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{{tp|[[sitelen Lasina]]}}, {{tp|[[sitelen pona]]}} by {{tok|[[jan Sonja]]}}, and {{tp|[[sitelen sitelen]]}} by Jonathan Gabel are the 3 writing systems featured in ''[[Toki Pona: The Language of Good]]''. They are also the best known and most widely understood, in that order. However, tinkerers often {{wp|Constructed writing system|invent other writing systems}} for personal or aesthetic expression, {{wp|data compression}}, compatibility with other natural-language writing systems, neographic experiments with the limited vocabulary, or just for fun.
==Types of writing systems==
* '''{{wp|Abjad}}''': Only consonants are written; the reader must infer vowels. (Impure abjads may have optional vowel diacritics or a limited number of vowel glyphs.)
* '''{{wp|Abugida}}''': Each symbol is a consonant with secondary vowel notation.
* '''{{wp|Alphabet}}''': Consonants and vowels are written separately.
* '''{{wp|Logography}}''': Each symbol is a word.
* '''{{wp|Syllabary}}''': Each symbol is a syllable or mora.
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* '''{{wp|Featural writing system|Featural}}''': Symbols are directly based on features of the [[phonology]].
==List of writing systems==
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