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After poking around a bit more, it looks like the 61 primitives in NSM correspond to 41 words in Toki Pona; some of the overlap comes from merging ideas such as "like" and "want", but the biggest change is use of compound phrases for things like places and times -- using "small time" for "brief" and "near me" for "here".

  ala - NOT
  ali - ALL
  anpa - BELOW
  ante - OTHER
  ijo - SOMETHING/THING
  ike - BAD
  insa - INSIDE
  jan - PEOPLE/PERSON; SOMEONE (jan wan)
  jo - HAVE
  kama - HAPPEN; AFTER (kama la)
  ken - CAN; MAYBE; IF (ken la)
  kute - HEAR
  lili - SMALL, SOME
  lon - THERE IS, TRUE
  luka - PART OF
  lukin - SEE
  ma - WHERE/PLACE (or tomo for indoor places)
  mi - I
  moli - DIE
  mute - MANY/MUCH, MORE, VERY
  ni - THIS
  nimi - WORD
  pali - DO, LIVE
  pilin - FEEL, THINK
  pini - BEFORE
  poka - NEAR; SIDE; TOUCH; HERE (poka mi); FAR (poka mi ala)
  pona - GOOD
  sama - THE SAME, KIND OF
  sewi - ABOVE
  sijelo - BODY
  sina - YOU
  sona - KNOW
  suli - BIG; LONG
  tan - BECAUSE
  tawa - MOVE
  tenpo - WHEN/TIME; A LONG TIME (tenpo suli); FOR SOME TIME (tenpo wa
+n); 
          MOMENT (tenpo lili ni); NOW (tenpo ni); A SHORT TIME (tenpo 
+lili)
  toki - SAY
  tu - TWO
  wan - ONE
  wile - LIKE; WANT
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in thread [probably OT] Perl in Natural Semantic Metalanguage by liz

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