Toki Pona Keyboard

This article is about Timeo San Pochin's keyboard app. For other layouts, see Input methods.

Main layout

Intermediate keys after selecting pipi (p)

The Toki Pona Keyboard created by Timeo San Pochin is a virtual keyboard app and Toki Pona input method for Android, using standard Android libraries. It resembles Japanese kana-based smartphone input, but still involves typing successive keys rather than flicking.

Although the keyboard has sitelen pona keycaps, it inserts plain-text sitelen Lasina; therefore, sitelen pona only appears when combined with a font that supports ASCII transcription.

Layout

The keyboard consists of four rows and seven columns.

• The leftmost two columns are the eight most used words:

  lili ee nini aa mimi tokitoki ponapona alaala

• The third through sixth columns contain words starting with each letter, sorted alphabetically:

  aleale enen ikeike janjan kamakama lala mama niminimi oo pipi sinasina tawatawa utalautala wilewile

• The other keys include punctuation and formatting options:

  [ “ 　 . ? ⌫ Backspace ➤ Enter

Usage

In order to insert the word on the key cap, the key should be tapped twice. For all remaining words, one must tap the first letter (⬛︎ light blue) on this part of the keyboard, and then tap the key for the second letter (⬛︎ cyan), and, if the second letter was ⬛︎ dark cyan, optionally the third letter. The last column lacks any words and consists of the following symbols/actions (⬛︎ dark blue): period, question mark, backspace and new line. To type a dash between two words, the first word must be dragged towards the second one. This functionality exists to type scales compound glyphs in fonts such as linja pona. Additionally, non-pu words are highlighted in an ⬛︎ orange background.