Writing systems

This is a non-exhaustive list of the writing systems created for Toki Pona.

sitelen Lasina, sitelen pona by jan Sonja, and sitelen sitelen by Jonathan Gabel are the 3 writing systems featured in Toki Pona: The Language of Good. They are also the best known and most widely understood. However, tinkerers often invent other writing systems for personal or aesthetic expression, data compression, compatibility with other natural-language writing systems, neographic experiments with the limited vocabulary, or just for fun.

Types of writing systems

• Abjad: Only consonants are written; the reader must infer vowels. (Impure abjads may have optional vowel diacritics or a limited number of vowel glyphs.)
• Abugida: Each symbol is a consonant with secondary vowel notation.
• Alphabet: Consonants and vowels are written separately. sitelen Lasina and the IPA are examples of alphabets.
• Logography: Each symbol is a word. sitelen pona and the word glyphs of sitelen sitelen are examples of logographies.
• Syllabary: Each symbol is a syllable or mora. The syllable glyphs of sitelen sitelen are an example of a syllabary.

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• Featural: Symbols are directly based on features of the phonology.

List of writing systems

Name	Creator	Type	Description	Text sample jan li pana e moku tawa sina
sitelen Enli aka ✎ ⟄ ᑈ ☺ (sitelen pi toki pona)	Henrik Theiling	Logography	Toki Pona words represented by Unicode symbols website	ⵅ ↴ ✉ ↱ ☕ ⇥ ⇈
sitelen jaki	kulupu pi wawa unu	Logography	Doesn't support gender, colours and numbers full description
sitelen Kansi		Logography, sitelen Kansi	Adaptations of Hanzi 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 Proposed revision sitelen munjan rime scheme Proposed unified hanzi/kanji orthography character match list Chinese toki pona letter set sitelen Sonwa, extends beyond nimi pu and nimi ku Classical Chinese characters for toki pona with additions sitelen Sonko pona | Chinese characters adapted for Toki Pona	人为发向食于尔
Chinese transliteration scheme		Logography, sitelen Kansi	By the simplified Chinese Toki Pona community on Tencent QQ, decided by a vote. Most people primarily write Toki Pona using Latin script. Excel	人兮出予乎食向尔(Note: 出&予 have equal votes for pana in the first round, and are equally valid. One should be used instead of both)
sitelen ko		Logography	Cuneiform style script words
sitelen kule	jan Mena	Logography	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". Reddit
sitelen mun	jan Jonatan	Logography	Based on Gallifreyan full description
sitelen Nelan		Logography	word list
sitelen Nosu	jan Lane	Logography	character list	ꊿꆹꁵꀔꋠꁧꆏ
sitelen palisa	jan ilo Katapin	Logography	A 14-segment logography for Toki Pona repository
sitelen Emosi		Logography, emoji	Main article: sitelen Emosi
sitelen pilin		Logography, emoji	Main article: sitelen pilin website	👤▶️📤⏩🍽️↪️👉
sitelen jelo	waso Keli	Logography, emoji	Main article: sitelen jelo	🧑▶️🙌⏩🍜🛫👆
sitelen pona	jan Sonja	Logography, sitelenponido	Main article: sitelen pona	jan li pana e moku tawa sina
