sitelen Lasina

sitelen Lasina is a common tokiponized name for the Latin alphabet. According to the 2022 Toki Pona census, it is by far the most commonly used writing system for Toki Pona, preferred by about 3 times as many people as the bespoke sitelen pona.

Letters

Toki Pona uses 14 letters. Consonants are pronounced as in the International Phonetic Alphabet. For more about pronunciation, see Phonology.

j	k	l	m	n	p	s	t	w
[j]	[k]	[l]	[m]	[n]	[p]	[s]	[t]	[w]

Vowels can also be pronounced as in the IPA, but according to pu are ideally more centered, with /a/ being centralized and /e o/ being lowered to mid.

a	e	i	o	u
[ä]	[e̞]	[i]	[o̞]	[u]

Capitalization

Capital letters are not used in any common words, not even at the beginning of a sentence—only in names. Thus, most text is completely lowercase. Because names are proper adjectives that conventionally follow a common headnoun, sentences almost always start with lowercase letters (unless the first word is a nonstandard name).

Suli sitelen ni li ike.

Nonstandard capitalization

suli sitelen ni li pona.

Standard capitalization

Autocorrect may add unwanted capitalization that is nonstandard in sitelen Lasina. See Autocorrect § Dealing with automatic capitalization.

See also

• Writing systems
• sitelen pona
• sitelen sitelen