This language has almost no words!
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In this clip I talk about Toki Pona, the most popular constructed language among the younger generation. It's a minimal language with a core vocabulary of only 123 words!
If Duolingo has a course of Toki Pona, I believe it will be the course which has the most people completing it.
Why, nobody speaks it
@@jarivanlennep3979 there are klingon and high valyrian courses
Duolingo will make you take three years to complete it all the same
Maybe one day this will replace all natural languages on earth lol
Sounds like Japanese to me
In phonology it’s similar.
Sounds bs to me
I feel like to drink and to eat shouldn’t be one word. People would definitely confuse it, and you could have no way of telling what you mean by words, you would need to use strong body language.
Also when there aren’t appropriate words to use for something, languages will loan words from other ones. So if we adopted this language, it would really quickly be infected by other languages in my opinion. But a good idea nonetheless!
I don’t agree, context is key
thanks jan pona
How the fudge 🤣🤣🤣 hilarious! I wanna learn Toki Pona now, how cool to say I speak English, Spanish, and Toki Pona!!!!
Odd thing. Toki Pona is smaller than Orwell’s Newspeak 11th Edition dictionary. How would one say “very very good” in Toki Pona?
Jan jan! LOL
@@flonoiisana4647 ni li telo moku pona mute
“Tomo tawa mi li jo e kala pimeja mute.” = “My hovercraft is full of eels.”
@ Me MORE than confused.
If every word can be paired with any other word to make a compound word with a new meaning, that means the math comes out there are 7,503 possible compound words. Now I don’t know how much 8K words compares to other languages, but it does give you more options.
The compound words are flexible and not fixed, so they aren’t really counted as words themselves. Some are just more commonly used than others, but you can always say things a different way. That’s expected.
Which natural language has the fewest words?
I would infinitely prefer to learn Esperanto rather than Toki Pona. Esperanto even has the Bible translated into that language. Toki Pona is like regressing the concept of a language; it is reverting to a primitive form of communication.
Interesting one.. Where do they use it at?
Downtown nerdsville
@@Релёкс84 LOLL
i think the shortez lNguGe is what the Minions use in communicating. 😂
Imagine buying a car with the owners manual written in this language🫨
So it’s basically like Japanese, except that Japanese has a billion words.
In what way does it seem similar to Japanese to you? (I’m not disagreeing, I’m curious about what you noticed).
@@Langfocus It’s highly context-sensitive, combining words to make new ones or more detailed ones (like Japanese compound verbs). Also, I see, it has open syllables, except the ones ending with -n 😉
Edit: just analyzed its dictionary and I noticed another similar thing: it has no “r” sound. Similarly Japanese has one sound between“r” and “l”.
It’s Newspeak and I hate it
I personally don’t think this language makes for a good tool of communication. The lack of words to express complex feelings or thoughts makes it not very effective in that matter