ma pona

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This article is about the fictional setting. For the Discord server, see ma pona pi toki pona.

ma pona is a common name for a hypothetical place where Toki Pona is spoken, especially one that embodies the language's philosophy. It is used as the base for some community names like ma pona pi toki pona. It is also given as the fictional locale for the Toki Pona language option in Minecraft.

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"Real ma pona"[edit | edit source]

Fictional stop sign (o tawa ala in sitelen Lasina and sitelen pona), implying a digraphic nation with highway engineering and adopted signage conventions.

Some tokiponists have suggested creating a physical Toki Pona nation or micronation, similar to Lojbanistan and Esperantujo.

Around 2022, on lipu Wesi and related subreddits, there was a trend of designing national symbols (flags, anthems,[citation needed] etc.), currency,[1][2][3] and civil infrastructure (government systems,[4][more citations needed] identity documents,[5] road signs,[6][7] etc.) based on markers of established civilizations.

mouseless criticized this notion of a "real ma pona" for its basis in colonialism and patriotism.[8] This essay has become widely recommended reading when such proposals arise.

r/ma_pona[edit | edit source]

r/ma_pona (not to be confused with the earlier, less active r/mapona) is a dormant subreddit pertaining to ma pona. It was created in July 2022 during the trend of ma pona content on r/tokipona, and continued for a little bit afterwards, but was predominantly only active through August. It also had a Discord server.

A ma pona website (mapona.xyz)[9][10], proposed on r/ma_pona,[4] existed in August 2022 but is now offline.

References[edit | edit source]

  1. ↑ [janKanon6]. (28 June 2022). "Idea for toki pona currency". r/tokipona. Reddit. Retrieved 29 May 2024.
  2. ↑ [AwwThisProgress]. (1 July 2022). "Another idea for Mani Currency (for the tokipona island)". r/tokipona. Reddit. Retrieved 29 May 2024.
  3. ↑ [casperdewith]. (1 July 2022). "mi lukin e lipu mani mute – mi kin li wile pali e ni!" [I see a lot of banknotes – I also want to make these!] (in Toki Pona). r/tokipona. Reddit. Retrieved 29 May 2024.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 [ilikelanguge]. (31 July 2022). "An Idea of How the Government Could Work". r/ma_pona. Reddit. "".tok" is not a valid TLD (top level domain name). The website "mapona.xyz", is now registered.".
  5. ↑ [noljo]. (19 August 2022). "Hey all! I started learning toki pona very recently and made this ma pona passport concept today. What do you think?". r/tokipona. Reddit. Retrieved 29 May 2024.
  6. ↑ [alexdapineapple]. (2 July 2022). "forget mani. here we love street signs. here's a toki pona road sign concept, because why not?". r/tokipona. Reddit. Retrieved 29 May 2024.
  7. ↑ [swift_USB]. (3 July 2022). "I heard we were doing road signs, so I translated some US-style signs for y'all". r/tokipona. Reddit. Retrieved 29 May 2024.
  8. ↑ "why all man-made "ma pona" suck". mimuki.net. Archived from the original on 27 October 2023.
  9. ↑ "ma pona Official Website". mapona.xyz. Archived from the original on 1 August 2022. Retrieved 15 August 2024.
  10. ↑ [PureRaider]. "mapona.xyz". GitHub.
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