019-04-30&src=typd</ref><ref>https://twitter.com/SoweliNasa/status/1111176095355666432</ref>

===June 2019===
On 4 June 2019, {{tok|jan Same}} published a translation of ''The Little Red Riding Hood'', available in {{tp|sitelen Lasina}}, {{tp|sitelen sitelen}}, and {{tp|sitelen pona}}.<ref>https://www.facebook.com/groups/sitelen/permalink/2299820960072276/</ref>

On 18 June, the "ISO" page on Wikia was changed to "[[Where is Toki Pona used?]]" because the "extent of the page has grown, and can be used much broader than original scope."<ref>https://tokipona.fandom.com/wiki/Where_is_Toki_Pona_used%3F?diff=12413&oldid=12412</ref>

On 25 June, Dev Bali published the "Toki Pona sitelen Emoji Keyboard" app on Google Play.<ref>https://www.facebook.com/groups/sitelen/permalink/2336193946434977/</ref>

The same day, {{tok|jan Same}} published the first video of the {{tp|o kama sona e sitelen pona}} 13-lesson series (+ Introduction) on YouTube by {{tok|jan Same}}.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uze2LKVN-2E&list=PLJjeLfR6etE69KRFWQB1guBjfWIw8NN75&index=1</ref><ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGddpKcF6FI&list=PLJjeLfR6etE69KRFWQB1guBjfWIw8NN75&index=2</ref> The series concluded on 14 July.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8tc_Gp_P4Y&list=PLJjeLfR6etE69KRFWQB1guBjfWIw8NN75&index=14</ref><ref>https://www.facebook.com/groups/sitelen/permalink/2370649696322735/</ref>

On 30 June, Daniele [[Vacon Sartirani]] published the first of his comic series {{tp|nasin nasa}} in {{tp|sitelen sitelen}}.<ref>https://www.facebook.com/groups/sitelen/permalink/2345917122129326/</ref><ref>https://tapas.io/series/Nasin-Nasa</ref><ref>https://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/nasin-nasa/list?title_no=303628</ref>

===July 2019===
On 7 July 2019, Dev Bali created the r/sitelenEmoji subreddit.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/sitelenEmoji/comments/ca3pz3/sitelenemoji_has_been_created/</ref>

On 12 July, {{tok|jan Same}} presented {{tp|sitelen pona}} glyphs for {{tp|apeja}} and {{tp|kijetesantakalu}} following a series of polls on Facebook.<ref>https://www.facebook.com/groups/sitelen/permalink/2355123914541980/</ref><ref>https://www.facebook.com/groups/sitelen/permalink/2355080587879646/</ref><ref>https://www.facebook.com/groups/sitelen/permalink/2352892101431828/</ref><ref>https://www.facebook.com/groups/sitelen/permalink/2351528398234865/</ref>

On 21 July, the ''Toki Pona Pal'' app on Google Play reached 5,000+ installs.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20190721160706/https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.Moosader.TokiPonaPal</ref>

On 26 July, C. Ryan Moniz ({{tok|[[jan inwin]]}}) published the {{tp|[[nimi ale pona]]}} dictionary, one of the first to document several nonstandard words.

===August 2019===
On 27 August 2019, {{tok|[[jan Sepulon]]}} created the interactive work of fiction {{tp|supa lape mi li ike}}.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/tokipona/comments/cvzj7b/beta_testers_needed_for_a_tp_game_musi_li_wile_e/</ref>

===September 2019===
On 21 September 2019, there was a vote to changing the {{tp|sitelen Emoji}} symbols for the words {{tp|pilin}}, {{tp|olin}}, {{tp|pini}}, {{tp|kama}}, {{tp|tan}}, {{tp|tawa}}, {{tp|sijelo}}, {{tp|unpa}}, and {{tp|sama}}.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/sitelenEmoji/comments/d7gmuc/vote_on_sitelen_emoji_changes/</ref> As of 29 September, eight changes were approved.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/sitelenEmoji/comments/dapdqx/changes_to_sitelen_emoji_that_were_approved/</ref>

23 September marked the first mention of an alleged two-year-old Toki Pona [[native speaker]].<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/languagelearning/comments/d817si/if_a_dead_language_is_a_language_with_no_native/f16go0u/</ref><ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/tokipona/comments/da8lgj/native_toki_pona_speakers/f1ok7q5/</ref>

===October 2019===
On 21 October, {{tok|jan sitelen_ike}} published the first of the {{tp|musi nimi}} word puzzles.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/tokipona/comments/dl0mtn/ma_nimi_musi/</ref>

===November 2019===
On 5 November, {{tok|jan Sonja}} created the joke words {{tp|[[mulapisu]]}} and {{tp|[[yupekosi]]}} on Discord.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/mi_lon/comments/drxev0/jan_sonja_li_pali_e_nimi_sin_suli_ni_pi_toki_pona/</ref><ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20200217124810/http://tokipona.net/tp/janpije/extinctwords.php</ref>

On 23 November, a Toki Pona meetup organized by {{tok|jan Kaje}} took place in {{w|Dallas}}, Texas.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/tokipona/comments/du5p4z/dallas_meetup/</ref> There were about 11 attendees including {{tok|jan Sonja}}. Later, marcusbarkus published a 6-minute documentary from the event.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/tokipona/comments/excwny/toki_pona_documentary/</ref><ref>https://drive.google.com/file/d/1IENgQQzOuGZGl8W2HkSrBuwyGk5w14fh/view</ref>

