Editing Artistic language (section)

=== Languages with small vocabulary ===

The aim of such languages is to express deep meaning with very few parts. For instance, [[Toki Pona]] is generally said to have around 120,<ref name=":5">{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/education/2015/jan/08/toki-pona-invented-language-memrise|title=What happened when I tried to learn Toki Pona in 48 hours using memes|last=Bramley|first=Ellie Violet|date=2015-01-08|work=[[The Guardian]]|access-date=2019-01-07}}</ref> 123,<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/tv-radio-web/podcast-of-the-week-the-smallest-language-in-the-world-1.3597426|title=Podcast of the week: The smallest language in the world|last=Griffin|first=Sarah|date=2018-08-18|newspaper=[[The Irish Times]]|access-date=2019-01-07}}</ref> or 125<ref name=":7">{{Cite journal|last1=Zorrilla|first1=Natalia C.|date=2018|title=Still Hoping: The Relation of International Auxiliary Languages to Worldview and Perception|url=https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/sj24a/|doi=10.31235/osf.io/sj24a|s2cid=240167472 |via=SocArXiv}}</ref> root words<ref>Originally 118 roots, with several roots added later.</ref> and 14 [[phoneme]]s. It was created by Canadian linguist and translator [[Sonja Lang]]<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/technology/canadian-has-people-talking-about-lingo-she-created/article20399052/|title=Canadian has people talking about lingo she created|last=Roberts|first=Siobhan|date=2007-07-09|work=[[The Globe and Mail]]|access-date=2017-03-10|language=en-ca}}</ref> for the purpose of simplifying thoughts and communication.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Morin |first=Roc |date=2015-07-15 |title=How to Say Everything in a Hundred-Word Language |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/07/toki-pona-smallest-language/398363/ |access-date=2022-08-10 |website=The Atlantic |language=en}}</ref>