Wikipesija:lipu pi toki Inli/The history of Toki Pona

lipu ni li lon toki pona ala li lon toki ante.

2005

2005/01/03

The Toki Pona article on Wikipedia is nominated for deletion for the first time.

2005/01/21

The result of the discussion about the first nomination for deletion of the Toki Pona article on Wikipedia is keep.

2007

2007/05/07

A request for a new language code ISO 639-3 is made by Marcos Cramer. Amongst additional supporters on the document are Abel Johannes Kiefte, Helmut Voigt, and Marek Blahuš. tok is chosen as a preferred three letter identifier. The request reports that there are “10-30 fluent speakers; several hundred with reasonable ability”.

2007/05/30

The Toki Pona article on Wikipedia is nominated for deletion for the second time.

2007/06/08

The result of the discussion about the second nomination for deletion of the Toki Pona article on Wikipedia is delete.

2007/07/09

The deletion of the Toki Pona article on Wikipedia is discussed in a deletion review.

2007/07/09

The Globe and Mail (Siobhan Roberts) publish an article Canadian has people talking about lingo she created.

2007/07/14

The decision to delete the Toki Pona article on Wikipedia has been overturned “in light of new information” upon discussion in the deletion review.

2007/07/18

Times and Transcript (Nick Moore) publish an article Moncton native creates unique ‘good language’.

2007/07/18

jan Sonja is interviewed in French by Denis Robichaud on 3-60, Radio-Canada, Première Chaîne (Atlantique) in an 8-minute interview.

2007/07/21

Telegraph-Journal republish the Times and Transcript (Nick Moore)’s article Moncton native creates unique ‘good language’ as She’s talking in a new tongue.

2007/07/25

The deleted Toki Pona article on Wikipedia moves back to mainspace.

2007/07/25

jan Sonja is interviewed by Kevin Sylvester on Sounds Like Canada, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, CBC Radio One in a 20-minute interview.

2007/08/24

Los Angeles Times (Amber Dance) publish an article In their own words -- literary.

2007/08/27

jan Sonja is interviewed in French by Michel Doucet on Le Réveil on Radio-Canada, Première Chaîne (Atlantique) in a 13-minute interview.

2007/09/02

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette republish the Los Angeles Times (Amber Dance)’s article In their own words -- literary as Invented languages: They're not just for Klingons anymore.

2007/10/20

Jan Sonja is interviewed by Jane Farrow on And Sometimes Y, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, CBC Radio One.

2009

2009/04/01

In the Yahoo group, the word kijetesantakalu is presented by jan Sonja as an April Fools' Day joke: “Although some of the new words I am considering are still in the testing phase, I can safely say that one word that has made the cut is "kijetesantakalu", a noun for any animal from the Procyonidae family, such as raccoons, coatis, kinkajous, olingos, ringtails and cacomistles. I took it from the Finnish word kierteishäntäkarhu, meaning kinkajou.”

2009/11/18

Toki Pona merchandise is created by jan Sonja.

2009/12/01

The writing system sitelen suwi (later known as sitelen sitelen) is published by jan Josan.

2009/12/10

jan Mato proposes creating a contract in Toki Pona, and realises the idea with jan Josan.

2009/12/16

jan Kipo proposes calling jan Josan’s writing system sitelen sitelen as opposed to sitelen suwi.

2012

2012/02/05

The Toki Pona article on Wikipedia is nominated for deletion for the third time.

2012/02/13

The result of the discussion about the third nomination for deletion of the Toki Pona article on Wikipedia is keep.

2013

2013/03/10?

The (unofficial) Toki Pona Sign Language is created by Christopher Huff.

2013/03/15

The Toki Pona article on Wikipedia is nominated for deletion for the fourth time.

2013/03/23

The result of the discussion about the fourth nomination for deletion of the Toki Pona article on Wikipedia is keep.

