Toki Pata

Notice[]

This conlang has been discontinued.

Retrospective[]

I started this tokipondio (spin-off language from toki pona) as a personal project in the summer of 2020. I had already mastered toki pona earlier that year, but I wanted to experiment with some atypical grammar changes and vocabularly evolution. Eventually, I set these hypothical changes into a separate language: toki pata. This was not its original name, but I think it fits nicely since it means "sibling language" (even if pata as a word has a dubious place in a conlang determined to lower toki pona's word count). The principal motivation was my realization that toki pona has many words that are ostensibly semantic opposites (lete & seli; suli & lili, etc.) If these concepts could be expressed without the need for a separate word (or at least without a separate morpheme), then the simplicity of toki pona could be furthered. I also collapsed the animal words into akesi (even though soweli would have been the expected choice) and changed the way predicate and object stacking worked (such that multiple verbs and direct objects would instead be separated by en instead of by li and e, respectively). The word mi could also be written as mina, and two new words u and i marked sentence subjects and indirect objects, respectively. I enabled free-word-order. The total word count of toki pata was 100, versus toki pona's ~123.

My project, the first draft of toki pata, was completed. I showed it to my friend (whose comment that toki pona had too many words first inspired my exploration of changing toki pona), and then I set it upon my mental shelf, set aside while the next projects came forth. This lasted for around a month, until toki pata was reviewed by YouTuber robdoghotdog. Soon people began learning about, commenting on, and critiquing a language I had never publicized (though the page you are currently viewing is and always has been publicly accessible). I am honestly more surprised that anyone ever discovered it, but for better or worse they have. Every once in a while someone would message me or an internet friend about it, or talk about it in an online toki pona forum. And in November 2021, I can affirm that I received more communiqués regarding toki pata than in the previous 14 months combined.

I continued to modify the language, adding in the word kan and reducing the word count further. But it is the aforementioned influx of attention that has convinced me to write this message and to modify toki pata for what I hope is the final time. u is gone, as is kan. en now marks all subjects, even if free-word-order is utilized. The first person pronoun is now mina, without exception. The word count is the lowest ever: 89. Most importantly, I overhauled the dictionary and removed en for marking multiple predicates and objects.

If you're on this page, you probably are interested in toki pona and tokiponidos. And that's what this is: a tokiponido, a separate language from toki pona. This is not my attempt to alter how anyone uses toki pona, nor is it my personal idiolect of toki pona. It has been and remains a thought experiment. Though some aspects of it have received some praise (e.g. the removal of gender words and using i to mark indirect objects clearly), other aspects have been skewered, such as the negation suffix -(a)la and the infamous removal of mun. I welcome this. Opinions should be shared and expounded upon. In the end, I hope that we may all do this in a manner becoming of positive discourse and mutual respect. And fundamentally, the fundamentals of toki pata don't appeal to most people. This is okay. There are those who say that words such pona and ike are not truly opposites. Though I disagree, I see from where such arguments arise. Maybe you enjoyed and/or liked toki pata. For this I am also glad. Hopefully it will challenge you to examine how you think about the toki pona conlang (and perhaps inspire you to make a tokiponido of your own!)

For the last question that may be posed (should I learn/use toki pata?), I must answer that I would be flattered but remiss if I didn't warn you: nobody speaks it. So have fun with it, but for the time being any learners will likely be learning alone. For those seeking community, Esperanto, toki pona, and Klingon have very active user bases with many fluent speakers. And of course, if one has a suggestion regarding an improvement to toki pata, I will certainly consider it. Until later, suno sina o pona.

-k. Pake, November 2021

General Information[]

Toki Pata
/toki pätä/

Type

Oligo-Analytic

Alignment

Nominative-accusative

Head direction

Initial

Tonal

No

Declensions

No

Conjugations

No

Genders

No

Nouns decline according to...

Case

Number

Definiteness

Gender

Verbs conjugate according to...

