Thank goodness I read the description, I was so confused because the first few Toki Pona native speakers should be 4~6 years old now, as the language is young. Really interesting video!
theres also no way to be a toki pona native speaker, since the restrictions of the language actually makes it way too hard to have any conversations deeper than small talk
No they shouldnt, because there shouldnt be any toki pona natives in the first place, imagine how bad theyd be bullied + the type of parent that teaches their kid a conlang
@@zioqqr4262 I cant say as to how much the kids would be bullied, but kids are taught esperanto all the time, and they speak other languages besides toki pona
This sounds like if Japanese had a massive Spanish and Italian influence. This is honestly great lol. Edit: this is my OPINION on what it sounds like to me. I know of course the vocabulary isn’t gonna be consistent between the languages. I’m saying the way it’s spoken sounds familiar to someone who doesn’t speak these languages. I never claimed to speak these languages. I’m fluent in English and have a B1 background in Russian so please don’t come for me thanks :)
As a tokiponist aka semifluent toki pona speaker, the funniest part is that even the toki pona said is with a fairly thick accent. Also, this is kind of amazing and I love it so much
"mi jan kijetesantakalu" = "my name is raccoon" Imagine raising a child and only teaching them toki pona and naming them the hardest word to pronounce in the language. (I know it's a skit but the implications are still hilarious)
@@RegularRhombicDodecahedron That's the fun thing about Toki Pona - there's like 40 different translations of any given sentence If you were going to translate "my name is raccoon" into Toki Pona though, that is how you would say it so that's probably what he meant So technically you did translate it into English words and it was a correct translation but it probably wasn't the right interpretation
@@hadhamalnamThe accent comes from the limitations of the phonology, the added vowels (a thing Japanese also does with English loans) are because English’s syllable structure is much more complex than Toki Pona’s, and all sounds in general are mapped only to the ones Toki Pona has. The “Toki Pona accent” is effectively showing the difficulties a hypothetical native speaker of Toki Pona would have speaking English.
According to the Wiki on it Most Toki Pona roots come from English, Tok Pisin, Finnish, Georgian, Dutch, Acadian French, Esperanto, Serbo-Croatian with a few from Chinese (Mandarin and Cantonese).
Here's a transcript of what he said in toki pona, for anyone who can't listen to the audio. "toki! mi jan kijetesantakalu. mama mi li toki tawa mi kepeken toki pona. mi ken toki ala e toki Inli. tenpo ni mi lukin e kulupu pi nimi nasa pi toki Inli. o open!" ...after saying the shells sentence for the first time... "seme?" ...after pronouncing the English words... "toki Inli ike a!" There are several mistakes here...but it's a pretty funny video!
@@kargaroc386 don't think so there are very few languages that has a script that can directly be ipa in and of itself japanese isn't one because [え] is not an ipa symbol
Bro this is so interesting because it’s familiar but foreign asf and sounds quite cartoonish if that makes sense it’s was oddly satisfying I realized after replaying the first sentence after “let’s go!” 10 times
It's based off English, Tok Pisin, Finnish, Georgian, Dutch, Acadian French, Esperanto, Serbo-Croatian and some mandarin so if you know any of those languages that might be why
@@chonkydog6262This just proves the point that languages having words from the same root has zero bearing on people actually understanding it or thinking it sounds similar to their own. Languages sounding similar is more often a coincidence than due to some shared past, because how a language sounds changes very drastically once they separate
@@the_unforseen8224 English is actually one of the simplest European languages. It's just the spelling and phonology that's hard. It has super simple grammar, the vocabulary is taken from two major language families, it has a lot of material written in it so it's easy to get exposure in the language.