===December 2019===
On 21 December, {{tok|jan sitelen_ike}} published {{tp|linja pimeja}}, a handwritten font for sitelen pona.<ref>https://github.com/increpare/linja_pimeja</ref><ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/tokipona/comments/edsto5/linja_pimeja_li_nasin_sitelen_sin_pi_sitelen_pona/</ref>

==2020==
===January 2020===
On 7 January 2020, {{tok|jan Lili}} posted a one-page [[cheat sheet]] for easily learning the bare basics of Toki Pona.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/tokipona/comments/elar20/toki_pona_cheat_sheet_entire_language_on_one_page/</ref><ref>https://blinry.org/toki-pona-cheat-sheet/</ref> Comparisons were made to the {{tp|lipu lili pona}} mini-booklet.<ref>https://lipu-lili-pona.neocities.org/lipu%20lili%20pona.pdf</ref><ref>https://jan-ne.github.io/lipu-lili-pona/</ref>

===February 2020===
On 1 February 2020, u/marcusbarkus posted a teaser for a Toki Pona documentary that he created from interviewing speakers in the Dallas and Fort Worth metropolitan area. The full-length picture would come out at a later date.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/tokipona/comments/excwny/toki_pona_documentary/</ref><ref>https://drive.google.com/file/d/1IENgQQzOuGZGl8W2HkSrBuwyGk5w14fh/view</ref><ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghC-hyGkHlY</ref>

As of 17 February, the first 2-year old native speaker of toki pona had allegedly produced simple sentences such as {{tp|mi wawa}}, {{tp|mi tawa}}, {{tp|mi olin e sina}}, {{tp|ni li laso}}, and {{tp|ni li loje}} (pronounced {{IPA|[lon.ɲe]}}). The first ever unprompted spoken sentence by a native speaker was reportedly {{tp|ni li palisa}}, while pointing to an electric pole.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/tokipona/comments/f4vg1l/has_anyone_tried_teaching_their_kids_toki_pona/</ref>

===March 2020===
On 19 March, NalathniDragon (Nathan McCoy) created the {{tp|sitelen sike}} script.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/tokipona/comments/fl90k2/sitelen_sike_a_writing_method_aiming_for/</ref>

===April 2020===
On 23 April, {{tp|akesi seli lili}}, an independently published book of short stories written in Toki Pona, was published.<ref>https://www.amazon.com/Toki-Pona-Stories-akesi-seli/dp/B087RGBT1S/130-1881816-0486727?psc=1</ref>

===May 2020===
On 18 May, a community poll selected a glyph for the then-new word {{tp|[[tonsi]]}}.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/tokipona/comments/gmhzgg/survey_results_how_much_people_likeddisliked/</ref> The next day, {{tok|jan Same}} added the glyph to the {{tp|linja pona}} font.<ref>https://musilili.net/linja-pona/</ref><ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/tokipona/comments/gn8r6k/linja_pona_font_update/</ref>

On 31 May, {{tok|jan Simejo}} published the "Toki Pona Keyboard" app on Google Play, intended to help quickly write with the {{tp|linja pona}} font on mobile devices.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/tokipona/comments/gtwgne/i_made_a_thing/</ref><ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/tokipona/comments/gwe03c/toki_pona_keyboard_alpha_release/</ref>

===June 2020===
On 23 June, {{tok|jan Simejo}} started to build a [[programming language]] using {{tp|[[sitelen pona pona]]}} for syntax, input, and output.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/tokipona/comments/hesekb/yes_it_runs/</ref>

===July 2020===
On 1 July, {{tok|jan Tomenta}} created the {{tp|sitelen lili}} script, a shorthand proposal for {{tp|sitelen pona}}.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/tokipona/comments/hjci9g/shorthand_proposal_sitelen_lili/</ref>

On 5 July, {{tok|jan Simejo}} created the {{tp|[[sitelen musi]]}} script.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/tokipona/comments/hlpvx0/sitelen_musi/</ref><ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/tokipona/comments/hpy4bx/introguide_for_sitelen_musi_ive_never_made_a/</ref><ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/tokipona/comments/hleth1/ni_li_musi_tawa_mi/</ref>

On 7 July, a Toki Pona course in the [[international auxiliary language]] {{w|Lingua Franca Nova}} emerged.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/tokipona/comments/hmqz3q/toki_pona_course_in_elefen/</ref><ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EsVZVXqjz0</ref><ref>https://elefen.org/vici/tocipona/xef</ref>

From 25 to 26 July, u/ElemenopiTheSequel published two major proposals for several new glyphs to be added to {{tp|linja pona}}, including {{tp|[[tuli]]}}, {{tp|[[po]]}}, {{tp|[[kapesi]]}}, {{tp|[[kan]]}}, and {{tp|[[mulapisu]]}}.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/tokipona/comments/hxzvew/i_made_a_sitelen_pona_glyph_for_every_nonpu_word/</ref> The second post outlined changes to some of these glyph proposals.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/tokipona/comments/hyi31s/a_revision_of_some_of_my_nonpu_glyphs/</ref>

On 30 July 2020, 39 new non-{{tp|pu}} words were added to the {{tp|sitelen Emoji}} script, both pre-{{tp|pu}} and post-{{tp|pu}}. Many of the new additions were words found in the {{tp|nimi ale pona}} dictionary.<ref>https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1QQpV5pAvP0F2jAyihzh3Krv4So4rCYHr6pVDFS1WIQ8/edit#gid=751840456</ref>

===August 2020===
On 10 August, u/B13614 created the {{tp|[[sitelen ko]]}} script.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/tokipona/comments/i71a3g/sitelen_ko_a_script_for_clay/</ref><ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/tokipona/comments/i71b4b/example_for_sitelen_ko_on_clay/</ref>

On 12 August, u/ElemenopiTheSequel created the [[r/OffThePu|r/OffThe{{tok|Pu}}]] subreddit and Discord server, aiming to create new glyphs for every word in the extended {{tp|[[nimi ale]]}} dictionary.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/OffThePu/</ref><ref>https://discord.com/invite/yavm4nA</ref><ref>https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1odOeRhe7-I2g25OmeyazW5uAD56m5Po7</ref>

On 21 August, {{tok|[[jan Pije]]}} retired his website and [[o kama sona e toki pona!|lessons]].

