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soko

Common Toki Pona content word

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.

soko in sitelen pona
soko in sitelen sitelen
Pronunciation /ˈso.ko/
Usage 2023: Common (63% ↘︎ )2022: Widespread (70%)
Book and era nimi ku suli (post-pu)
Part of speech Content word
Codepoint 󱦁 U+F1981

Etymology Edit

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

The semantic space of soko includes any type of fungi, primarily mushrooms, and their structures, such as the mycelium.

ku Edit

For Toki Pona Dictionary, respondents in ma pona pi toki pona translated these English words as soko:[2]

mushroom3, fungus3

sitelen pona Edit

 
Amanita muscaria (fly agaric), mushroom reminiscent of the wide-stem soko glyph

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

Glyph history Edit

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(In July 2022 I originally drew a thick-stemmed soko for pu Epelanto, and then lipamanka recommended changing it to thin-stemmed, saying it was more common among people who use soko. I vaguely remember the annulus variant also being used by a minority at the time, but I might be misremembering. --jan Pensa)

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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]

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See also Edit

References Edit

  1. ↑ jan inwin [@orsetto]. (4 November 2019). [Message posted in the #sona-musi channel in the ma pona pi toki pona Discord server]. Discord. "i rather like the sound of soko from Georgian სოკო sokʼo "mushroom"".
  2. ↑ Lang, Sonja. (18 July 2021). Toki Pona Dictionary. Illustrated by Vacon Sartirani. Tawhid. ISBN 978-0978292362. p. 345.
  3. ↑ 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.
  4. ↑ 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".
  5. ↑ 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.
  6. ↑ 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.
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