7,937
edits
History: Difference between revisions
no edit summary
No edit summary |
No edit summary |
||
Line 16:
==2001==
===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
On 9 August, the website claimed, "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>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>
| |||