===September 2020===
On 3 September, {{tok|jan Sonja}} created the word {{tp|[[kokosila]]}} on Discord.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/tokipona/comments/im71mk/mama_pi_toki_pona_jan_sonja_li_pali_e_nimi_sin_a/</ref>

On 28 September, {{tok|jan Melon}} published a complete Toki Pona translation of the {{w|Universal Declaration of Human Rights}}, the first such completed translation. It is a synthesis of earlier partial translations by Shawn Kilpatrick and {{tok|jan Kanso}}; it also incorporates {{tok|jan Melon}}'s own work and translations solicited from other Reddit users.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/tokipona/comments/j1sm83/lipu_lawa_pi_ken_jan_pi_ma_ale_toki_pona_udhr/</ref><ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/tokipona/comments/iugi4f/is_there_a_complete_udhr_in_toki_pona/</ref>

==2021==
===January 2021===
On 2 January 2021, the idea of a Toki Pona magazine emerged from a discussion in a post concerning the ISO code for Toki Pona.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/tokipona/comments/koyri1/iso_registration/</ref><ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/tokipona/comments/kpk9jo/toki_pona_magazine/</ref> On 27 January, the first articles of the {{tp|[[lipu kule]]}} zine were published.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/tokipona/comments/l6elpa/lipu_sin_li_lon_a_lipu_kule_li_lipu_sin_pi_toki/</ref><ref>https://lipukule.org/</ref> It is created as a split from the original magazine idea developed on Discord.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/tokipona/comments/l970wi/new_lipu_kule_articles_monsutatesu_and_omekapo/</ref>

At an unknown point between 9 and 31 January 2021, {{tok|kule epiku Atawan}} and {{tok|kala pona Tonyu}} submitted {{tp|[[tu kuntu]]}}<ref>https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/29/Tu_kuntu.pdf</ref> to a playwriting competition at the {{tp|[[ma pona pi toki pona]]}} Discord server.<ref>It happened somewhere between [https://discord.com/channels/301377942062366741/599426037977186324/797428088258560020 this message] from 2021-01-09 and [https://discord.com/channels/301377942062366741/375591429608570881/805298655238160404 this message] from 2021-01-31 (not publicly visible)</ref> At around 7,000 words, it is assumed to be the [[List of works by length|longest original Toki Pona text]] at the time.

===February 2021===
On 1 February 2021, the first issue of the {{tp|lipu tenpo}} online magazine was released.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/tokipona/comments/la0owt/lipu_tenpo_li_lon/</ref><ref>https://liputenpo.org/2021/02/01/lipu-tenpo-nanpa-akesi/</ref>

On 5 February, Sonja Lang announced that the Toki Pona Facebook group had adopted a policy against linguistic [[prescriptivism]].<ref>https://www.facebook.com/groups/sitelen/permalink/3744003018987389/</ref>

===July 2021===
On 18 July, [[Sonja Lang]] released the ''[[Toki Pona Dictionary]]'', or {{tp|lipu ku}}, a [[descriptive]] collection of word translations surveyed in {{tp|[[ma pona pi toki pona]]}}. It classified 17 additional words as {{tp|[[nimi ku suli]]}}, including some [[Pre-pu era|pre-{{tp|pu}}]] words that had been cut from {{pu|en}}, such as {{tp|[[kijetesantakalu]]}}. This ended the [[post-pu|post-{{tp|pu}}]] [[era]] and began {{tp|[[tenpo ku]]}}.

===August 2021===
From 7 to 8 August, the first {{tp|[[suno pi toki pona]]}} took place, celebrating the 20th anniversary of Toki Pona. It was organized by members in the {{tp|[[ma pona pi toki pona]]}} {{w|Discord}} server, and broadcast on a {{w|YouTube}} livestream.<ref name="sptp2021">{{cite web|url=https://suno.pona.la/2021/|title=suno pi toki pona 2021|website={{tok|suno.pona.la}}|access-date=10 November 2023}}</ref> It was hosted by {{tok|jan Makoje}}, {{tok|jan Tepo}}, and {{tok|kala pona Tonyu}}.<ref>{{cite YouTube|toki pona day 2021 #1|id=CdBJiSTu5XU|title={{tok|suno pi toki pona}}|channel={{tok|ma pona pi toki pona}}|handle={{tok|maponapitokipona}}|date=7 August 2021|access-date=10 November 2023}}</ref> According to the official website, it was attended by around 170 people.<ref name="sptp2021" />

===October 2021===
On 13 October 2021, the horror anthology webzine {{tp|uta monsuta}} was published. It was originally a one-off publication, but was to become the first yearly issue of the {{tp|[[lipu monsuta]]}} webzine.<ref>https://lipumonsuta.itch.io/uta-monsuta</ref><ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/tokipona/comments/q6ziae/uta_monsuta_a_zine_of_horror_stories_in_toki_pona/</ref>

