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V-2 on Feb 23, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Toki Pona: A created language that has only 100 wo...

Interesting. Eye is "oko" (same as in Polish), a man is Jan ("John"/"Ian" in Polish), a hand is "luka" ("ręka" or "renka" in Polish, "ruka" in Russian), a leg is "noka" ("noga"), a mouth is "uta" ("usta") etc.

But the creator isn't Polish or even Slavic, even though the interviewed language fan (?) Krzeminska is. Go figure

riffraff on Feb 23, 2016 [–]

"oko" is also similar to words of romance origin (compare: "ojo" in spanish and "occhio" in italian).

Anyway, the author of the language basically just got random words off of many languages, see

http://archive.is/6lxwq

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