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24 alternatives to The Allusionist - Toki Pona

A language with only 123 words is surprisingly hard

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. The Allusionist - Toki Pona launched in 2015; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1. 1
   The Allusionist - Toki Pona▲54

   Toki Pona is the smallest language in the world

   2015 · its alternatives →

2. 2
   The Allusionist - Bonus 2015▲66

   A melange of listener-requested etymologies

   2015 · its alternatives →

3. 3
   I built a tiny LLM to demystify how language models work▲915

   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 →

4. 4AA
   AsciiDots – a 2D esoteric language inspired by circuits▲148

   2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

5. 5RA
   Rant, a procedural text generation language▲155

   2014 · github.com · its alternatives →

6. 6JM
   JedLang, my first attempt at a language▲59

   2015 · github.com · its alternatives →

7. 7EA
   Ecoji, a new base1024 emoji encoding▲99

   2018 · github.com · its alternatives →

8. 8AE
   An encoding/decoding tool for Martin David's theoretical S language▲24

   2016 · ramadis.github.com · its alternatives →

9. 9ET
   Efficient translation by Lexiful▲13

   2015 · lexiful.com · its alternatives →

10. 10
    Radiolab - Words▲53

    It’s almost impossible to imagine a world without words. But

    2015 · its alternatives →

11. 11
    The Allusionist - WLTM part II▲1

    Spreadsheets, linguistics, and love

    2016 · its alternatives →

12. 12AT
    A toy interpreter for a minimalistic imperative language in 1.3k LoC▲17

    2015 · github.com · its alternatives →

13. 13TA
    Tru – An Esoteric Language with Brackets▲6

    2021 · github.com · its alternatives →

14. 14LI
    Lost in translations – a fun app of recursive translations▲24

    2015 · lost-in-translations.amanjeev.com · its alternatives →

15. 15LI
    LanguageModels.io▲9

    2018 · languagemodels.io · its alternatives →

16. 16LT
    Longest Translation – Handy utility for multi language designs▲21

    2015 · longesttranslation.com · its alternatives →

17. 17BA
    Building a language from scratch▲5

    2018 · lambdaway.free.fr · its alternatives →

18. 18SA
    SeeMeSpeak, a crowd-sourced dictionary for sign languages▲25

    2013 · kaeff.net · its alternatives →

19. 19TL
    The Lily Programmming Language▲16

    2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

20. 20LP
    Language proposal - dave▲24

    2012 · davelang.github.com · its alternatives →

21. 21PA
    Passambler: A toy language I made in Java over the course of 4 months▲5

    2015 · github.com · its alternatives →

22. 22IP
    Infinite prose generated by Open AI's GPT-2 trained on “Infinite Jest”▲9

    2020 · infinite-infinite-jest.com · its alternatives →

23. 23WT
    Words that don't translate▲18

    2018 · eunoia.world · its alternatives →

24. 24WP
    Weekend Project - Japanese Wordsearch Builder▲17

    2010 · japanese.trydionel.com · its alternatives →

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