===December 2021===
On 1 December, {{tok|jan Juli}} published a German edition of {{tp|lipu pu}} under the title {{pu|de}}.<ref>https://www.amazon.de/-/en/Sonja-Lang/dp/B09MJ8JPV6/</ref>

==2022==
===May 2022===
On 29 May 2022, {{tok|jan Tepo}} publicly posted a link to {{tp|[[jan Keta li weka!]]}}, his translation of {{lang|eo|''Gerda malaperis!''}} by Claude Piron.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/tokipona/comments/v057bl/jan_keta_li_weka_a_translation_of_the_esperanto/</ref><ref>https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vTPNbOI0bcy31sRnziHm0urd__61l2-N7952qNG3WXxOTzMn8NAXmouv0uzTY5eiBip4vTA1ThRTxRc/pub</ref> With around 15,000 words it was likely the [[List of works by length|longest text]] in Toki Pona, until the record was broken again [[#July 2022|two months later]].

===June 2022===
On 29 June, {{tok|jan Kala}} and {{tok|jan Sonja}} published {{tp|[[jan Sitata]]}}, {{tok|jan Kala}}'s translation of part one of the 1922 novel {{w|Siddhartha (novel)|''Siddhartha''}} by Hermann Hesse.<ref>https://tokipona.org/sitata/</ref><ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/tokipona/comments/vnhqb3/jan_sitata_a_free_web_book/</ref>

===July 2022===
On 21 July, Jonathan Hill posted a translation of the entire {{w|Gospel of John}} in Toki Pona.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.reddit.com/r/tokipona/comments/w4f8k3/johns_gospel_in_toki_pona/|title=John's Gospel in toki pona|lang=en|website=Reddit|author=Jonathan Hill|username=u/JonathanCRH|date=2022-07-21|access-date=2024-02-13}}</ref> At more than 23,000 words, it is believed to be the [[List of works by length|longest text]] in Toki Pona to this day.

===August 2022===
On 5 August 2022, the wiki {{tp|[[sona pona]]}} was created.<ref><span class="plainlinks">[{{fullurl:Main Page|diff=1}} Main Page: Difference between revisions] (diff 1)</span></ref> It grew sharply from late 2023 to early 2024, and currently has {{NUMBEROFARTICLES}} articles.

From 6 to 7 August, {{tp|[[suno pi toki pona]]}} was celebrated for the second time, marking the 21st anniversary of Toki Pona.

From 8 to 13 August, an Esperanto edition of {{tp|lipu pu}} by {{tok|jan Pensa}} was sold at the World Esperanto Congress 2022 in Montreal, under the title {{lang|eo|''Tokipono: La lingvo de bono''}}.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/tokipona/comments/w4z190/esperanto_book_of_toki_pona_the_language_of_good/</ref>

===October 2022===
On October 1, a print-on-demand edition of the Esperanto translation of {{tp|lipu pu}} was published, making it available in online stores for the first time.<ref>https://www.amazon.com/Tokipono-lingvo-Esperanto-Sonja-Lang/dp/9464376090</ref>

On 9 October, the horror anthology zine {{tp|[[lipu monsuta]]}} became a yearly publication with the release of {{tp|mun monsuta}}, its second issue.<ref>https://lipumonsuta.itch.io/mun-monsuta</ref><ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/tokipona/comments/xxp94f/mun_monsuta_a_spoopy_zine_of_toki_pona_taso/</ref>

==2023==
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===August 2023===
From 5 to 6 August, {{tp|[[suno pi toki pona]]}} was celebrated for the third time, marking the 22nd anniversary of Toki Pona.

==2024==
{{Flux}}
{{Needs work|scope=section}}

=== February 2024 ===
On 3 February 2024, Sonja Lang published {{Oz}}, the first in a [[su (series)|series of Toki Pona storybooks]] referred to by the formerly [[reserved]] word {{tp|[[su]]}}. The book was primarily written in {{tp|sitelen pona}} and featured various idiosyncrasies in its use thereof.

==Year unknown==
===Prior to 2013===
Michael F published {{tp|jan lawa lili}}, a complete translation of {{lang|fr|''Le Petit Prince''}} (''The Little Prince'') by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. It was found on his website failbluedot.com,<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20140305062735/http://failbluedot.com/toki_pona/jan_lawa_lili</ref> and was added to the corpus at Tokipona.net some time before 2013-01-20.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20130120091230/http://tokipona.net/tp/ReadingHelper.aspx</ref> With a word count of 11,780 it is thought to have been the [[List of works by length|longest text]] in Toki Pona [[#May 2022|until 2022]].

==See also==
*[[History of sitelen pona|History of {{tp|sitelen pona}}]]

==References==
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{{General}}
[[Category:lipu pi toki ante]]
[[Category:lipu lon toki Inli]]

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2001[edit | edit source]

August 2001[edit | edit source]

On 8 August, Sonja Lang made the first public post about Toki Pona on her website at GeoCities, under the username Marraskuu, meaning "November" in Finnish.[1] In her post and email logs, Lang claimed that the entire language has "150 words". The website was later moved to tokipona.org[2] and kisa.ca/tokipona.[3]

On 9 August, the website claimed:[4]

Toki Pona! The Natural, Simple Language. Toki Pona is a pidgin-like language designed to express basic human realities by reducing words and ideas to their most simple and universal meanings and avoiding unnecessary complexity. Inspired by the principles of Taoism and primitivism, the entire language has only 14 sounds and under 200 words

Matthew Chrisholm (jan Matejo), Lang's roomate at the time, seems to be the second Toki Pona speaker.

