lipu-sona/pages/recs_2021.md

% Recommendations from 2020-2021 % kala Asi + /dev/urandom % 2024-08-22

jan Lentan wrote a list of recommended websites in April 2020--May 2021. The community has changed significantly since then, so most of them are not currently relevant to show on the front page, and required a complete rewrite. However I felt like it would be best to keep the list intact for as a piece of community legacy from that era, for those who like that kind of stuff.

~ kala Asi

Software

Here are links to some software that I personally found useful:

• "ding" dictionary tool is a simple-looking and easy to use dictionary tool that, by default, comes bundled with German-to-English dictionaries, but toki pona-to-English files for it are also available on this page.

• toki pona keyboard for Android phones. Supports both Latin (with some sitelen pona font features) and sitelen emoji. (WIP)

• ilo pi sitelen pona: a web-based tool that converts Latin-based toki pona into UCSUR-compatible sitelen pona.

Other courses online

• Jonathan Gabel's lessons teach both toki pona as a language and "sitelen sitelen", a rather ornamental-looking (if uncommon in general usage) writing system for toki pona.

Useful resources

Apart from the above-mentioned book and courses, here are some good resources and links for people who want to learn or use toki pona:

• tokipona.net (warning: if your "HTTPS Everywhere" addon is set to "Encrypt All Sites Eligible", disable it for tokipona.net, or else it will redirect you to an unrelated website)

• "lipu lili pona", a description of toki pona's rules and vocabulary on 2 pages

• Another description of toki pona's rules and vocab on 2 pages

• A toki pona dictionary with sitelen pona characters by "The Other Website"

• toki pona flashcards for Anki

  • flashcards based on this website, by u/parentis_shotgun

• jan Sotan's description of his personal style, including the informal "tok' apona" dialect

Other people's original works

• "musi lili", a page by jan Same

• lipu kule, a blog with posts in toki pona by various people

• "lipu tenpo", a toki pona magazine

• lipu Wikipesija, a recent project to make a toki pona Wikipedia

• nasin tenpo pona, a calendar system that uses toki pona words

Discussion groups and chats

• /r/tokipona subreddit

• "ma pona pi toki pona" Discord server

• toki pona Telegram group

  • IRC channel #tokipona on Freenode, bridged with the Telegram group

• "kulupu pi toki pona" Telegram group (this one is usually more about talking in toki pona)