Sitelen Emoji (🖼❤)

Sitelen Emoji, also known as sitelen pilin in Toki Pona, was compiled from earlier attempts of making an emoji script for Toki Pona in June 2019. From there, a democratic system to choose emojis was set up, and various tools to type in this script on computers were developed.

As of May 2020, there is an android pinyin style keyboard and desktop extensions for Windows, MacOS and Linux. There is an iOS app that is available to build from source, but it is not on the app store.

Notable features

Type of writing system: logographic
Direction of writing: left to right in horizontal lines
Used to write: Toki Pona

Sitelen Emoji

Download an alphabet chart for Sitelen Emoji (Excel)

Notes

There are two punctuation glyphs, ➖️ for a period (full stop) and ➗️ for a colon. Note that for aesthetic reasons a new line is often used to end a sentence.
For proper names, the 🔣 character is used to enclose a phonetic spelling of it, similar to the sitelen pona cartouche.
For example: jan Sonja = 👤🔣🎁👋👇👤❗️🔣, which literally transliterates to jan _ sin o ni jan a _, but the words between the 🔣 character spell out the word in it, to read jan Sonja.
Due to convenience, it is not uncommon to see people online using latin for names (like 👤Sonja). While this is not recommended, it is generally accepted in the community.
In addition to these words that occur in Sonja Lang's book (pu), there are 12 words that have official emoji: apeja 😢, kin ❕, kipisi ✂️, leko 🧱, linluwi 🌐, majuna 👵, monsuta 👹, namako 🧂, oko 👁️, pake 🚧, powe 🧞 and tonsi ♐

Sample text

👤 ♾️ ▶️ 🚶 📍 🛣 👇➗️ 👆 ▶️ 💪 ↪️ ▶️ 💪 ✊️➖️
👤 ♾️ ▶️ 🚶 📍 ⚖️➖️
👤 ♾️ ▶️ 👜 ⏩️ 💪 ⏹️ ❤️ 🐘➖️
👤 ♾️ ▶️ 💪 ✊️ ⏩️ 💭 👍 👆➖️
👤 ♾️ ▶️ 💭 ✊️ 🔧 🛣 👇➗️ 👆 ▶️ 👤 👍 ↪️ 👤 🔀➖️

Transliteration

jan ali li kama lon nasin ni: ona li ken tawa li ken pali. jan ali li kama lon sama. jan ali li jo e ken pi pilin suli. jan ali li ken pali e wile pona ona. jan ali li wile pali kepeken nasin ni: ona li jan pona tawa jan ante.

Translation

All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.
(Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights)

Links

Websites about Sitelen Emoji
https://sites.google.com/view/sitelenemoji
https://www.reddit.com/r/sitelenEmoji/

Another way to write Toki Pona with emoji
https://github.com/holtzermann17/toki-pona-emoji/blob/master/word_list.md

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