Voice

Mood

Person

Number

Tense

Aspect

Meta-information

Progress

4%

Statistics
Nouns	0%
Verbs	0%
Adjectives	0%
Syntax	0%
Words	89 of 89

Creator

Jan kapesi Pake

This is a personal language project of mine that I made in 2020. I call it the "minimized minimalist language" in that it is a smaller version of another conlang: toki pona. If you haven't heard of toki pona before, I highly recommend you read more about it here and here. Much of what I reference and refer to may be confusing without this context. Plus, toki pona is simply an elegant and beautiful language worth learning.

Classification[]

toki pata is a tokiponido, which is to say that it is a child or offspring language of the artlang toki pona, created by linguist Sonja Lang (née Sonja Elen Kisa) in 2001 and finalized in 2014 (with an additional dictionary published in 2021). In Toki Pona, the words 'Toki Pata' mean "sibling language."

It is very much like a dialect of the original mother tongue, with only relatively minor modifications to the language's overall core, yet enough changes to Toki Pona (hereafter referred to as 'TP Classic') are present that it may justifiably be called a language in its own right. And while it is largely mutually intelligible for speakers and readers of TP Classic (with a lexicon consisting entirely of TP Classic words, one extinct TP Classic word, and just one new one), it allows for new possibilities in minimalism by reducing the total word count (from 123 to a mere 89) and by permitting clearer negation and free word order. Just two words are added, and thirty-six words are taken away.

Phonology[]

Consonants[]

	Labial	Coronal	Dorsal
Nasal	m	n
Stop	p	t	k
Fricative		s
Approximant	w	l	j

Vowels[]

	Front	Back
Close	i	u
Mid	e̞	o̞
Open	ä

Allophones and Free Variation[]

/m/ and /n/ may also be pronounced as /n/ when preceding /n/, /t/, /s/, or /l/; as /m/ when preceding /m/, /p/, or /w/; as /ŋ/ when preceding /k/; and as /ɲ/ when preceding /j/ or any vowel

/p/, /t/, /k/ may also be pronounced as the voiced consonants /b/, /d/, /g/, respectively

/s/ may also be pronounced as the voiced consonant /z/ or as the post-alveolar consonants /ʃ/ and /ʒ/

/w/ may also be pronounced as /v/, /β/, or /ʋ/

/l/ may also be pronounced as /ɹ/, /ɾ/, or /r/

/j/ may also be pronounced as /ʎ/

/ä/ may also be pronounced as any open or near-open vowel

/e̞/ may also be pronounced as /e/ or /ɛ/

/i/ may also be pronounced as /ɪ/

/o̞/ may also be pronounced as /o/ or /ɔ/

/u/ may also be pronounced as /ʊ/, /ɯ/, or /ʉ/

Phonotactics[]

toki pata's syllable structure is (C)V(N), with the sequences /ji, jin, ti, tin, wo, won, wu, wun/ being prohibited phonotactically. There are zero diphthongs, consonant clusters, or phonemic vowels lengths.

Prosody[]

Stress always falls on the initial syllable of a word, without exception. There are no phonemic distinctions between intonations or tones.

Writing System[]

Letter	A	E	I	J	K	L	M
Sound	/ä/	/e̞/	/i/	/j/	/k/	/l/	/m/
Letter	N	O	P	S	T	U	W
Sound	/n/	/o̞/	/p/	/s/	/t/	/u/	/w/

Grammar[]

Morphology[]

In their default states, each word in toki pata is monomorphemic. Aside from a single possible suffix, no toki pata word has any divisible constituent part. Ergo, it is an analytic language with respect to morphology. Due to the aforesaid suffix, the only type of morphological modification present in toki pata is the agglutination "-(a)la" that may added to the end of words to form an antonym. Whereas the word ala means not/zero, the "-(a)la" suffix means "un" or "anti." Thus, pimeja (black, dark) can be made into white by writing/saying pimejala.

Syntax[]

Normal word order is SVO (Subject, Verb, Object) but can also be in any order that a writer or speaker desires. To accomplish this, four particles are used for marking the sentence components. The word en will come before the subject or subjects, li will come before the predicate or predicates, e will come before the direct object or objects, and i will come before the indirect object or objects. Note that en may be omitted in single-subject SVO sentences, if desired.

