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Line 1: {{Short description\|Graphical combinations of glyphs in sitelen pona}} {{SP sidebar}} {{nasin pu}} [[File:Toki Pona sitelen pona examples.png\|thumb\|Examples of combined glyphs in {{tp\|pu}}: {{sp\|pilinike\|font="sitelen seli kiwen asuki"}} {{tp\|pilin ike}} (scalar), {{sp\|telolete\|font="sitelen seli kiwen asuki"}} {{tp\|telo lete}} (scalar), {{sp\|kala^lili\|font="sitelen seli kiwen asuki"}} {{tp\|kala lili}} (stacked), {{sp\|tokipona\|font="sitelen seli kiwen asuki"}} {{tp\|toki pona}} (scalar) ]] Line 5 ⟶ 7: There are 2 main ways to combine glyphs: '''Stacked:''' The modifier glyph goes above the head glyph. {{tp\|kala lili}} becomes {{sp\|kala^lili\|font="sitelen seli kiwen asuki"}}. A few theoretical stacked glyphs conflict with single-word glyphs composed of 2 [[radical]]s. '''Scaled:''' The modifier glyph goes inside of the head glyph. {{tp\|kala lili}} becomes {{sp\|kalalili\|font="sitelen seli kiwen asuki"}}. To allow for scalar combination, the head glyph generally must contain a single, sufficiently large, main {{w\|negative space}}. Line 12 ⟶ 14: Some speakers have experimented with extending combined glyphs to other situations, such as: Prepositions followed by one-word phrases. In this case, {{sp\|tomo tawa+sina\|font="linja lipamanka"}} is even more distinct from {{sp\|tomo-tawa sina\|font="linja lipamanka"}}. However, prepositions are increasingly clarified with [[extended glyph]]s instead ({{sp\|tomo tawa(sina)}}), or by adjusting the preposition glyph to imply that it would connect to an extension line ({{sp\|tomo tawa() sina}}). [[Preverb]]s and their main verbs. For example, {{tp\|mi sona toki}} would be written {{sp\|mi sona-toki}}. [[Number]]s. The standard counting systems treat multi-word number phrases as a list of addends, not as heads and modifiers. Between this and the glyph designs, number words are sometimes combined by [[#Juxtaposition\|juxtaposition]]. ==Nonstandard combinations== {{~~Nonstandard\|~~Start section\|nonstandard}} ===Merging=== There is an occasional variant of scalar combination that merges the boundary of the modifier glyph into the head glyph. This is only legible with certain combinations of glyphs, and is largely used in logos or to distinguish non-proper names. <gallery widths="180"> Logo of lipu tenpo.png\|The logo of {{tp\|[[lipu tenpo]]}} is a stylized combined glyph ({{sp\|lipu-tenpo\|font="sitelen seli kiwen asuki"}}) that merges the outer circle of {{sp\|tenpo}} {{tp\|tenpo}} into the rectangular shape of {{sp\|lipu}} {{tp\|lipu}}. </gallery> Line 62 ⟶ 63: ===Diacritics=== Another experimental feature is treating the letterlike part of {{tp\|a}} ({{sp\|a}}), {{tp\|kin}} ({{sp\|kin}}), and {{tp\|o}} ({{sp\|o}}) as a diacritic. When placed below another glyph, that glyph replaces the vertical stroke. This feature was available in {{tp\|[[linja sike]]}} but has been deprecated. {{End section}} ==Text encoding== Line 71 ⟶ 73: ==References== {{Source\|Toki Pona: The Language of Good/Hieroglyphs#Combined Glyphs\|''Toki Pona: The Language of Good'' {{sect}} Combined Glyphs}} <references /> {{SP nav}}