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I could not find any dictionary on the Internet. Does anyone know URL (link) for complete Toki Pona dictionary?

Sona, Ygyde, Kali-sise, and aUI are best known oligosynthetic languages. Ygyde is the most mature of these auxlangs. It has a dictionary of over 4000 words. The dictionary is posted here: http://www.ygyde.neostrada.pl/ygyded.htm

Is there any way to make verbs that are compound words? If not, how are new verbs made in Toki Pona?

Nearly all "minimalist" languages are oligosynthetic languages. The best known oligosynthetic languages are: Ygyde, Kali-sise, Sona, and aUI. Ygyde is the most mature of these languages. Its dictionary (posted at: http://www.ygyde.neostrada.pl/ygyded.htm) has over 4000 words. Its descripti...

For some reason, I don't think of Ygydygy orWahooey as minimalist, since they have indefinitely expandable vocabularies and are not obviously restricted in either phonology or grammar. a UI. Is a straightforward philosophical language, old school. Ygyde is newer in the sense of making its atomic po...

I could not find any dictionary on the Internet. Does anyone know URL (link) for complete Toki Pona dictionary? This is a merger of the wiki and the classic jan Sonja/jan Pije lists: http://tokipona.net/tp/ClassicWordList.aspx .... Thanks for the links. I am a newbie trying to understand the basics...

How transparent are these compounds?... I am a newbie trying to understand Toki Pona. (I am much more familiar with Ygyde and other oligosynthetic languages.) As far as I can tell, there is fundamental difference between Toki Pona and Ygyde. Every word of Toki Pona has about a dozen different meani...

Ygyde seems to want to create new words for each situation, to make them as precise as possible with a minimum of context, and to assign each a restricted syntactic role. True. I will clue you in, however, that the quest for precision is always a doomed one... I agree. We will never reach precision...

So what is spit in Ygyde? to spit = ibagupa = "verb top liquid anatomical part of a multicellular animal" i = verb ba = top gu = liquid pa = anatomical part of a multicellular animal You can quickly derive the noun spit/saliva from the verb: saliva = obagupa = "noun top liquid anatom...

So you see that there is virtually nothing similar between tp and Ygyde, so no grounds for evaluative comparisons. Both languages rely heavily on compound words/phrazes and they struggle with ambiguity. It may seem that bigger morpheme set would be desirable, but the additional morphemes would not ...