soko
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| Pronunciation | /ˈso |
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| Usage | 2023: Common (63% ↘︎ )2022: Widespread (70%) |
| Book and era | nimi ku suli (post-pu) |
| Part of speech | Content word |
| Codepoint | U+F1981 |
soko is a common content word and nimi ku suli relating to fungi. It was formerly widespread according to the 2022 Linku survey, but has since declined in usage.
Etymology[edit | edit source]
The word soko is derived from Georgian სოკო (soḳo), meaning "mushroom". It was coined in 2019 by jan inwin in the ma pona pi toki pona community.[1]
Semantic space[edit | edit source]
The semantic space of soko includes any type of fungi, primarily mushrooms, and their structures, such as the mycelium.
ku[edit | edit source]
For Toki Pona Dictionary, respondents in ma pona pi toki pona translated these English words as soko:[2]
mushroom3, fungus3
sitelen pona[edit | edit source]
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The sitelen pona glyph for soko represents a mushroom. There are three main variants, all with a semioval for a top (often but not always with rounded corners), but with three different ways to represent the stem of the mushroom: a box for a wide stem (soko1), a line for a thin stem (soko2), and a cross for a stem and annulus (soko3).
Some speakers promote the thin-stem variants to avoid confusion between wide-stem soko and the glyph for mama (mama), which can look similar in some people's handwriting and in some fonts.
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Thin-stem soko
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Wide-stem soko
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Glyph history[edit | edit source]
A thin-stemmed glyph with a fully oval-shaped top (as opposed to a semioval) was designed by nimi Elemenopi in July 2020.[3][4] The thick-stemmed variant was used and popularized by all three fonts that were recommended by Sonja Lang in 2021, most notably linja sike. Around 2022, the thin-stemmed variants started gaining popularity. Both thin-stemmed variants (with and without annulus) have a similar degree of support among current sitelen pona font makers.
The Esperanto translation of Toki Pona: The Language of Good (2022) and The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Toki Pona edition) (2024) present the thin-stem variant without annulus.[5][6]
sitelen sitelen[edit | edit source]
See also[edit | edit source]
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ jan inwin [@orsetto]. (4 November 2019). [Message posted in the
#sona-musichannel in the ma pona pi toki pona Discord server]. Discord. "i rather like the sound of soko from Georgian სოკო sokʼo "mushroom"". - ↑ Lang, Sonja. (18 July 2021). Toki Pona Dictionary. Illustrated by Vacon Sartirani. Tawhid. ISBN 978-0978292362. p. 345.
- ↑ nimi Elemenopi [u/ElemenopiTheSequel]. (26 July 2020). "I made a sitelen pona glyph for every non-pu word in the "nimi ale pona" dictionary". r/tokipona. Reddit. Retrieved 28 December 2023.
- ↑ nimi Elemenopi [u/ElemenopiTheSequel]. (15 August 2020). "Here are the official glyphs for the 1b words in the NA". r/OffThePu. Reddit. Retrieved 28 December 2023. "[Key: black] = original, made by me".
- ↑ Lang, Sonja. (1 October 2022). Tokipono: La lingvo de bono (in Esperanto). Translated by Spencer van der Meulen. ISBN 978-94-6437-609-8. p. 149.
- ↑ Baum, L. Frank. (3 February 2024). The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Toki Pona edition). Translated by Sonja Lang. Illustrated by Evan Dahm. Tawhid Press. ISBN 978-0978292379. (Original work 1900.) p. 17.