# ncp_tokipona

Adds toki pona, the language with fewer than 200 words, to NodeCore, the block game with fewer than 200 blocks.

mod by Nycki, 2025.

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Usage: sneak-punch or sneak-place on an existing rune to "swap pages" to another set of characters. This mod adds 16 new pages of characters, comprising 143 total sitelen pona glyphs. The classic nodecore alphabet is unchanged.

Submit issues on Codeberg: <https://codeberg.org/nupanick/ncp_tokipona>

## What's Toki Pona?

Toki Pona [^1] is a conlang, or fictional language, invented by Sonja Lang in 2014. It has a very small dictionary of only about 150 words. For comparison, english has about 300,000 words, depending on who you ask [^2]. Because there are such a small number of words, it's possible to assign a small drawing to each word, similar to an emoji. The official set of simple pictograms for toki pona is called "sitelen pona" [^3], which literally means "simple pictures".

In the screenshot above, I translated "NodeCore" as "musi pi leko insa". "musi" means game, "leko" means square or cube, and "insa" means inside or core. "pi" means that the noun on the left is described by the phrase on the right, so all together, this means "cube-core game".

If you'd like to learn more, I highly recommend the tutorials at <https://mun.la/> by jan Kekan San (gregdan3). o tawa pona!

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[^1]: https://sona.pona.la/wiki/Toki_Pona
[^2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dictionaries_by_number_of_words
[^3]: https://sona.pona.la/wiki/sitelen_pona