@@aaronspeedy7780 Some of the grammar is simple, but take for example the adjective order sytstem, you're allowed to say "the big grey dusty cupboard", but not "the dusty grey big cupboard" Maybe it is one of the most simple european languages, I wouldn't know, but it's certainly not simple
@@aztralsea It's one of the most simple European languages, and pretty dang simple just in general. But it's definitely not the simplest. In short, language is really freaking complicated. Every language has its quirks, such as not being allowed to say "the dusty gray big cupboard", or being allowed to say both "I will go to the store" and "To the store I will go" when most European languages strictly only allow "To the store I will go" or "To the store will I go" One of the ones I struggle with is in German there's 5 different words for "The" based on both gender and case. "Der Hund" is "The dog", but if the dog is the direct object it's "Den Hund", "The dog", but if the dog is plural it's "Die Hunde", "The dogs". "Der Hund frisst", "Den Hund füttern", and "Füttere die Hunde" mean "The dog eats", "Feed the dog", and "Feed the dogs"
"Quick brown fox" is what we use to get aquatinted with a keyboard, "She sells seashells" is a "Tongue twister" meant to be hard to say repeatedly. Great examples to be used.
Native toki pona speakers would have a hard time learning to distinguish the sounds in other languages. Student: He is the pest! Teacher: No, _best._ 'He is the _best.'_ Student: That's what I said! Teacher: No, you did not.
one of its roots is Tok Pisin which is a creole spoken in Papua New Guinea in Oceania. it's not in Polynesia specifically but that may be why you think so?
@@rockpooladmirer and Tongan(it's listed on the toki pona wiki page), I at first thought it sounded like a Pacific islander language too like Hawaiian or Maori or Samoan
Think of all the English speakers learning Toki Pona in 30 hours for fun. Now think of Toki Pona speakers learning English in 30 years. Not for fun. To survive.
@@Oziji That's true, by the way, the word "sonidas" doesn't exist in spanish. The phrase written correctly is: "... escribir 20 sonidos de vocales con solo 5 vocales." But I understood you, I don't know if you speak Spanish, but you speak good.
Tok Pisin is one of Toki Pona's roots so that may be why? since Tok Pisin has a lot from various Austronesian languages and Tagalog and bahasa indonesia are Austronesian as well
This was chaotic start to finish. 😂 Hopefully you upload frequently, cause this channel is one I would like to list as being influential in helping me become fluent in this language!
Im a native tagalog, bisaya speaker with native fluency in the english language. My god, it feels weird listening through this cuz it fucking feels familiar but also distant. In a good way.
Tok Pisin is one of Toki Pona's roots so that may be why? since Tok Pisin has a lot from various Austronesian languages, and Tagalog and Bisaya are both Austronesian as well
Its like he was *almost* going to say “im sure” correctly at the end, but he changed it back to the incorrect way (even though I assume he thought it was more correct)
@@kaleycooper9111 He can speak English, he is acting here. I think he instinctively pronouncing it correctly since he is used to that, but noticed that would be more unrealistic, so he changed it to an incorrect version.
Tok Pisin is one of Toki Pona's roots so that may be why? since Tok Pisin has a lot from various Austronesian languages, and Tagalog is Austronesian as well
I mean... there are already over 100 native Esperanto speakers, many of them not speaking English natively and learning it later, so... just listen to them talk?
this is so cool! i have a character with toki pona as his first language and english as his second, and i've always wondered what this type of accent would actually sound like. you did great! very realistic
Same. I'm also writing a character who speaks toki pona. In the universe of the story, toki pona is the language most commonly spoken in the afterlife. The main character is a demon that struggles with English.
@@francissanto12 well there are certain conlangs that are popular enough that parents raised their children speaking it only to them. There are several native speakers of esperanto who grew up speaking it at home with their parents and speak esperanto as their first language. I don't think anyone's done it with toki pona but i wouldn't be surprised if it did.
@@dani.munoz.a23 There’s no way anyone’s done that with toki pona because it isnt a very useful or practical language, due to the fact that it only has about 120 total words. So explaining complex ideas and concepts is basically impossible.
ni li musi mute a! this reminds me of something I did where I would speak in toki pona, but with english words, example: "mustelid enby is steal the fungus yes, me fight not the mustelid from this: mustelid is cute ah"
@@jordbored5152 toki! mi jan kijetesantakalu. mama mi li toki tawa mi kepeken toki pona. mi ken toki ala e toki Inli. tenpo ni [la] mi lukin e kulupu pi nimi nasa pi toki Inli. o open! seme? toki Inli [li] ike a! edit: the brackets represent where I added words because the sentence doesn't make grammatical sense without them (these are some of the mistakes referenced in the description)
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- *English is my first language. This video is a joke. I wasn't raised speaking Toki Pona.* -
Anyway, here's my discord server: discord.gg/BdXEZDZP8G
Hi,
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if you see this...
