Writing systems
This is an incomplete list of the many writing systems created for Toki Pona.
sitelen Lasina, sitelen pona by jan Sonja, and 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 invent other writing systems for personal or aesthetic expression, data compression, compatibility with other natural-language writing systems, neographic experiments with the limited vocabulary, or just for fun.
| Name | Creator | Type | Description | Text sample jan li pana e moku tawa sina |
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| sitelen Enli aka ✎ ⟄ ᑈ ☺ (sitelen pi toki pona) |
Henrik Theiling | Logography | Toki Pona words represented by Unicode symbols | ⵅ ↴ ✉ ↱ ☕ ⇥ ⇈ |
| sitelen jaki | kulupu pi wawa unu | Logography | Doesn't support gender, colours and numbers | 
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| sitelen Kansi | Logography, sitelen Kansi | Adaptations of Hanzi | 人为发向食于尔 | |
| Chinese transliteration scheme | Logography, sitelen Kansi | By the simplified Chinese Toki Pona community on Tencent QQ, decided by a vote. Most people primarily write Toki Pona using Latin script. | 人兮出予乎食向尔 | |
| sitelen ko | Logography | Cuneiform style script | 
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| sitelen kule | jan Mena | Logography | 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". | 
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| sitelen mun | jan Jonatan | Logography | Based on Gallifreyan | 
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| sitelen Nelan | Logography | 
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| sitelen Nosu | jan Lane | Logography | ꊿꆹꁵꀔꋠꁧꆏ | |
| sitelen palisa | jan ilo Katapin | Logography | A 14-segment logography for Toki Pona | 
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| sitelen Emosi | Logography, emoji | |||
| sitelen pilin | Logography, emoji | 👤▶️📤⏩🍽️↪️👉 | ||
| sitelen jelo | waso Keli | Logography, emoji | 🧑▶️🙌⏩🍜🛫👆 | |
| sitelen pona | jan Sonja | Logography, sitelenponido | jan li pana e moku tawa sina | |
| sitelen akesi | jan Sonja, jan Tepo, ilo Eko | Logography, sitelenponido | An adaptation of sitelen pona in ASCII (which sounds a lot like akesi) | ,O, > “n’ >> DC /\_ b |
| sitelen Asuki | jan pi nimi ala | Logography, sitelenponido | A larger-scale ASCII adaptation of sitelen pona | ____ .-. \ \ | / \\ \__/ /| | | | \ __ \\ __ / | |---. '._.' / / | // / | / | | | / \ / V | // V | \ |_ '-' |
| sitelen luka | jan Kaja | Logography, sitelenponido | sitelen pona adapted to be faster for handwriting | 
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| sitelen pipi | Plum of the Palette system | Logography, sitelenponido | A combination of Toki Pona and Hollow Night's writing aesthetics | 
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| sitelen pona pona | Logography, sitelenponido |
Adaptation of sitelen pona and font with the following stated goals:
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| sitelen telo Momo | Logography, sitelenponido | Very stylised sitelen pona, as a font | 
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| sitelen Antowi | jan Jeli | Logography, sitelenponido | Material design version of sitelen pona, as a font | 
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| sitelen lili | jan Kokan Ato | Logography, sitelenponido | Alternate "streamlined" design of sitelen pona, as a font | 
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| sitelen pona Sonko | jan Ose | Logography, sitelenponido | Chinese seal script inspired sitelen pona | 
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| sitelen Precomposed Vowel Characters | Logography | Each word is exactly 1 Unicode character | ĩâởeÀǘỠ | |
| sitelen sitelen (or sitelen suwi) | Jonathan Gabel | Logography with alphasyllabary | 
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| sitelen telo | Logography | Japanese aesthetic | 
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| sitelen Tewa | jan Tewa | Logography | Intended for handwriting. Mixes logography and alphabet use of characters depending on diacritics. | 
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| toki pona lili | jan Wija | Logography | Each word is 2 characters long. | JnLiPnEeMkTwSi |
| sitelen Aki | Syllabary | Each syllable is represented by a single ASCII character. | j l bn e Oq Tw sn | |
| sitelen Ilakana | Syllabary, sitelen Ilakana | Adaptations of Hiragana for Toki Pona | やん り ぱな え もく たわ しな | |
| sitelen Diacritics | Abugida | |||
| sitelen Elijan | Abugida | 
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| sitelen Kanujapa | Abugida | Adaptation of Canadian Aboriginal syllabics for Toki Pona | ᔭᓐ ᓕ ᐸᓇ ᐁ ᒧᑰ ᑕᕙ ᓯᓇ // ᔭᓐ ᓕ ᐸᓇ ᐄ ᒨᑯ ᑕᕙ ᓯᓇ | |
| sitelen lape | jan Ali | Abugida | Syllables derived from sitelen pona | 
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| sitelen lili sin | Abugida | 
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| sitelen Tawi | Abugida | Adaptation of Thai script | ยันลิปะนะเอะโมะกุตะวะซินะ | |
