About Linku
Linku is a with many , a , a , and an created by kala Asi and contributed to by jan Ke Tami, jan Telesi, jan Kekan San, and many others for the purpose of collecting and displaying toki pona dictionary information accurate to current use.
ku data is provided by tokipona.org.
The dataset is a github repository which has all data we track, and is where you go to add new data. Everyone may view the data, but direct contributions are only available to maintainers or via pull requests.
Changes to the source language data are automatically synced to , and changes to Crowdin translations are automatically synced to the dataset. Subsequently, all data in the dataset is made available via the API hosted alongside .
The Linku github organization is owned by kala Asi and jan Kekan San, and changes are discussed in kulupu Linku.
If you are looking for the old dataset called jasima, the data can be found here and the repo can be found here. Also see for information about the previous Google sheet.
The bot is for requesting and receiving Linku data without leaving discord, with a couple quality of life features.
Add it to your server!/nimi (/n)
Returns a dictionary entry on the word you requested.
You can customise the language used for the definitions using /preferences language (the default is English).
/ss
Returns the sitelen sitelen (sitelen suwi) glyph for the word you requested.
/lp
Returns a luka pona sign gif for the word you requested.
/sp
Converts your text to the linja sike font for sitelen pona, and displays it as an image.
You can customise the size of the font using /preferences fontsize (the default is 72).
/acro
Finds toki pona words beginning with each letter in your request.
You can customise the set of words (only pu/pu and ku suli/pu and ku/all available words)
will be used using /preferences acro (the default is pu and ku suli).
/prompt
Provides a random conversation prompt in Toki Pona, with a translation in your set language or English under a spoiler.
/preferences
Its uses are listed above.
Additionally, you can reset all preferences using /preferences reset.
kulupu Linku has an instance on Crowdin, a localization platform, where anyone can help translate data in our dataset. We support translating definitions, etymology of words, etymology of sitelen pona, and commentary.
If there are any changes on Crowdin, such as approved translations or newly available languages, they are automatically mirrored to . This also works in reverse; changes to the dataset are mirrored to Crowdin, including changes to source data.
Our Crowdin instance is managed by jan Kekan San, kala Asi, and jan Tepo, with specific languages managed by many others.
Contributions to existing languages are open to anyone; corrections, new languages, and other work are discussed in kulupu Linku.
If you're looking for the Google sheet previously named nimi Linku, it can be found here. Note that it has been archived and cannot be contributed to any longer.
The website is for browsing the dictionary in a nicely presented/filtered way.
The data is loaded from the .
You may choose the language you want definitions to use, and filter by the words' appearances in books and usage among the toki pona community.
The website is available as free, open source software, under the GPL-3 license. It is built using SvelteKit, tailwindcss , and shadcn-svelte.
The survey is run annually every suno pi toki pona, anniversary of Toki Pona, and asks the community how they use Toki Pona and the words in it.
This data is used to fill out with up to date information about how Toki Pona is used, to make the Linku dictionary provided by and as accurate as possible.
The survey is distributed via Google forms, and its execution and analysis are discussed in kulupu Linku.
See the 2024 Word Survey results here!Also, check out nimi.li, a third party frontend for sona Linku created by ijo Tani, and lipamanka's dictionary, which defines words based on their semantic space.