I can't say anything about you - this is too broad. You may as well be a cat, this reply is stupid
She sells seashells on the sea shore, but the value of these shells will fall
@@cloverisfan818 due to the laws of supply and demand, no one wants to buy shells cause theres loads on the ground
As a Polish native speaker, no language is confusing anymore
I have seen your comments before. It must have been months ago now but i know that name
*laughs in retained common slavic nasal vowel*
Nie niczsek skilosławskzce dosckaze sacż?
Nah bro Polish is ez, try Hindi
@@miladragon Hindi: *laughs in voiced and voiceless aspiration distictions*
Thank goodness I read the description, I was so confused because the first few Toki Pona native speakers should be 4~6 years old now, as the language is young.
Really interesting video!
theres also no way to be a toki pona native speaker, since the restrictions of the language actually makes it way too hard to have any conversations deeper than small talk
@@fuyumi4309 toki pona native speakers are a thing, they just dont only speak toki pona
Isn't the language like 20 years old, now you confuse me
No they shouldnt, because there shouldnt be any toki pona natives in the first place, imagine how bad theyd be bullied + the type of parent that teaches their kid a conlang
@@zioqqr4262 I cant say as to how much the kids would be bullied, but kids are taught esperanto all the time, and they speak other languages besides toki pona
I love how it sounds like an "actual language" thats existed for ages
toki pona even past just how it sounds does a great job at feeling natural to use and speak. :>
@@omekapo wait are you meli Mesa
@@kijeenki 😳 where do you know me from?
Anthony McCarthy? Is it you?
toki pona has existed since the beginning of history
This sounds like if Japanese had a massive Spanish and Italian influence. This is honestly great lol.
Edit: this is my OPINION on what it sounds like to me. I know of course the vocabulary isn’t gonna be consistent between the languages. I’m saying the way it’s spoken sounds familiar to someone who doesn’t speak these languages. I never claimed to speak these languages. I’m fluent in English and have a B1 background in Russian so please don’t come for me thanks :)
Yeah, Mediterranean Japanese
so, I got curious what it would look like, and i.imgur.com/bn0iEUd.png
for real
Sounds more like Swahili (I speak Japanese & Spanish)
Being from Buenos Aires, where we speak Spanish with a lot of Italian influence, this really sounds like someone from here having a stroke.
you've been hit by, you've been struck by, kijetesantakalu
soweli
a
a a a
kijetesantakalu li pona.
pona a
0:27 I love how they had to do a redo here since canonically nobody knows how to pronounce the "y" (yupekosi)
As a tokiponist aka semifluent toki pona speaker, the funniest part is that even the toki pona said is with a fairly thick accent. Also, this is kind of amazing and I love it so much
Can you tell what his accent is?
@@Animallovercomedian not really, with how few consonants there are it’s very hard to identify what accent someone has
Did you also catch that he said his name is raccoon?
@@raincloud6414 he could have meant ferret though
@@krazyddalgi nah, definitely a red panda.
This is basically what a cat hears when you meow at it.
Genuinely genuinely wenuinely
Lmao
"mi jan kijetesantakalu" = "my name is raccoon"
Imagine raising a child and only teaching them toki pona and naming them the hardest word to pronounce in the language.
(I know it's a skit but the implications are still hilarious)
@@creepycoremoth kijetesantakalu li olin. kijetesantakalu li lon.
Edit: this needs to be a bot
It's not hard
I just say kyetesantakalu
@@RegularRhombicDodecahedron and you was right
@@RegularRhombicDodecahedron That's the fun thing about Toki Pona - there's like 40 different translations of any given sentence
If you were going to translate "my name is raccoon" into Toki Pona though, that is how you would say it so that's probably what he meant
So technically you did translate it into English words and it was a correct translation but it probably wasn't the right interpretation
this sounds more like a natural language than actual toki pona
this is what actual toki pona sounds like though
It sounds really austronesian, who decides what the native accent of a conlang is?
