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[[Toki Pona]] is known for its low amount of vocabulary, but how many words there are depends on the speaker, timeframe, and cutoff point for expanded and controversial cases.
This article treats {{tp|[[ali]]}} as a spelling variant of {{tp|[[ale]]}}, not counting it as a separate word.▼
==Survey says==
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==Historical==
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===By the books===
{{nasin pu}}
{{pu|en}}, published in 2014, advertises "120 words", but has 123 including the "[[synonym]]s" that it unsuccessfully tried to merge. Later editions include more words to better reflect contemporary usage. See {{tp|[[nimi pu]]}}.
{{nasin ku}}
{{ku|en}}, published in 2021, advertises "137 essential words", and includes up to 187 words overall. See {{tp|[[nimi ku]]}}.
===pre-{{tp|pu}}===
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[[pre-pu|Before the first official book]], the count of words fluctuated a bit. For a long while, it stayed stable at 118 words.
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====2009====
On 2009-04-01, the word {{tp|kijetesantakalu}} is introduced as an April Fool's joke.
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===Beyond the books===
Many, many, <em>many</em> other words have been created, most of which never have been used beyond their creation. It is impossible to find them all.
Nevertheless, an attempt was made in the form of [https://theepicosity.github.io/lipu-pi-ijo-pi-toki-pona/ {{tok|kule epiku Atawan}}'s {{tp|nimi ale}}]. It is an extremely indiscriminate collection, seeking to contain anything that anyone ever declared to be a Toki Pona word. As of the last edit<ref group="note">The Table of Contents claims it was last updated in 2020-02-24, but section 2a contains a link to a Discord message posted in <strong>2021</strong>-02-13.</ref>, the grand total (across sections 1 through 4) is 1165 words (some with multiple independent definitions). Over half of those are from [https://theepicosity.github.io/lipu-pi-ijo-pi-toki-pona/nimi-ale/NA%20-%202a.txt section 2a], "words in {{tok|[[ma pona pi toki pona]]}}", which catalogued every message containing the custom <code>:[[nimisin|{{tok|nimisin}}]]:</code> emote.
A somewhat more conservative list is {{tok|[[lipu Linku]]}}, which as of the August 2022 update contains 256 words. Even so, many of them are obscure, with 12 of them scoring 0% in a usage survey.
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