| Sitelen Pona sitelen pona | |
|---|---|
 "sitelen pona" in Sitelen Pona | |
| Script type | Logographic |
| Creator | Sonja Lang |
| Created | c. 2013 |
| Published | 2014 |
| Direction | Left-to-right,right-to-left script, top-to-bottom,mirror writing  |
| Languages | Toki Pona |
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Sitelen Pona(rendered inlowercase assitelen pona,lit. 'good/simple writing',[1]Toki Pona pronunciation:[ˈsitelenˈpona]) is aconstructedlogography used forToki Pona.[2] It was originally designed circa 2013 and published in 2014 by Canadian linguistSonja Lang, the language's creator.[3]
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 2021, Lang declared Sitelen Ponapublic domain.[6]
In 2024, Lang publishedThe Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Toki Pona edition), the first in thesu series of illustratedstorybooks aimed at beginners, in which all Toki Pona text is written insitelen pona.[7] This was the first published book that usedsitelen pona as a primary script.[7][non-primary source needed]
In 2025, around twenty members, including Lang, founded the Sitelen Pona Publishers and Typographers Association to represent the interests of publishers and fontmakers who use the script. The association also collaborated with other groups, including theUnicode Consortium, for the script's technical standardization.[8]
In 2026, the Sitelen Pona Publishers and Typographers Association released the Common Sitelen Pona standard(Toki Pona:sitelen pona kulupu,lit. 'communal good/simple writing'), which defines a set of common-use characters and various methods of encoding them for fonts.[9][non-primary source needed]
Sitelen Pona is typically written left-to-right, top-to-bottom. As a logography, each word is written with a singlegrapheme. Many of the characters are derived fromtranslingual and universalsymbols such aspictograms,road signs,mathematical symbols, andemoticons.[10][11] They have been described as "mostly easy to recognize, quick to remember and simple enough that even a child could draw them."[2][12]
Ahead followed by a singlemodifier (e.g. anoun followed by anadjective) 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
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Names are written by enclosing multiple characters in acartouche shaped like arounded rectangle. Each character inside represents the firstphoneme (or, equivalently, letter) of its word. The specific characters used in a name may be chosen creatively to convey meaning about its subject.[15]
In an alternative system callednasin sitelen kalama, characters inside a cartouche can be followed byinterpuncts or dots, where each interpunct represents the nextmora of the word, and acolon represents all morae of the word.[16]
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Sitelen Ponapunctuation is unstandardized and thus highly variable, asThe Language of Good features only the cartouche.[15] As a result, some texts use no punctuation at all, instead relying on formatting and context.
Sentence boundaries are typically marked with aninterpunct,period,line break, or a widespace.Question marks andexclamation marks are often proscribed due to their similarity to the characters for the wordsseme (.svg)
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Wherequotation marks are used,CJK-style corner brackets (「...」) and double high quotation marks (“...” or "...") are most common.
The original English edition of Lang's bookToki Pona: The Language of Good introduces 120Logographic characters, one for each of the core words taught in the book.
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The 2022 Esperanto edition of the same book (Tokipono: La lingvo de bono) includes alternative ways to write three words.[17]
The same edition presents characters for the 17 additional words spotlighted as "essential" inToki Pona Dictionary (nimi ku suli).[18] 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.[19]
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Notes:
| Sitelen Pona | |
|---|---|
| Range | U+F1900..U+F19FF (256 code points) |
| Plane | SPUA-A |
| Scripts | Sitelen Pona |
| Assigned | 155 code points |
| Unused | 101 reserved code points |
| Source standards | UCSUR |
| Note: Part of thePrivate Use Area, font conflicts possible[20][21] | |
As of January 2026[update], Sitelen Pona has not been encoded intoUnicode. It is included in the unofficialUnder-ConScript Unicode Registry since 2022, at thePrivate Use Area codepoints range U+F1900–U+F19FF.[20][21][22]
| 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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