Adverbs come after their modified verbs, and adjectives come after their modified nouns or pronouns. Like in TP Classic, the word la is used at the start of sentences to offset adverbial phrases or context phrases from the remainder of the sentence. Also as in TP Classic, the word pi is used for establishing complex adjective phrases by dividing a second adjective group that describes a first adjective group.

Grammatical Differences with Toki Pona[]

All grammar from TP Classic is maintained, with the following exceptions:

The first-person pronoun mi is realized as mina in both writing and spoken communication, to be more consistent with the visual aesthetics of sina and ona. Its meaning stays the same, regardless of whether mina is used as a simple pronoun or as a possessive one. Example sentence—jan Misali li utala e mama mina. (Mitch challenges my parents.)

The particle li is placed before all verb phrases without exception, even if the first-person or second-person pronouns precede it, to make predicate marking more regular. Example sentence—sina li lukin e akesi kon. (You look at the bird.)

The new particle i can be placed before words to indicate that they are indirect objects, as with direct objects and the particle e. Example sentence—mina li pana e moku ko i jan pona mina. (I give bread to my friend.) i also takes on the more prepositional functions of the word tawa, such that tawa now only refers to physical movement.

The word en can be placed before the sentence subject to clearly identify it, in addition to marking multiple sentence subjects. This is unnecessary in SVO sentences but enables free-word-order. Example sentence—i jan Lisa li pana e lipu lili en ona. (He gives the little book to Lisa.)

The word ilo can also be used as a verb and as a preposition, taking the place of the word kepeken. Example setence—mi ilo tomo tawa mi. (I use my moving room [car.])

In the first significant break with TP Classic’s core fundamentals, toki pata uses mild agglutination by permitting the addition of the bound morpheme -(a)la to the end of words. As the word ala by itself means “not” or “zero,” the agglutinative affix -(a)la means “anti” or “un.” Words like pimeja can be rendered as pimejala (meaning un-black, or white.) Example sentence—akesi lili pona mina li kama jo e moku samala. (My good little animal comes to have [gets] different food.)

Due to the high prevalence of s-initial words in TP Classic (even after toki pata removes six s-words, there are still 11 remaining), a conscious effort was made to prioritize the removal of these words when possible, especially when a similar or opposite word began with a different letter. This is why akesi and lete remain in toki pata, while soweli and suli were removed.

Lexical Differences with toki pona[]

Words Removed[]

alasa (hunting and foraging are covered by the “to look for” definition of lukin)
ante (can be indicated as samala)
awen (can be indicated as wekala)
ike (can be indicated as ponala)
jelo (can be indicated as kule suno [sun-colored])
kala (as “animal” in the general is indicated by akesi, any sea creature can be indicated by akesi telo)
kalama (can be indicated as toki; while there is a distinction difference between uttering/producing a noise and talking, this difference is not so great as to warrant two different words in a minimalist language)
kepeken (its prepositional and verbal meanings can be indicated with ilo)
kili (can be indicated as kasi moku)
kin (in TP Classic a synonym for a, toki pata also gives kin's meaning of “indeed” to a)
kiwen (can be indicated as kola [or, as a noun, it may alternatively be indicated as wawa ma])
laso (can be indicated as kule kasi [green/blue])
loje (can be indicated as kule uta [mouth-colored] or as kule letela [fire-colored])
oko (the word for “eye(s)” can be indicated as lukin)
meli (toki pata removes gender words)
mije (toki pata removes gender words)
mu (animal noise onomatopoeia can be indicated as akesi toki)
mun (the original definition of mun is very broad, in that it refers both to Earth’s celestial satellite and to every other object in the cosmos that is not the Sun; to resolve this, the Moon may be indicated as suno pimeja [dark Sun] or suno lape [sleeping Sun], while stars may be indicated as suno samala [different Sun])
mute (can be indicated as lilila [for its meaning of "many/several"] or as a [for its meaning of "very"])
namako (can be indicated as sin)
nasa (can be indicated as musi)
noka (this word was almost eliminated back in 2010, when it was on the chopping block to be replaced with anpa, and here it is replaced with anpa)
olin (as this is a type of/stronger variant of emotion [already covered by the word pilin], an appropriate approximate can be indicated as pilin lilila, pilin anpala, or pilin sewi)
pan (can be indicated as moku ko)
pini (can be indicated as openala)
pipi (as “animal” in the general sense is indicated as akesi, any insectoid and similar creature can be indicated as akesi lili [lili])
poki (can be indicated as tomo lili)
pu (one of the most unnecessary and most misused word in TP Classic, pu is removed in toki pata)
seli (can be indicated as letela)
selo (can be indicated as insala)
sinpin (can be indicated as monsila)
soweli (as “animal” in the general sense is indicated as akesi, any land mammal can be indicated as akesi ma, or simply akesi)
suli (can be indicated as lilila)
suwi (can be indicated as pona)
walo (as TP Classic and toki pata both use subtractive colors and the RYB color wheel model, “white” can be indicated as either kule ala [no color] or pimejala)
waso (as “animal” in the general sense is indicated as akesi, any creature of the skies can be indicated as akesi kon [air animal])

