sitelen linja

[fiery trout]

Look in pinned messages for the updated orthography. The image below has a couple mistakes.

Today, I designed a syllabic writing system. The goal was to have the least amount of unique shapes possible: The combination of these simple shapes would form the letters. That would have been too plain, so I opted in for having extra symbols for the vowels.

Since there were only nine consonants, I could use two shapes from a pool of three. This makes sure every shape combo gets a consonant, and I'm quite proud of it.

I tried to assign the first shapes based on how the syllables sounded: Triangle was for more "pointy" sounding consonants, like p and t.

For the vowels, I decided that instead of treating it like a separate letter, it would be a necessity over a consonant. This is what gives the sitelen it's linja name; There's a lot of curves.

Thinking I should swap p and k around; k sounds like it deserves both triangles

[versed dirge]

a nasin sitelen ni li pona

[wild rain]

lon

[fiery trout]

The new chart

and a new logo to reflect these changes + fixing some mistakes

[fiery trout]

mi mu mute

[radiant walrus]

lon a

[fiery trout]

the mu syllable is kind of cute

[radiant walrus]

IKR??!

Is this correct? /genuine

[fiery trout]

o
ijipin*

Get rid of the left-most line next to ji and it should be your intended message

o*

[radiant walrus]

“o isipin”

[fiery trout]

oh

you're using the old chart

[fiery trout]

this is the new one

[radiant walrus]

?

I thought that’s what I was using

[fiery trout]

circle, circle makes j

circle circle makes s in the old chart

[radiant walrus]

Oh shoot

How’d I miss that?!

I must’ve been jumping back and forth for vowels and consonants

It’s be easier to see if they were both in the same image (if that isn’t too much trouble?)

And pinned if a mod could do that?

[fiery trout]

I can do that once Im on my computer again

and sure ill ping a mod

[radiant walrus]

Cyol

No rush

[radiant walrus]

Sweet!!

[fiery trout]

hey @inner garden could you pin this message?

this is my thread for a writing system i made

[fiery trout]

sina pona

[fiery trout]

mi ken kepeken sitelen epiku ni a

[radiant walrus]

lon a! ni li toki mi

[boreal venture]

@fiery trout how would you do “ilo” or “Inli”?

[fiery trout]

ilo and inli respectively

[boreal venture]

You wouldn’t put the curve for “o” underneath the symbols for “l”?

[fiery trout]

you could and that's completely valid and understandable

[boreal venture]

But if it was a font on a computer what would be the standard way?

[fiery trout]

on top

that's what i do

[boreal venture]

Ok

And do you usually make the line for “i” go higher and lower than the consonant symbols or is it usually about the same height?

[fiery trout]

higher

i like to think of it as a dividing wall

[boreal venture]

And the -n dot normally goes on top of the “i” and at the end of the curve for the other vowels?

[fiery trout]

yes

[boreal venture]

Cool

You could possibly put it on top of the line that crosses the curve for “e” and “u”

[fiery trout]

Could you draw an example of what you're saying?

[boreal venture]

len mun

[fiery trout]

Yes, that's also valid

but you're l is backwards

it should be circle square

[boreal venture]

Ah! Usually tables are read as row then column

That may end up being a common mistake since yours is column then row

[fiery trout]

Official chart as of October 7th 2023

[boreal venture]

Haha that’s what I was about to suggest!

Yes 😊

[fiery trout]

When Scrabble comes back online I'll tell her to replace the pin

[boreal venture]

In that case change your text “would this help?” to “Official version as of 2023-10-07” or something like that 😁 so it’s not out of context once it’s pinned

Here’s what I was thinking

[radiant walrus]

) △ △
) ○ △

) △ ( □
) □ ( △

(A possible sideways writing form of it 😅)

[boreal venture]

In toki pona you need at least one punctuation symbol; would it just be a bullet point in this script? Like •

[radiant walrus]

I think spaces and line breaks between works okay personally

[boreal venture]

Have you tried using the combining overline diacritics?

[radiant walrus]

Are you asking me? /genuine

[boreal venture]

Yeah! Sorry I was trying to find it

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tie_(typography)

The “ligature tie” sub-heading has some Unicode references

I feel like there isn’t gonna be one that’s crossed off though for e and u

[boreal venture]

Is this a bridge too far? Haha

And what about this for “pan lon”

[fiery trout]

One of my earlier drafts put the -n sound inside one of the shapes

[boreal venture]

Ooh

[fiery trout]

@inner garden could you replace the pin with this

[fiery trout]

new nasin just dropped

more compact than before

('sitelen linja')

the other, 'extended' version can be used in conjunction with this version, you can codeswitch

[wild rain]

||new response just dropped||

[stone plover]

mi lukin open e linja ni la mi sitelen insa e nasin ni.

ni li pona. ni kepeken ma lili

[bronze halo]

I'm just waiting for sitelen li nja

[radiant walrus]

Does that work?

I guess it could also be interpreted as jan but

Alternatively:

[fiery trout]

ni li musu?

[fiery trout]

jan were meant to nja. this is canon there is no distinction

[radiant walrus]

My bad, I was super tired at the time and forgot to draw a line through the last one for “si”

[fiery trout]

I'm bringing this writing system back as the icon for a server I'm making ;0

The abstract shapes and lines gives me a cyberpunk feel which I really like