Resolution criteria

This market resolves to YES if any individual delivers a speech at least partially in the Toki Pona language during an official United Nations session, assembly, or conference before January 1, 2035. For the purposes of this market, a "speech" is defined as a formal oral address delivered to a UN body. A part of the speech must be identifiable as Toki Pona by linguistics experts or through official UN transcripts/records. If no such speech occurs by the deadline, or if the language used is determined to be a different constructed language, the market resolves to NO.

Background

Toki Pona is a constructed language (conlang) created by Canadian linguist Sonja Lang, first published in 2001. It is designed around the philosophy of Taoism, emphasizing simplicity, minimalism, and a small vocabulary of approximately 120–137 root words. While it has a dedicated online community and has been used in various artistic and informal contexts, it has no official status as a working language of the United Nations, which recognizes six official languages (Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, and Spanish).

• Update 2026-05-18 (PST) (AI summary of creator comment): Any length of Toki Pona counts, as long as it is actually spoken in Toki Pona. Merely referencing the name of the language (e.g. saying "toki pona") does not count.