It sounds like something from central Africa
@@hadhamalnam The person who invented it, I figure.
@@hadhamalnamThe accent comes from the limitations of the phonology, the added vowels (a thing Japanese also does with English loans) are because English’s syllable structure is much more complex than Toki Pona’s, and all sounds in general are mapped only to the ones Toki Pona has. The “Toki Pona accent” is effectively showing the difficulties a hypothetical native speaker of Toki Pona would have speaking English.
it sounds like an Italian trying to speak Japanese
omg this is literally what everyone who dosen’t know what italian or japanese sounds like say toki pona sounds like
@@omekapo westerners when a language is sylabic : OMG JAPANESE!!!!
@@tadasukoshi i think it sounds more like a blend of many languages. like tagalog mixed with a sprinkle of canton and a dash of latin
my exact thoughts
*Toki Pana word origin distribution:*
25% Japanese
25% Tagalog
30% Spanish
20% Unknown origin
Toki Pana - the language of giving :)
what's the joke here? pana?
0:21 I swear he said Zapatos lmao
Did you mean english by saying unknown?
According to the Wiki on it Most Toki Pona roots come from English, Tok Pisin, Finnish, Georgian, Dutch, Acadian French, Esperanto, Serbo-Croatian with a few from Chinese (Mandarin and Cantonese).
Here's a transcript of what he said in toki pona, for anyone who can't listen to the audio.
"toki! mi jan kijetesantakalu. mama mi li toki tawa mi kepeken toki pona. mi ken toki ala e toki Inli. tenpo ni mi lukin e kulupu pi nimi nasa pi toki Inli. o open!"
...after saying the shells sentence for the first time...
"seme?"
...after pronouncing the English words...
"toki Inli ike a!"
There are several mistakes here...but it's a pretty funny video!
Okay my first question. What is toki pona
@@golden-sun it's a constructed language of 120-ish words en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toki_Pona
@@paulclavoo516 120ish basic words
@@voicelessglottalfricative6567 that's the point omfg smh some people society is dead vote Vladdy Daddy
@@Orincaby unalive yourself
i really expected you to pronounce every word like it is in IPA
well, there's no q in toki pona, so
So something like middle english?
@@kargaroc386 don't think so
there are very few languages that has a script that can directly be ipa in and of itself
japanese isn't one because [え] is not an ipa symbol
@@paper2222 sorry for being so late but there is in IPA though
@@RubyPiec what
sounds a lot like a belter from the expanse.
Thought exactly the same.
this is what italian sounds like to people to who dont speak italian.
ive always wondered...
this does not sound like italian at all to me
I'm an Italian native speaker and it sounds kinda like Greek to me
fr, as a person who doesn't speak italian, it really looks like italian, but like with a japanese sauce
Not at all.
Bro this is so interesting because it’s familiar but foreign asf and sounds quite cartoonish if that makes sense it’s was oddly satisfying I realized after replaying the first sentence after “let’s go!” 10 times
It's based off English, Tok Pisin, Finnish, Georgian, Dutch, Acadian French, Esperanto, Serbo-Croatian and some mandarin so if you know any of those languages that might be why
Sounds like some tiki language.
@@chonkydog6262This just proves the point that languages having words from the same root has zero bearing on people actually understanding it or thinking it sounds similar to their own. Languages sounding similar is more often a coincidence than due to some shared past, because how a language sounds changes very drastically once they separate
@@hadhamalnam true
as a native speaker, english IS super confusing.
The writing system alone is enough to give one a headache, let alone everything else 😂
@@the_unforseen8224 English is actually one of the simplest European languages. It's just the spelling and phonology that's hard. It has super simple grammar, the vocabulary is taken from two major language families, it has a lot of material written in it so it's easy to get exposure in the language.
@@aaronspeedy7780 Some of the grammar is simple, but take for example the adjective order sytstem, you're allowed to say "the big grey dusty cupboard", but not "the dusty grey big cupboard" Maybe it is one of the most simple european languages, I wouldn't know, but it's certainly not simple
@@aztralsea It's one of the most simple European languages, and pretty dang simple just in general. But it's definitely not the simplest.
