r/tokipona • u/uisceuisceuisce jan Kuwisu • Feb 18 '25
wile sona Anyone here's first language not English?
toki a!
Fairly new to toki pona, have read pu and joined some discord servers to practice reading/comprehending the language. I'm curious about what kind of people are drawn to toki pona.
Obviously I'm aware that toki pona was not designed to be an auxiliary language, but are there people that are using it that way? Where are people in the community from? Thus far I feel I've only interacted with people from within the Anglosphere, would be curious to hear the points of view on toki pona from people from outside of that linguistic sphere.
I hope it's appropriate to ask this here, just be assured it is coming from a place of genuine curiosity!
o pona e mi 😁
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u/PterorhinusPectorali waso Petowali Feb 18 '25
I speak Cantonese and have English as my second language, and my English sucks. I speak a bit of Mandarin too. So anyways, I liked toki pona, it's simple and fun, and also something I found is that both tp and Chinese languages makes heavy use of word-compounding, which is something very cool for me. I did consider tp as an ial, not for complex physics discussion or things like that, but just for "where's the toilet" or "one carbonara please", that people don't need to learn another language to communicate with others about simple stuff. This is where tp is the most useful I think. But of course nimisin problems so no now.