December 2001[edit | edit source]

On 5 December, the web domain tokipona.org was registered.[5]

On 6 December, the word "cute" was added to the description ("Toki Pona is a cute, pidgin-like language").[6]

2002[edit | edit source]

March 2002[edit | edit source]

On 24 March 2002, a Toki Pona group was created on Yahoo! Groups.[7] The group was polled on whether the now-obsolete third-person pronoun iki should be changed, as it was deemed to be too long and too similar to ike.[8]

On the same day, Toki Pona was reviewed by Damian Yerrick,[9][10] who "has pointed out problems that eventually were corrected".[11]

On 26 March, Lang published a dictionary of country names.[12]

April 2002[edit | edit source]

On 8 April, Chuck Smith created an article about Toki Pona on the English Wikipedia, titled "Toki Pona language".[13] The article's existence was repeatedly contested, but it ultimately passed a good article nomination and had a fact featured on the main page in 2019.

May 2002[edit | edit source]

On 15 May, Lang proposed the word kiwen ("rock, stone, metal, material") to replace the previously used compound wawa ma ("hardness of the earth").[14] A poll[15] resulted in 6 votes for kiwen and 2 votes for wawa ma.[16]

On 16 May, another poll on the Yahoo! group about iki was created, and the result was to change iki to ona.[17]

On 19 May, Nikita Ayzikovsky (jan Nikita), who seems to be the third fluent speaker of Toki Pona,[18] created AEI pi toki pona,[19] an alphabet chart that has become well recognized through its inclusion in other resources.

On 31 May, following the second poll, iki was replaced with ona.[20][21]

July 2002[edit | edit source]

On 8 July, forum user Viktoro proposed converting Toki Pona into a three-vowel language. Lang considered the idea, but ultimately rejected it.[22]

On 16 July, Lang published the Toki Pona phonetic conversion guidelines.[23] Some proper names for countries were updated, such as France becoming ma Kanse instead of the previous ma Lanse.[12]

October 2002[edit | edit source]

On 10 October, Knight published the poem "kili lili".[24] It was later included in his o kama sona e toki pona! course, becoming a well-recognised poem among the community.[25]

November 2002[edit | edit source]

On 1 November, ali became an alternative to ale,[26][27] en was made to only join head nouns and not modifiers, kan was deprecated, and kin was used for emphasis of any word.[28]

2003[edit | edit source]

February 2003[edit | edit source]

On 12 February, Lang introduced the question type anu seme (or what?), inspired by the German particle oder.[29]

July 2003[edit | edit source]

On 25 July, Knight completed the first version of his o kama sona e toki pona! course,[30] which would become a major learning resource until Knight shut his site down in 2020.

2004[edit | edit source]

March–November 2004[edit | edit source]

On 31 March, Lang asked on the Wikipedia-l mailing list how to add a Toki Pona language edition of Wikipedia,[31][32] leading to the creation of an official Toki Pona Wikipedia on 4 April.[33] However, it was closed on 16 November.[34][35][36][37] It later moved to Wikicities (later Wikia, Fandom) before being independently hosted as lipu Wikipesija.

Undated[edit | edit source]

From left to right: Marek Blahuš, Eliazar Parra Cárdenas, and Peter Baláž meeting in Modra, Slovakia in 2013

In late 2004, Eliazar Parra Cárdena published the originally Spanish-language course Toki Pona in 76 illustrated lessons.[38] An Esperanto translation became the first published Toki Pona textbook on 12 July 2013, and would go on to appear at Esperanto meetups.

2005[edit | edit source]

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2006[edit | edit source]

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2007[edit | edit source]

May 2007[edit | edit source]

On 7 May, Marcos Cramer (jan Moku) requested the ISO 639-3 language code tok.[39] The request was rejected on 18 February 2008.[40][41] Much later, a second request was made in 2017 and rejected in 2018.[42] Following a third request, the identifier tok was eventually adopted in January 2022.[43]

July 2007[edit | edit source]

According to an article published in The Globe and Mail on 9 July:[44]

A Colorado programmer is developing an apocalyptic computer game with Toki Pona as the spoken language. An Israeli-German singer and member of the Stuttgart Chamber Choir is including it in a concert of musical pieces composed in constructed languages, alongside Esperanto and Star Trek’s Klingon. … Pekka Roponen, a psychiatrist at the central hospital of Hameenlinnan, in southern Finland, … is studying the language’s usefulness in treating patients, having them keep track of their daily thoughts in Toki Pona.

2008[edit | edit source]

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2009[edit | edit source]

April 2009[edit | edit source]

In the Yahoo group, jan Sonja presented the word kijetesantakalu as an April Fools' Day joke:[45]

Although some of the new words I am considering are still in the testing phase, I can safely say that one word that has made the cut is "kijetesantakalu", a noun for any animal from the Procyonidae family, such as raccoons, coatis, kinkajous, olingos, ringtails and cacomistles. I took it from the Finnish word kierteishäntäkarhu, meaning kinkajou.

October 2009[edit | edit source]

On 1 October, jan Sonja closed the yahoo group and replaced it with the phpBB forum, citing that she wanted to have more direct ability to administrate the community. On the same day, she would replace the previous version of her website with a wiki based one at en.tokipona.org. This new wiki would see the list of official words updated with the deprecation of noka to be replaced with anpa, and the introduction of several new words such as namako, alasa, kipisi, and pu. Notably, kijetesantakalu was not included.

