The story of the Tower of Babel is one of the most well-known stories from the Bible. It has found its way into art, and the “Babylonian confusion of languages” is proverbial. Translating the story into Toki Pona is, in a way, an antithesis to it because Toki Pona aims to connect people across language barriers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Read the first verses of the story:<\/p>\n\n\n\n 1<\/sup> ma ale li jo e toki wan e nimi sama. 2<\/sup> ona li tawa tan ma pi open suno la, ona li kama tawa ma supa anpa lon ma Sinale, li awen lon ma ni. 3<\/sup> jan li toki tawa jan pona ona e ni: o kama! mi o leko e leko, o seli e ni lon seli. leko li kiwen tawa ona. ko li ko kiwen tawa ona. 4<\/sup> ona li toki e ni: o kama! mi o pali tawa mi e ma tomo e tomo palisa. lawa tomo o lon sewi. mi o pali tawa mi e nimi. ante la mi pakala weka lon sinpin ale ma.<\/p>lipu open 11,1-4<\/cite><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n 1<\/sup> ma ale li jo e toki wan e nimi sama. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The “Babylonian confusion of languages” is proverbial.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":266,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-translation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tengg-online.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tengg-online.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tengg-online.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengg-online.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengg-online.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengg-online.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":416,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengg-online.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265\/revisions\/416"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengg-online.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tengg-online.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengg-online.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengg-online.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
2<\/sup> ona li tawa tan ma pi(open suno) la
zz ona li kama tawa ma supa anpa lon ma [sin:ale:]
zz zz li awen lon ma ni.
3<\/sup> jan li toki tawa jan pona ona e ni:
zz zz o kama.
zz zz mi o leko e leko
zz zz o seli e ni lon seli.
zz zz leko li kiwen tawa ona.
zz zz ko li ko kiwen tawa ona.
4<\/sup> ona li toki e ni:
zz zz o kama.
zz zz mi o pali tawa mi e ma tomo e tomo palisa.
zz zz lawa tomo o lon sewi.
zz zz mi o pali tawa mi e nimi.
zz zz ante la
zz zz zz mi pakala weka lon sinpin ale ma.<\/p>lipu open<\/cite><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n