Readings in Toki Pona

Here you can find study materials for the Toki Pona constructed language with an emphasis on reading the Toki Pona hieroglyphic notation sitelen pona. Everything is in PDF files designed to be printed out for offline study. - jan Suno

Basics

The section contains basic information about the structure of the Toki Pona language.

• A Graphic Grammar of Toki Pona (PDF 2 pages)
  A brief description of the main points of Toki Pona grammar, in English with examples in sitelen pona.
• A Graphic Dictionary of Toki Pona (PDF 5 pages)
  The words of Toki Pona arranged by what they look like in the sitlen pona script, followed by definitions in English. This is intended to be useful while learning to read texts written in sitelen pona.
• All the symbols on one page (PDF 1 page1)
  Just the glyph table from the Graphic Dictionary with all the words on a single page.

Literature

These are articles or stories translated into Toki Pona by various people and presented as pages that can be printed out and studied offline for reading practice. They are entirely in sitelen pona hieroglyphics without English.

• Einstein on Relativity (PDF 4 pages)
  An article by Albert Einstein explaining the Theory of Relativity in simple terms, translated by jan Tepu.
• Pooh Stories (PDF 7 pages)
  Three episodes from the book Winnie the Pooh by A. A. Milne, translated by jan Tepu.
  Interesting fact: the copyright on the Pooh stories expired on January 1, 2022.
• Dictionary of Toki Pona in just Toki Pona (PDF 6 pages)
  This is jan Tepu's dictionary reformatted to print compactly on paper. The definitions are themselves in Toki Pona.

All formatting was done with the LaTeX family of typesetting programs and using the linja pona font by jan Wesi, jan Same, and jan Tepu. Some of the more complex compound glyphs have been simplified to help beginning readers or those with poor eyesight.