sona

Overview

sona is a collaborative, open dataset for and by the toki pona community. It is the successor of jasima, and aims to replace it. If you are looking for the data from jasima, see here. Note it is no longer being updated.

Directories

Editable

• words is word data that does not require translation, such as year of creation, author, and ku data.
  • [word].toml: Each specific word file, identified by name and an optional number for later coinings of the same name.
• lukapona is sign data that does not require translation, such as glosses, signwriting, and reference videos.
  • [gloss].toml: Each specific sign file, identified by its gloss.
• source: The original English for all translatable data.
  • definitions.toml: Word definitions.
  • commentary.toml: Relevant context and nuance about a word.
  • etymology.toml: The source word or words, their languages, and their definitions for a given toki pona word.
  • sp_etymology.toml: The source symbol or symbols for a given sitelen pona glyph.
  • lukapona_icons.toml: A description of a given sign by what it represents.
  • lukapona_parameters.toml: A set of descriptions for how to form a given sign. Note: handshape is here but does not translate.
• schemas
  • src
    • index.ts: Static descriptions and validators for each type of data in this repo.
    • utils.ts: Commonly used functions in index.ts.

Automated

• translations: Translated fields from source, automatically sent from Crowdin.
  • [langcode]: Each langcode directory has the same files as source.
• raw: All data from all toml files assembled into a JSON blob.
• schemas
  • generated: Generated descriptions of the expected format of each TOML file in the repo.

Contributing

Translating

Please visit our Crowdin project to contribute translations.

Dictionary Data and Fonts

Contributing other kinds of metadata is simple:

To add new fonts to sona, please fork the repo, edit the fonts.toml file, and submit a pull request. Examples of various existing fonts can be found in the file.

To edit information about Toki Pona words or Luka Pona signs, please fork the repo, edit the words.toml file, and submit a pull request

License

sona Linku is dual-licensed under:

• Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported;

• Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International.

(Dual-licensing was done to avoid any potential online encyclopedia issues).