Sitelen Pona
Sitelen Pona sitelen pona | |
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Script type | Logographic
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Creator | Sonja Lang |
Created | c. 2013 |
Published | 2014
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Direction | Left-to-right |
Languages | Toki Pona |
Sitelen Pona (rendered in
History
Sitelen Pona was designed by Lang in preparation for her upcoming Toki Pona textbook release. In 2013, she published a page listing 20 characters as a sample of the book's contents.[4] The book, Toki Pona: The Language of Good, was published in 2014, and it included the first full description of Sitelen Pona in a dedicated section.[5][2]
In 2024, Lang published The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Toki Pona edition), the first in the su series of illustrated storybooks aimed at beginners, in which all Toki Pona text is written in Sitelen Pona. This was the first published book that used Sitelen Pona as a primary script.[6]
Overview
Sitelen Pona is typically written left-to-right, top-to-bottom. As a logography, each word is written with a single
A head followed by a single modifier (e.g. a noun followed by an adjective) may be combined into one character by stacking the modifier grapheme above the head grapheme, or by nesting the modifier grapheme inside the head grapheme if there is space.[2] The symbol of the language [8] is written this way, with the grapheme (pona) nested inside the grapheme (toki).[9]
Names
Names (grammatically
In an alternative system called nasin sitelen kalama, characters inside a cartouche can be followed by interpuncts or dots, where each interpunct represents the next mora of the word, and a colon represents all morae of the word.[11]
Punctuation
Sitelen Pona punctuation is unstandardized and thus highly variable, as The Language of Good features only the cartouche.[10] As a result, some texts use no punctuation at all, instead relying on formatting and context.
Sentence boundaries are typically marked with an
Where
Characters
The original English edition of Lang's book Toki Pona: The Language of Good introduces 120 hieroglyphic characters, one for each of the core words taught in the book.
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a
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akesi
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ala
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alasa
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ale / ali
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anpa
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ante
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anu
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awen
-
e
-
en
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esun
-
ijo
-
ike
-
ilo
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insa
-
jaki
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jan
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jelo
-
jo
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kala
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kalama
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kama
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kasi
-
ken
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kepeken
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kili
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kiwen
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ko
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kon
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kule
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kulupu
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kute
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la
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lape
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laso
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lawa
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len
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lete
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li
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lili
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linja
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lipu
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loje
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lon
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luka
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lukin
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lupa
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ma
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mama
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mani
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meli
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mi
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mije
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moku
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moli
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monsi
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mu
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mun
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musi
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mute
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nanpa
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nasa
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nasin
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nena
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ni
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nimi
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noka
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o
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olin
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ona
-
open
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pakala
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pali
-
palisa
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pan
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pana
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pi
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pilin
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pimeja
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pini
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pipi
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poka
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poki
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pona
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pu
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sama
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seli
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selo
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seme
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sewi
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sijelo
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sike
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sin
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sina
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sinpin
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sitelen
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sona
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soweli
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suli
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suno
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supa
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suwi
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tan
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taso
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tawa
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telo
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tenpo
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toki
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tomo
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tu
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unpa
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uta
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utala
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walo
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wan
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waso
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wawa
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weka
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wile
The 2022 Esperanto edition of the same book (Tokipono: La lingvo de bono) includes alternative ways to write three words.[12]
The same edition presents characters for the 17 additional words spotlighted as "essential" in Toki Pona Dictionary (nimi ku suli).[13] According to the accompanying text, these were the most commonly used characters for those words as of 2022, but there were still disagreements in the speaking community, and the following characters might be subject to change based on future community consensus.[14]
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epiku
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jasima
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kijetesantakalu
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kin
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kipisi
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kokosila
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ku
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lanpan
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leko
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meso
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misikeke
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monsuta
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n
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oko
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soko
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tonsi
Notes:
- ^ Four-legged (two-leg-stroke) form of akesi
- scribbles
- Secular form of sewi (above, holy) that isn't based on the Arabic word for God, analogous to the character for anpa (below, humble) and other location words
- ^ sin-based variant of namako created by the community in 2016
- ^ Chili pepper variant of namako designed by Sonja Lang for personal use and first shared publicly in 2022
Encoding
Sitelen Pona | |
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Range | U+F1900..U+F19FF (256 code points) |
Plane |
As of April 2024[update], Sitelen Pona has not been encoded into
Sitelen Pona[1][2] Under-ConScript Unicode Registry | ||||||||||||||||
0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | A | B | C | D | E | F | |
U+F190x | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
U+F191x | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
U+F192x | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
U+F193x | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
U+F194x | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
U+F195x | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
U+F196x | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
U+F197x | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
U+F198x | | | | | | | | | | |||||||
U+F199x | | | | | | SP STJ |
SP SCJ |
SP SLG |
SP ELG |
SP SGE |
SP SRLG |
SP ERLG |
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U+F19Ax | | | | | ||||||||||||
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U+F19Cx | ||||||||||||||||
U+F19Dx | ||||||||||||||||
U+F19Ex | ||||||||||||||||
U+F19Fx | ||||||||||||||||
Notes |
References
- ISSN 0272-2690.
- ^ a b c d Kocman, Tomaž (2023). "Prednosti toki pone kot prvega tujega jezika predšolskih otrok : magistrsko delo" (in Slovenian). T. Kocman. Retrieved 4 April 2024.
- ^ jan Tamalu (2024). "Results of the 2022 Toki Pona census". Archived from the original on 1 March 2024. Retrieved 28 March 2024.
- ^ Sonja Lang (19 May 2013). "hieroglyphs_sample.pdf" (PDF). tokipona.org. Retrieved 29 March 2024. (Date retrieved from PDF metadata).
- ^ Lang 2014, p. 104–111.
- ^ Lang 2024.
- ISSN 2007-9737.
- ^ "Toki Pona – The language of good". Smith Journal. Melbourne, Australia. 2019-06-03. Archived from the original on 2019-10-20. Retrieved 2019-10-20.
- ^ Lang 2014, p. 110.
- ^ a b Lang 2014, p. 111.
- ISSN 2752-4639. Retrieved 2024-04-04.
- ISBN 978-94-6437-609-8.
- ISBN 978-0978292362.
- ISBN 978-94-6437-609-8.
- ^ a b Bettencourt, Rebecca G. (2021-08-06). "Under-ConScript Unicode Registry". KreativeKorp. Archived from the original on 2021-09-28. Retrieved 2021-10-23.
- ^ a b Bettencourt, Rebecca G. (2021-08-06). "Sitelen Pona: U+F1900 - U+F1AFF". KreativeKorp. Archived from the original on 2021-09-28. Retrieved 2021-10-23.
Publications
- OCLC 921253340.
- ISBN 978-0-9782923-7-9.
External links
- Chapter on Sitelen Pona in Toki Pona: The Language of Good (lipu pi jan Ne)
- lipu Linku, an online Toki Pona dictionary that lists Sitelen Pona characters, including characters for uncommon words and common alternative ways to write a word