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==History==
==History==
An early version of the language was published online in 2001 by Sonja Lang, and it quickly gained popularity.<ref name=":0" /> Early activity took place in a Yahoo! group. Members of the group discussed the language with one another in English, Toki Pona, and Esperanto, proposed changes, and talked about the resources on the ''tokipona.org'' site. At its peak member count, the group had a little over 500 members. Messages in the group were archived in the Toki Pona forum using phpBB.[[File:Toki Pona The Language of Good.jpg|thumb|286x286px|Cover of ''Toki Pona: The Language of Good'' (2014)]]
An early version of the language was published online in 2001 by Sonja Lang, and it quickly gained popularity.<ref name=":0" /> Early activity took place in a Yahoo! group. Members of the group discussed the language with one another in English, Toki Pona, and Esperanto, proposed changes, and talked about the resources on the ''tokipona.org'' site. At its peak member count, the group had a little over 500 members. Messages in the group were archived in the Toki Pona forum using phpBB.
 
Lang later released an official book on the language, ''Toki Pona: The Language of Good'', in 2014.<ref name=":14" /> It is also sometimes referred to as {{Lang|mis|pu}} in the Toki Pona community.<ref name=":1" /> In 2016, the book was also published in French.<ref name=":4">{{Cite journal|last=Fabbri|first=Renato|date=July 2018|title=Basic concepts and tools for the Toki Pona minimal and constructed language|journal=ACM Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing|arxiv=1712.09359}}</ref>
Lang later released an official book on the language, ''Toki Pona: The Language of Good'', in 2014.<ref name=":14" /> It is also sometimes referred to as {{Lang|mis|pu}} in the Toki Pona community.<ref name=":1" /> In 2016, the book was also published in French.<ref name=":4">{{Cite journal|last=Fabbri|first=Renato|date=July 2018|title=Basic concepts and tools for the Toki Pona minimal and constructed language|journal=ACM Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing|arxiv=1712.09359}}</ref>