📰 sin: So. Many. Documents!
kala Asi
Do you want to read new and original toki pona literature? Good news! Today’s newsletter is absolutely packed with new works from the writing contest - and that’s not the only thing this newsletter has to offer!
Community projects
- suno pi toki pona is a 24 hour event on toki pona’s birthday (August 8). The language will be a whopping 25 years old! There will be a livestream the whole day with games, booths, livestreamed music, presentations, so much good stuff - and that means your help is needed! Do you have something to contribute on the stream, either by being there live or by submitting a pre-recorded video? Would you like to help organise in some way? Fill in this form!
- The annual horror zine lipu monsuta (Discord invite) is back! This year, it will be called lape monsuta. Submit a story or comic until September 1st!
- jan Jun would like you to fill out a survey about how the language is used in specific contexts!
- There was a picnic in Seattle on July 25th. It is already over, but if that sounds like something you would have joined, ask around for the Sijatoki group!
- Meanwhile, people living in Catalonia, Spain, France or Germany under 31 might be eligible for a grant for the annual European meetup!
Songs
- akesi suno made a new song called ⚂moku lili lon ma kasi with the help of loje Kasenwa!
- jan Ante made a song called ilo li kalama for the toki pona game tomo ilo!
- jan Sowape wrote pona mute for Lammas!
- jan Janpa Onjon translated ⚂the Soviet Anthem!
- akesi suno translated ⚂Harvey by Her’s!
- jan Ansi translated Creep by Radiohead!
- jan Ansi translated Messy by Lola Young!
- jan Ansi translated I Just Threw Out the Love of My Dreams by Weezer!
- jan Ansi translated From the Start by Laufey!
- jan Nikita translated облака from Tryam! Hello!
- jan Suwa translated Wall by Cool Kid!
- LevarneCovers translated 無重力になって Becoming Weightless by KIKUO!
Games
- The last newsletter was missing one game from the game jam at rank 17! ⚂poki telo by sean: Prevent leaks in the ceiling from flooding the house by putting poki underneath!
- nat made a ⚂proof of concept translation of the start of Deltarune!
- jan Pikesike and others played Among Us!
- jan Jopa played Ori and the Will of the Wisps and then some more Ori and the Will of the Wisps!
Videos in toki pona
- sitelen tawa musi Un Tame Lami made a short animated dialogue!
- jan Jami has re-uploaded their commentary of the highlights of the Austrian Grand Prix to ma Seka.!
Resources
- pan Nuto made a thin handdrawn font called ⚂sitelen pan waso!
- nasa Nasa made a pixel font called ⚂7x7 sitelen pona!
- kisa Papesike made a handdrawn font called ⚂nasin pi lukin suwi!
- jan Kilipa made a negative space font called ⚂pimeja Kilipa!
- kittywitch made a ⚂Nix flake that makes packages out of Linku’s font repository for use by NixOS users!
- LevarneCovers released a toki pona UTAU voice bank called fang über!
Reading
- soko Sijeni wrote a story about ⚂telo and how it came to be the way we know it!
- waso Pini translated Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats by T.S. Eliot - all 14 poems that Cats (the musical) is based on!
- migu203 wrote a creation story!
utala musi pi toki pona
This year’s writing (and comic drawing) contest has many many really great documents that people have created! 37 brand-new, original(!) pieces of toki pona literature. And now it’s up to you to read as many as you want and vote on the stories you’ve read.
Here is an overview of all the stories.
And you can vote on the documents right here!
Useful information:
- You don’t have to read everything to vote, just vote on the ones you read!
- You can update your vote! Once you read some more entries, you can vote again as often as you need!
- Voting closes on August 7, right before suno pi toki pona!
- Not confident in your ⚂sitelen pona skills yet? All documents are also transcribed in Latin script!
Big Worded Documents
Big Worded Documents with Additional Images
Small Worded Documents
All of these are available in ⚂sitelen pona and Latin script:
- ⚂ike li kama
- ⚂jan kasi
- ⚂jan sona pi jan tu
- ⚂len lawa suli
- ⚂linja kalama tu wan
- ⚂lon ala pimeja
- ⚂lon awen
- ⚂mi lanpan
- ⚂mi sona a e nasin pi ijo “kili” ale la seme
- ⚂mi tu li soweli
- ⚂musi li nasin kin
- ⚂musi li seme?
- ⚂nimi monsuta li tan seme
- ⚂o lape a!
- ⚂o luka
- ⚂ona li kama
- ⚂poki pini
- ⚂“sitelen pini”
- ⚂suno mi
- ⚂supa lape nanpa wan
- ⚂tenpo pimeja pi pimeja suli
- ⚂tomo pimeja
- ⚂unpa
- ⚂uta utala
Small Illustrated Documents
- ⚂jan wan o pini!
- kijetesantakalu en ma kasi!
- kulupu mani!
- lawa toki pi toki Inli!
- ⚂pipi li lon tomo ni!
- tomo mani!
Cool graphics
- coolcabbagecat replied to an ask with his characters!
- soweli suli makes sitelen suwi art: suli lawa, sona ala, kule o!
- meowmeowisland made an art piece called ⚂mije taso!
- catlex32 drew some ⚂creatures!
- lukin ilo identifies objects in photos: pipi len / kiwen lawa, kiwen palisa / poki lipu!
- jan Kale animated the sitelen pona characters from ⚂kama to lili, and then ⚂some lesser known ones! mi sona ala loje and jelo
- b0x1 animated the ⚂concept of the word alasa!
About toki pona
- ilo Tani started making a semantic space dictionary!
- lipamanka discussed the semantic space of selo!
- jan Asele is trying to learn toki pona by playing Minecraft in toki pona!
- I also found 2 papers about toki pona: Examining the Limits of Word2Vec with Toki Pona and An Exploratory Study of Semantic Drift Analysis in Minimalist Languages: A Case Study on the Constructed Language Toki Pona!
Have we missed something? Did you see something cool to share? Help us fill this newsletter! See you soon!
— jan Ke Tami