Sonja Lang (b. 1978) is a Canadian linguist who lives in Toronto. In 2001, she created the philosophical artistic constructed language known as Toki Pona. She created the language during a period of depression, to help simplify her thought process. Her name was Sonja Elen Kisa. She grew up in New Brunswick [Moncton to be exact]. Her family was bilingual; her mother spoke French at home, and her father spoke English. Sonja also speaks Esperanto, Spanish, and German. And I talked to her on Discord about mostly Japanese, but I did learn her favorite Toki Pona words are "e" (a particle), "la" (another particle) and "leko" (block), as well as the rest of the particles (a, li, o, pi, etc.).