Media coverage

This article is about coverage from media outlets. For media in Toki Pona, see Media.

This is a list of media coverage from outside the Toki Pona community.

News coverage

• Boel, Leen. (2016). "The biggest or the smallest vocabulary? Everything will be 'pona'!". Terminology Coordination Unit of the European Parliament.
• Bramley, Ellie Violet. (2015). "What happened when I tried to learn Toki Pona in 48 hours using memes". The Guardian.
• Dance, Amber. (2007). "In their own words -- literally". Los Angeles Times.
• Dance, Amber. (2007). "Invented languages: They're not just for Klingons anymore". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Reprinted from Los Angeles Times (2007).
• Dunne, Aidan. (2019). "Art in Focus: Therapy Notebook 1, pp. 1-6 by Eoin McHugh: Sketchbook drawings take spirit of simplified Toki Pona language and apply it to images". The Irish Times.
• Engelhardt, Joseph. (2016). "A 123-Word Language That Can Be Learned In Under A Week". The Oddysey.
• Foer, Joshua. (2012). "Utopian for Beginners". The New Yorker.
• Griffin, Sarah. (2018). "Podcast of the week: The smallest language in the world". The Irish Times.
• Hale, Tom. (2024). "Toki Pona: The Unique Language With Less Than 150 Words". IFLScience.
• Hopton, John. (2015). "Speak in a made-up language to feel better". RedOrbit.
• Hiraishi, Kuʻuwehi. (2017). "The Nerdiest Languages You Need to Learn are Invented". Hawaii Public Radio.
• Joshua, Hannah. (2015). "Live and learn: Apps promise to help adults learn languages in their spare time, but can you really become bilingual as you commute to work, asks Hannah Joshua". New Scientist.
• Kolitz, Daniel. (2021). "What's the Newest Language?". Gizmodo.
• Maruthanayakam, Vidhya. (2024). "World's simplest language with less than 150 words is enough to understand the meaning of life". Upworthy.
• Milsent, Alina. (2024). "Scientist has developed a unique language with only 120 words: there are already thousands of speakers". Obozrevatel.
• Moore, Nick. (2007). "Moncton native creates unique 'good language'". Times and Transcript.
• Moore, Nick. (2007). [http://forums.tokipona.org/download/file.php?id=28&mode=view
• "She's talking in a new tongue". Telegraph-Journal. Reprinted from Times and Transcript (2007).
• Morin, Roc. (2015). "How to Say (Almost) Everything in a Hundred-Word Language". The Atlantic.
• Morin, Roc. (2015). "The world's smallest language has only 100 words — and you can say almost anything". Business Insider. Republished from The Atlantic.
• Nagel, Donovan. (2016). "How Much Vocab Do You Actually Need To Speak A Foreign Language?". The Mezzofanti Guild.
• Panganiban, Roma. (2015) "In A Language With Only 123 Words, Less Is More". Mental Floss
• Pereltsvaig, Asya. (2015). "Are Languages of "Primitive Peoples" Primitive?". Languages of the World.
• Roberts, Siobhan. (2007). "Canadian has people talking about lingo she created" (Newspaper scan). The Globe and Mail.
• Sandalo, Sabrina. (2015). "Toki Pona for Deeper Insights". Antedote.
• Schott's Vocab. (2010). "Questions Answered: Invented Languages". The New York Times.
• Thomas, Simon. (2018). "Exploring Toki Pona: do we need more than 120 words?". Oxford Dictionaries Blog.
• Tipton, Gemma. (2019). "Look at this picture. What do you see?". The Irish Times.
• Topelko, Sandra; Walrod, Mike (n.d.). "What is a Language?". Canadian Institute of Linguistics.

