This website is dedicated to the interactive media and programming project Jasima created during my undergraduate senior year at NYU Shanghai.

To explore these questions, we first need a language to evolve. Jasima uses the constructed language called Toki Pona, created by Sonja Lang. Contrary to a natural language like English or Chinese, a constructed language is a language of artificial origin contrived for a specific purpose. Toki Pona is a good starting point for observing evolution because of its simplicity–it is a simple language with a vocabulary of about 120 words and grammatical rules that all fit on a single sheet of A4 paper. Toki Pona is written in both Latin script characters and in its custom writing system that uses logograms, or characters that represent words.