In short, language is really freaking complicated. Every language has its quirks, such as not being allowed to say "the dusty gray big cupboard", or being allowed to say both "I will go to the store" and "To the store I will go" when most European languages strictly only allow "To the store I will go" or "To the store will I go"
One of the ones I struggle with is in German there's 5 different words for "The" based on both gender and case.
"Der Hund" is "The dog", but if the dog is the direct object it's
"Den Hund", "The dog", but if the dog is plural it's
"Die Hunde", "The dogs".
"Der Hund frisst", "Den Hund füttern", and "Füttere die Hunde" mean "The dog eats", "Feed the dog", and "Feed the dogs"
@@the_unforseen8224 ohohohohoho
wait until you see thai writing system, my friend
What the heck
Please release my family and my boyfriend from your basement, I'll pay you back the money I owed you, I promise
Thats the most understandable language isnt it?
what the heck
albanian
I love how he slipped into actual English in the end
I legitimately have never heard of toki pona until this video and now I am fascinated.
Check it out! Especially if you've ever wanted a secret language between friends before. o kama pona tawa toki pona!
The comments: "How (my language) sounds to non (my language) speakers"
I bet this is exactly how french sounds to non-french speakers
@@blartversenwaldiii No Sounds rather Like Italian or spanish
"Quick brown fox" is what we use to get aquatinted with a keyboard, "She sells seashells" is a "Tongue twister" meant to be hard to say repeatedly.
Great examples to be used.
Native toki pona speakers would have a hard time learning to distinguish the sounds in other languages.
Student: He is the pest!
Teacher: No, _best._ 'He is the _best.'_
Student: That's what I said!
Teacher: No, you did not.
I isa ta pesutu
jan pi pana sona: _sina toki e ni: ona li ike._
jan pi kama sona: seme?? mi toki e ni: ona li pona. mi toki ala e ni: ona li ike.
Arabic only has a "b" sound so many Arabs struggle pronouncing the "p" or spit in your face while trying...
The was he said "SEME??" 🤣🤣🤣
oh wow how have i not seen this before. the 'toki inli li ike a' at the end killed me
I love the “seme?” gets me everytime
Am I the only one who thinks Toki Pona sounds like a Polynesian language?
That's how I think of it too
ala
one of its roots is Tok Pisin which is a creole spoken in Papua New Guinea in Oceania. it's not in Polynesia specifically but that may be why you think so?
no
@@rockpooladmirer and Tongan(it's listed on the toki pona wiki page), I at first thought it sounded like a Pacific islander language too like Hawaiian or Maori or Samoan
Toki pona is such a cute language 😂 “TOKI :D”
i think we all need to take a moment and appreciate the last frame of this video
you should make a part 2 where he learns how to pronounce english slightly better, like maybe he can muster CCVC syllables
Think of all the English speakers learning Toki Pona in 30 hours for fun. Now think of Toki Pona speakers learning English in 30 years. Not for fun. To survive.
Yes, as Spanish native speaker, English is confusing xD
eso es que pasa cuando se tiene que escribir 20 sonidos vocales con solo 5 letras vocales
@@Oziji
Inglés:
Escritura y lectura: 🙂
Pronunciación y Habla: 😐
Toki Pona:
Gramática, pronunciación, escritura, lectura: 🙂
Crear palabras compuestas: 😐
@@Oziji That's true, by the way, the word "sonidas" doesn't exist in spanish.
The phrase written correctly is: "... escribir 20 sonidos de vocales con solo 5 vocales."
But I understood you, I don't know if you speak Spanish, but you speak good.
@@danielbonilla431 Spanish is hard too
@@Oziji German has 19 vowels and isn't nearly as confusing. You can infer the pronunciation of most words from the orthography.
I think this is the video that led me to discover toki pona. Thanks ^^
sounds like how xqc speaks on a daily basis
As an Indonesian this sounds like some local Indonesian dialect or Tagalog
Tok Pisin is one of Toki Pona's roots so that may be why? since Tok Pisin has a lot from various Austronesian languages and Tagalog and bahasa indonesia are Austronesian as well
This video is legendary, can't wait for it to blow up lol
This was chaotic start to finish. 😂 Hopefully you upload frequently, cause this channel is one I would like to list as being influential in helping me become fluent in this language!
