History

2009

2009/04/01

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.”^[1]

2009/11/18

Toki Pona merchandise is created by jan Sonja.^[2]

2009/12/01

The writing system sitelen suwi (later known as sitelen sitelen) is published by jan Josan.^[3]^[4]

2009/12/10

jan Mato proposes creating a contract in Toki Pona, and realises the idea with jan Josan.^[5]^[6]^[7]

2009/12/16

jan Kipo proposes calling jan Josan’s writing system sitelen sitelen as opposed to sitelen suwi.^[8]

2018

2018/01/23

The second ISO 639-3 language code request is rejected.^[9]

2018/02/28

The toki pona taso group on Facebook hits 500 members.^[10]

2018/03/23

Langfocus publishes his 13-minute video Toki Pona: "The Language of Good" on YouTube.^[11] 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.^[12]

2018/03/27

Oxford Dictionaries Blog (Simon Thomas) publish an article Exploring Toki Pona: do we need more than 120 words?.^[13]

2018/05/15

Toki Pona hits 300 speakers on Amikumu.^[14]

2018/09/28–29

Two Toki Pona crash courses are given at a polyglot festival LingvaFest’ in Bratislava, Slovakia by jan Wena.^[15]^[16]^[17]^[18]

2018/11/09

seme li sin? creates his first Toki Pona news weekly video on YouTube.^[19]

References

[1] ttp://forums.tokipona.org/viewtopic.php?f=33&t=1033

[2] ttp://forums.tokipona.org/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=1183

[3] ttp://tokipl.wikidot.com/art-pisma

[4] ttp://forums.tokipona.org/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=1199

[5] ttp://forums.tokipona.org/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=1201&start=30#p6046

[6] ttp://forums.tokipona.org/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=1222&start=0

[7] ttp://forums.tokipona.org/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=1265&p=6372

[8] ttp://forums.tokipona.org/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=1222&start=10#p6115

[9] ttps://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

[10] ttps://www.facebook.com/groups/tokiponataso/permalink/1955721724746760/

[11] ttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4y7tf3VJAM

[12] ttps://tools.wmflabs.org/pageviews/?project=en.wikipedia.org&platform=all-access&agent=user&start=2018-02-24&end=2018-04-24&pages=Toki_Pona

[13] ttps://web.archive.org/web/20190511184141/https://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2018/03/27/toki-pona-invented-language-120-words/

[14] ttp://web.archive.org/web/20180515175827/https://amikumu.com/statistics/

[15] ttps://web.archive.org/web/20181128100303/http://www.lingvafest.sk/programme/

[16] ttp://www.lingvafest.sk/2018/wp-content/uploads/sites/9/2018/09/lingvafest-2018-program.pdf

[17] ttps://web.archive.org/web/20181128100024/http://www.lingvafest.sk/language-crash-courses/

[18] ttps://web.archive.org/web/20181128104041/http://www.lingvafest.sk/lingvafest-2018-en

[19] ttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88gCYeN3gWE

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