o kama sona e sitelen telo

sitelen telo has an 'abugida-type syllabary', a way of writing individual syllables.
each character is composed of a consonant and a vowel, as listed in the table below.
there's also a special coda/final N character. (& all linja sin is typed in upper case)
familiarise yourself with this system through practice as we will use it to name every word.

sitelen telo li jo e nasin pi kalama sitelen. nasin ni li linja sin.
sitelen pi linja sin li jo e kipisi tu ni: sitelen pi kalama kon en sitelen pi kalama kiwen.
sitelen kipisi li lon lipu anpa. o kama sona e nasin pi linja sin. mi sitelen e nimi kepeken ni.

Try transcribing/copying the following:
o sitelen sama e ni:

Let's start by learning the grammatical words/particles, as this will soon allow us to construct sentences.
also because we're following the introductory pdf and these are what's first :p
nanpa wan la o kama sona e nimi toki pi ijo lon ala

Transcribe the following:
o sitelen sama e ni:

Now lets learn some words to do with people! ^-^
sina pona mute a. o kama sona e nimi jan

now lets learn some others
o kama sona e nimi ante sama sitelen jan

putting them together
utala musi ni li jo e nimi tan utala musi sewi tu

you should now be able to read these sentences:
sina ken sona e toki ni:

• sina li pata mi li jan [SONJA] ala a
• apeja li mi. apeja li mi.
• mi unpa ala
• mi la jan majuna li musi

combining every word we've learnt so far...
nimi ale sona li lon utala musi anpa

words for body parts
these characters are abstract representations of the actual parts
nimi pi ijo sijelo. sitelen ni li lukin sama ijo lon li pona

adding two lines typically turns the word into an action (eg. mouth -> talk)
sitelen nimi en linja tu li nimi pali sama. sitelen pi nimi uta en linja tu li sitelen pi nimi toki

combined with the previous section,,
nimi ni en nimi pi ijo sijelo li lon utala musi anpa

these characters are based on luka luka
sitelen ni li tan sitelen luka luka

you should now be able to read these sentences:
sina ken sona e toki ni:

• sina jo ala jo e ilo utala
• toki majuna la lukin li oko
• jan li moku kepeken uta ona
• pilin pi luka mi li ala

the 'container' words are based off of uta with a lid
nimi poki li tan sitelen poki. sitelen ni li supa lon uta

toki pona a

Let's test all the words sourced from body parts
utala musi anpa li jo e nimi ale tan sitelen pi ijo sijelo

Well done! You've learnt 51 words!
You're doing great!
sina li sona e nimi mute mute luka luka wan
pona a. olin tawa sina

here are the words based on sijelo
nimi ni li tan sitelen sijelo sijelo

you should now be able to read these sentences:
sina ken sona e toki ni:

• mi kama e nasin sin
• sina ken pona e toki lawa sina pi pilin olin kepeken nasin kule
• poki li lon supa
• jan li ken moku tan lupa poki suli li luka e poki kepeken lupa poki lili taso

collating the previous few
utala musi anpa ni li jo e sitelen mute ??

the first of the traditional element types, water is represented as telo. Which can combine with these previously shown words
nimi ni li sama sitelen telo telo li tan sitelen anpa ni pi sona pini

fire is represented as seli
nimi ni li tan sitelen seli telo

air is represented as kon
nimi ni li tan sitelen kon kon

and earth is represented as ma
nimi ni li tan sitelen ma ma

combining each element in the next test:
tan sitelen pi utala musi anpa ni li telo li seli li kon li ma

these words metaphorically and visually 'shelter' other characters
nimi ni li len tomo e nimi ante pi sona pini

these words metaphorically and visually 'shelter' other characters
nimi ni li len tomo e nimi ante pi sona pini

sina ken sona e toki ni:

• mama sina li pilin e ike anu pona
• jan sona li pana e sona nimi tawa lawa pi jan lili lon tomo sona
• pali mi li pini lon tenpo ni
• mi wile lape
• lape seli lili linja

sina sona suli e sitelen telo

o pona tawa sina

o kama sona e sitelen pi nimi kule
sitelen ni li tan sitelen oko en sitelen ante lon anpa

sitelen pi nimi nanpa li seme
ni li kulupu pini pi sitelen lon

tokipona

ni li sitelen musi
these are the joke words
ni li sitelen musi

ni li sitelen wan tan nimi mute
these characters are shorthand combinations of multiple glyphs
ni li sitelen wan tan nimi mute