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24 alternatives to The Allusionist - Toki Pona
Toki Pona is the smallest language in the world
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 1 we have checked on their own sites, 1 of them free or with a free tier. The Allusionist - Toki Pona launched in 2015; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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A language with only 123 words is surprisingly hard
2015 · overcast.fm · its alternatives →
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Built a ~9M param LLM from scratch to understand how they actually work. Vanilla transformer, 60K synthetic conversations, ~130 lines of PyTorch. Trains in 5 min on a free Colab T4. The fish thinks the meaning of life is food. Fork it and swap the personality for your own character.
Apr 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Transcribe and translate 12 Languages, in real-time
2019 · kickstarter.com · its alternatives →
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Tiny Aya▲211Local, open-weight AI designed for real-world languages
Apr 2026 · cohere.com · its alternatives →
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First TTS model to support all 22 Indic languages + English
2024 · its alternatives →
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A melange of listener-requested etymologies
2015 · overcast.fm · its alternatives →
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2018 · littlelingua.eu · its alternatives →
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Little Lingua▲132A crowdsourced library to help you learn your next language
2018 · its alternatives →
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I previously posted this a month and a half ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45876742 I have rewritten it to be much more simple, from 951 lines of code to just 364, with no loss in core functionality or generation quality. I also added a tiny GPT implementation as a comparison (inspired by Andrej Karpathy's code). The two model implementations are ~80% identical, with the core differences being the generate and get_batch functions. The model architecture, training loop, etc, differ in only 19 lines of code. Trained weights are included, so you can just clone and run…
Nov 2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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The world's first smart pocket translator powered by AI
2017 · its alternatives →
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A minimalist interpreted language, with a clean object model and a tiny VM. - chameco/Solid
2013 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Omnilingual ASR▲132Advancing automatic speech recognition for 1,600+ languages
Nov 2025 · ai.meta.com · its alternatives →
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A hackable and extensible lexer, parser and interpreter for a minimalistic, imperative, C-like language. - bbu/simple-interpreter
2015 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A minimalist type-inferred programming language with procedural macro support - murisi/L2
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Thinnest AI▲96Build Voice AI Agents in 100+ languages for ₹1.5/min
May 2026 · thinnest.ai · its alternatives →
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WaseiGo▲86Learn the 1,000+ Japanese words that only look like English
Aug 2026 · waseigo.take-lab.com · its alternatives →
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The min programming language is a small, concatenative, interpreted programming language that fits in a single 1MB file.
2017 · min-lang.org · its alternatives →
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Ultra-efficient 1.3B vision-language model for mobile
May 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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