@dursty3226
how many words does a language need? at least one more.
@aetu35
should be noted that 17 or so of those words in toki pona are later additions and the words that speakers use themselves that are not in the dictionary add up to over 200. expect this to increase too as people speak, and 'formalise' some word combinations to ease communication too
@weirdoz00
ni li sitelen tawa pona :) sina pona a!
@nightglide_
A linguist named Lang... almost seems like a prophecy
@CatabolicWaffle
Car language has just one word! Though it's highly context specific and you tend not to communicate complex ideas
@amber_amber101
Toki pona is like a cousin I enjoy talking to, but rarely meet in the wild
@200wonmoreexpensivesalt9
We make new words for efficiency and clarity most of the time. For example: "Baptize" woyld be a very hard thing to explain and express If the word for it doesn't exist. So is the word "chocolate" or the word 'car"
@princevesperal
The thing with Toki Pona is that instead of memorising lots of words, you have to memorize lots of word combinaisons. So it's even debatable whether Toki Pona really has so few words, because it depends on how you define a word. For example, in English, you can drink a "hot chocolate". This is a combinaison that creates a distinct meaning: it's not "chocolate at a high temperature", but rather a cocoa drink. The proof is that if you forget your drink on the counter long enough, you could say that "the hot chocolate is cold" and it would still make sense. Well, Toki Pona is like that for basically everything. A bed would be something like "sleep furniture", a candle would be "small fire stick", a doctor would be "bad body person work", etc.
@novaace2474
I love how literally every video about toki pona changes the amount of words in the language. It’s 118-137, so this video is actually claiming the high end. taso, mi olin e toki pona. toki pona li pona mute tawa mi. mi pilin e ni: jan ale o kama sona e toki pona!
@therealnotanerd_account2
"Why waste time say lot word when few word do trick?" Kevin Malone
@zdravkapaunova6190
I started learning the language since yesterday. mi olin e toki pona❤
@orangejuice782
as someone who prefers being highly specific over simplicity, i dont think i can ever find any sort of feeling other than frustration from toki pona :( it's a cool concept, sure, but if i cant even specify what kind of birds or bugs i see outside then what is the damn point of, well, pointing them out? basically, i think the concept is cool and admirable from a linguistic standpoint, but i am also glad it is not a language i will ever really have to deal with on a spoken level personally due to the conflicts of interest
@omekapo
wawa!
@wolfgangreichl3361
George Orwell would love this work.
@Hi11is
A language doesn't need words, its users do.
@ch1ptype
ni li pona a! mi olin e toki pona :3
@ender691
mi olin e toki pona! ona li toki nanpa wan tawa mi!
@greygartm4330
Lang made a language So thats where the word came from!
@mathieubach6851
The minimalism of the Toki Pona language reminds of the Newspeak of 1984 lol
@quokka_yt