November 2009[edit | edit source]

On 18 November, jan Sonja created Toki Pona merchandise.[46]

December 2009[edit | edit source]

On 1 December, Jonathan Gabel (jan Josan) published the writing system sitelen suwi, later known as sitelen sitelen.[47][48] On 10 December, jan Mato proposed creating a contract in Toki Pona, and realized the idea with jan Josan.[49][50][51] On 16 December, jan Kipo proposed renaming the writing system to sitelen sitelen.[52]

2010[edit | edit source]

January 2010[edit | edit source]

As of 20 January, The Routledge Linguistics Encyclopedia (3rd ed.) by Kirsten Malmkjær mentioned Toki Pona in chapter Artificial languages – Recreation on p. 34.[53][54]

Toki Pona is a language exploring the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis, designed to encourage positive thoughts.

October 2010[edit | edit source]

On 31 October, jan Mimoku created the r/tokipona subreddit, which would go on to accrue thousands of subscribers.[55]

2011[edit | edit source]

February 2011[edit | edit source]

On 5 February, the toki pona Facebook group was created.[56]

2012[edit | edit source]

May 2012[edit | edit source]

As of 31 May, jan Sonja had asked several people whether they would be willing to take over Toki Pona:[57][58]

I've privately asked a few active people if they would be interested in managing Toki Pona. It's an option I need to consider.

2013[edit | edit source]

March 2013[edit | edit source]

On 10 March, Christopher Huff created the (unofficial) Toki Pona Sign Language.[59][60][61][62]

2014[edit | edit source]

March 2014[edit | edit source]

On 5 March, jan Mali published her first "Learn toki pona in a fortnight" video on YouTube.[63]

April–May 2014[edit | edit source]

On 25 April, jan Sonja sought graphic designers for the cover of her book.[64][65] On 25 May, she published Toki Pona: The Language of Good or lipu pu,[66][67] a descriptive guide on how to speak Toki Pona, with 120 official words; some commonly used words at the time were cut from pu, like kipisi. This ended the pre-pu era and began tenpo pu.

June 2014[edit | edit source]

From 15 to 19 June, Christopher Huff gave a one-hour talk at the Polyglot Gathering in Berlin.[68][69][70]

July 2014[edit | edit source]

On 18 July, Kris Broholm interviewed jan Sonja on a 45-minute episode of Actual Fluency Podcast, "AFP 20 – Sonja Lang: Toki Pona, Conlanging and the meaning of life".[71]

On 20 July, jan Wesi created a sitelen pona font. From 2016 to 2021, jan Same worked on this and created the highly influential linja pona font,[72] with contributions to version 4 by David A. Roberts.[73][74][75]

December 2014[edit | edit source]

From 11 to 12 December, 17 people tried to learn Toki Pona in 48 hours in an Actual Fluency meetup called TokiPonathon 2014.[76][77][78]

2015[edit | edit source]

January 2015[edit | edit source]

On 1 January, The Guardian published the article "What happened when I tried to learn Toki Pona in 48 hours using memes" by Ellie Violet Bramley, who took part in the 2014 TokiPonathon.[77]

July 2015[edit | edit source]

On 15 July, The Atlantic published the article "How to Say (Almost) Everything in a Hundred-Word Language" by Roc Morin.[79]

On 26 July, a Kindle edition of Toki Pona: The Language of Good became available.[80][81]

September 2015[edit | edit source]

From 26 to 28 September, nine Esperantists from different countries went to Brno for a meetup named Eŭropa Tokipona Studado (kama sona pi toki pona lon ma Elopa; "European Toki Pona Study").

November 2015[edit | edit source]

On 8 November, Helen Zaltzman interviewed jan Sonja in a 20-minute episode of The Allusionist podcast, "Allusionist 25: Toki Pona".[82]

December 2015[edit | edit source]

From 13 to 24 December, jan Misali created a series of video lessons named 12 Days of sona pi toki pona, making one episode per day. Despite this tight schedule and some resultant mistakes, the series would become one of the most common ways to learn Toki Pona in following years.

2016[edit | edit source]

April 2016[edit | edit source]

On 12 April, jan Tomani created the toki pona taso group on Facebook.[83][84]

On 24 April, jan Sonja published a French edition of Toki Pona: The Language of Good under the title Toki Pona: la langue du bien.[85]

May 2016[edit | edit source]

From 25 to 29 May, the second EToSo takes places in Ede, Netherlands.[86]

October 2016[edit | edit source]

From 16 to 17 October, jan Same created and proposed sitelen pona glyphs for the "extinct" words kin, kipisi, leko, monsuta, namako, oko, and pake.[87]

2017[edit | edit source]

February 2017[edit | edit source]

On 23 February, jan Misali published "Conlang Critic Episode Twelve: Toki Pona" on YouTube.[88]

March 2017[edit | edit source]

On 20 March, jan Tomani opened the "toki pona central hub preparation document".[89]

June 2017[edit | edit source]

On 27 June, Sylvain Lumbroso, Jean-Yves Ginchereau, and Marion Vignal interviewed jan Sonja in French on Podcast Quadrivium Radio, Québec Science in an episode "Tout dire avec 120 mots" ("Say it all with 120 words").[90]

July 2017[edit | edit source]

On 18 July, jan Tomani created the tomo pona website (toki pona central hub).[91]

September 2017[edit | edit source]

On 1 September, a Toki Pona competition in writing articles on Wikipesija took place on Facebook.[92]

October 2017[edit | edit source]

On 18 October, the toki pona taso group on Facebook changed from public to closed.[93][94][95]

2018[edit | edit source]

February 2018[edit | edit source]

On 28 February, the toki pona taso group on Facebook reached 500 members.[96]

March 2018[edit | edit source]

On 23 March, Langfocus published a 13-minute video, "Toki Pona: 'The Language of Good'" on YouTube.[97] This interested a great number of people in Toki Pona and in joining the Facebook groups.

