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====sitelen sike (jan NalathniDragon)====
====sitelen sike (jan NalathniDragon)====
By u/NathanMcCoy

Documentation:
*[https://www.reddit.com/r/tokipona/comments/fl90k2/sitelen_sike_a_writing_method_aiming_for/ Reddit]
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[[File:sitelen sike jan nalathnidragon sample.png|frameless|300px]]
====sitelen sinpin (jan Jese)====
====sitelen sinpin (jan Jese)====
To be carved on rocks and wood like Elder Futhark

Documentation:
*[https://www.reddit.com/r/tokipona/comments/o46dlw/i_made_a_new_sitelen_sitelen_sinpin_designed_to/ Reddit]
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[[File:sitelen sinpin jan jese sample.png|frameless|300px]]
====sitelen sinpin (jan soweli Apen)====
====sitelen sinpin (jan soweli Apen)====
By jan soweli Apen

Documentation:
*[https://sites.google.com/view/catboyaspen/sitelen-sinpin Full description]
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[[File:sitelen sinpin jan soweli apen sample.png|frameless|300px]]
=====sitelen sinpin lili=====
=====sitelen sinpin lili=====
Condensed form of sitelen sinpin - each face can fit a whole word. By jan soweli Apen

Documentation:
*[https://sites.google.com/view/catboyaspen/sitelen-sinpin-lili Full description]
Text sample:
[[File:sitelen sinpin lili sample.png|frameless|300px]]
====sitelen suwi ko====
====sitelen suwi ko====
For writing in sand. By u/NathanMcCoy

Documentation:
*[https://www.reddit.com/r/tokipona/comments/ko4kid/sitelen_suwi_ko_a_soft_cute_sitelen_for_wet_sand/ Reddit]
*[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1iwcSyEEJlGbzOl62r3uW7TMHiD_uR046/view font]
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[[File:sitelen suwi ko sample.png|frameless|300px]]
====sitelen uta====
====sitelen uta====

Documentation:
*[https://www.reddit.com/comments/p50nlj Reddit]
Text sample:
[[File:sitelen uta sample.png|frameless|300px]]


===Non-featural alphabets===
===Non-featural alphabets===

Revision as of 10:44, 18 July 2023

Many different writing systems have been created to write toki pona. This is an incomplete list of them. Text samples in this article all represent the sentence

jan li pana e moku tawa sina

Logographies

sitelen Enli

aka ✎ ⟄ ᑈ ☺ (sitelen pi toki pona). toki pona words represented by Unicode symbols. By Henrik Theiling

Documentation:

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ⵅ ↴ ✉ ↱ ☕ ⇥ ⇈

sitelen jaki

Doesn't support gender, coloursa and numbers. By kulupu pi wawa unu

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sitelen Kansi

Adaptations of Hanzi

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人为发向食于尔

sitelen ko

Cuneiform style script

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sitelen kule

Assigns a colour to each word, with a sorting and color names based on jan Misali's proposed names for colours. Names are indicated by a toggle "white". Sentences are indicated by line breaks or a double "white". By jan Mena

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sitelen mun

based on Gallifreyan. By jan Jonatan

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sitelen Nelan

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sitelen Nosu

By jan Lane

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ꊿꆹꁵꀔꋠꁧꆏ

sitelen palisa (jan ilo Katapin)

A 14-segment logography for Toki Pona. By jan ilo Katapin.

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sitelen Emosi

Main article: sitelen Emosi

sitelen pilin

Main article: sitelen pilin

Documentation:

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👤▶️📤⏩🍽️↪️👉

sitelen jelo

Main article: sitelen jelo

By waso Keli

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🧑▶️🙌⏩🍜🛫👆

sitelen pona

Main article: sitelen pona

By jan Sonja

Text sample:

jan li pana e moku tawa sina

sitelen akesi

An adaptation of sitelen pona in ASCII (which sounds a lot like akesi). Made by jan Sonja, jan Tepo and ilo Eko

Documentation:

Sample text:

,O, > “n’ >> DC /\_ b

sitelen Asuki

A larger-scale ASCII adaptation of sitelen pona. By jan pi nimi ala

Documentation:

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                        ____                
 .-.   \   \ | /  \\    \__/    /|   |      
|   |   \    __    \\    __    / |   |---.  
'._.'   /   /  |   //   /  |  /  |   |   |  
 / \   /   V   |  //   V   |  \  |_   '-'

sitelen luka

sitelen pona adapted to be faster for handwriting. By jan Kaja

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sitelen pipi

A combination of toki pona and Hollow Night's writing aesthetics. By Plum of the Palette system

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sitelen pona pona

Adaptation of sitelen pona and font with the following stated goals:

  • remove redundant information from glyphs
  • use a consistent shape inventory
  • fit glyphs onto a baseline, descending or ascending when appropriate
  • make glyphs easy to differentiate at small sizes
  • align with standard Latin punctuation and text (can be used inline)

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sitelen telo Momo

Very stylised sitelen pona, as a font

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sitelen Antowi

Material design version of sitelen pona, as a font. By jan Jeli

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sitelen lili

Alternate "streamlined" design of sitelen pona, as a font. By jan Kokan Ato.

