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{{Hatnote|See also {{wp|Toki Pona|the Wikipedia article}}.}}
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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. Speakers and proponents of Toki Pona are called '''tokiponists''' or, jocularly, '''tokiponers'''.
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Many [[:Category:Media|creative works]] have been made in Toki Pona or translated into it.
== Name ==
'''{{tp|[[toki]] [[pona]]}}''' (all lowercase) is the language's most commonly used {{wp|endonym}}. Notably, it is not a [[Names|proper name]]; the phrase literally means "good speech" and can describe any good communication. Some speakers use other phrases to refer to the language, such as {{tp|toki [[ni]]}} ("this language").
Toki Pona (titlecased) is the language's proper name in other languages such as English, French, and German. It is usually translated as "[[Toki Pona: The Language of Good|the language of good]]" (Esperanto: {{lang|eo|''la lingvo de bono''}}, French: {{lang|fr|''la langue du bien''}}, German: {{lang|de|''die Sprache des Guten''}}). In Esperanto, the name is altered to '''{{lang|eo|Tokipono}}'''.
== Language rules ==
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