On 27 March, Oxford Dictionaries Blog published the article "Exploring Toki Pona: do we need more than 120 words?" by Simon Thomas.[98]

September 2018[edit | edit source]

On 28 and 29 September, jan Wena gave two Toki Pona crash courses at the polyglot festival LingvaFest in Bratislava.[99][100][101][102]

November 2018[edit | edit source]

On 9 November, seme li sin? created his first Toki Pona news weekly video on YouTube.[103]

2019[edit | edit source]

January 2019[edit | edit source]

On 15 January, jan Tepu opened the tomo pi sitelen pona website with the first texts using linja pona version 4.[104][105] He added sitelen pona lessons from scratch and a dictionary to the website on 28 January.[104][106][107][108]

April 2019[edit | edit source]

On April Fools' Day, the 10-year anniversary of the word kijetesantakalu was celebrated, with some mentions on Twitter. The holiday seemed to be referred to as tenpo suno kijetensakalu.[109][110]

June 2019[edit | edit source]

On 4 June 2019, jan Same published a translation of The Little Red Riding Hood, available in sitelen Lasina, sitelen sitelen, and sitelen pona.[111]

On 18 June, the "ISO" page on Wikia was changed to "Where is Toki Pona used?" because the "extent of the page has grown, and can be used much broader than original scope."[112]

On 25 June, Dev Bali published the "Toki Pona sitelen Emoji Keyboard" app on Google Play.[113]

The same day, jan Same published the first video of the o kama sona e sitelen pona 13-lesson series (+ Introduction) on YouTube by jan Same.[114][115] The series concluded on 14 July.[116][117]

On 30 June, Daniele Vacon Sartirani published the first of his comic series nasin nasa in sitelen sitelen.[118][119][120]

July 2019[edit | edit source]

On 7 July 2019, Dev Bali created the r/sitelenEmoji subreddit.[121]

On 12 July, jan Same presented sitelen pona glyphs for apeja and kijetesantakalu following a series of polls on Facebook.[122][123][124][125]

On 21 July, the Toki Pona Pal app on Google Play reached 5,000+ installs.[126]

On 26 July, C. Ryan Moniz (jan inwin) published the nimi ale pona dictionary, one of the first to document several nonstandard words.

August 2019[edit | edit source]

On 27 August 2019, jan Sepulon created the interactive work of fiction supa lape mi li ike.[127]

September 2019[edit | edit source]

On 21 September 2019, there was a vote to changing the sitelen Emoji symbols for the words pilin, olin, pini, kama, tan, tawa, sijelo, unpa, and sama.[128] As of 29 September, eight changes were approved.[129]

23 September marked the first mention of an alleged two-year-old Toki Pona native speaker.[130][131]

October 2019[edit | edit source]

On 21 October, jan sitelen_ike published the first of the musi nimi word puzzles.[132]

November 2019[edit | edit source]

On 5 November, jan Sonja created the joke words mulapisu and yupekosi on Discord.[133][134]

On 23 November, a Toki Pona meetup organized by jan Kaje took place in Dallas, Texas.[135] There were about 11 attendees including jan Sonja. Later, marcusbarkus published a 6-minute documentary from the event.[136][137]

December 2019[edit | edit source]

On 21 December, jan sitelen_ike published linja pimeja, a handwritten font for sitelen pona.[138][139]

2020[edit | edit source]

January 2020[edit | edit source]

On 7 January 2020, jan Lili posted a one-page cheat sheet for easily learning the bare basics of Toki Pona.[140][141] Comparisons were made to the lipu lili pona mini-booklet.[142][143]

February 2020[edit | edit source]

On 1 February 2020, u/marcusbarkus posted a teaser for a Toki Pona documentary that he created from interviewing speakers in the Dallas and Fort Worth metropolitan area. The full-length picture would come out at a later date.[144][145][146]

As of 17 February, the first 2-year old native speaker of toki pona had allegedly produced simple sentences such as mi wawa, mi tawa, mi olin e sina, ni li laso, and ni li loje (pronounced [lon.ɲe]). The first ever unprompted spoken sentence by a native speaker was reportedly ni li palisa, while pointing to an electric pole.[147]

March 2020[edit | edit source]

On 19 March, NalathniDragon (Nathan McCoy) created the sitelen sike script.[148]

April 2020[edit | edit source]

On 23 April, akesi seli lili, an independently published book of short stories written in Toki Pona, was published.[149]

May 2020[edit | edit source]

On 18 May, a community poll selected a glyph for the then-new word tonsi.[150] The next day, jan Same added the glyph to the linja pona font.[151][152]

On 31 May, jan Simejo published the "Toki Pona Keyboard" app on Google Play, intended to help quickly write with the linja pona font on mobile devices.[153][154]

June 2020[edit | edit source]

On 23 June, jan Simejo started to build a programming language using sitelen pona pona for syntax, input, and output.[155]

July 2020[edit | edit source]

On 1 July, jan Tomenta created the sitelen lili script, a shorthand proposal for sitelen pona.[156]

On 5 July, jan Simejo created the sitelen musi script.[157][158][159]