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sitelen pona Sonko

Chinese seal script inspired sitelen pona. By jan Ose

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sitelen Precomposed Vowel Characters

Each word is exactly 1 Unicode character

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ĩâởeÀǘỠ

sitelen sitelen (or sitelen suwi)

By Jonathan Gabel

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sitelen telo

Japanese aesthetic

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sitelen Tewa

Intended for handwriting. Mixes logography and alphabet use of characters depending on diacritics. By jan Tewa

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toki pona lili

Each word is 2 characters long. By jan Wija

Documentation:

Text sample:

JnLiPnEeMkTwSi

Syllabaries

sitelen Aki

Each syllable is represented by a single ASCII character

Documentation:

Sample text:

j l bn e Oq Tw sn

sitelen Ilakana

Adaptations of Hiragana for toki pona

Documentation:

Text sample:

やん り ぱな え もく たわ しな

Abugidas

sitelen Diacritics

sitelen Elijan

Main article: User:.hecko/sitelen Elijan

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sitelen Kanujapa

Adaptation of Canadian Aboriginal syllabics for toki pona

Documentation:

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ᔭᓐ ᓕ ᐸᓇ ᐁ ᒧᑰ ᑕᕙ ᓯᓇ // ᔭᓐ ᓕ ᐸᓇ ᐄ ᒨᑯ ᑕᕙ ᓯᓇ

sitelen lape

Syllables derived from sitelen pona. By jan Ali

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sitelen lili sin

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sitelen Tawi

Adaptation of Thai script

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ยันลิปะนะเอะโมะกุตะวะซินะ

Abjads

sitelen Alapi

Arabic Documentation:

Sample text:

ين لي پنا ه مكو توا سنا

sitelen nanpa

Hex number writing system

Documentation:

Sample text:

1D030650B042089075

Alphabets

Unsorted alphabets (WIP)

sitelen pakala (jan pi poki pi telo seli kasi)

sitelen pakala (jan Samsta36)

sitelen palisa (Heav)

sitelen palisa ilo

sitelen pi ike mute (jan pi sona lili)

sitelen pi ike mute (pipi Motan)

sitelen pi linja lili

sitelen pi linja mute ala

sitelen pi linja wan

sitelen Setasan

sitelen Sewakana

sitelen soweli

sitelen toki pi linja wan

Alpha-syllabic scripts

sitelen Anku

Hangul Documentation:

Sample text:

얀 리 파나 에 모구 타와 시나

sitelen Asi

writing wu, wo, ji, ti automagically results in u, o, i, si. By jan Juli

Documentation:

Sample text:

sitelen kasi linja

Includes a blocky style called sitelen kasi leko. By Nathan McCoy

Documentation:

Sample text:

sitelen leko

By soweli Apen

Documentation

sitelen linja

By jan Tiko

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sitelen Nowa

Glyph design inspired by Arabic script, but combined similar to Hangul script. By jan Nowa

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sitelen Musisan

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sitelen pi jan Nuwoma

By jan Nuwoma.

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sitelen pi nasin sijelo monsuta

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sitelen poka

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sitelen pona (jan Mimoku)

By jan Mimoku

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sitelen sike (jan NalathniDragon)

By u/NathanMcCoy

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sitelen sinpin (jan Jese)

To be carved on rocks and wood like Elder Futhark

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sitelen sinpin (jan soweli Apen)

By jan soweli Apen

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sitelen sinpin lili

Condensed form of sitelen sinpin - each face can fit a whole word. By jan soweli Apen

Documentation:

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sitelen suwi ko

For writing in sand. By u/NathanMcCoy

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sitelen uta

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Non-featural alphabets

sitelen Lasina

Latin characters

Sample text:

jan li pana e moku tawa sina

sitelen esun

sitelen esun is an interlace orthography based on Kēlen. Consonants in sitelen esun are combinations of loops and vowels are combinations of crossovers. By jan Emelilijan

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sitelen kalama nanpa san

By jan Sewaka (JupiterBoy100)

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sitelen linja leko

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sitelen Elina

sitelen Kililisa

sitelen Pusake

sitelen sike (jan omch)

Compressed alphabets

sitelen musi

linja pi kute mute

linja pi kama wan

sitelen aeiou

shorthand with only 6 strokes

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