How cruel would someone’s parents have to be to only teach their kids Toki Pona? Lol
It would be a charge for child neglect because their education would have to be offset a few years to learn something people actually speak
I think parents should try to teach their children every language they're fluent in
As a Japanese speaker, this accent sounds like the mixture of Japanese and other accents lol
Im a native tagalog, bisaya speaker with native fluency in the english language. My god, it feels weird listening through this cuz it fucking feels familiar but also distant. In a good way.
Tok Pisin is one of Toki Pona's roots so that may be why? since Tok Pisin has a lot from various Austronesian languages, and Tagalog and Bisaya are both Austronesian as well
oh bisaya gang nice
she sells seashells on the seashore
BUT THE VALUE OF THESE SHELLS WILL FALL
he'll never say "sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow"
Your second attempt at the seashell was really impressive!
Why?
Its like he was *almost* going to say “im sure” correctly at the end, but he changed it back to the incorrect way (even though I assume he thought it was more correct)
@@kaleycooper9111 He can speak English, he is acting here. I think he instinctively pronouncing it correctly since he is used to that, but noticed that would be more unrealistic, so he changed it to an incorrect version.
@@yellowmarkers this exactly
@@yellowmarkers Ohh, I see. Kinda sucks to know that he lied but hey, it’s not like I don’t lie either 🤷♀️
ok i’m going to learn toki pona now
this video gets recommended to me every day and i watch it every time
Sounds like me pretending to speak Spanish.
lo maya jimón de las cachagas agui se vena quiser de zalló que se jelégua y no le estachabaron de polón
can't wait for this to blow up so toki pona becomes more popular :D
Most comprehensible Italian accent
Cap, it would sound like "de kwik brawn foks jamped over de lezi dog" with a roller r with Toki pona doesn't have.
This sounds more like Tagalog than anything
Tok Pisin is one of Toki Pona's roots so that may be why? since Tok Pisin has a lot from various Austronesian languages, and Tagalog is Austronesian as well
we need more.
;)
oh my god four seconds in and I got hit with a wave of nostalgia from my early Toki Pona days one and a half years ago. lmao thanks for being silly
Woah, just shows that the TP makes our head spin to our complex languages.
0:32 he almost broke character
PONA!!! This is amazing and perfect, really Toki Pona, and super accurate!
a ni li pona tawa mi
lipa mank
I just learned that this language exists. What a fascinating rabbithole!
this is genuinely really cool wtf
Lol I read Toki Pona and clicked faster than I ever did in my life.
toki pona has no capital letters.
i love this video so much. i don't know why, maybe i just find it cute
That's interesting cause I've always be very confused why people seem to like this video so much lol
As a native speaker english is the one thing I always failed in school. All because I couldn't identify the adjective.
Dude, I'm a non-native speaker and I can identify the adjective easily... Not trying to be rude, but what's hard about it?
@@someguy1686 I have no idea what an adjective is.
Random Guy Then... look it up???
@@GiGitteru I did.
@@GiGitteru and it forgot what it is.
that “Seme?” a a a! sitelen ni li musi a!
this feels almost dream-like
I didn't know there were native toki pona speakers since it is such a new language
Edit: I just checked the description
I know this video is a joke, but there ARE native Toki Pona speakers. X3
They are very young, though, and I don't know how many there are.
Okay the oldest one I found (I was just looking for a minute) is seven years old.
Love how this video is just a root video to find your channel and listen to your music lol
Someone needs to make a video like this but where it's English with an Esperanto accent.
I mean... there are already over 100 native Esperanto speakers, many of them not speaking English natively and learning it later, so... just listen to them talk?
@@zackbuildit88can you recommend any youtubers who're native Esperanto speakers and also know English? I really want to learn more about it :)
@@rockpooladmirer don't know any, sorry. Most are pretty young, I don't know of any over 25
A fellow toki pona speaker here
I understood everything perfectly.
