MASTER FILE Esperanto, Elvish, and Beyond: The World of Constructed LanguagesRevision 04/01/08Title: Esperanto, Elvish, and Beyond: The World of Constructed LanguagesOriginal Exhibit Dates: May-August2008, Cleveland Public Library
8.C.1. Image Source: Photo of Sonja Elen Kisa at whiteboard8.C.2. Text:(CAPTION)Sonja Elen KisaCreator of Toki Pona Canada
Especially for this exhibit, Sonja Elen Kisa described herself as "a29-year-old Queer Acadian (French-Canadian) woman currently living in Toronto, Canada. She designed the minimal language Toki Pona in 2001 after a period of depression, as she sought to simplify her life and find the true meaning behind things. She is currently studying to become a speech-language pathologist." Kisa was the subject of an article in The Globe and Mail, a major Toronto newspaper, in July 2007. According to that source, around 100 people speak Toki Pona fluently, mostly in chat rooms and blogs. Even more interesting are the facts that a "Colorado programmer is developing an apocalyptic computer game with Toki Pona as the spoken language [and an]Israeli-German singer and member of the Stuttgart Chamber Choir is including it in a concert of musical pieces composed in constructed languages, alongside Esperanto and Star Trek's Klingon."An example of the language is the proverb"Nasin ante li pona tawa jan ante: Different ways are good for different people (i.e. different strokes for different folks)."8.C.3.Text:The Babel Text in Toki Pona1.ma ali li jo e toki wan en sama. 2.jan ali li kama tan nasin pi kama suno, li kama lon ma Sinale, li awen lon ni. 3.jan li toki e ni: "o kama! mi mute o pali e kiwen tomo, o seli e ona." 4.jan mute li toki e ni:"o kama! mi mute o pali e ma tomo e tomo palisa suli. lawa pi tomo palisa li lon sewi kon. 5.o nimi pi mi mute li kama suli! mi wile ala e ni: mi mute li kan ala. mi mute li lon ma ali." 6.jan sewi Jawe li kama anpa, li lukin e ma tomo e tomo palisa pi jan lili mute. 7.jan sewi Jawe li toki e ni: "jan ni li jo e ma wan, li jo e toki sama, li pali e tomo palisa. tenpo ni la ona mute li ken pali mute ike. mi wile tawa anpa, mi pakala e toki pi jan mute ni. o jan li sona ala e toki pi jan ante." 8.jan sewi Jawe li pali e ni: jan ali li poki ala jan, li lon ma mute, li ken ala pali e ma tomo. 9.nimi pi ma tomo ni li Pape tan ni: jan sewi Jawe li pakala e toki pi jan ali. tan ma tomo Pape la jan sewi Jawe li tawa e jan tawa ma mute.(http://www.omniglot.com/babel/tokipona.htm)
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