{"query": "Toki Pona — a whole language from 120 words", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_3bf9fc4ff957", "title": "Toki Pona — a whole language from 120 words", "shelf": "science", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Sonja Lang's minimalist tongue (2001): 14 phonemes (9 consonants + 5 vowels), a strict\n(C)V(n) syllable shape (~100 raw slots before its bans on ti/wu/wo/ji), and about 120 core\nwords. From that near-"}, {"id": "card_n_8032ca300afc", "title": "Easton: Chaldee language", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Employed by the sacred writers in certain portions of the Old Testament, viz., Dan. 2:4-7, 28; Ezra 4:8-6:18; 7:12-26; Gen. 31:46; Jer. 10:11. It is the Aramaic dialect, as it is sometimes called, as "}, {"id": "card_c_5fdcfbcf97d3", "title": "Natural descent meets a language built from scratch", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Languages evolve by law; Toki Pona was designed minimal — the wild and the cultivated tongue."}, {"id": "card_n_600ccc86ead6", "title": "Easton: Canaan, the language of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Mentioned in Isa. 19:18, denotes the language spoken by the Jews resident in Palestine. The language of the Canaanites and of the Hebrews was substantially the same. This is seen from the fragments of"}, {"id": "card_c_046f679eb12c", "title": "Toki Pona shares the genetic code's architecture", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Minimal alphabet, rich composition — 120 words like 4 DNA letters. RESONANCE, a map-aid."}, {"id": "card_c_a1a99fb159db", "title": "Composition, wild and cultivated", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Natural morphology builds unlimited words; Toki Pona builds them from a designed minimum."}, {"id": "card_n_74603c751200", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_11_vii: A branch cut off from the continuity of that which was next unto it, must nee...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A branch cut off from the continuity of that which was next unto it, must needs be cut off from the whole tree: so a man that is divided from another man, is divided from the whole society. A branch i"}, {"id": "card_n_13147996cd2f", "title": "Proto-Indo-European — the reconstructed mother tongue", "shelf": "science", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Roughly half of humanity speaks a descendant — English, Spanish, Hindi, Russian, Persian,\nand hundreds more. 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The comparative method reconstructs ancestral\ntongues from their daughters (sealed in the language-evolution wing), and glottochronology's\nexponential vocabul"}, {"id": "card_n_bf1b1d4a5b77", "title": "Phonics — the code beneath reading", "shelf": "science", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "English is a cipher with a catch: 26 letters carry ~44 phonemes (24 consonant + 20 vowel\nsounds, sealed 24+20=44) spelled ~250 ways, ~4.7 bits per letter (log2 26). The whole difficulty\nis the vowels "}, {"id": "card_n_024000713286", "title": "Imitation of Christ §imit_04_01: The Voice of the Disciple These are Thy words, O Christ, Eternal Truth; thoug...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "The Voice of the Disciple These are Thy words, O Christ, Eternal Truth; though not uttered at one time nor written together in one place of Scripture. Because therefore they are Thy words and true, I "}, {"id": "card_n_30396c2ab5a0", "title": "Morphology — every language has a codon table", "shelf": "science", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Words are not atoms; they are BUILT from meaning-parts (morphemes) and can be taken apart\nand reassembled — exactly the break-down/rebuild of the genetic code. A finite set of parts\ngenerates unlimite"}, {"id": "card_n_de13aa6f7c0b", "title": "Easton: Tongues, Confusion of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "At Babel, the cause of the early separation of mankind and their division into nations. The descendants of Noah built a tower to prevent their dispersion; but God “confounded their language” (Gen. 11:"}, {"id": "card_n_79d439a9e6a9", "title": "1 Clement X", "shelf": "patristics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Abraham, styled “the friend,” was found faithful, inasmuch as he rendered obedience to the words of God. He, in the exercise of obedience, went out from his own country, and from his kindred, and from"}, {"id": "card_n_752aaf678f74", "title": "Imitation of Christ §imit_03_03: “My Son, hear My words, for My words are most sweet, surpassing all the knowl...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "“My Son, hear My words, for My words are most sweet, surpassing all the knowledge of the philosophers and wise men of this world. My words are spirit, and they are life,(1) and are not to be weighed b"}, {"id": "card_n_e3621858d56d", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_01_xvii: Whatsoever proceeds from the gods immediately, that any man will grant totall...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Whatsoever proceeds from the gods immediately, that any man will grant totally depends from their divine providence. As for those things that are commonly said to happen by fortune, even those must be"}, {"id": "card_c_1237926f5303", "title": "Genes and words share the same tree math", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "(2n-3)!! counts both gene trees and language trees — computational phylogenetics is shared."}, {"id": "card_n_a3b640eccadc", "title": "Easton: Migdol", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Tower. (1.) A strongly-fortified place 12 miles from Pelusium, in the north of Egypt (Jer. 44:1; 46:14). This word is rendered “tower” in Ezek. 29:10, but the margin correctly retains the name Migdol,"}, {"id": "card_n_657fa07e9e39", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_09_xxxi: To comprehend the whole world together in thy mind, and the whole course of t...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "To comprehend the whole world together in thy mind, and the whole course of this present age to represent it unto thyself, and to fix thy thoughts upon the sudden change of every particular object. Ho"}]}