In other languages

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Arabic

• Sasapost 2016

French

• 20 Minuten another link 2007, Le toki pona est la nouvelle langue à la mode sur le net [in French]
• Unidivers 2017
• Ulyces Peut-on tout dire avec la langue la plus concise du monde? [Can we say everything in the most concise language in the world? Translated from The Atlantic (2015) above]
• L'Obs [reprinted from Ulyces above]

German

• Das Übersehene im Offensichtlichen, Der Tagesspiegel; 2020 [TP only mentioned]
• Der Tagesspiegel 2020

Hungarian

• Nyelv és Tudomány 2009

Polish

• Uczmysiejezykow
• naszemiasto.pl 2019, Tomasz Smoczyk z Leszna mówi 15 językami. Zna nawet język toki pona [ZDJĘCIA] (Tomasz Smoczyk from Leszno speaks 15 languages. He even knows Toki Pona [Photos]. In Polish). Karolina Bodzińska

Portuguese

• "Toki Pona: conheça o idioma com menos palavras no mundo" Di Lorenzo, Alessandro (2024). Olhar Digital.

Russian

• BelPressa 2019
• Focus 2018
• Linguis 2016
• Geektimes 2008
• Naukablog2013
• Арт-революция another link (Art Revolution) on МТРК «Мир» (TV and radio company Mir) (2007, 16-minute segment on constructed languages in Russian)

Spanish

• El Confidencial 2020, El idioma de 120 palabras que "te hace feliz", explicado por la única española que lo habla [The 120-word language that "makes you happy", explained by the only Spanish who speaks it]

Interviews with Sonja Lang

• Alexis, André. (2008). [Title unknown]. CBC Radio Two.
• Broholm, Kris. (2014). "AFP 20 – Sonja Lang: Toki Pona, Conlanging and the meaning of life" [Podcast]. Actual Fluency. (45 minutes)
• Doucet, Michel. (2007). "Le Réveil" [Radio broadcast transcript]. Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. (13 minutes)
• Farrow, Jane. (2007). "Invented Languages" [Radio broadcast]. And Sometimes Y. CBC Radio One.
• Lumbroso, Sylvain. (2017). "Tout dire avec 120 mots" [Podcast] (in French). Québec Science. (7 minutes)
• Robichaud, Denis. (2007). "3-60" [Radio broadcast transcript]. Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. (8 minutes)
• Sylvester, Kevin. (25 July 2007). "Sounds Like Canada" [Radio broadcast]. CBC Radio One. (20 minutes)
• Zaltzman, Helen. (2015). "Allusionist 25: Toki Pona" [Podcast]. Allusionist. (20 minutes)

Podcasts

• Clancy, Luke. (2019). "Culture File: Eoin McHugh's Loje, Jelo, Laso". RTÉ Radio. (8 minutes)
• Clancy, Luke. (2019). "The Culture File Weekly 251019: Toki Pona; Pinterest; Sustainable Stages". RTÉ Radio. (13 minutes)
• Eliška. (2020). "SlowCZECH: (144) Zvláštní jazyk "Toki pona"" (in Czech). SlowCZECH. (9 minutes)
• George. (2021). Conlangery #07: Word Creation. Conlangery. (50 minutes)
• Stoddard, Adam. (2020). "Core Values 2020 / Week 3 / Toki Pona". Hope and Anchor. (7:25–9:15)
• Tyson, Lily. (2024). "From 'The Lord of the Rings' to 'Dune,' a look at the world of constructed languages". WNPR. (8 minutes)

Blogs

• Comatose Podcast. (2017). "Everything Changes in Time". Medium.
• ebrulato. (2017). "toki pona, "le langage du bien"" [in French]. Medium.
• ebrulato. (2017). "aUI 2 Toki Pona" [in French]. Medium.
• Engheim, Erik. (2017). "Let's talk about Abstractions". Medium.
• IfYouOnly. (2015). "July 23, 2015: Can a language survive with just 123 words?". Medium.
• Mari-Liis (2024). "Searching for the perfect language: The case of Toki Pona". Transly.
• Rycroft, Jamie. (2023) "Wordplaying: Why People Like to Construct Languages (and What it Might Say About Them". ADC Theatre.
• Sciforce. (2019). "Top Dead and Constructed Languages to Learn". Medium.
• Sunderarajan, Badri. (2017) "The Littlest Language: What you speak is what you think. Or is it the other way round?". Medium.
• vimukthi (2024). "Toki Pona is a Fully Functional Language With 120 Words". Blurt.