How we checked Toki Pona Radio
Everything published about this station was read from the station's own website or its own stream, and every fact below names the page it came from and the year it was read. We changed 3 things about this entry. We also found 3 things we could have published and decided not to.
What we publish, and where each part came from
| What we say | Read from | When |
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Description
kute.pona.la calls itself "kute.pona.la: Toki Pona radio" and describes itself in one line as "A Toki Pona community project". Its own stream server carries the description "Radio all in Toki Pona Language". Its published aim, in its own repository, is that "This radio aims to provide good Toki Pona music to anyone, 24/7", and it plays music made within or for the Toki Pona language community. The same stream is offered three ways, as an Icecast mount, on YouTube and on Twitch, and the operator points listeners at the raw mount for VLC.
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kute.pona.la: Toki Pona radio | 2026 |
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Artists
None available. The site has no now-playing panel, the Ogg Opus stream carries no track titles in its Icecast metadata, and the playlist is a server-side file list, so no played artist can be named from the operator's own output.
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kute.pona.la: Toki Pona radio | 2026 |
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Contact route
A route to a human exists but no person is named. The site publishes one project email address of its own and links an invited Discord server, a Matrix room, and the community's Bluesky, Mastodon, Reddit, YouTube and Twitch accounts; the stream server's own admin contact is the same project address. There is no contact page, no form, no phone and no request line.
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kute.pona.la: Toki Pona radio | 2026 |
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Era
Not applicable; this is a living language community's own current output, not a decades format.
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kute.pona.la: Toki Pona radio | 2026 |
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Music
Music sung in Toki Pona, drawn from the language community's own output; the stream server's own genre field says only "Various".
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kute.pona.la: Toki Pona radio | 2026 |
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Language
Toki Pona, a constructed language whose ISO 639-3 code is tok. There is no two-letter ISO 639-1 code for it, because it was added at the three-letter level in 2022, so tok is the only correct code and a two-letter substitute would be wrong rather than merely coarse. The operator's own stream description states the language explicitly.
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kute.pona.la: Toki Pona radio | 2026 |
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Kind
Fully automated playout with no human on air. The project's own repository states that Ezstream occupies an Icecast2 mountpoint and reads a playlist file of absolute paths at /srv/music/tpr.txt, with ffmpeg and systemd units alongside it. The server's own status confirms Icecast 2.4.4 serving a 16 kbps stereo Opus mount, up since 28 August 2026, with 4 listeners and a peak of 37 when read.
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kute.pona.la: Toki Pona radio | 2026 |
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Worth knowing
The station is run as open source under GPL-3.0, with its website, encoder configuration and service units all published in the operator's own public repository, which is how the automation and the playlist mechanism can be stated as fact rather than inferred.
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kute.pona.la: Toki Pona radio | 2026 |
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Where
Not stated, and the operator appears to have declined to state it. The station's own Icecast status reports its location as "Earth", its website names no country, city or timezone, and its repository gives no location either. Online only, no frequency.
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kute.pona.la: Toki Pona radio | 2026 |
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On air
none, and no individual person is named at all. I looked at the homepage, the site's own sitemap, which contains exactly one URL, and the project's own repository readme, which credits "the Toki Pona community" and multiple contributors collectively without naming anyone.
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kute.pona.la: Toki Pona radio | 2026 |
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Programmes
none. There is no schedule anywhere on the site or in the project's own repository, and the service is described as continuous.
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kute.pona.la: Toki Pona radio | 2026 |
What we corrected
Each of these changed a field in our own entry. The reasoning is the researcher's own, recorded when the change was made.
| Field | Change | Why |
|---|---|---|
| country code | LA → cleared | Cleared because the operator declines to state a location, and the stored LA was inferred from the domain suffix. A domain ending .la is not evidence of Laos. The operator's own Icecast status document at https://kute.pona.la/status-json.xsl reports the server's location as 'Earth' and its admin contact as a project address on its own domain, which is a deliberate non-answer rather than a country. The site at https://kute.pona.la/ names no city, country or timezone and describes itself only as 'A Toki Pona community project', and the project's own public repository at https://github.com/pona-la/kute credits the Toki Pona community collectively without naming a place or a person. Nothing the operator publishes supports any country, so the field is emptied rather than replaced with another guess. |
| language code
refused
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tok
what it said before was not recorded; the
reasoning usually states it
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tok is the ISO 639-3 code for Toki Pona, assigned in 2022, and it is the only correct code for this station: Toki Pona has no ISO 639-1 two-letter code at all, so there is no shorter alternative to fall back on and a two-letter substitute would be wrong rather than merely coarse. Noting this because correct three-letter codes have been refused here before. The station states the language itself: its own Icecast status at https://kute.pona.la/status-json.xsl carries server_description 'Radio all in Toki Pona Language' and the same string comes back as icy-description on the live mount at https://kute.pona.la/stream/tpr, the site at https://kute.pona.la/ titles itself 'kute.pona.la: Toki Pona radio', and the project's own repository states the aim is 'to provide good Toki Pona music to anyone, 24/7'. || refused: 'tok' is not a language we can render a name for |
| language code |
tok
what it said before was not recorded; the
reasoning usually states it
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tok is the ISO 639-3 code for Toki Pona, assigned in 2022, and it is the only correct code for this station: Toki Pona has no ISO 639-1 two-letter code at all, so there is no shorter alternative to fall back on and a two-letter substitute would be wrong rather than merely coarse. Noting this because correct three-letter codes have been refused here before. The station states the language itself: its own Icecast status at https://kute.pona.la/status-json.xsl carries server_description 'Radio all in Toki Pona Language' and the same string comes back as icy-description on the live mount at https://kute.pona.la/stream/tpr, the site at https://kute.pona.la/ titles itself 'kute.pona.la: Toki Pona radio', and the project's own repository states the aim is 'to provide good Toki Pona music to anyone, 24/7'. |
What we found and did not publish
Material that would have made this page fuller, and was refused. A page with five named presenters looks better than a page with none even when the five are a website theme's demonstration content, and the difference is invisible to a reader. So it is recorded here instead.
| What we could have said | Why we did not |
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| The Laos reading of the stored country | It rests on the domain ending .la and nothing else, and a domain suffix is not a broadcast origin; the operator's own server reports its location as "Earth", which is a refusal to name a country rather than a country.
source |
| The "Earth" location value as a geographic fact | It is a deliberate non-answer, and treating it as data would be worse than leaving the field empty.
source |
| Any inference of a country from where the code is hosted or where contributors appear to be | Nothing in the operator's own material supports it, and this is the exact guess that put Laos in the row in the first place.
source |
If you think something here is wrong
Tell us which fact and what you found instead. Everything above names its source and its date, so a disagreement can be settled by looking rather than argued. Where another site disagrees with us, it is usually because it is repeating a radio directory, and occasionally because we got it wrong. We would like to know which.
Read from the station's own material; this page is generated from the
catalogue as it stands now, so it changes when the research does. Research
current as at 2026.
This entry began as: Toki Pona Radio — listed via Radio Browser · https://kute.pona.la/