Toki Pona has words from Germanic, Finnic, Slavic, Sinitic, Romance, Kartvelian(1), Bantu(2), Niger-Congo(3), Japonic, Inuit(4), Celtic(5), Creole(6), Austronesian(7) and conlang (8) origin, so Toki Pona could be called a worldlang or , better, a worldpidgin ...
(1) Georgian
(2) Swahili (with 'pana')
(3) Akan (with 'esun')
(4) Inuktitut (with 'kipisi')
(5) Welsh (with 'laso')
(6) Tok Pisin
(7) Tongan 'kulupu' (but it is loanword from English 'group')
(8) Esperanto
and all of this in just some 123 words ...
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