From my basic knowledge of toki pona he just said "hello, I am racoon person," "toki, mi jan kijetesantakalu"
yeah pretty much
I can't tell if this is a real language, or like one of those weird worldbuilding excercises.
It's a conlang.
Such a pretty language ♡
He really said his name is raccoon, huh?
Edit: I love this.
He looks like he would know English in 5 languages
0:00 Toki! (Meaning: talk)
That's literally correct, but in this context it means "hello"
@@OzijiOMG TYSM FOR REPLYING
Finally there's my comment
@@Ozijialso I already know
Fox does not have two syllables! But this is still good for someone who can't speak English. 🙂
you should read the description ;)
a a a ponaaaa xD mi musi
I honestly thought your parents spoke to you in Toki Pona for real until reading the description
wtf 3 people ï know in 1 comment section
extremely small world
I would kinda love to see more of this character and hear about his life as Toki Pona speaker in an English speaker's world.
デ・クイック・ブラーン・フォックス・ジャンプド・オヴァー・デ・レーシ・ドッグ。
toki pona sounds like animal crossing villagers speaking latin lol
lol almost did the /∫/
he did the /v/, that's illegal
My parents only spoke to me in C++ and Java, I didn't learn English until school
years spent calling the void() and getting nothing in return
This is so interesting. The language has a "popping" feel to me.
dude's speaking Simlish on fast-forward.
You have a very nice room.
Thanks! It's a log cabin
>My parents speak toki pona to me
call child services
musi a
sina kijetesantakalu
a a a
gaelic-finno-hispanic connection
This is actually so adorable 🥺
my guy looks like the main villain from Megamind
this is so cool! i have a character with toki pona as his first language and english as his second, and i've always wondered what this type of accent would actually sound like. you did great! very realistic
Same. I'm also writing a character who speaks toki pona. In the universe of the story, toki pona is the language most commonly spoken in the afterlife. The main character is a demon that struggles with English.
Funny thing I’m a story writer and I created a fake fictional country and called It’s native Language Toki Bona. What a coincidence eh…
oh my goodness!!
0:21 note to self: sapatos
jan Kijetesantakalu?!?!
Wow, this is cool! I've never heard of Toki Pona before. This is really interesting.
Its an invented language, theres no one who speaks it natively, this guy is just trolling.
@@francissanto12 well there are certain conlangs that are popular enough that parents raised their children speaking it only to them. There are several native speakers of esperanto who grew up speaking it at home with their parents and speak esperanto as their first language. I don't think anyone's done it with toki pona but i wouldn't be surprised if it did.
@@dani.munoz.a23 There’s no way anyone’s done that with toki pona because it isnt a very useful or practical language, due to the fact that it only has about 120 total words. So explaining complex ideas and concepts is basically impossible.
Yes
@@francissanto12 Well I'd feel sorry for the people who grew up only learning a tiny conlang. You'd be so isolated to the rest of the world
0:25 "seme???" XD
ni li musi mute a!
this reminds me of something I did where I would speak in toki pona, but with english words, example:
"mustelid enby is steal the fungus yes, me fight not the mustelid from this: mustelid is cute ah"
way speak this is good towards me.
@@Oziji "nasin toki ni li pona tawa mi" ni li pona ala pona?
pona
As a native speaker, I speak.
This sounds so much like Tagalog!! I don’t speak much of the language, but I thought I heard “ikaw” at around 0:04 and it threw me off a bit lol
you're hearing a part of "li toki tawa mi". if you want me to transcribe the full sentence i can
@@mmmmmmmmmmmmm sure, thanks!!
@@jordbored5152
toki! mi jan kijetesantakalu. mama mi li toki tawa mi kepeken toki pona. mi ken toki ala e toki Inli. tenpo ni [la] mi lukin e kulupu pi nimi nasa pi toki Inli. o open!
seme?
toki Inli [li] ike a!
edit: the brackets represent where I added words because the sentence doesn't make grammatical sense without them (these are some of the mistakes referenced in the description)
@@mmmmmmmmmmmmm wow!! It reminds me of a mix of Italian and Hawaiian with a hint of Japanese, very cool :)) thanks for the transcription!
@@jordbored5152 np!
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog sounds like Japanese accent