Media coverage

From Toki Pona

As Toki Pona grew more popular through word of mouth, it generated a great deal of interest from traditional media. Click on the links below for clippings, transcripts, audio and video files.

Newspapers and news agencies

• Amber Dance, In their own words — literally, Los Angeles Times, August 24, 2007, p. A1.
  (reprinted as Invented languages: They're not just for Klingons anymore, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, September 2, 2007.)
• Siobhan Roberts, Canadian has people talking about lingo she created, Globe and Mail [Toronto], July 9, 2007, page L3.
• Nick Moore, Moncton native creates unique 'good language', Times & Transcript [Moncton], July 18, 2007, page A5.
  (reprinted as She's talking in a new tongue, Telegraph-Journal [Saint John], July 21, 2007, page G5.)
• Le toki pona est la nouvelle langue à la mode sur le net [Toki Pona is latest trendy language on the net], 20 minutes, August 30, 2007.
• Questions Answered: Invented Languages, New York Times, March 10, 2010

Magazines

• Stanislav Koslovsky, Скорость мысли [The Speed of Thought], Компьютерра [Computerra], Nº 26–27, 20 July 2004.

Radio

• Sounds Like Canada. Interview with Sonja Elen Kisa by Kevin Sylvester. Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, CBC Radio One. July 25, 2007.
• And Sometimes Y. Interview with Sonja Elen Kisa by Jane Farrow. Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, CBC Radio One. October 20, 2007.
• 3-60. Interview with Sonja Elen Kisa by Denis Robichaud. Radio-Canada Première Chaîne (Atlantique). July 18, 2007.
• Le Réveil. Interview with Sonja Elen Kisa by Michel Doucet. Radio-Canada, Première Chaîne (Atlantique). August 27, 2007.
• Skylarking. Interview with Sonja Elen Kisa by André Alexis. Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, CBC Radio Two. March 30, 2008.

Television

• Art Revolution. Segment on constructed languages, MIR Channel, Russia.

Untranslated media coverage

Please contact me if you want to provide a quality English translation of the articles below:

• Tijana Jovanović, Article in Serbian Политикин Забавник [Politikin Zabavnik], issue 2862, December 15, 2006, pp. 16–18.
• Internet: nasce lingua 'Toki Pona', Agenzia Nazionale Stampa Associata, August 24, 2007.
• http://smena-online.ru/stories/dobryi-yazyk
• http://www.nyest.hu/hirek/hogyan-keszitsunk-hazilag-mesterseges-nyelvet