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The radical-based analysis was invented{{citation needed|date=2024-01-16|reason=where? by whom?}} after the initial set of glyphs was published in ''[[Toki Pona: The Language of Good]]''. Some of these elements were clearly intended, such as the ''emitters'' initially representing {{tp|[[pana]]}}-like concepts, the triangle shape representing [[color]]s, and the incorporation of {{tp|[[luka]]}} (the ''hand radical'') representing manual actions. Other proposed radicals may be coincidental or questionably meaningful, such as acknowledgments of shared glyph "etymologies". For example, markers of non-{{w|Declarative sentence|declarative}} sentences have been analyzed as having a ''punctuation stem radical'', but perhaps it is more direct to say that these glyphs are each based on Latin punctuation.
The term is taken from {{w|Radical (Chinese characters)|radicals}} of {{w|Chinese character}}s, which dictionaries use to sort words. This comparison has been disputed. While there have been attempts to
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