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% toki pona extra page 2 - other writing systems
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% /dev/urandom
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% april 2020
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<style>
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@font-face {
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font-family: "sitelen pona";
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src: url("linjapimeja1.4.otf")
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}
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.sp {
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font-size:3em;
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font-family:"sitelen pona";
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font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures;
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}
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</style>
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While the most common writing system for toki pona by far is the Latin alphabet,
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there have been others adapted, or created specifically, for toki pona.
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## Adapted writing systems
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With toki pona only using 5 vowel and 9 consonant sounds, converting another
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language's writing system to toki pona can become rather easy. For example,
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here's how they can be converted to Greek and Cyrillic:
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|Latin |a|e|i|j|k|l|m|n|o|p|s|t|u|w|
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|--------|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|
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|Greek |α|ε|ι|γ|κ|λ|μ|ν|ο|π|σ|τ|υ|β|
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|Cyrillic|а|е|и|й|к|л|м|н|о|п|с|т|у|в|
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With some relatively small changes in sounds, it can also be written with the
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Japanese Hiragana system, as proposed
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[here](https://www.deviantart.com/derroflcopter/journal/Hiragana-for-Toki-Pona-339541633).
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## sitelen pona
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The most common writing system created for toki pona is the logographic *sitelen pona*
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("simple writing"), created by Sonja Lang herself and published in the official
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book.
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> %info%
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> The part of the book describing sitelen pona was published with a
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> non-commercial [CC-BY-NC 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/)
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> license. Hence, it's easily available online in other courses,
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> such as ["o kama sona e toki pona!"'s
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> page](http://tokipona.net/tp/janpije/hieroglyphs.php) on the system, which
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> describes it almost exactly the same as the official book.
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>
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Much like the Latin alphabet, it is written left-to-right and top-to-bottom.
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Each character represents one word (or sometimes even a phrase), or one letter
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in a proper name.
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Since toki pona's basic dictionary only uses 120 words, there are only 120
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characters one needs to learn. And most of these characters are, in one way or
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another, direct representations of the words they mean.
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For example, "lawa", meaning "head", is literally a symbol of a head with a cap
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on. "nanpa", meaning "number", is based on the "#" number sign, etc.
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An adjective character can be put inside or over/under a noun character to
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represent a noun phrase.
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> %info%
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> You might notice that toki pona's "logo", used on the cover of the official
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> book and on most websites to represent it, is, in fact, sitelen pona's
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> composite character for "toki pona", with the "pona" symbol written inside the
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> "toki" symbol.
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Unofficial words are written inside a "cartouche" symbol, with characters for
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words that start with their first letters. For the example linked above (and
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used in the official book), "ma Kanata" is written as "ma [kasi alasa nasin awen
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telo a]".
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Since the question mark is used as the character for "seme", question sentences
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may be ended with a period (or a smaller question mark) instead, depending on
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the text.
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Here's some basic text written in sitelen pona. (If your browser is unable to
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load the ["linja pimeja" font](https://github.com/increpare/linja_pimeja), it
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should just show up in Latin alphabet instead.)
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> %sp%
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> wan ni pi lipu ni li sitelen kepeken sitelen pona. sina ken ala ken sona e ni.
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<a name="answers" href="#answers" onclick="revealSpoilers();">Reveal translation</a>
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> %spoiler%
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> This part of this document is written using sitelen pona. Can you understand
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> it?
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For some other texts written in sitelen pona, including a page that tries to
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teach someone to read it without using any other writing system, check out the
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website ["tomo pi sitelen pona"](https://davidar.github.io/tp/) by jan Tepu.
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## sitelen sitelen
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Jonathan Gabel's ["sitelen sitelen"](https://jonathangabel.com/toki-pona/)
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writing system was designed as a more aesthetically pleasant method to write texts in
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toki pona. It's a non-linear system visually inspired by the Mayan script.
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Compared to writing toki pona in Latin alphabet or sitelen pona, sitelen sitelen
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is significantly more difficult to understand, and therefore is only used rarely
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by the community. However, the impressive visual style of texts written in it --
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such as [this
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contract](https://www.jonathangabel.com/archive/2012/artworks_lipu-lawa-pi-esun-kama.html)
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or the toki pona
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[proverbs](https://jonathangabel.com/toki-pona/dictionaries/gallery/) -- many of
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which are also used in the official book -- cannot be denied.
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[Top page](index.html)
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