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I've developed a number system based on words from Tok Pisin that describes the basic digits: Tok Pisin's number system: 0 - siro 1 - wan 2 - tu 3 - tri 4 - foa 5 - faiv 6 - sikis 7 - seven 8 - et 9 - nain 10 - ten 1000 - tausen toki pona transliteration of Tok Pisin's system: 0 - ala/sike* 1 - wan ...

New version (choice of words) duly entered into the groaning file. Note (as often) putting ‘nanpa’ in front of these strings converts them to ordinals; not what is intended. Using nanpa before the numbers is just for those who would rather not add words to the current vocabulary, because it treats ...

The alternative way of using the numbers in this system might be a little more complicated, so there are some possibilities when using this method: Use "... pi nanpa ..." for ordinals and numbers jan pi nanpa Sen = seven people, the seventh person *This system would rely heavily on context...

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix ... ona/pakala
pakala is not from Finnish
It's from Tok Pisisn bagarap

Mandarin Chinese is another example of a language that uses zero copula. And it is similar to toki pona in that it doesn’t mark whether a word is an adjective or verb etc. For example: 他很好 tā hěn hǎo “He very good” (He is good) Because the word is not marked as an adjective or a verb, most linguists...

jan Ne o, toki! Many thanks for your comparison to Mandarin Chinese. But Toki Pona is different here. Sonja has defined the use of nouns adjectives as predicate. See page 20 of her book "Toki Pona - The Language of Good": NOUN + li + ADJECTIVE ijo li pona. Something is good. "pona&qu...