i wanted to make my own conlang based on a minimal script (essentially this without the w/j and other small things), but meh it's too ambitious to create an entire conlang from scratch and i keep procrastinating on doing it anyway

i remember having found toki pona in the past but didnt really care to learn it... however upon refinding it when making this script i decided i should try learning it since it seems interesting and similar to what i wanted to do anyway...

so i started learning ~week ago and i adapted it for tokipona... also later i realized it can also be represented through braile which is even more epic

there was 2 main goals for this script: as small as possible and readable.

(i think?) this is an abugida, and 6 pixels gives 2^6=64 options for syllables, enough for tokipona's ~50 syllables (where 'n' is seperate)

vowels and consonants alternating helps with predicablity, and 5 vowels is within 2^3, so they're on their own line of 3px

for readability, i chose based on frequency for the script to be left as much as possible, so only 'u' (least common vowel) isn't left

the other 3px line 2^3=8 isn't enough for the 10 consonants (including empty for vowels)

so i chose for j- and w- to be the weird consonants (with vowels on the first line instead of second) bc theyre the least common