Oligosynthetic Toki Pona
Oligosynthetic Toki Pona toki a jan ale o! tokojanale! Linguists like to push against the idea that any two languages are more complicated than one another. This could be seen to be in conflict with Toki Pona's claim of simplicity and lack of complexity. To be fair to Toki Pona, unlike a natural language - it specifically limits both it's lexicon and grammar - thus to be artificially smaller than natural languages. However, one aspect of Toki Pona simplicity often goes un-examined: grammar simplicity. Toki Pona is maximally isolating and analytic - with zero synthesis whatsoever. This means that no new words can be formed from component parts, with all grammar being done by word order (with the help of marker particals. I want to flip this on it's head, mostly for fun, and to test the limits of this language. I want to make Toki Pona maximally synthetic, while keeping most of everything else the same. Thus the goals will be: Root word list is the same as the base language....