Sitelen Pona Keyboard Layout

This article is about jan Lepeka's layout. For other layouts, see Input methods.

Physical keyboard using the layout, with extra keycaps to the sides

The Sitelen Pona Keyboard Layout by jan Lepeka is an input method created in 2022. It maps each sitelen pona codepoint in the UCSUR to the alphanumeric keys of a standard keyboard, using two modifier keys to access four characters per key. The layout is available on the KreativeKorp website.

History

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In 2023, jan Lepeka designed a set of physical yellow-and-blue keycaps for this layout.

In 2024, jan Sawaki created a webpage to practice using this layout.

Later in 2024, this layout was updated to support Keyman Mobile.^{[citation needed]}This claim needs references to reliable sources. (Sep 2024)

Layout

Glyphs for the most common words are typed with no modifier keys, while progressively rarer words are typed with ⇧ Shift, AltGr (Linux, Windows) or ⌥ Option (macOS), or both. Many of the glyph mappings are based on their words' first letters, or other letters outside of Toki Pona that phonetically tokiponize to those.

Common sitelen pona punctuation marks and control characters are as follows:

Keystroke	Character
⇧ Shift + ( )	Cartouche (start/end)
-	Combined glyph joiner (unspecified; zero-width joiner)
=	Stacked glyph joiner
⇧ Shift + +	Scaled glyph joiner
[ ]	Extended glyph (start/end)
⇧ Shift + { }	Reverse-extended glyph (start/end)
;	Middle dot (sentence separator or nasin sitelen kalama mora adder)
⇧ Shift + :	Colon (sentence separator or nasin sitelen kalama whole word marker)
Space bar	Ideographic space

Additional keycaps

Special keys

The physical keycap set includes translations of many non-alphanumeric keys:

Special keys

pali wanpali wan – pali luka-luka-tupali luka-luka-tu	F1 – F12 (see Numbers)
tawa wekatawa weka	Esc
tawa monsitawa monsi	⌫ Backspace
tawa sinpintawa sinpin	Space bar
tawa sinpin mutetawa sinpin mute	Tab ↹
kama lonkama lon	↵ Enter / ↵ Return
awen pana sewiawen pana sewi	⇪ Caps Lock
pana sewipana sewi	⇧ Shift
pali lawapali lawa	⌃ Control
pali sewipali sewi	◆ Meta / Windows / ⌘ Command
pali antepali ante	Alt
lipu palilipu pali	≣ Menu
pana antepana ante	AltGr / ⌥ Option
pana lipupana lipu	Print Screen
pini tawapini tawa	Scroll Lock
pini palipini pali	Pause/Break
pana insapana insa	Insert
kama wekakama weka	Delete
tawa opentawa open tawa pinitawa pini	Home End
lipu sewilipu sewi lipu anpalipu anpa	Page Up Page Down
awen nanpaawen nanpa	Num Lock
kama alakama ala	Clear
kalama alakalama ala kalama lilikalama lili kalama sulikalama suli	Mute Volume Down Volume Up
ilo nanpailo nanpa	Calculator

Extra keycaps

A set of various extra keycaps includes ISO and JIS keys, versions of the alphanumeric keycaps with variant glyphs, numeric keypad numbers (alaala – luka-tu-tuluka-tu-tu), media keys, and variously sized and colored Toki Pona logo () and kijetesantakalu (kijetesantakalukijetesantakalu) keycaps.