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This newsletter has more sitelen pona content than expected, so here’s an experiment: The Unicode character ⚂ will show you which items use sitelen pona. Let us know what you think of that!
Group projects
- ⚂ The Sitelen Pona Publishers & Typographers Association made an announcement about their new bilingual website, Common Sitelen Pona, and the ASCII input standard for sitelen pona! The association was formed to support people who use sitelen pona and to formalize consensus for technical standards such as Unicode.
- ma.pona.la, a pin map for toki pona people, has exceeded 1000 pins! It also now comes with place names in toki pona and a globe mode.
- The lipu tenpo team published an April Fool’s issue of the magazine, which includes texts in a variety of uncommon scripts!
Fonts ⚂
- mu Esitense made the pixel font ⚂ sitelen Esi mama, and showcased it as used in a book!
- jan Kilipa made ⚂ sitelen pi lupa ala all with filled-in shapes and the very dynamic ⚂ sitelen ike tan jan Kilipa!
- jan Maku made a geometric pixel font called ⚂ poki mute luka luka tu!
- soko Sensoko made ⚂ sitelen ante Ante with a creative cartouche!
- kon Kilipa adapted nasin nanpa to ⚂ nasin nanpa li pana e sona pi sitelen pona with the word in Latin script underneath as a kind of built-in ruby text!
- jan Erd made a heavy weight font called ⚂ nasin pi jan Erd!
- ijo vivi made ⚂ sitelen suwi pi ijo vivi!
- jan Maku/Makopi made a light weight and very geometric ⚂ leko pi jo e poki ala!
- ko Sosuwa made ⚂ linja suno Lululutuwan as an 18 segmented display version!
- moku Kuki made ⚂ linja nasa tan moku Kuki which is very funky!
- jan Majeka made ⚂ SITELEN PONA IDEOGRAPH SITELENYattimeImadeandMSpaint which includes a walkcycle for tawa and kama!
- kije Enki made a heavy weight font called ⚂ ante lawa tan kije Enki!
Songs
- melkia_bro made an original UTAU song called pakala!
- ilo Telen made a cover of the Digital Circus song The One Who’s Running The Show!
- During the monthly Toki Pona crossover meetup between Ma Toki Pona VR and Projekto Babel, akesi Nu covered of Threw It On The Ground by The Lonely Island!
- jan Kosako made a cover of Subways of Your Mind by Fex!
- Javza Sketcher remixed toki ala by Nardi with the Wii Shop Channel theme!
- jan Nikita made a cover of Крылатые качели by Yevgeny Krylatov!
- moku Sonkekin made a cover of the meme song ⚂ My name is Future Trunks by raditz_fanxssj!
- tonsi Natali made a cover of the Portal 2 song Want You Gone!
- jan Ke Tami made a cover of ⚂ Erlkönig by Johann Friedrich Reichardt!
- jan Nikita made a cover of Земля в иллюминаторе by Zemlyane!
- nja Alila made a cover of Panurge by Dominique Grange!
Games
- jan Jopa played Ori and the Will of the Wisps!
- sitelen Kosin ⚂ made a game in which balls battle each other!
- jan Eli is translating ⚂ Puyo Pop Fever!
Reading
- jan Pikesike continued translating the manga Bocchi The Rock ⚂ up to chapter 17!
- ma Pusa continued translating the manga Shimeji Simulation ⚂ up to chapter 8!
- TanoNeko wrote a story inspired by Japanese legends!
- meli Pukalin ⚂ wrote poetry and ⚂ then woodburned poetry!
Graphics
- nimi Elemenopi made ⚂ a new parody illustration of a Wheezer album!
- soweli kijetesantakalu makes ⚂ soweli or kijetesantakalu drawings for toki pona words!
- b0x1 animated the concepts of the words ⚂ a and ⚂ akesi!
- jan Kesi continues to animate all sitelen pona characters ⚂ up to “ilo”!
Resources
- jan Opela finished making a course based on an Esperanto story! You can now also watch the story in full: part 1, part 2 - note that the all the visuals and the voices are AI generated, even though the course was written and proofread by people; so you might also be interested in the story without any AI involvement: It is available as a free eBook, or as a free eBook ⚂ in sitelen pona.
- ⚂ With the addition of Italian and Tagalog, the learning website Wasona is now translated to 14 languages!
- u/Striking_Low_50202 created an Apple shortcut for Linku and Kemeka!
Videos in toki pona
- As an April Fool’s joke, mun Kekan San made an English lesson in toki pona!
- jan Polijan ⚂ vlogged about cold baths!
- jan Ano talked about going to the Board Game Business Expo in Japan!
- poni Kita talked about Archipelago!
- len Ke Tami talked about using a ⚂ weird naming system!
- mun Kekan San explained Pittsburgh’s tradition of placing parking chairs in winter!
About toki pona
- Conlang Adventure is a free virtual event about conlangs on April 25-26. There will be at least one toki pona presentation!
- jan Okan went on a podcast and talked about toki pona, Esperanto and learning languages!
- Ozhan Ozturk talked about conlangs including toki pona!
- Want to watch someone discover toki pona? Here’s a VTuber learning toki pona and ⚂ sitelen pona!
So, what do you think? Should we keep adding ⚂ to sitelen pona entries? Should we drop it? Contact us and always feel free to tell us about content we might otherwise miss!
— jan Ke Tami