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Chinuk Wawa <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinook_Jargon> a trade pidgin with a simple vocabulary of several hundred words. in common use in the Pacific Northwest a century and a half ago, and still appears in many place names. A few terms even made it into common usage, many by way of the labor movement.

I made a Toki Pona keyboard with built-in input method a while ago. https://ilonena.sadale.net/

I didn't invent the input method but this design I came up with can be manufactured at a scale large enough for satisfying the demand in the entire Toki Pona community.

I made several but don't know if folks are using them https://codepen.io/mahagugu/full/pvEdxQx (uses autocomplete) https://matthiasliszt.github.io/10keyKeyboard/10key.html (uses the middle row of the keyboard asdfghjkl...)

Thanks for the fun read, I went ahead and translated my site into Toki Pona [0]

[0] https://i18n.md/?lang=tok

Do you speak the language? The grammar looks a little bit broken. Is it machine-translated?

sina kepeken e ilo sona tawa pala e ni Y? did you do it on your own or did you use an LLM?

Translator and polyglot named Sonia Lang. It's like a librarian named Mr Bookman.

Nominative determinism wins again...