Toki Pona: The Language of Good
Toki Pona: The Language of Good, known in Toki Pona as lipu pu or (less formally) pu, is the foundational resource of modern Toki Pona. It was written by jan Sonja to describe her way of speaking the language and finalize her work on Toki Pona. It was originally published in English in 2014. All language editions are available for purchase at tokipona.org.
pu presents Toki Pona's philosophy and is mostly dedicated to lessons, with texts and dictionaries afterward. The set of Toki Pona words used in pu is called nimi pu. They include 120 main words, with 1 pronunciation variant, and 3 words presented as "synonyms". pu also features two writing systems created for the language: sitelen pona (which it fully describes) and sitelen sitelen. Toki Pona Dictionary has since amended pu's material with the section "Notes on lipu pu".
The sitelen pona glyph for pu, pu, is a simplified drawing of the book's cover.
pu
The word pu is defined as "interacting with the official Toki Pona book". This generally refers to words and ways of speaking that are featured in Toki Pona: The Language of Good. See also ku, Reserved words.
Editions
pu has been translated to several other languages.
| Year | Language | Title | Contains ku material? | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ISO 639-1 |
Exonym | Endonym | |||
| 2014 | en |
English | Toki Pona: The Language of Good | No | |
| 2016 | fr |
French | français | Toki Pona: la langue du bien | No |
| 2021 | de |
German | Deutsch | Toki Pona: Die Sprache des Guten | Yes |
| 2022 | eo |
Esperanto | Tokipono: La lingvo de bono | Yes | |