Over a midmorning breakfast of waffles with whipped cream and bananas, Sonja Elen Kisa provides a crash course on her invented language, Toki Pona - "the simple language of good." Take the phrase ...

The world's smallest language is "Toki Pona", which was first drafted in 2001, while published in 2014 as a complete book or e-book "Toki Pona: A Good Language". This book was designed by Toronto's ...

Somewhere on most people’s lifelong to-do lists is the lofty aspiration to learn another language. Some will eventually follow through, but for others, adopting an entirely new vocabulary and set of ...

In Chinese, the word computer translates directly as electric brain. In Icelandic, a compass is a direction-shower, and a microscope a small-watcher. In Lakota, horse is literally dog of wonder. These ...