Other Conlangs
I don't claim to know any of these conlangs. In fact, I don't claim to know toki pona. Whatever. I just think these languages are neat.
For conlangs that are specifically based off of Toki Pona, but aren't Toki Pona, go click here.
I don't claim to know any of these conlangs. In fact, I don't claim to know toki pona. Whatever. I just think these languages are neat.
For conlangs that are specifically based off of Toki Pona, but aren't Toki Pona, go click here.
Lojban is a language designed to be completely logical and unambiguous. Whether it is sucessful at that is up for you to decide. You can learn it for free here.
A neat thing about Lojban is that almost all the words are verbs (technically they are "selbri", which is like verbs but cooler). To talk about a subject or an object, you have to put a verb between the words "lo" and "ku". The definition of each verb contains a bunch of blank spaces to put nouns, as well as how their placement affects the sentence.
If Toki Pona is the toki pona, then Ithkuil is the toki ike. I don't mean that in a bad way, it's just really complicated. Even the guy who invented in it isn't fluent in it.
Like Lojban, Ithkuil tries to be as unambiguous as possible. The language is meant to clearly express profound and complicated philosophical concepts, and isn't really intended for casual conversation.
Poliespo is an... interesting language loosely based on Esperanto. It was invented by a man named Billy Ray Waldon, who went on to murder three people.
Poliespo is based on Waldon's idea of "lightning words", which were words from different languages that he believed could speed up communication. It also has many words borrowed from Cherokee, as Waldon was 1/4 Cherokee, and thought that his language could give people an "Iroquoian spirit". Poliespo has 54 different letters, including the number "2", which is supposed to represent a nasal sound because Waldon thought it kind of looked like a nose.
Since it was made in the 1950s by a guy who clearly had some serious mental health problems, Poliespo is very incomplete, and also very shitty. Waldon himself recommended that if people don't understand anything you say in Poliespo, you should just repeat yourself in regular Esperanto. Jan misali made a video about it that basically tells you everything there is to know about this language, which is not very much.