Writing systems

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

Documentation:

• website

Text sample:

ⵅ ↴ ✉ ↱ ☕ ⇥ ⇈

sitelen jaki

Doesn't support gender, coloursa and numbers. By kulupu pi wawa unu

Documentation:

• full description

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sitelen Kansi

Adaptations of Hanzi

Documentation:

• sitelen ma Sunko
• sitelen Kanji tan jan Mato (archived)
• attempt by jan U
• attempt by jan Josan
• attempt by jan lili
• attempt on Reddit
• sitelen Lemon, derived characters
• classic word list

Text sample:

人为发向食于尔

sitelen ko

Cuneiform style script

Documentation:

• words

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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

Documentation:

• Reddit

Text sample:

sitelen mun

based on Gallifreyan. By jan Jonatan

Documentation:

• full description

Text sample:

sitelen Nelan

Documentation:

• word list

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sitelen Nosu

By jan Lane

Documentation:

• character list

Text sample:

ꊿꆹꁵꀔꋠꁧꆏ

sitelen palisa (jan ilo Katapin)

A 14-segment logography for Toki Pona. By jan ilo Katapin.

Documentation:

• repository

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sitelen Emosi

Main article: sitelen Emosi

sitelen pilin

Main article: sitelen pilin

Documentation:

• website

Text sample:

👤▶️📤⏩🍽️↪️👉

sitelen jelo

Main article: sitelen jelo

By waso Keli

Text sample:

🧑▶️🙌⏩🍜🛫👆

sitelen pona

Main article: sitelen pona

By jan Sonja

Text sample:

jan li pana e moku tawa sina

sitelen akesi

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

Documentation:

• list of words

Sample text:

,O, > “n’ >> DC /\_ b

sitelen Asuki

A larger-scale ASCII adaptation of sitelen pona. By jan pi nimi ala

Documentation:

• Reddit

Text sample:

                        ____                
 .-.   \   \ | /  \\    \__/    /|   |      
|   |   \    __    \\    __    / |   |---.  
'._.'   /   /  |   //   /  |  /  |   |   |  
 / \   /   V   |  //   V   |  \  |_   '-'   

sitelen luka

sitelen pona adapted to be faster for handwriting. By jan Kaja

Documentation:

• Description
• word list

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sitelen pipi

A combination of toki pona and Hollow Night's writing aesthetics. By Plum of the Palette system

Documentation:

• full description

Text sample:

sitelen pona pona

Adaptation of sitelen pona and font with the following stated goals:

• remove redundant information from glyphs
• use a consistent shape inventory
• fit glyphs onto a baseline, descending or ascending when appropriate
• make glyphs easy to differentiate at small sizes
• align with standard Latin punctuation and text (can be used inline)

Documentation:

• website

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sitelen telo Momo

Very stylised sitelen pona, as a font

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sitelen Antowi

Material design version of sitelen pona, as a font. By jan Jeli

Documentation:

• Reddit

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sitelen lili

Alternate "streamlined" design of sitelen pona, as a font. By jan Kokan Ato.

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sitelen pona Sonko

Chinese seal script inspired sitelen pona. By jan Ose

Documentation:

• Reddit
• word list

Text sample:

sitelen Precomposed Vowel Characters

Each word is exactly 1 Unicode character

Documentation:

• website

Text sample:

ĩâởeÀǘỠ

sitelen sitelen (or sitelen suwi)

By Jonathan Gabel

Documentation:

• Overview and full lesson
• Live Toki Pona Sitelen Sitelen Renderer
• Memrise
• Anki

Text sample:

sitelen telo

Japanese aesthetic

Documentation:

• full description and font
• Memrise
• Memrise

Text sample: File:sitelen telo sample.png

sitelen Tewa

Intended for handwriting. Mixes logography and alphabet use of characters depending on diacritics. By jan Tewa

Documentation:

• full description

Text sample:

Syllabaries

sitelen Aki

Each syllable is represented by a single ASCII character

Documentation:

• website

Sample text:

j l bn e Oq Tw sn

Abugidas

sitelen Elijan

Main article: User:.hecko/sitelen Elijan

Abjads

sitelen Alapi

Arabic Documentation:

• Reddit
• YouTube (archived) by jan Wote

Sample text:

ين لي پنا ه مكو توا سنا

Alphabets

Alpha-syllabic scripts

sitelen Anku

Hangul Documentation:

• by jan Nosu
• text in Hangul about toki pona
• website (archived) by jan n649po
• an attempt on Reddit

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

Documentation:

• PDF

Sample text:

sitelen kasi linja

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

Documentation:

• generator

Sample text:

sitelen leko

By soweli Apen

Documentation

• website

sitelen linja

By jan Tiko

Documentation:

• Reddit

Text sample:

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

Documentation:

• alphabet

sitelen kalama nanpa san

By jan Sewaka (JupiterBoy100)

Documentation:

• font

sitelen linja leko

Documentation:

• full description

Text sample: