Numbers in Toki Pona



Learn numbers in Toki Pona

Knowing numbers in Toki Pona is probably one of the most useful things you can learn to say, write and understand in Toki Pona. Learning to count in Toki Pona may appeal to you just as a simple curiosity or be something you really need. Perhaps you have planned a trip to a country where Toki Pona is the most widely spoken language, and you want to be able to shop and even bargain with a good knowledge of numbers in Toki Pona.

It's also useful for guiding you through street numbers. You'll be able to better understand the directions to places and everything expressed in numbers, such as the times when public transportation leaves. Can you think of more reasons to learn numbers in Toki Pona?

Toki Pona is a philosophical artistic constructed language. It has been designed by the Canadian linguist Sonja Lang in 2001. Its main goals are minimalism, with only 120–125 root words and 14 phonemes, focus on simple concepts and elements that are universal among cultures, and trying to induce positive thinking. Two logographic systems have been designed for Toki Pona: sitelen pona, a series of childlike shapes by Sonja Lang herself, and sitelen sitelen, which resembles the Mayan script, by Jonathan Gabel.Due to lack of data, we can only count accurately up to 999 in Toki Pona. Please contact me if you can help me counting up from that limit.

List of numbers in Toki Pona

Here is a list of numbers in Toki Pona. We have made for you a list with all the numbers in Toki Pona from 1 to 20. We have also included the tens up to the number 100, so that you know how to count up to 100 in Toki Pona. We also close the list by showing you what the number 1000 looks like in Toki Pona.

• 1) wan
• 2) tu
• 3) tu wan
• 4) tu tu
• 5) luka
• 6) luka wan
• 7) luka tu
• 8) luka tu wan
• 9) luka tu tu
• 10) luka luka
• 11) luka luka wan
• 12) luka luka tu
• 13) luka luka tu wan
• 14) luka luka tu tu
• 15) luka luka luka
• 16) luka luka luka wan
• 17) luka luka luka tu
• 18) luka luka luka tu wan
• 19) luka luka luka tu tu
• 20) mute
• 30) mute luka luka
• 40) mute mute
• 50) mute mute luka luka
• 60) mute mute mute
• 70) mute mute mute luka luka
• 80) mute mute mute mute
• 90) mute mute mute mute luka luka
• 100) ala

Numbers in Toki Pona: Toki Pona numbering rules

Each culture has specific peculiarities that are expressed in its language and its way of counting. The Toki Pona is no exception. If you want to learn numbers in Toki Pona you will have to learn a series of rules that we will explain below. If you apply these rules you will soon find that you will be able to count in Toki Pona with ease.

The way numbers are formed in Toki Pona is easy to understand if you follow the rules explained here. Surprise everyone by counting in Toki Pona. Also, learning how to number in Toki Pona yourself from these simple rules is very beneficial for your brain, as it forces it to work and stay in shape. Working with numbers and a foreign language like Toki Pona at the same time is one of the best ways to train our little gray cells, so let's see what rules you need to apply to number in Toki Pona

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Toki Pona numeral words are limited to a list of six words only: ali [0], wan [1], tu [2], luka [5], mute [20], and ala [100]. Any number is formed by addition of those numeral bricks, with no use of the shortcut of multiplication.

Digits are formed by addition of one, two and five: ali [0], wan [1], tu [2], tu wan [3] (2+1), tu tu [4] (2+2), luka [5], luka wan [6] (5+1), luka tu [7] (5+2), luka tu wan [8] (5+2+1), and luka tu tu [9] (5+2+2).

Tens are formed by addition of five and twenty: luka luka [10] (5+5), mute [20], mute luka luka [30] (20+5+5), mute mute [40] (20+20), mute mute luka luka [50] (20+20+5+5), mute mute mute [60] (20+20+20), mute mute mute luka luka [70] (20+20+20+5+5), mute mute mute mute [80] (20+20+20+20), and mute mute mute mute luka luka [90] (20+20+20+20+5+5).

Compound numbers are formed starting with the ten, followed by the unit separated with a space (e.g.: luka luka luka [15], mute luka luka tu wan [33], mute mute mute luka luka wan [71]).

Hundreds are formed with the last Toki Pona numeral word (ala) in an additive manner: ala [100], ala ala [200], ala ala ala [300], ala ala ala ala [400], ala ala ala ala ala [500]… ala ala ala ala ala ala ala ala ala [900].

Big numbers are formed in the same additive manner, resulting in quite long sequences, up to nine hundred ninety-nine: ala ala ala ala ala ala ala ala ala mute mute mute mute luka luka luka tu tu [999].