2013/07/12

Eliazar Parra Cárdena’s toki pona en 76 lecciones ilustradas is translated by jan Male from Spanish into Esperanto and published under an Esperanto publishing house with its own ISBN, becoming the first printed textbook of Toki Pona. It is first available at the Somera Esperanto-Studado (Summer Esperanto Study) 2013, a week-long event that takes place every summer in Martin, Slovakia. jan Sonja writes a preface praising the relationship between Esperanto and Toki Pona and expressing thanks to jan Male and Eliazar Parra Cárdena. The second edition appears during the Konferenco pri Aplikoj de Esperanto en Scienco kaj Tekniko 2014 in Modra, Slovakia.

2014

2014/03/05

jan Mali publishes her first Learn toki pona in a fortnight video on YouTube.

2014/04/25

jan Sonja is seeking graphic designers for the cover of her book.

2014/05/25

Toki Pona: The Language of Good or pu is published by jan Sonja.

2014/06/15–19?

Christopher Huff gives a one-hour talk at the Polyglot Gathering in Berlin.

2014/07/18

jan Sonja is interviewed by Kris Broholm on Actual Fluency Podcast in a 45-minute episode AFP 20 – Sonja Lang: Toki Pona, Conlanging and the meaning of life.

2014/07/20

A sitelen pona font for sitelen pona is created by jan Wesi. jan Same later works on this and creates his linja pona font.

2014/12/11–12

17 people try to learn Toki Pona in 48 hours in an Actual Fluency meetup called TokiPonathon 2014.

2016

2016/04/12

The toki pona taso group on Facebook is created by jan Tomani.

2016/04/24

pu is published in French by jan Sonja under the title Toki Pona: la langue du bien.

2016/05/25–29

EToSo 2 takes places in Ede, Netherlands.

2016/10/17

sitelen pona glyphs for the extinct words kin, kipisi, leko, monsuta, namako, oko, and pake are created by jan Same.

2016/12/03

A standard font (OpenType Font), linja pona, is created by jan Same with the help of jan Wesi’s sitelen pona font. To write compound glyphs, the space between the two words has to be omitted. To use cartouches, square brackets and underscores before each glyph has to be used.

2017

2017/02/23

Conlang Critic publishes their Conlang Critic Episode Twelve: Toki Pona video on YouTube.

2017/03/18

linja pona version 2 is released by jan Same. Several new compound glyphs are introduced as well as a new system of writing them – now to write a compound, a hyphen has to be put between the two words. The monsuta glyph is slightly modified and new ways of typing a, e, and o are introduced.

2017/03/20

The toki pona central hub preparation document opens up by jan Tomani.

2017/04/11

linja pona version 3 is released by jan Same.

2017/06/27

jan Sonja is interviewed in French by Sylvain Lumbroso, Jean-Yves Ginchereau, and Marion Vignal on Podcast Quadrivium Radio, Québec Science in an episode Tout dire avec 120 mots.

2017/07/18

The tomo pona website (toki pona central hub) is created by jan Tomani.

2017/08/28

A request for a new language code ISO 639-3 is submitted for the second time.

2017/09/01

Toki Pona competition in writing articles on Wikipesija takes place on Facebook.

2017/10/18

The toki pona taso group on Facebook changes from public to closed.

2018

2018/01/23

The second ISO 639-3 language code request is rejected.

2018/02/28

The toki pona taso group on Facebook hits 500 members.

2018/03/23

Langfocus publishes his 13-minute video Toki Pona: "The Language of Good" on YouTube. This results in a great number of people getting interested in Toki Pona and also joining the groups on Facebook. The Toki Pona article on Wikipedia reaches its peak. Before the video usually about 200 people visited the page every day. On the day of the publication it is 650, the next day the number reaches as high as 1819, and the two following days, 997 and 633, respectively.

2018/03/27

Oxford Dictionaries Blog (Simon Thomas) publish an article Exploring Toki Pona: do we need more than 120 words?.

2018/05/15

Toki Pona hits 300 speakers on Amikumu.

2018/09/28–29

Two Toki Pona crash courses are given at a polyglot festival LingvaFest’ in Bratislava, Slovakia by jan Wena.

2018/11/09

seme li sin? creates his first Toki Pona news weekly video on YouTube.