There are approximately 7,000 languages known to be spoken in the world. These languages belong to 142 different language families and have many different features. Again, while some have very wide vocabularies, some have very narrow ones. So, do you have any idea about the world’s smallest language?
A small language means that the number of words is quite small, although it may not make much difference in the number of letters. This is the way it is It brings communication problems.
Without further ado What is the smallest language in the world and its characteristics? let’s see.
The world’s smallest language is Toki Pona, which was first drafted in 2001.
In addition to the draft, it was published as a book in 2014. “Toki Pona: A Good Language” work, Toronto-based translator and linguist It is designed by Gold Lang.
This language is relatively common among different cultures of the world. simple concepts and elements that are universal focuses. Lang says Toki Pona was designed to express maximum meaning with minimum complexity.
Also in Toki Pona 14 sounds and 120 basic words is available. It is not intended to be an international auxiliary language, but is inspired by “Taoist” philosophy. Some say it only takes 30 hours to learn Toki Pona.
Lang uses letters of the Latin alphabet to represent the Toki Pona language.
Within these letters; p, t, k, s, m, n, l, j, w, a, e, i, o and u has. Surprisingly, in this language, capital letters are used only for names of people and places. For example, the word “teach” in English is expressed as “pana e sona”, which means to give information.
There are 5 different root words for colors. Pimeja (black), walo (white), loje (red), jelo (yellow) and laso (blue). But sometimes the properties of these colors can be made specific by combining them. For example purple, With the combination of “laso” and “loje” Expressed.
The root words of this language were derived by borrowing from many languages.
Among these languages English, Tok Pisin, Georgian, Akkadian, Finnish, French, Esperanto, Chinese and Croatian has. It was also determined that only 100 people in the world could speak Toki Pona in 2007.
Again, in different countries such as Japan, New Zealand, Belgium and Argentina, people from different communities interact through the online environment and actually There are many more speakers of this language is predicted.
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