What is this?

This is ilo Muni pi mute nimi, “word-frequency tool named Muni.” It’s a graphing tool like Google Ngrams, but for Toki Pona, a constructed language with 120-130 words. If you don’t know what to search, press to make a random query!

Search

• Search 1 to 6 word phrases: “toki pona”
• Search multiple phrases with commas: “soweli, waso”
• Use a wildcard * to get top matching phrases: “ona li *”
• Add phrases with +: “ale + ali”
• Subtract phrases with -: “toki - toki pona”
• Limit minimum sentence length with _1-6 on a phrase: “toki_2, toki_3”

Options

• Relative shows what % of all words are the searched word
• Absolute shows how many times the searched word appeared
• Smoothing averages out noisy graphs, but too much can be misleading
• The rest is complicated! See the help page for more.

Buttons

• : Open this help dialog
• : Show advanced options
• : Copy the current URL
• : Get a random sample search