SomeBODY once told me
this language’s gonna roll me
I don’t have many words in the shed
She then made a little hum
with her finger and her thumb
in the shape of a “pi” on her forehead =D
Well, the creative works start coming and they don’t stop coming - check them out!
⚂ = sitelen pona
Community projects
- The lipu tenpo team published lipu tenpo nanpa pakala! The next theme will be “pimeja”, click here to contribute.
- waso Kasen would like you to say how well-formed these sentences are!
- How do different people pronounce toki pona? Eliza McIntosh and Jen Hay from the University of Canterbury, New Zealand would like you to speak some sentences into this form!
- After finishing the translation of Genesis, lipamanka is looking for proofreaders!
- Please remember to fill out and share the big surveys:
- toki pona census!
- Linku’s word survey!
- Linku’s ⚂glyph survey!
Songs
- jan Tepi translated All Star by Smash Mouth!
- Sunny Number Basher Lu translated How Far I’ll Go, Love Is An Open Door, and A Million Dreams!
- eepyricee translated the Hatsune Miku song ⚂World is Mine by ryo!
- jan Netakin translated ⚂Lizard Boy by Martha Hill!
- jan Ansi translated ⚂Rasputin by Boney M.
- J. Leaf translated Gnarly by Katseye!
- soweli Kataliko translated ⚂My Ordinary Life by The Living Tombstone!
- jan Enta translated the Deltarune song Flower Man!
- jan Nikita translated учат в школе!
- J. Leaf translated the start of It’s Me, It’s Verity by Horror Skunx!
Videos in toki pona
- During the monthly crossover between Ma Toki Pona VR and Projekto Babel, mun Kekan San gave a presentation about communication methods!
- waso Keli talked about Rubik’s cubes!
- And kasi Sonki told us a story about a person facing consequences for destroying nature!
- TokiponaProgramming is starting to use Python!
- jan Ke Tami went to Barcelona!
- jan Lose made some videos on TikTok in toki pona, like this introduction, this one wishing us a nice day, this one about getting a new phone, or this one about the temperature being too high!
Fonts ⚂
- During the meetup in Tiana, 30 people ⚂collaborated on a font!
- jan Sukumowakila made a font called ⚂pali luka pona!
- pipi Pipitawa made a font called ⚂sitelen pi pipi tawa 2!
- jan Pikesike ⚂adapted linja pimeja to include more glyphs!
- jan San updated ⚂sitelen mu!
- jan Pikesike made a font called ⚂sitelen Pikesike!
- jan Ajesa made a font called ⚂linja wan!
Games
- jan Paku, jan pi kala seli, jan Apen and lipamanka played Big Walk!
- jan Jopa played Ori and the Will of the Wisps: part 18, part 19, part 20!
- TASGuy made a Minecraft video about a creepy horse!
- pona guy played Minecraft with horror mods and then made a video in English about it!
Comics
- jan Pikesike continued translating the manga Bocchi The Rock up to ⚂the opening chapter of volume 3 (alt link)!
- jan Takoti made an original comic called ⚂jan Tokitoki en jan Sonasona, which currently has ⚂2 parts!
- jan Iwi translated ⚂Hatarakanai Futari Chapter 789 “A Strong Person”!
- ijo Tojoko translated ⚂a page from Sailor Moon!
- ma Pusa continued to translate Shimeji simulation ⚂up to chapter 11!
Reading
- jan Wasopimeja wrote a poem called ⚂lukin laso!
- waso Kanse wrote a dystopian fable about insects!
Cool graphics
- jan Jonasan ⚂designed playing cards, then ⚂improved the design and shared a ⚂download link, and then ⚂printed them out!
- jan Ekawi made a toki pona version of the Mojang logo and then made a ⚂sitelen pona version!
- Naive_Gazelle2056 adapted several ⚂covers of NES games!
- jan Watemalaki made a ⚂tongue twister and followed it up with a ⚂second one!
- soweli suli makes sitelen suwi art: ale li pona, mi ken, o pana!
Tools
- jan Kaju ⚂wanted an IME keyboard for entering UCSUR sitelen pona characters, so they ⚂made one!
- pipi Milijan made an ⚂UCSUR converter!
- voltie_dev and jan Milon released the first version of lipu CE, a toki pona dictionary for the TI-84 Plus CE calculator - you can ⚂see it in action here!
- alasa meli Lolin made a tokiponization tool, which can get better with your feedback!
- With the help of many community members giving feedback, jan Luka is working on a spaced repetition app!
About toki pona
- ijo Tojoko read out the Wikipedia article for toki pona for the Spoken Wikipedia Podcast!
- With the addition of Thai by jan Amu, Wasona is now available in 17 languages!
- ILoveLanguages made a video to ⚂introduce toki pona!
Have we missed something? Did you see something cool to share? Help us fill this newsletter! See you soon!
— jan Ke Tami