| sitelen Alapi | Abjad | Arabic | ين لي پنا ه مكو توا سنا | |
| sitelen nanpa | Abjad | Hex number writing system | 1D030650B042089075 | |
| sitelen pakala | jan pi poki pi telo seli kasi | Alphabet, unsorted (WIP) | 
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| sitelen pakala | jan Samsta36 | Alphabet, unsorted (WIP) | 
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| sitelen palisa | Heav | Alphabet, unsorted (WIP) | 
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| sitelen palisa ilo | Alphabet, unsorted (WIP) | 
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| sitelen pi ike mute | jan pi sona lili | Alphabet, unsorted (WIP) | ͯͣ͆ ͬͥ ͩͣ͆ͣ ͤ ͫͦͨͧ ͭͣͪͣ ͮͥ͆ͣ | |
| sitelen pi ike mute | pipi Motan | Alphabet, unsorted (WIP) | ýchė[ ėkėSUPA eauble i ė企ė[ ý⁷ ėg[ | |
| sitelen pi linja lili | Alphabet, unsorted (WIP) | 
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| sitelen pi linja mute ala | Alphabet, unsorted (WIP) | 
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| sitelen pi linja wan | Alphabet, unsorted (WIP) | 
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| sitelen Setasan | Alphabet, unsorted (WIP) | 
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| sitelen Sewakana | Alphabet, unsorted (WIP) | 
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| sitelen soweli | Alphabet, unsorted (WIP) | 
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| sitelen toki pi linja wan | Alphabet, unsorted (WIP) | 
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| sitelen Anku | Alphasyllabary | Hangul | 얀 리 파나 에 모구 타와 시나 | |
| sitelen Asi | jan Juli | Alphasyllabary | Writing wu, wo, ji, ti automagically results in u, o, i, si. | 
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| sitelen kasi linja | Nathan McCoy | Alphasyllabary | Includes a blocky style called sitelen kasi leko | 
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| sitelen leko | soweli Apen | Alphasyllabary | ||
| sitelen linja | jan Tiko | Alphasyllabary | 
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| sitelen Nowa | jan Nowa | Alphasyllabary | Glyph design inspired by Arabic script, but combined similar to Hangul script | 
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| sitelen Musisan | Alphasyllabary | 
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| sitelen pi jan Nuwoma | jan Nuwoma | Alphasyllabary | 
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| sitelen pi nasin sijelo monsuta | Alphasyllabary | 
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| sitelen poka | Alphasyllabary | 
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| sitelen pona | jan Mimoku | Alphasyllabary |
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| sitelen sike (jan NalathniDragon) | u/NathanMcCoy | Alphasyllabary | 
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| sitelen sinpin | jan Jese | Alphasyllabary | To be carved on rocks and wood like Elder Futhark | 
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| sitelen sinpin | jan soweli Apen | Alphasyllabary | 
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| sitelen sinpin lili | jan soweli Apen | Alphasyllabary | Condensed form of sitelen sinpin—each face can fit a whole word. | 
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| sitelen suwi ko | u/NathanMcCoy | Alphasyllabary | For writing in sand | 
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| sitelen uta | Alphasyllabary | 
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| sitelen Lasina | Alphabet, non-featural |
Latin characters, broadly identical to the International Phonetic Alphabet |
jan li pana e moku tawa sina | |
| sitelen Lasina majuna | Alphabet, non-featural | IAN LI PANA E MOCV TAVA SINA | ||
| sitelen esun | jan Emelilijan | Alphabet, non-featural | sitelen esun is an interlace orthography based on Kēlen. Consonants in sitelen esun are combinations of loops and vowels are combinations of crossovers. | |
| sitelen kalama nanpa san | jan Sewaka (JupiterBoy100) | Alphabet, non-featural | ||
| sitelen linja leko | Alphabet, non-featural | 
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| sitelen Elina | Alphabet, non-featural | Greek | γιαν λι πάνα ε μόκου τάγουα σίνα | |
| sitelen Kililisa | Alphabet, non-featural | йан ли пана е моку тава сина | ||
| sitelen Pusake | Alphabet, non-featural | ᛃᚨᚾ ᛚᛁ ᛈᚨᚾᚨ ᛖ ᛗᛟᚲᚢ᛫ | ||
| sitelen sike | jan omch | Alphabet, non-featural | 
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| sitelen musi | Alphabet, compressed | 
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| linja pi kute mute | Alphabet, compressed | 
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| linja pi kama wan | Alphabet, compressed | 
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| sitelen aeiou | Alphabet, compressed | iae ui aaea e ioou oaaa eiea. | ||
| shorthand with only 6 strokes | Alphabet, compressed | File:shorthand with only 6 strokes sample.png |
