About Sorantoki

Current status

• Core grammar and lexicon established and fully open-sourced.
• Community growth is organic, welcoming, and tool-driven.
• Early public release phase.

Design goals (and non-goals)

Sorantoki aims to:

• Minimize cognitive load for learners.
• Reduce barriers caused by accent, speech variation, or working-memory demands.
• Encourage calm, cooperative communication.
• Grow vocabulary only when communicative need is demonstrated.
• Remain inspectable, open, and free.

Sorantoki does not aim to:

• Maximize expressive density.
• Replace natural languages.
• Compete ideologically with existing auxlangs.
• Enforce a single “correct” accent or register.

How to get involved

Sorantoki treats language as a shared public utility. Because there is no central language academy, the project relies on an “open source” model of language evolution: the grammar and core lexicon in the repository are the stable, logical, exception-free canonical core; the community is encouraged to fork the project, build tools, and grow specialized dialects, and organically-adopted improvements can be merged into the official lexicon over time. Usage drives the dictionary, not a board.

At this stage, the most valuable contributions are:

• Learning and speaking — use the language, make mistakes, and use wasa!
• Building tools — apps, flashcards, keyboards, and learning materials (the language itself is CC0).
• Creating media — short example texts, stories, or videos in Sorantoki.
• Feedback — log points of communicative friction or suggest improvements via GitHub Discussions.
• Forking — create specialized dialects or extensions for your own community or use case.

Support the project

Sorantoki has two, separate ways to contribute financially:

Licensing & trademark notice

By using, copying, or redistributing any Sorantoki material you agree to the terms below.

1. Speaking, writing & creation (the language itself)

Scope: all individual words (roots), affixes, grammar rules, example sentences, phonotactics, and any other linguistic facts needed to speak, write, sing, film, or otherwise create in Sorantoki.

Licence: CC0 1.0 Universal — public domain dedication. No attribution or permission is ever required for any purpose (personal, artistic, educational, or commercial). To the extent that moral rights cannot be waived under applicable law, the Creator irrevocably licenses such rights on a perpetual, worldwide, royalty-free basis to the maximum extent permissible.

2. Grammar reference & explanatory materials

Licence: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC‑BY‑SA 4.0). You may create and sell derivative learning materials, courses, books, or apps, and share and adapt the content for any purpose, provided you:

• Give appropriate credit: Sorantoki Grammar © 2026 Sorantoki Project, licensed under CC-BY-SA 4.0
• Provide a link to the GitHub repository and to the licence.
• License your derivative under the same CC-BY-SA 4.0 licence.
• Clearly indicate that your work is unofficial.

Additional restriction on the canonical copy: the official HTML/Markdown/PDF files hosted in the official repository must remain freely accessible and may not be placed behind a paywall. This restriction does not apply to derivative works you create.

3. Official lexicon

Licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC‑BY 4.0). You may create and sell derivative works (flash-card apps, annotated dictionaries, teaching tools) and share and adapt the lexicon for any purpose, provided you give appropriate credit, link to the repository and licence, and license your derivative under CC-BY 4.0 (or later). The same no-paywall restriction applies to the canonical copy only.

4. Governance documents

Formal governance documents have been retired in favor of an open-source model. Any historical design documents are released under CC0 1.0 Universal — public domain dedication. No attribution is legally required, but citing the source is appreciated.

5. Trademarks

The word “Sorantoki” and the official Sorantoki logo are unregistered trademarks ™ of the Sorantoki Project. You may use them only to refer to the language itself or to official resources. Fair-use for descriptive titles (e.g. “Learning Sorantoki”) is allowed, provided the work is primarily about the language and does not falsely imply official endorsement.

6. No warranties

All materials are provided “as-is” without warranty of any kind, express or implied, including but not limited to the accuracy of lexical definitions or grammatical descriptions.

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