On 7 July, a Toki Pona course in the international auxiliary language Lingua Franca Nova emerged.[160][161][162]

From 25 to 26 July, u/ElemenopiTheSequel published two major proposals for several new glyphs to be added to linja pona, including tuli, po, kapesi, kan, and mulapisu.[163] The second post outlined changes to some of these glyph proposals.[164]

On 30 July 2020, 39 new non-pu words were added to the sitelen Emoji script, both pre-pu and post-pu. Many of the new additions were words found in the nimi ale pona dictionary.[165]

August 2020[edit | edit source]

On 10 August, u/B13614 created the sitelen ko script.[166][167]

On 12 August, u/ElemenopiTheSequel created the r/OffThePu subreddit and Discord server, aiming to create new glyphs for every word in the extended nimi ale dictionary.[168][169][170]

On 21 August, jan Pije retired his website and lessons.

September 2020[edit | edit source]

On 3 September, jan Sonja created the word kokosila on Discord.[171]

On 28 September, jan Melon published a complete Toki Pona translation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the first such completed translation. It is a synthesis of earlier partial translations by Shawn Kilpatrick and jan Kanso; it also incorporates jan Melon's own work and translations solicited from other Reddit users.[172][173]

2021[edit | edit source]

January 2021[edit | edit source]

On 2 January 2021, the idea of a Toki Pona magazine emerged from a discussion in a post concerning the ISO code for Toki Pona.[174][175] On 27 January, the first articles of the lipu kule zine were published.[176][177] It is created as a split from the original magazine idea developed on Discord.[178]

At an unknown point between 9 and 31 January 2021, kule epiku Atawan and kala pona Tonyu submitted tu kuntu[179] to a playwriting competition at the ma pona pi toki pona Discord server.[180] At around 7,000 words, it is assumed to be the longest original Toki Pona text at the time.

February 2021[edit | edit source]

On 1 February 2021, the first issue of the lipu tenpo online magazine was released.[181][182]

On 5 February, Sonja Lang announced that the Toki Pona Facebook group had adopted a policy against linguistic prescriptivism.[183]

July 2021[edit | edit source]

On 18 July, Sonja Lang released the Toki Pona Dictionary, or lipu ku, a descriptive collection of word translations surveyed in ma pona pi toki pona. It classified 17 additional words as nimi ku suli, including some pre-pu words that had been cut from Toki Pona: The Language of Good, such as kijetesantakalu. This ended the post-pu era and began tenpo ku.

August 2021[edit | edit source]

From 7 to 8 August, the first suno pi toki pona took place, celebrating the 20th anniversary of Toki Pona. It was organized by members in the ma pona pi toki pona Discord server, and broadcast on a YouTube livestream.[184] It was hosted by jan Makoje, jan Tepo, and kala pona Tonyu.[185] According to the official website, it was attended by around 170 people.[184]

October 2021[edit | edit source]

On 13 October 2021, the horror anthology webzine uta monsuta was published. It was originally a one-off publication, but was to become the first yearly issue of the lipu monsuta webzine.[186][187]

December 2021[edit | edit source]

On 1 December, jan Juli published a German edition of lipu pu under the title Toki Pona: Die Sprache des Guten.[188]

2022[edit | edit source]

May 2022[edit | edit source]

On 29 May 2022, jan Tepo publicly posted a link to jan Keta li weka!, his translation of Gerda malaperis! by Claude Piron.[189][190] With around 15,000 words it was likely the longest text in Toki Pona, until the record was broken again two months later.

June 2022[edit | edit source]

On 29 June, jan Kala and jan Sonja published jan Sitata, jan Kala's translation of part one of the 1922 novel Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse.[191][192]

July 2022[edit | edit source]

On 21 July, Jonathan Hill posted a translation of the entire Gospel of John in Toki Pona.[193] At more than 23,000 words, it is believed to be the longest text in Toki Pona to this day.

August 2022[edit | edit source]

On 5 August 2022, the wiki sona pona was created.[194] It grew sharply from late 2023 to early 2024, and currently has 653 articles.

From 6 to 7 August, suno pi toki pona was celebrated for the second time, marking the 21st anniversary of Toki Pona.

From 8 to 13 August, an Esperanto edition of lipu pu by jan Pensa was sold at the World Esperanto Congress 2022 in Montreal, under the title Tokipono: La lingvo de bono.[195]

October 2022[edit | edit source]

On October 1, a print-on-demand edition of the Esperanto translation of lipu pu was published, making it available in online stores for the first time.[196]

On 9 October, the horror anthology zine lipu monsuta became a yearly publication with the release of mun monsuta, its second issue.[197][198]

2023[edit | edit source]

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August 2023[edit | edit source]

From 5 to 6 August, suno pi toki pona was celebrated for the third time, marking the 22nd anniversary of Toki Pona.

2024[edit | edit source]

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February 2024[edit | edit source]

On 3 February 2024, Sonja Lang published The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Toki Pona edition), the first in a series of Toki Pona storybooks referred to by the formerly reserved word su. The book was primarily written in sitelen pona and featured various idiosyncrasies in its use thereof.

Year unknown[edit | edit source]

Prior to 2013[edit | edit source]

Michael F published jan lawa lili, a complete translation of Le Petit Prince (The Little Prince) by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. It was found on his website failbluedot.com,[199] and was added to the corpus at Tokipona.net some time before 2013-01-20.[200] With a word count of 11,780 it is thought to have been the longest text in Toki Pona until 2022.

See also[edit | edit source]

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