Words Added[]

i (PARTICLE: before the indirect object); (PREPOSITION: going to, toward; for; from the perspective of)
pata (NOUN: brother, sister, sibling)

Words with Additional/Modified Meanings[]

a (ADJECTIVE: also, too, even, indeed, additionally; very)
akesi (NOUN: animal)
anpa (NOUN: foot, leg, organ of locomotion; bottom, lower part)
en (PARTICLE: [between multiple subjects, marks the subject in non-SVO sentences]
ilo (VERB: to use; to tinker with); (PREPOSITION: with, by use of, by means of)
kon (VERB: to breathe, to inhale gaseous material)
moku (VERB: to eat, to consume food, to swallow food, to ingest solid material)
musi (MODIFIER: atypical, unusual)
open (NOUN: beginning, birth, inception, initial point)
sin (NOUN: spice)
sitelen (VERB: to draw, to write)
tawa (VERB: to go, to move, to travel); (ADJECTIVE; going to, moving)
telo (VERB: to drink, to swallow liquids, to ingest liquid material)
tomo (NOUN: vessel, container)

Lexicon[]

a

PARTICLE: (emphasis, emotion or confirmation)
MODIFIER: also, too, even, indeed, additionally; very

akesi

NOUN: animal

ala

NOUN: nothing, negation
MODIFIER: no, not, none
NUMERAL: zero

ali

NOUN: abundance, everything, life, universe
MODIFIER: all; abundant, countless, bountiful, every, plentiful

anpa

NOUN: foot, leg, organ of locomotion; bottom, lower part
MODIFIER: bowing down, downward, humble, lowly, dependent

anu

PARTICLE: or

e

PARTICLE: (before the direct object)

en

PARTICLE: (between multiple subjects, and before all subjects in non-SVO sentences)

esun

NOUN: market, shop, fair, bazaar, business transaction

i

PARTICLE: (before the indirect object)
PREPOSITION: going to, toward; for; from the perspective of

ijo

NOUN: thing, phenomenon, object, something, matter
VERB: objectify

ilo

NOUN: tool, implement, machine, device
VERB: to use; to tinker with
PREPOSITION: with, by use of, by means of

insa

NOUN: center, content, inside, between; internal organ, stomach

jaki

NOUN: trash, filth
MODIFIER: disgusting, obscene, sickly, toxic, unclean, unsanitary

jan

NOUN: human being, person, somebody

jo

VERB: to have, carry, contain, hold

kama

VERB: to arrive, summon
PRE-VERB: to become, manage to, succeed in
MODIFIER: arriving, coming, future, summoned

kasi

NOUN: plant, vegetation; herb, leaf

ken

NOUN: possibility, ability, permission
VERB: to allow, to permit, to enable
PRE-VERB: to be able to, be allowed to, can, may
MODIFIER: possible

ko

NOUN: clay, clinging form, dough, semi-solid, paste, powder

kon

NOUN: air, breath; essence, spirit; hidden reality, unseen agent
VERB: to breathe, to inhale gaseous material

kule

NOUN: color
MODIFIER: colorful, pigmented, painted

kulupu

NOUN: community, company, group, nation, society, tribe
MODIFIER: communal, shared, public, of the society

