Books by the language creator

1. pu pu
   a guidebook with lessons and exercises as a sound starting point
2. ku ku
   a two-way dictionary with tens of thousands of examples to inspire you to remix words into your own sentences to express every possible idea
3. su su
   a series of entertaining story books with sitelen pona glyphs as the main text and full-page colour illustrations

su su: illustrated stories in glyphs

1. A New Anthology! (sneak preview)
   Multiple translators, illustrated by Pixel Yuu
   To be published: mid-2025
   
2. 
   
   jan[osuliuta]piwawanasa
   The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Toki Pona edition)
   Translated by Sonja Lang, illustrated by Evan Dahm
   Published: (paperback only)
   USA Australia Brazil Canada France Germany India Italy Japan Mexico Netherlands Poland Saudi Arabia Singapore Spain Sweden UAE UK amazon.com/dp/0978292375

• sitelen pona lookup chart (for new readers)

ku ku: a dictionary with 11,000 examples

Toki Pona Dictionary, compiled by Sonja Lang
Published: July 2021 (paperback only)
books.by/tokipona

pu pu: a guidebook with exercises

Toki Pona: The Language of Good, by Sonja Lang
Published: May 2014

• paperback
• Kindle e-book

* Notes on lipu pu (free 2021 update)

Official translations and adaptations:

• 🇮🇷 نسخه‌ی فارسی (2024)
• 💚 esperanta eldono (2022)
• 🇩🇪 deutsche Ausgabe (2021)
• 🇫🇷 édition française (2016) et mise à jour gratuite (2021)

Contact the author

Contact Sonja Lang on Discord, Bluesky or at

Intro videos

• A good Toki Pona language overview (LingoLizard)
• What is the easiest language? (jan Kekan San)
• How can a language only have 120 words? (RobWords)
• I learned the world's simplest language (Oats Jenkins)
• The world’s tiniest language? (Toki Pona) | enhanced reboot (Langfocus)
• Toki Pona: the world’s smallest language (RuffDraft EMHS)
• Conlang Critic episode 12: Toki Pona (jan Misali)
• Toki Pona in 18 minutes (ilo Tani)

Communities

•  (thriving home of Toki Pona)
  • ma pona pi Toki Pona (largest and most active community)
  • kama sona (for beginners to meet volunteer teachers)
  • ma mun (Toki Pona only)
  • ma Toki Pona (Toki Pona only)
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  • Follow Sonja Lang: @tokipona.org
  • Pin this feed of Toki Pona posts: Toki Pona
• World map:
  • Toki Pona li lon ma!
    Add yourself and meet your Toki Pona neighbours!
• Telegram
  • Toki Pona – jan li wile pona taso
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  • r/tokipona
    (a lot of creative sharing, but sometimes dominated by beginners)
• Mastodon: toki.social
• Facebook: Toki Pona
  (stagnating but some people still use)

Recent Bluesky post

Learn Toki Pona

• Recommended Toki Pona learning resources

Merch

• T-shirts, mugs, magnets, etc
  (hand-wash to preserve durability)

Videos, music, podcasts, games

• o pilin e Toki Pona by jan Telakoman
  (full immersion video learning method)
• Video lessons by jan Kekan San
• music by jan Usawi, jan Sotan, kqa, and playlists on Spotify and YouTube
• kalama sin podcast entirely in Toki Pona
• YouTube
• ma Seka video sharing

See also: music, videos, podcasts, games, audiobooks, dubs

Texts and publications

• beginner-friendly vignettes by teacher Lakuse
• Toki Pona Stories (Fingtam) with English translations
• utala pi lipu musi lili: annual contest of short creative texts
• jan Sitata: toki musi pi ma Palata: a book by Hermann Hesse
• lipu kule: a webzine
• lipu tenpo: a magazine with over 30 issues
• lipu sona Wikipesija: a free encyclopedia
• lipu monsuta: spooky zine (5 issues)
• toki lili: 27 poems
• book-sized works by jan Ke

See also: literature, books, comics, magazines, poetry, and corpuses

Community-made toolbox

• o sitelen pona e mi! (name glyph chooser)
• toki tenpo (time talk), an example of a system for time terminology
• long-form semantic spaces dictionary by lipamanka
• CEFR proficiency level scale for Toki Pona
• ilo Muni, explore trends in Toki Pona word use
• telo misikeke (grammar checker)
• printable Toki Pona quick reference
• luka pona (sign language)
• lipu pi jan Ne
• sike pona pi Toki Pona (prev, next)
• lipu sona pona (free Toki Pona course available in German, Esperanto, Russian, Portuguese, Polish, Spanish, etc.)
• Cheat Sheet, updated by jan Sa (also available in many other languages)
• nasin Toki Pona—a good way to speak, a grammar reference by jan Juli
• lipu Linku, an independent dictionary put together by kala Asi
• lipu nimi, a simple dictionary based on free ku data

Find a translator

Need a text translated or proofread? I highly recommend the work of:

• jan Sonja: (French and Esperanto also)
• jan Tepan: (German also)
• jan Ke Tami: (German also)
• jan Ne:
• jan Apikela:
• jan Tepo:
• jan Pensa: (Esperanto also)
• jan Kekan San:
• jan Sepulon:
• jan Polijan:
• jan Asiku:

This is skilled labour, which they might offer voluntarily or could come at a standard professional rate.

There are many more competent Toki Pona writers and speakers you can find elsewhere! The ones listed above have been personally vetted by Sonja Lang through an anonymous evaluation process.

Fonts (sitelen pona)

• sitelen seli kiwen
• nasin nanpa (font used in lipu su)
• Fairfax HD
• leko majuna
• linja suwi
• linja lipamanka
• linja pi pu lukin
• nasin sitelen pu mono

In the news

Read about Toki Pona in World Literature Today, NY Times, Gizmodo, Radio-Canada, Business Insider, The Guardian, Wikipedia, TV Tropes, The Globe and Mail, The New Yorker, ساسة بوست, and more.

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