This is a list of words in Toki Pona, a philosophical artistic constructed language created by Sonja Lang. These common words are always written in lowercase; capital letters are used only for proper names, such as the names of people.
A few Toki Pona words are grammatical particles that are required to indicate sentence structure. The rest are content words with broad lexical meanings. Content words do not fall into well defined parts of speech; rather, they may be used generally as nouns, verbs, modifiers, or interjections depending on context or their position in a phrase. For example, may mean "they ate" or "it is food". In 2014, Lang defined each content word as an adjective, noun, or verb, alongside production rules to derive the meaning of a word converted into another syntactic role. The noun role indicates 'something that is ed', 'the act of ing', or 'that which is '. The verb role indicates 'to be', or, transitively, 'to cause to be '.
One of the language's main goals is a focus on minimalism. It is designed to express maximal meaning with minimal complexity. Like a pidgin, it focuses on simple concepts and elements that are near-universal among cultures. It has a minimal vocabulary and 14 phonemes devised to be easy to pronounce for speakers of various language backgrounds.
Sonja Lang first published Toki Pona online as a draft in 2001 with 118 words. As she developed the language from 2001 to 2014, the word count fluctuated around 120 words from 118 to 123 as Lang replaced, removed, and added words. In 2014, Lang published Toki Pona: The Language of Good, presenting Toki Pona in its "completed form" with 120 words and 3 synonyms (referred to as '). In 2021, Lang published Toki Pona Dictionary based on surveys conducted in the Discord server. The dictionary adds an additional 17 words to the previous 120 for a total of 137 "essential" words (referred to as ), and it also lists a number of words that appeared less frequently in the surveys (referred to as or ), including words created by the community.
=== === This list includes words published in Toki Pona: The Language of Good.
=== === This list includes additional words described as "important" in Toki Pona Dictionary.
Words not listed above are considered deprecated or obscure. For lists of less common words, see on Wiktionary.