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% toki pona keyboard layout
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% /dev/urandom
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% 2020-05-27
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# toki pona keyboard layout
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> %warning%
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> This page uses box-drawing characters heavily. It may display incorrectly on
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> some web browsers and computers.
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Inspired by jan Misali's [toki pona ASCII
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syllabary](https://www.seximal.net/tkpn), I had an idea: what would such a
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syllabary look like if the final "n" was treated as a separate syllable (like in
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Japanese)? How far could it be compressed?
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The end result of my experiments turned out to look like this:
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<pre>
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┌───┬───┬───┬───┬───┐
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│-i │-u │-e │-o │-a │
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┌──┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┤
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│ -│ i │ u │ e │ o │ a │
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├──┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┤ ┌───┐
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│m-│ I │ 3 │ M │ X │ x │ │ - │
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├──┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┤─├───┤
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│n-│ y │ Y │ N │ H │ h │ │ n │
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├──┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┤─└───┘
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│p-│ b │ B │ P │ F │ f │
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├──┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┤
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│t-│###│ 2 │ T │ D │ d │
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├──┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┤
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│k-│ q │ Q │ K │ G │ g │
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├──┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┤
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│s-│ c │ C │ S │ Z │ z │
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├──┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┤
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│w-│ v │###│ W │###│ 1 │
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├──┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┤
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│l-│ J │ 5 │ L │ R │ r │
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├──┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┤
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│j-│###│ U │ E │ O │ A │
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└──┴───┴───┴───┴───┴───┘
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</pre>
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To make the system easier to learn, the characters in it all follow a set of
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rules:
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* all j+? syllables use the capital version of the vowel
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* all ?+e syllables use the capital version of the consonant
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* 1, 2, 3 and 5 are wa(n), tu, mu(te) and lu(ka)
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* li is J and mi is I
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* if a ?+u syllable is a capital letter, a corresponding ?+i is its lowercase version
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* if a ?+o syllable is a capital letter, a corresponding ?+a is its lovercase version
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* none of the lowercase toki pona characters should used
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At the end, it completely used up all of the remaining lowercase and uppercase
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letters of the Latin alphabet, with the exception of V, as well as a few
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numbers. Which in turn made me think: how would it look as a keyboard layout?
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<pre>
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┬────┬────┬────┬────┬────┬────┬────┬────┬────┬────┬────┬────┬──────
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│ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │
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│ wa │ tu │ mu │ 4 │ lu │ 6 │ 7 │ 8 │ 9 │ 0 │ - │ = │ Back
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┴──┬─┴──┬─┴──┬─┴──┬─┴──┬─┴──┬─┴──┬─┴──┬─┴──┬─┴──┬─┴──┬─┴──┬─┴──┬───
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|<│ ku │ we │ je │ lo │ te │ nu │ ju │ mi │ jo │ pe │ { │ } │
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|>│ ki │ w │ e │ la │ t │ ni │ u │ i │ o │ p │ [ │ ] │
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───┴──┬─┴──┬─┴──┬─┴──┬─┴──┬─┴──┬─┴──┬─┴──┬─┴──┬─┴──┬─┴──┬─┴──┬─┴──┬
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Caps │ ja │ se │ to │ po │ ko │ no │ li │ ke │ le │ : │ " │ │ │
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Lock │ a │ s │ ta │ pa │ ka │ na │ j │ k │ l │ ; │ ' │ \ │
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──────┴──┬─┴──┬─┴──┬─┴──┬─┴──┬─┴──┬─┴──┬─┴──┬─┴──┬─┴──┬─┴──┬─┴────┴─
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│ so │ mo │ su │ lu │ pu │ ne │ me │ < │ > │ ? │
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Shift ^ │ sa │ ma │ si │ wi │ pi │ n │ m │ , │ . │ / │ Shift ^
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─────────┴────┴────┴────┴────┴────┴────┴────┴────┴────┴────┴────────
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</pre>
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(In this version, uppercase V is also used for "lu". After all, V is the Roman
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numeral for 5, and V is an easier key to reach than 5.)
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# toki pona smartphone keyboard layout
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Of course, on smartphones, everything is much easier. You can use whatever
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layout you want. Here's an Android-style virtual keyboard, modified to only
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include characters needed in toki pona (the ones shown on the upper part are the
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characters shown when holding the corresponding key down):
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<pre>
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┌────┬────┬────┬────┬────┬────┬────┐
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│VF │? │D │' │" │:; │BH │
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│ w │ e │ t │ u │ i │ o │ p │
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┌────├────┼────┼────┼────┼────┼────┼────┤────┐
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│ │!@ │CXZ │# │-+$ │Y │GQ │R │Back│
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│Shft│ a │ s │ n │ m │ j │ k │ l │ <- │
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└────└────┴────┴────┴────┴────┴────┴────┘────┘
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│ # │ │ │ │ │
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│ 123 │ , │ t o k i p o n a │ . │ │
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└──────┴────┴────────────────────┴────┴──────┘
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</pre>
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