Linku

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Linku (sitelen pona: LinkuLinku) is a free and open-source dictionary project about Toki Pona and the collection of data and tools involving it. The name Linku was coined by kala Asi in 2021 and is derived from the words linluwi, meaning "internet", and ku, the second book by jan Sonja. It was originally a temporary name but ended up becoming permanent.

Community

kulupu Linku

kulupu Linku is a Discord server for collaboration on Linku projects. Linku contributors include, but are not limited to:

• jan Kekan San, kala Asi - general maintainers of all Linku projects;
• jan Telesi - work on sona Linku, and the new version of lipu Linku;
• jan Ke Tami - maintainer of the font list.

nimi Linku

nimi Linku is a Crowdin Enterprise organisation for localising the Linku dataset.

Data

sona Linku

sona Linku is a collaborative, open dataset, including:

• A localised dictionary of Toki Pona words, known as the "Linku dictionary",
• A dictionary of non-notable Toki Pona words, known as the "Linku sandbox",
• A localised dictionary of luka pona,
• A list of fonts for Toki Pona.

The Linku dictionary is a derivative work of nimi ale pona, created by jan inwin and maintained by lipamanka and jan Pensa. It also includes several other sources, such as jan Sonja's free sample of ku survey data, kapesi Pake's nimi ali epiku, and ilo Eko's description of sitelen pona etymologies.

The data is stored as .toml files, and automatically built to .json files.

As of January 2024, there is ongoing work to add an API for fetching smaller data objects instead of full .json files.

sona Linku is a replacement for deprecated jasima Linku, adding schema validation and Crowdin integration, and using .toml files instead of a Google spreadsheet as its data source.

ijo Linku

ijo Linku is a collection of multimedia files for use by other Linku projects. As of January 2024, it includes:

• Audio recordings of Toki Pona word pronunciations
• Videos of Luka Pona signs
• Images of sitelen sitelen glyphs
• Results of Linku surveys

nasin sitelen Linku

nasin sitelen Linku is a repository of fonts for Toki Pona. The font collection is a subset of fonts listed in jasima Linku, limited to fonts that allow redistribution.

As of January 2024, it contains 60 font files, and the repository may be merged with ijo Linku in the future.

Tools

lipu Linku

lipu Linku is a web frontend to the Linku dictionary written in vanilla JavaScript.

sitelen Linku is an unmaintained fork of lipu Linku, designed to showcase a grid layout for sitelen pona.

As of January 2024, there is ongoing work on a replacement for lipu Linku using SvelteKit.

nimi.li

nimi.li is a third-party web frontend written in SvelteKit by jan Tani. It uses the Linku dataset with several additional words.

ilo Linku

ilo Linku is a Discord bot with access to the Linku dictionary and the Linku font collection. The most notable commands are:

• /n for requesting the dictionary definition of a word,
• /sp for displaying text in a font.

Word usage surveys

Main article: Usage categories

The Linku team puts out annual word usage surveys, to update the database with the best information, and to allow users to filter the dictionary by their preferred usage cutoff point. kala Asi discussed surveying words in a segment for suno pi toki pona 2023.

External links

• Official website
• Organization on GitHub