sitelen akesi	ilo Eko, with contributions from jan Sonja, jan Tepo	Logography, sitelenponido	An adaptation of sitelen pona in ASCII (which sounds a lot like akesi) list of words	,O, > “n’ >> DC /\_ b
sitelen pona Juniko	Logography, sitelenponido	Various attempts at representing sitelen pona with Unicode symbols	sitelen juniko nasin Unikote - Espansa input adaptation sitelen Aki Sitelen Pona in Unicode Unicoded SP
sitelen Asuki	jan pi nimi ala	Logography, sitelenponido	A larger-scale ASCII adaptation of sitelen pona Reddit	____ .-. \ \ | / \\ \__/ /| | | | \ __ \\ __ / | |---. '._.' / / | // / | / | | | / \ / V | // V | \ |_ '-'
sitelen luka	jan Kaja	Logography, sitelenponido	sitelen pona adapted to be faster for handwriting Description word list
sitelen pipi	Plum of the Palette system	Logography, sitelenponido	A combination of Toki Pona and Hollow Night's writing aesthetics full description
sitelen pona pona		Logography, sitelenponido	Main article: 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) website
sitelen telo Momo		Logography, sitelenponido	Very stylised sitelen pona, as a font
sitelen Antowi	jan Jeli	Logography, sitelenponido	Material design version of sitelen pona, as a font Reddit
sitelen lili	jan Kokan Ato	Logography, sitelenponido	Alternate "streamlined" design of sitelen pona, as a font
sitelen pona Sonko	jan Ose	Logography, sitelenponido	Chinese seal script inspired sitelen pona Reddit word list
sitelen Precomposed Vowel Characters		Logography	Each word is exactly 1 Unicode character website	ĩâởeÀǘỠ
sitelen sitelen (or sitelen suwi)	Jonathan Gabel	Logography with alphasyllabary	Main article: sitelen sitelen Overview and full lesson Live Toki Pona Sitelen Sitelen Renderer Memrise Anki
sitelen telo		Logography	Japanese aesthetic full description and font Memrise Memrise
sitelen Tewa	jan Tewa	Logography	Intended for handwriting. Mixes logography and alphabet use of characters depending on diacritics. full description
toki pona lili	jan Wija	Logography	Each word is 2 characters long. website	JnLiPnEeMkTwSi
sitelen Aki		Syllabary	Each syllable is represented by a single ASCII character. website	j l bn e Oq Tw sn
sitelen Ilakana		Syllabary, sitelen Ilakana	Adaptations of Hiragana for Toki Pona word list DeviantArt Reddit	やん り ぱな え もく たわ しな
sitelen Diacritics		Abugida
sitelen Elijan		Abugida	Main article: User:.hecko/sitelen Elijan
sitelen Kanujapa		Abugida	Adaptation of Canadian Aboriginal syllabics for Toki Pona website	ᔭᓐ ᓕ ᐸᓇ ᐁ ᒧᑰ ᑕᕙ ᓯᓇ // ᔭᓐ ᓕ ᐸᓇ ᐄ ᒨᑯ ᑕᕙ ᓯᓇ
sitelen lape	jan Ali	Abugida	Syllables derived from sitelen pona description font
sitelen lili sin		Abugida	Facebook
sitelen Tawi		Abugida	Adaptation of Thai script syllable overview by lipu2222	ยันลิปะนะเอะโมะกุตะวะซินะ
aborlan/tagbanwa orthography		Abugida	an abugida script with three vowels (the a is implied). By nja Emikilikity grapheme overview	᜶ᝬᝨ ᝮᝲ ᝩᝨ ᝡ ᝫᝳᝣᝳ ᝦᝯ ᝰᝲᝨ᜶
sitelen Alapi		Abjad	Arabic Reddit YouTube (archived) by jan Wote	ين لي پنا ه مكو توا سنا
sitelen nanpa		Abjad	Hex number writing system full description	1D030650B042089075
sitelen pakala	jan pi poki pi telo seli kasi	Alphabet, unsorted (WIP)
sitelen pakala	jan Samsta36	Alphabet, unsorted (WIP)
sitelen palisa	Heav	Alphabet, unsorted (WIP)
