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[[File:Toki pona.svg|thumb|180px|The [[Toki Pona logo]]. It is retrofitted into {{tp|[[sitelen pona]]}} as the [[sitelen pona#Combined glyphs|combined glyph]] {{sp|toki-pona}}.]]

'''Toki Pona''' is a philosophical artistic {{wp|constructed language}} created by [[Sonja Lang]] in 2001.

'''Toki Pona''' is a philosophical artistic {{wp|constructed language}} created by [[Sonja Lang]] in 2001. It is designed for talking about things by explaining them in simple terms.<ref>{{cite YouTube|id=n3p4-GFXrkM|title={{tok|o ku}}: introducing the Toki Pona Dictionary|author={{tok|[[jan Misali]]}}|channel={{tok|jan Misali}}|handle=HBMmaster|date=2021-07-19|access-date=2023-12-03|quote=}}</ref>

Toki Pona has a [[community]] of over 1800 speakers<ref>[//tokiponacensus.github.io/results2022/#do-you-consider-you-know-toki-pona Results of the 2022 Toki Pona census - Do you consider you know Toki Pona?]</ref> and is mainly spoken online, where it is one of the most popular conlangs<ref>[[Sonja Lang]]. (6 May 2023). [//tokipona.org/largest_conlangs.html Most Popular Conlangs Online].</ref>. Speakers and proponents of Toki Pona are mainly called [[tokiponist]]s.

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== History ==

Sonja Lang started developing Toki Pona to simplify her thoughts during periods of depression. It was also partly inspired by Taoist philosophy. She shared early versions of the language online starting in August 2001, and got feedback on words and features. The project initially gained popularity with Esperantists. Much of the early activity was on Yahoo! Groups, from March 2002 onwards, and a dedicated phpBB forum.

Sonja Lang started developing Toki Pona to simplify her thoughts during periods of depression. It was also partly inspired by Taoist philosophy. She shared early versions of the language online starting in August 2001, and got feedback on words and features. The project initially gained popularity with Esperantists. Much of the early activity was on Yahoo! Groups, from March 2002 onwards, and a [[Toki Pona Forums|dedicated phpBB forum]].

=== {{tp|tenpo pu}} ===