Proposal by Rebecca Bettencourt, 2024-04-11
Sitelen Pona is a logographic writing system used to write the constructed language Toki Pona. Both the language and the script were created by Sonja Lang and are documented in her book, Toki Pona: The Language of Good.
In Sitelen Pona, a radical is a recurring graphical component across multiple glyphs. The radical-based analysis was invented after the initial set of glyphs was published in Toki Pona: The Language of Good. Some of these elements were clearly intended, such as the emitters initially representing pana-like concepts, the triangle shape representing colors, and the incorporation of luka (the hand radical) representing manual actions. Other proposed radicals may be coincidental or questionably meaningful, such as acknowledgments of shared glyph "etymologies". For example, markers of non-declarative sentences have been analyzed as having a punctuation stem radical, but perhaps it is more direct to say that these glyphs are each based on Latin punctuation.
This set of radicals is based on the list from sona pona as well as the Wakalito input method for Sitelen Pona.
“Radicals.” sona pona. <https://sona.pona.la/wiki/Radicals>. Retrieved 2024-04-11.
“Wakalito.” sona pona. <https://sona.pona.la/wiki/Wakalito>. Retrieved 2024-04-11.
F1C80 SITELEN PONA RADICAL ARROW F1C81 SITELEN PONA RADICAL ARROWHEAD F1C82 SITELEN PONA RADICAL LEFTWARDS OR DOWNWARDS ARROWHEAD F1C83 SITELEN PONA RADICAL UPWARDS OR RIGHTWARDS ARROWHEAD F1C84 SITELEN PONA RADICAL CLOSED BOX F1C85 SITELEN PONA RADICAL OPEN BOX F1C86 SITELEN PONA RADICAL LEFT OPEN BOX F1C87 SITELEN PONA RADICAL RIGHT OPEN BOX F1C88 SITELEN PONA RADICAL CIRCLE F1C89 SITELEN PONA RADICAL SEMICIRCLE F1C8A SITELEN PONA RADICAL CROSS F1C8B SITELEN PONA RADICAL DOT F1C8C SITELEN PONA RADICAL DOUBLE DOT F1C8D SITELEN PONA RADICAL EMITTERS F1C8E SITELEN PONA RADICAL BOX OR CROSSHAIR F1C8F SITELEN PONA RADICAL HAMMER F1C90 SITELEN PONA RADICAL HAND F1C91 SITELEN PONA RADICAL POINTING HAND F1C92 SITELEN PONA RADICAL HEART F1C93 SITELEN PONA RADICAL FROWNING MOUTH F1C94 SITELEN PONA RADICAL SMILING MOUTH F1C95 SITELEN PONA RADICAL OPEN MOUTH F1C96 SITELEN PONA RADICAL OPEN TRIANGLE F1C97 SITELEN PONA RADICAL CLOSED TRIANGLE F1C98 SITELEN PONA RADICAL WAVY LINE F1C99 SITELEN PONA RADICAL VERTICAL LINE F1C9A SITELEN PONA RADICAL HORIZONTAL LINE F1C9B SITELEN PONA RADICAL EXCLAMATION LINE F1C9C SITELEN PONA RADICAL COMMA F1C9D (This position shall not be used) F1C9E (This position shall not be used) F1C9F (This position shall not be used) |