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Pre-Release Notes on the su Style of sitelen pona


lipu su is an upcoming 2024 book printed almost entirely in the sitelen pona writing system, using a modified version of the nasin-nanpa font. lipu su will be part of the Official Toki Pona book series produced and published by Sonja Lang, creator of Toki Pona and sitelen pona.

Some details of the su style of sitelen pona include:

four-legged akesi as default (six-legged pu-style akesi not used)

sources:

  • akesi li suwi!” update from Toki Pona Dictionary (lipu ku) p. 13
  • Tokipono: La lingvo de bono (Esperanto Edition) (pu Epelanto)
jasima
lanpan
sunset or lotus majuna as default (upside-down sin glyph not used)
mute (when is meaning is many, much, very, quantity, three)
mute (when meaning is twenty)
pepper namako as default (four-line sin-derived glyph not used)
sewi (when meaning is divine, sacred, God)
sewi (when meaning is upper, top, high, sky, above)
su

As always, books in the Official Toki Pona series are not prescriptive. They reflect the preferred style of the language creator at the time of publication. Subsequent books also provide minor updates to previous books of the same series.

  • “This is the way I use Toki Pona.” (lipu pu p. 7)
  • “Decide your style of Toki Pona for yourself.” (lipu ku p. 23)


Sonja Lang
2024-01-06