📰 sin: Chicken, Chiikawa, and a change of kin

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Sep 23, 2026, 2:00:52 AM (10 days ago) Sep 23

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Wait, what time is it? Time for another newsletter already?! Well, good thing I came prepared - I have so much new stuff for you, right here:

⚂ = sitelen pona

lipamanka made a video about the toki pona pronunciation study that you can still participate in until 12am on September 26th New Zealand time (12pm on September 25th UTC). Participants must be at least 18 years old and the form doesn’t work on Safari, iPhones or iPads.
Some people want to meet at Linsengericht (literally “lentil meal”) to eat a lentil meal. When? Who? Fill out the form!
The results of the Linku word survey are out! Check out how kin, monsuta, kisa, pu and ku have changed in usage/category!

New zine dropped: jan Niki ⚂documented the making of the ⚂leko Niki font!
lipu tenpo is testing out a ⚂merch shop that’s based in Germany! It is set as a non-profit shop, meaning you only pay the bare minimum for getting the shirt made.
soweli Wika is selling ⚂pin-back buttons!

J. Leaf translated Sparks by Coldplay!
nja Alila translated En la gran ciudad by Luciana Wolf!
pona guy made a 24-second cover of jan Tanijelun’s translation of Bling Bang Bang Born by Creepy Nuts!
jan Kajo translated ⚂なかなおり (Last Rally) by いよわ/iyowa!
J.Leaf translated Yellow by Coldplay!

During the monthly crossover between Ma Toki Pona VR and Projekto Babel, kulupu ko gave a powerpoint karaoke presentation about Chicken chicken chicken: chicken chicken!
And sike Sikema told us about how mice work with tools!
jan Alonola reported the news: Houthis, the war in Ukraine
jan Alonola reported the news: oil pipelines shut down in Saudi Arabia, French train derailed, agrivoltaics in Germany
ma Pusa subbed the first episode of the anime Azumanga Daioh and the first episode of the anime Adachi to Shimamura!
jan Polijan and jan Miku discovered ⚂cows and birds on a field!
soweli Munka talked about sheep!

jan Paku, jan pi kala seli, jan Apen and lipamanka played more Big Walk and even more Big Walk!
The VR platform Resonite got a toki pona translation courtesy of poni Kita!
jan Kasapa made a ⚂config file for the Emoji Type mod to easily type sitelen pona characters in Minecraft!
The Distant Horizons mod for Minecraft is starting a Crowdin project to translate the mod into several different languages, including toki pona!

jan soweli Kisumoto is working on translating the “Siren Arc”/“Island Arc” of ちいかわ (Chiikawa) and is 60 pages in!
jan Pikesike continued translating the manga Bocchi The Rock up to ⚂chapter 28 (alt link)!
ma Pusa continued to translate Shimeji Simulation ⚂up to chapter 12!
akesi suno released Chapter 8 of toki pona Knight!

mun Nanseki made a font called ⚂nasin sitelen lukin and it’s an eyeful!
ko Koko used newer, more detailed data from ilo Muni to make an improved, more realistic toki pona generator with predictive autocomplete as an additional feature. It is also available as a JavaScript library!
jan Matejasu made a keyboard with a 10-key layout!
Lionel Arnaud made a synthesizer and guide for whistled toki pona (repo)!

toki pona in the wild: Someone discovered ⚂a message on a board in their school library, and later, ⚂someone replied!
Another instance of hidden toki pona discovered: MinuteEarth had some ⚂sitelen pona in one of their illustrations again!
lipamanka made a video about ona as a pronoun and its (lack of) function in pronoun fields!

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