leko pona
leko pona is a three-dimensional, nonlinear Toki Pona writing system created by jan Sowan. It is an ideography in which each word is a geometrically carved block.[1]
Development
The first glyphs were sculpted in cork with a modeling knife.[2] The whole vocabulary has been planned to be 3D-printed, wood-carved,[3][4] and published in digital form.[1] The first 120 glyphs have been cork-sculpted as of May 2023.[4]
Grammar
Glyphs are placed in straight lines. These lines can intersect at right angles to branch the sentence, creating new grammatical features:
- Modifiers and multiple particles can each be placed adjacent to the previous part of the sentence,[1] which could avoid giving them priority, unlike in linear speech. The glyphs for li and e seemingly always face perpendicular to the line direction. In the case of modifiers, the branch can be analogous to a combined glyph in sitelen pona.
- A word can be the subject of a branching clause, creating a subordinate clause, a grammatical structure not technically present in standard Toki Pona[1] (where instead, ni is used to refer to the upcoming sentence).
It is possible that content word glyphs have no significant orientation because they can belong to multiple branches. Orientation might also be constrained to have a certain side of a glyph face up.
Vocabulary
The nimi pu and some nimi sin are planned for leko pona. The following words have publicly known glyphs. Various other glyphs have been revealed in photographs, but it is unconfirmed which words they are for.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 jan Sowan. (15 April 2021). "leko pona [pali pini ala]" [Good blocks [incomplete]] (in Toki Pona). Google Docs. Retrieved 21 February 2024.
- ↑ jan Sowan [u/Ktorn_Ragga]. (7 June 2023). "introduction to the 3D syntax of leko pona". r/neography. Reddit. Retrieved 21 February 2024.
- ↑ jan Sowan [u/Ktorn_Ragga]. (9 September 2021). "First woodworking project! i'm pretty happy with the hollow cube (tools: knife and drill)". r/woodworking. Reddit. Retrieved 21 February 2024.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 jan Sowan [u/Ktorn_Ragga]. (25 May 2023). ""words of love warm humans": some glyphs in my 3D script for toki pona [leko pona]". r/neography. Reddit. Retrieved 21 February 2024.
| pu | sitelen Lasina (Latin) · sitelen pona (sitelen-pona) · sitelen sitelen |
|---|---|
| Natlang transliterations | sitelen Kililisa (Cyrillic) · sitelen Kana (Japanese) · sitelen Anku (Hangul) · sitelen Kansi (Chinese) · sitelen Alapi (Arabic) · sitelen Iwisi (Hebrew) · sitelen Elina (Greek) |
| Other | Toki Pona Script (dingbats) · sitelen pona pi jan Mimoku · ASCII syllabary · sitelen musi · sitelen ko (cuneiform) · sitelen telo · leko pona (3D) · sitelen mun (Gallifreyan) · nasin pi sitelen jelo (emoji) |