sitelen Anku

sitelen Anku (시데렌 안구) is a writing system that adapts Hangul, the featural syllabic alphabet used to write Korean, to Toki Pona.

Alphabet

Consonants

Hangul uses a silent letter ieung (ㅇ) to represent a null initial consonant. A null final consonant is unwritten, like in sitelen Lasina.

The letters used for p and t differ between specific sitelen Anku proposals. Some use the letters bieup (ㅂ) and digeut (ㄷ), which represent unaspirated /p t/ and are visually simplest, but which are romanized as ⟨b d⟩ to contrast them. Others use pieup (ㅍ) and tieut (ㅌ), which represent aspirated /pʰ tʰ/, a distinction not made in Toki Pona, but which are romanized as ⟨p t⟩.

The consonants j and w only occur within diphthongs in Korean, and so are written as part of the vowel letter.

sitelen Lasina		∅	m	n	p	t	k	s	l
sitelen Anku	Unaspirated	ㅇ	ㅁ	ㄴ	ㅂ	ㄷ	ㄱ	ㅅ	ㄹ
	Aspirated				ㅍ	ㅌ

Vowels

Transcription of the vowel e varies between proposals. Some use the letter e (ㅔ) for its pronunciation, /e/. Others use eo (ㅓ) for symmetry with the other vowel letters needed for Toki Pona, even though it is pronounced as a back vowel /ʌ/.

	-i	-e	-a	-o	-u
∅-	ㅣ	ㅔ	ㅏ	ㅗ	ㅜ
		ㅓ
j-	–	ㅖ	ㅑ	ㅛ	ㅠ
		ㅕ
w-	ㅟ	ㅞ	ㅘ	–
		ㅝ

Syllables

Hangul arranges all of the letters in each syllable into a block treated as its own character. The following table lists every phonotactically allowed Toki Pona syllable in sitelen Anku.

	Null coda					Coda nasal
	-i	-e	-a	-o	-u	-in	-en	-an	-on	-un
∅-	이	에, 어	아	오	우	인	엔, 언	안	온	운
m-	미	메, 머	마	모	무	민	멘, 먼	만	몬	문
n-	니	네, 너	나	노	누	닌	넨, 넌	난	논	눈
p-	비, 피	베, 버, 페, 퍼	바, 파	보, 포	부, 푸	빈, 핀	벤, 번, 펜, 펀	반, 판	본, 폰	분, 폰
t-	–	데, 더, 테, 터	다, 타	도, 토	두, 투	–	덴, 던, 텐, 턴	단, 탄	돈, 톤	둔, 툰
k-	기	게, 거	가	고	구	긴	겐, 건	간	곤	군
s-	시	세, 서	사	소	수	신	센, 선	산	손	순
w-	위	웨, , 워	와	–		윈	웬, 원	완	–
l-	리	레, 러	라	로	루	린	렌, 런	란	론	룬
j-	–	예, 여	야	요	유	–	옌, 연	얀	욘	윤

External links

• Description (jan Nosu)
• Description in Korean
• Website by jan n649po
• Nonstandard attempt on Reddit