nasin pi sitelen jelo
nasin pi sitelen jelo (🛤️📎🎨🍋) or sitelen jelo is an emoji-based Toki Pona writing system created by waso Keli. It is a logography that builds on and tries to improve on sitelen pilin, its much more static predecessor.[1]
Guidelines
Similar to other logographic writing systems for Toki Pona, nasin pi sitelen jelo simply replaces each word with a symbol, taking advantage of the visual forms in the emoji Unicode range. Additional rules are:[citation needed]
- Alternate emoji are allowed. However, avoid those that can mean two things.
- More specific emoji are also allowed. For example, when talking about an octopus, you can use 🐙 instead of 🐟.
- Using misleading emoji on purpose is allowed. For example, when talking about a reptile, you can use 🐸.
Names
Names are formed like in sitelen pona, by spelling out each letter with a symbol glyph that begins by the letter. The paintbrush emoji (🖌️) is used and is placed at the start and end of the name:
waso Keli → 🐦🖌️🌱🛒❄️🔦🖌️
Words
Alternate symbols for names are not an exhaustive list.
References
- ↑ waso Keli [@kelly.hi]. (2 November 2023). [Message posted in the
#🛤️📎🎨🍋 nasin pi sitelen jelothread in the#toki-sulichannel in the ma pona pi toki pona Discord server]. Discord. Retrieved 19 January 2024.