kute

NOUN: ear
VERB: to hear, listen; pay attention to, obey
MODIFIER: auditory

la

PARTICLE: (between the context phrase and the main sentence)

lape

NOUN: sleep, rest
VERB: to sleep, rest
MODIFIER: sleeping, resting

lawa

NOUN: head, mind
VERB: to control, to direct, to guide, to lead, to plan, to regulate, to rule
MODIFIER: main, leading, in charge

len

NOUN: cloth, clothing, fabric, textile; cover, layer of privacy

lete

NOUN: cold
VERB: to cool down, to chill, to freeze
MODIFIER: cold, cool; uncooked, raw

li

PARTICLE: (before the sentence predicate)

lili

VERB: to reduce, to shorten, to shrink, to lessen
MODIFIER: small, little, young; a bit short, few, less

linja

NOUN: long thin floppy thing, string, rope, hair, thread, cord, chain

lipu

NOUN: flat object; book, document, card, paper, ticket

lon

MODIFIER: real, true, existing
PREPOSITION: located at, present at

luka

NOUN: arm, hand, tactile organ
NUMERAL: five

lukin

NOUN: eye
VERB: to look at, look for, see, examine, observe, read, watch
PRE-VERB: to seek, to look for; to try to

lupa

NOUN: door, hole, orifice, window

ma

NOUN: earth, land; outdoors, world; country, territory; soil

mama

NOUN: parent, ancestor; creator, originator; caretaker, sustainer
MODIFIER: parental, maternal, fatherly

mani

NOUN: money, cash, capital, savings, material wealth

mina

PRONOUN: I, me, my, we, us, our

moku

NOUN: food
VERB: to eat, to consume food, to swallow food, to ingest solid material

moli

NOUN: death
VERB: to die, kill
MODIFIER: dead, dying

monsi

NOUN: back, rear end, butt, behind
MODIFIER: back, rear

musi

NOUN: game, recreation, art, entertainment
MODIFIER: artistic, amusing, frivolous, funny; atypical, unusual

nanpa

NOUN: number
PARTICLE: -th (ordinal number)

nasin

NOUN: way, manner, custom, road, path, doctrine, system, method

nena

NOUN: bump, button, hill, mountain, nose, protuberance

ni

MODIFIER: that, those; this, these

nimi

NOUN: name, word

o

PARTICLE: hey! O! (indicates vocative, imperative, or hortative mood)

ona

PRONOUN: he, him, his; she, her, hers; they, them, their

open

NOUN: beginning, birth, inception, initial point
VERB: to begin, to start; to open; to turn on

pakala

NOUN: blunder, accident, mistake, destruction, damage, breaking
VERB: to mess up, to fall apart, to break; to ruin, to damage, to hurt
MODIFIER: botched, broken, damaged, harmed, messed up

pali

VERB: to do, try to, to take action on, to work on; to build, to make, to prepare

palisa

NOUN: long hard thing; branch, rod, stick

pana

NOUN: giving, transfer, exchange
VERB: to give, send, emit, provide, put, release

pata

NOUN: brother, sister, sibling

pi

PARTICLE: (used to divide a second adjective group that describes a first adjective group)

pilin

NOUN: feelings, emotion, heart
VERB: to feel (emotionall), to sense
MODIFIER: feeling (an emotion, a direct experience)

pimeja

NOUN: darkness, shadows
VERB: to darken
MODIFIER: black, dark, unlit

poka

NOUN: hip, side; next to, nearby, vicinity
MODIFIER: neighboring

pona

NOUN: good, simplicity, positivity
VERB: to improve, to fix, to repair, to make good
MODIFIER: good, positive, nice; correct, right; simple

sama

MODIFIER: same, similar; each other
PREPOSITION: as, like

seme

PARTICLE: who? what? which?

