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- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/medavox/tuki-nuwa
- Owner: medavox
- License: mit
- Created: 2019-02-11T13:20:13.000Z (over 6 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2021-03-28T01:27:42.000Z (about 4 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-02-12T10:19:31.803Z (3 months ago)
- Language: Markdown
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- Size: 624 KB
- Stars: 0
- Watchers: 3
- Forks: 1
- Open Issues: 0
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- Readme: README.md
- License: LICENSE
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README
"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler"
-Albert Einstein
Tokaja is a spoken language designed to be simple to learn.
It achieves this by making each of its words sound familiar to *the most people possible*.
It only has around 360 words.
Concepts which would be expressed in a single word in other languages,
are expressed in Tokaja with a phrase.
Unnecessary details are left out, but can be added with further phrases.
The collection of letters/sounds (the "word-form") to represent a given concept is chosen by what would be recognisable to the most people globally.
Each word has been translated into the top 20 or so most widely-spoken languages, and the word-form that:
1. occurs for the most people, while
2. being recognisable when converted to Tokaja's phonology
is chosen.
This is not necessarily always the word from a single language with many speakers.
due to the shared history of some languages,
and also due to cultural cross-pollination (both in our modern world and historically),
many languages with relatively fewer speakers individually may collectively have enough speakers to "out-vote"
other language(s) with more speakers.
Tokaja is a language that aims to be as easy to learn as possible, for as many people as possible.
It does this with the following design:
* **Accessible Phonology**: Tokaja only has 13 sounds, each of which almost everyone already knows how to pronounce
* **Small Lexicon** Tokaja only has a total of 360 words in it; few enough to remember, many enough to express fine distinctions and concepts
* **Small grammar** a relatively simple, well-defined grammar. No conjugation!
* **Recognisable vocabulary for many**: most word-forms (how they're spelled and spoken) are recognisable to the most number of people possible, by comparing the word in the top-25 most spoken lnaugages across the world.