Sonja Lang

Sonja Lang is a Canadian linguist. She lives in Toronto.^[1] In 2001, she created the philosophical artistic constructed language known as Toki Pona. She created the language during a period of depression, to help simplify her thought process.

Her name was Sonja Elen Kisa. She grew up in New Brunswick. Her family was bilingual; her mother spoke French in the home, and her father spoke English. She also speaks Esperanto, Spanish, and German.^[2]

Sonja Lang Media

Latin alphabet chart for Toki Pona
Sitelen Pona hieroglyphs from Toki Pona: The Language of Good by Sonja Lang
The word symbols and punctuation of Sitelen Sitelen
Noun phrases express concepts beyond Toki Pona's basic vocabulary. Each Sitelen Pona symbol in the above image represents one word.
Many colors can be expressed by using subtractive colors.
Body parts in Toki Pona. The words [oko] Error: {{Lang}}: unrecognized language code: tok (help), [uta] Error: {{Lang}}: unrecognized language code: tok (help), [lawa] Error: {{Lang}}: unrecognized language code: tok (help), [luka] Error: {{Lang}}: unrecognized language code: tok (help), and [noka] Error: {{Lang}}: unrecognized language code: tok (help) have Slavic, particularly Serbo-Croatian roots: okocode: sh is deprecated , ustacode: sh is deprecated , glavacode: sh is deprecated , rukacode: sh is deprecated , and nogacode: sh is deprecated .
Percentage of Toki Pona roots by language of origin. If a word is shared between two languages (as Finnish and Esperanto sama), it counts as 0.5 words for each. If shared by three or more languages, it is counted as 'international'. The exception are the Tok Pisin words, most of which are also found in English.
Hand shapes of Signed Toki Pona and Luka Pona
A legal contract in Sitelen Sitelen, created in 2012 by Jonathan Gabel