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Native Speakers pi toki pona li lon ala lon?

 Native Speakers pi toki pona li lon ala lon? This lipu is written in a toki tonsi of Eng and Toki Pona.    A recent drama has sprung up around if there are truly any native speakers of TP. I will paraphrase in order to avoid furthering the drama as mi wile ala wawa e utala. mi wile taso toki e ona. I have permission from jan Kekan San to share their side of things. To set the scene; for a number of years a person of the name jan Elike that has claimed multiple times that ona are raising jan lili kili ona with a number of languages including toki pona such that ona are The First Native Speakers pi toki pona . ona are quite young as of right now - and have not grown up yet enough to toki lon kulupu pi toki pona - but perhaps in years to come ona might be some of the most fluent people among us. jan Alonola's discussion with jan Elike  (Eng) lipu tenpo nanpa soweli - toki tawa jan Elike (mama pi jan lili pi toki pona)  (TP) One thing jan Elike toki'd was that ona's two year o