ISO 639-3
ISO 639-3 is a three-letter language code standard by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). It is widely used online for tagging and supporting content in multiple languages. After two rejected requests in 2008 and 2018, the identifier tok was adopted for Toki Pona on 20 January 2022.[1]
Benefits
HTML and XML documents can mark Toki Pona text in a WCAG-compliant way with the attribute lang="tok".[2] This metadata enables unambiguous language detection, which will ideally enable support for Toki Pona hyphenation and ligature rules, speech synthesis, and spelling and grammar checking. Toki Pona editions of more works will also be created.
Support
The following services have Toki Pona support through the ISO 639-3 standard:
- Archive of Our Own includes Toki Pona as a language option.[3]
- CLDR has a Toki Pona locale. A large amount of websites, apps, and translation projects rely on this standard.
- Linku has a Toki Pona localization.
- sona pona marks Toki Pona text with the templates
{{tok}}and{{tp}}, which toggles italics. - Wikidata has full Toki Pona support, including Toki Pona names and descriptions of data items and interface language.
- Wikipedia and Wiktionary mark Toki Pona text.
- YouTube supports Toki Pona closed captions.
References
- ↑ "tok | ISO 639-3". SIL International. Retrieved 20 November 2023.
- ↑ "Understanding Success Criterion 3.1.2: Language of Parts | WAI | W3C". World Wide Web Consortium. Retrieved 20 November 2023.
- ↑ "Search Results". Archive of Our Own. Retrieved 26 December 2023.
| Development and usage | jan Sonja · Toki Pona: The Language of Good (2014) · Tokiponidos · Software (Tools · Fonts) · suno pi toki pona · Toki Pona census · Toki Pona Dictionary (2021) · UCSUR · Linku · ISO 639-3 |
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| Conventions | Phonology (Phonotactics) · Words (Tokiponization) · Grammar (Word order) · Social conventions · Writing systems (sitelen Lasina · sitelen pona · sitelen sitelen) · luka pona (sign language) · Number systems · Calendar systems · Styles (pu · pu-rism · ku · Nonstandard) |
| Philosophy | Minimalism · Context · Circumlocution · Expression · Lexicalization · Multiple sentences · Comparisons |
| Resources | Frequently asked questions · Courses · Dictionaries · Cheat sheets · Visual aids · Communities · Websites · Media |
| Text input | Fonts · Wakalito · Autocorrect · Text-to-speech · ASCII |
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| Standardization | ISO 639-3 · UCSUR |