toki pona

introduction

i'm making my own toki pona course right here, because i feel like a lot of online courses fail to do their jobs when it comes to the more complex parts of toki pona. i really hope this helps people, if i ever finish it because i love toki pona so much.

#1: letters and phonetics

toki pona only has 14 letters in it's alphabet:

a, e, i, o, u, j, k, l, m, n, p, s, t, w

unlike english, each letter only has one phonetic pronunciation. for example, in english, a makes a different sound in cat, cake, ball, about, and father. in toki pona, it only makes the sound it does in father.

letters pronunciation
a ball
e egg
i ski
o boat