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'''Sonja Lang'''<ref group="lower-alpha">Née '''Sonja Elen Kisa'''.</ref>{{aside|{{w|Third-person pronoun|pronouns}}: {{pronouns|she}}}}, better known in the [[Toki Pona community]] as '''{{tok|jan Sonja}}'''{{aside|1={{tp|[[sitelen pona]]}}: <divspan style="display:inline-block;">{{sp|jan [sona olin nasa jasima alasa]}}</divspan><ref>{{cite Discord|name={{tok|jan Sonja}}|username=sonjalang|url=https://discord.com/channels/301377942062366741/301377942062366741/820098018598322186|channel={{tok|toki-pona}}|server={{tp|ma pona pi toki pona}}|quote=at the moment: {{tok|sona olin nasa jasima alasa}}}}</ref><ref>{{cite Oz}}</ref>}}, is a Canadian linguist and translator, known for the creation of [[Toki Pona]] and {{tp|[[sitelen pona]]}}. She authored the book {{pu|en}} (2014), compiled the {{ku|en}} (2021), and translated {{Oz}} (2024). She speaks {{w|Acadian French}}, {{w|English language|English}}, {{w|German language|German}}, {{w|Malay language|Malay}}, and {{w|Esperanto}}.

Lang was born in {{w|Moncton}}, {{w|New Brunswick}}, {{w|Canada}}, around 1978–1979.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://en.tokipona.org/wiki/3-60|title=3-60|website=en.tokipona.org|date=2009-11-15|archive-url=https://archive.ph/20091115031837/http://en.tokipona.org/wiki/3-60|archive-date=2016-07-29}}</ref> As a minority speaker of French, she took an early interest in languages and language learning. She intentionally sought to learn languages from various families.<ref>{{cite roundtable|pagename=8}}<"roundtable" /ref>