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Zipf’s law in Toki Pona
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Zipf’s Law states that within a given text the frequency of any word is inversely proportional to its rank in the frequency table of the words used in that text. It is a statistical regularity of a power law that occurs ubiquitously in language – so far every language that has been tested was found to display the Zipfian distribution. Toki Pona is an experimental artificial language spoken by hundreds of users. It is extremely minimalistic – its vocabulary consists of mere 120 words. A comparative statistical analysis of two parallel texts in French and Toki Pona showed that even a language of such scarce vocabulary adheres to Zipf’s Law just like natural languages.
Title: Zipf’s law in Toki Pona
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Zipf’s Law states that within a given text the frequency of any word is inversely proportional to its rank in the frequency table of the words used in that text.
It is a statistical regularity of a power law that occurs ubiquitously in language – so far every language that has been tested was found to display the Zipfian distribution.
Toki Pona is an experimental artificial language spoken by hundreds of users.
It is extremely minimalistic – its vocabulary consists of mere 120 words.
A comparative statistical analysis of two parallel texts in French and Toki Pona showed that even a language of such scarce vocabulary adheres to Zipf’s Law just like natural languages.
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