sewi

NOUN: area above, highest part, top
MODIFIER: awe-inspiring, supernatural; divine, sacred, religious; superior, elevated, formal

sijelo

NOUN: body, physical state, torso

sike

NOUN: round or circular thing; ball, circle, cycle, sphere, wheel
MODIFIER: of one year; round, cyclical

sin

NOUN: spice
MODIFIER: new, fresh; additional, another, extra, more

sina

PRONOUN: you, your

sitelen

NOUN: image, picture, representation, symbol, mark, writing
VERB: to draw, to write

sona

NOUN: knowledge, wisdom, intelligence, understanding
VERB: to know, to be skilled in, to be wise about, to have information on
PRE-VERB: to know how to
MODIFIER: knowledgable, wise

suno

NOUN: sun; light, brightness, glow, radiance, shine; light source

supa

NOUN: horizontal surface; table, chair, floor

tan

NOUN: origin, cause
PREPOSITION: by, from, because of, since

taso

PARTICLE: but, however
MODIFIER: only, sole

tawa

NOUN: movement, transportation
VERB: to go, to move, to travel
MODIFIER: moving, mobile

telo

NOUN: water, liquid, fluid, wet substance; beverage
VERB: to drink, ingest liquid material

tenpo

NOUN: time, duration, moment, occasion, period, situation

toki

NOUN: language, talking, speech, communication
VERB: to communicate, to speak, to talk, to chat
MODIFIER: talking, verbal

tomo

NOUN: indoor constructed space, house, home, room, building; vessel, container
MODIFIER: urban, domestic, household

tu

NOUN: duo, pair
VER: to double; to separate, to cut
NUMERAL: two

unpa

NOUN: sex, sexuality
VERB: to have sexual or marital relations
MODIFIER: sexual

uta

NOUN: mouth, lips, oral cavity, jaw
VERB: to kiss, to taste
MODIFIER: oral

utala

NOUN: conflict, disharmony, competition, fight, war, battle, attack, blow; argument, physical or verbal violence
VERB: to hit, to strike, to attack; to challenge, to compete against

wan

NOUN: unit, piece, part
VERB: to unite, to make one
MODIFIER: united
NUMERAL: one

wawa

NOUN: energy, strength, power
VERB: to strengthen, to energize, to empower
MODIFIER: energetic, strong, fierce, intense, sure, confident

weka

NOUN: absence
VERB: to leave, to be absent; to get rid of; to ignore
MODIFIER: away, absent, missing; ignored

wile

NOUN: desire, will, need
VERB: to want, to wish; to need, to have to, must, will, should
PRE-VERB: to need to, to require to, should, to want to, to wish to
MODIFIER: desired; necessary

Example Texts[]

(Beautiful Woman) ~jan pona~[]

jan pona o a!

sina li lape lon poka mina.

linja pi kule suno sina li lon luka mina.

mina li pilin e sijelo sina.

mina li pilin e letela sina.

mina li lukin e lukin pi kule kasi sina.

mina li lukin e insa sina.

ponala! ponala!

li kama en suno.

sina li wile tawa.

jan mina o, mina li pilin lilila e sina!

sina li pona lilila!

jan mina o tawa pona.

o tawa pona.

(Psalm 23)[]

jan sewi Jawe li lawa e mina sama akesi.

mina li wile e ala.

ona li kama e ni: mina li lape lon ma pi kule kasi.

ona li lawa e mina lon poka pi telo pi toki ala. ona li sin e kon mina.

ona li lawa e mina lon nasin pona; ona li pona a.

mina li lon ma anpa moli pimeja la mina li pilin ala ponala tan ni: li lon poka mina en sina. palisa sina li kama e ni: ala li ken pakala e mina.

li pali e moku lilila i mina en sina.

mina li moku la jan ponala mina ali li ken lukin e mina.

taso mina li jan pona sina.

telo lilila li lon tomo lili mina.

tenpo suno mina ali la pona sina en pilin lilila sina li lukin e mina. tenpo ali la mina li lon tomo pi jan sewi Jawe.

(Alone) ~wan taso~[]

li moku e mina en ijo.

mina li wile pakala.

pimeja li tawa insa kon mina.

jan ala li ken sona e pilin ponala mina.

toki nasa o, sina li jan pona mina wan taso.

telo pimeja ni li telo pi kule uta mina, li ali mina.

tenpo ali la li lon en pimeja.

