Writing systems

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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

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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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Text sample:

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

sitelen palisa (jan ilo Katapin)

sitelen Emosi

Main article: sitelen Emosi

sitelen pilin

Main article: sitelen pilin

sitelen jelo

Main article: sitelen jelo

sitelen pona

Main article: sitelen pona

sitelen akesi

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

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Sample text:

,O, > “n’ >> DC /\_ b

sitelen Asuki

sitelen luka

sitelen pipi

sitelen pona pona

sitelen pona pona

sitelen telo Momo

sitelen Antowi

sitelen lili

sitelen pona Sonko

sitelen Precomposed Vowel Characters

sitelen sitelen (or sitelen suwi)

sitelen telo

sitelen Tewa

toki pona lili

Syllabaries

sitelen Aki

Each syllable is represented by a single ASCII character

Documentation:

Sample text:

j l bn e Oq Tw sn

sitelen Ilakana

Abugidas

sitelen Diacritics

sitelen Elijan

Main article: User:.hecko/sitelen Elijan

sitelen Kanujapa

sitelen lape

sitelen lili sin

sitelen Tawi

Abjads

sitelen Alapi

Arabic Documentation:

Sample text:

ين لي پنا ه مكو توا سنا

sitelen nanpa

Alphabets

Unsorted alphabets (WIP)

sitelen Nowa

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

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sitelen kasi linja

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

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Sample text:

sitelen leko

By soweli Apen

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sitelen linja

By jan Tiko

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sitelen Musisan

sitelen pi jan Nuwoma

sitelen pi nasin sijelo monsuta

sitelen poka

sitelen pona (jan Mimoku)

sitelen sike (jan NalathniDragon)

sitelen sinpin (jan Jese)

sitelen sinpin (jan soweli Apen)

sitelen sinpin lili

sitelen suwi ko

sitelen uta

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