sitelen palisa ilo		Alphabet, unsorted (WIP)
sitelen pi ike mute	jan pi sona lili	Alphabet, unsorted (WIP)		ͯͣ͆ ͬͥ ͩͣ͆ͣ ͤ ͫͦͨͧ ͭͣͪͣ ͮͥ͆ͣ
sitelen pi ike mute	pipi Motan	Alphabet, unsorted (WIP)		ýchė[ ėkėSUPA eauble i ė企ė[ ý⁷ ėg[
sitelen pi linja lili		Alphabet, unsorted (WIP)
sitelen pi linja mute ala		Alphabet, unsorted (WIP)
sitelen pi linja wan		Alphabet, unsorted (WIP)
sitelen Setasan		Alphabet, unsorted (WIP)
sitelen Sewakana		Alphabet, unsorted (WIP)
sitelen soweli		Alphabet, unsorted (WIP)
sitelen toki pi linja wan		Alphabet, unsorted (WIP)
sitelen Anku		Alphasyllabary	Hangul by jan Nosu text in Hangul about toki pona website (archived) by jan n649po an attempt on Reddit	얀 리 파나 에 모구 타와 시나
sitelen Asi	jan Juli	Alphasyllabary	Writing wu, wo, ji, ti automagically results in u, o, i, si. PDF
sitelen kasi linja	Nathan McCoy	Alphasyllabary	Includes a blocky style called sitelen kasi leko generator
sitelen leko	soweli Apen	Alphasyllabary	website
sitelen linja	jan Tiko	Alphasyllabary	Reddit
sitelen Nowa	jan Nowa	Alphasyllabary	Glyph design inspired by Arabic script, but combined similar to Hangul script full description
sitelen Musisan		Alphasyllabary	alphabet
sitelen pi jan Nuwoma	jan Nuwoma	Alphasyllabary	consonants key vowels key combination key
sitelen pi nasin sijelo monsuta		Alphasyllabary	full description
sitelen poka		Alphasyllabary	Reddit
sitelen pona	jan Mimoku	Alphasyllabary	Blog Wikipesija suno pona (Polish)
sitelen sike	akesi kon Nalasuni	Alphasyllabary	Reddit
sitelen sinpin	jan Jese	Alphasyllabary	To be carved on rocks and wood like Elder Futhark Reddit
sitelen sinpin	jan soweli Apen	Alphasyllabary	Full description
sitelen sinpin lili	jan soweli Apen	Alphasyllabary	Condensed form of sitelen sinpin—each face can fit a whole word. Full description
sitelen suwi ko	akesi kon Nalasuni	Alphasyllabary	For writing in sand Reddit font
sitelen uta		Alphasyllabary	Reddit
sitelen Lasina		Alphabet, non-featural	Main article: sitelen Lasina Latin characters, broadly identical to the International Phonetic Alphabet	jan li pana e moku tawa sina
sitelen Lasina majuna		Alphabet, non-featural	Main article: sitelen Lasina majuna	IAN LI PANA E MOCV TAVA SINA
sitelen esun	jan Emelilijan	Alphabet, non-featural	sitelen esun is an interlace orthography based on Kēlen. Consonants in sitelen esun are combinations of loops and vowels are combinations of crossovers. alphabet
sitelen kalama nanpa san	jan Sewaka (JupiterBoy100)	Alphabet, non-featural	font
sitelen linja leko		Alphabet, non-featural	full description
sitelen Elina		Alphabet, non-featural	Greek	γιαν λι πάνα ε μόκου τάγουα σίνα
sitelen Kililisa		Alphabet, non-featural		йан ли пана е моку тава сина
sitelen Pusake		Alphabet, non-featural		ᛃᚨᚾ ᛚᛁ ᛈᚨᚾᚨ ᛖ ᛗᛟᚲᚢ᛫
sitelen sike	jan omch	Alphabet, non-featural	Reddit Generator
sitelen musi		Alphabet, compressed
linja pi kute mute		Alphabet, compressed
linja pi kama wan		Alphabet, compressed
sitelen aeiou		Alphabet, compressed		iae ui aaea e ioou oaaa eiea.
shorthand with only 6 strokes		Alphabet, compressed		File:shorthand with only 6 strokes sample.png

See also

• Calendar systems
• Number systems