https://toki.symmachus.org/One compact Toki Pona word each week, a tiny sentence, and the much less tiny route by which its sound arrived. en-au1440https://toki.symmachus.org/archive/moku/https://toki.symmachus.org/archive/moku/Mon, 31 Aug 2026 12:00:00 +0000A Japanese munching sound becomes Toki Pona’s general-purpose word for food and consumption—including drinking.https://toki.symmachus.org/archive/jan/https://toki.symmachus.org/archive/jan/Mon, 24 Aug 2026 12:00:00 +0000A Cantonese word for person passes almost intact into Toki Pona, where jan can be a person, people in general, or a personifying head noun.https://toki.symmachus.org/archive/pona/https://toki.symmachus.org/archive/pona/Mon, 17 Aug 2026 12:00:00 +0000Esperanto bona changes one consonant and becomes Toki Pona’s famously broad word for goodness, usefulness, simplicity, and improvement.https://toki.symmachus.org/archive/toki/https://toki.symmachus.org/archive/toki/Wed, 12 Aug 2026 12:00:00 +0000The language’s own name begins in Tok Pisin tok and ultimately English talk, then expands to cover speech, language, conversation, and greeting.