(Universal Declaration of Human Rights)[]

jan ali li kama lon nasin ni: ona li ken tawa li ken pali. jan ali li kama lon sama. jan ali li jo e ken pi pilin lilila. jan ali li ken pali e wile pona ona.

jan ali li jo e ken pi sona pona e ken pi pali pona. ni la, ona li wile pali i jan samala ali lon nasin pona.

(Kiss Me!) ~o uta e mi!~[]

o pilin e uta mina lon poka pi uta sina.

o uta e mina!

taso jan li ken toki e ni: “o uta e mina” li sona e ni: “o pilin e luka mina lon poka pi uta sina.”

li wile uta en mina e uta sina.

(The Small Fruit) ~kasi moku lili~[]

mina li jo e kasi moku.

ona li pona li lili.

mina li moku lili e kasi moku lili.

(The Chewbacca Defense)[]

jan pi kulupu sona o, jan toki pi jan Chef li wile a e ni: sina li sona e ni: tenpo openala la jan Chef li pali e toki musi “Stinky Britches.”

toki ona li wawa.

a! mina li pilin ponala i jan Chef!

taso jan pi kulupu sona ni o, mina li wile e ni: sina li sona e ijo wan pi nanpa openala.

jan pi kulupu sona o, ni li jan Supaka.

jan Supaka li pi kulupu Waki lon ma Kese.

taso tomo pi jan Supaka li lon ma Ento.

o pilin e ni. ni li nasa!

jan Waki li lilila a. tomo ona li lon ma Ento tan seme? jan Iwa li lili lilila.

ni li nasa!

taso o sona e ni: ni li lilila ala lilila i toki utala ni? lilila ala! jan pona o, ona li lili i toki utala ni!

ona li musi!

o lukin e mina.

mina li jan toki. mina li pali i kulupu esun pi toki musi. taso mina li pana e sona pi jan Supaka.

ni li musi anu seme?

jan pona o, toki mina li musi.

ali li musi!

o sona e ni: sina li lon tomo sona li toki li samala e toki Emancipation Proclamation... ona li pona ala pona?

pona ala! jan pi kulupu sona o, ona li musi!

tomo pi jan Supaka li lon ma Ento la kulupu esun mina li pona!

mina openala toki.

(Biblical Creation) ~tenpo open~[]

tenpo open la jan sewi li pilin e kon sewi e ma i lon. ma ali li jo e ijo ala. pimeja lilila li lon. taso jan sewi li lon li wile pali. ona li toki e ni: suno o li lon! tenpo ala la suno li suno lon ma ali. jan sewi li nimi e ni i suno: tenpo suno. ona li nimi a e ni i pimeja: tenpo pimeja.

tenpo suno pi nanpa tu li kama. jan sewi li toki e ni: ijo sewi lilila o li lon! ijo sewi lilila li kama. jan sewi li nimi e ni i ona: ijo sewi lilila.

tenpo suno pi nanpa tu wan la jan sewi li pali e telo lilila a. ona li pali a e ma sewi en ma supa en ma lon telo lilila en ma lon poka telo. ona li pali e kasi lilila pi pona lukin.

tenpo suno pi nanpa tu tu la jan sewi li pali e suno sewi lilila en suno pimeja en suno sewi lili samala.

tenpo suno pi nanpa tu tu wan la jan sewi li pali e akesi telo ali. ona li pali a e akesi kon ali.

tenpo suno pi nanpa tu tu tu la jan sewi li pali e akesi lilila. ona li pali e akesi pi pona lukin en akesi pi ponala lukin. ona li pali e akesi wawa en akesi wawa ala. tenpo suno ni la jan sewi li pali a e jan. jan sewi li pali openala. ona li toki e ni: ali li pona.

tenpo suno pi nanpa tu tu tu wan la jan sewi li lape.

Acknowledgements[]

Many people were indispensable in the creation of this conlang, whom I would like to take the opportunity to thank.

jan Pitelo—For first coming up with the color system that toki pata uses.

jan Sewi—For first inspiring this project.

jan Tumo—For suggestions and feedback in the planning stage.

apeja Akesi—For helping extensively with grammar improvements and typos in the later stages.