jan

usage of jan differs a lot between groups of speakers, but many speakers use it broadly to refer to any sentient creature (or more accurately, "sapient," with human intelligence). But this can break down when you consider what sentience and sapience are and where we draw lines between ourselves and nature. This also gets complicated when we take into account nonhuman identities (including alterhumanity and therianopathy). Many Toki Pona speakers specifically choose to not be a type of jan, so jan broadly cannot be applicable to all speakers of language. It's still used frequently to refer to a group of people, some of whom may not be identify as "jan" as individuals, and especially "somebody," i.e. a hypothetical unspecified agent. If a specific individual is not a jan, it's often rude to call them one--just stick with whatever word they've chosen for themselves. But otherwise, jan is appropriate.