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I would give Toki Pona a go as WorldPidgin

it has only 14 sounds (noted by their IPA representation : a, e, i, o, u ; j, k, l, m, n, p, s, t, w)

It has no double consonants nor consonant clusters, no double vowels nor diphthongs (nor triphthongs)

The only consonant that can close a syllable is a -n

The language has only some 123 words ...

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Toki Pona :

123 word minimalist language
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The 123 words were based on words from Dutch, Tok Pisin, English, Esperanto, [Acadian] French, Finnish, [old] Georgian, Croatian, Chinese (Mandarin and Cantonese), Japanese, Swahili, Welsh and Tongan.

That's way is so suitable to be a WorldPidgin
toot ! 🐘


jansegers 🌍 @jansegers

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Toki Pona has

* no conjugations nor declinations
* no plurals
* no derivational adverbs
* no articles [ like in Latin ]

each word has only 1 form, that's it !

123 words and you're done with all the morphology of this language...

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And, most fun of all (?), you can learn it using Esperanto : ✨

toki pona en 76 ilustritaj lecionoj
tokipona.info/PriLaLibro

toot ! 🐘


@cnc @gemlog

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Learning Toki Pona through Esperanto in SecondLife

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Prelego pri Tokipono en Dua Vivo (Second Life), per la lingvo Esperanto.

vimeo.com/2289842

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BTW they have the picture of jan Sonja wrong... apart from that, it's an excellent course...