* Please note these exceptions to the chart:

tengwa	what the tengwa actually represents	what's in the chart above
·	:	,
~	begins or ends a paragraph	`
	opening quotation mark	'

   Instructions
The vowel signs always come above the consonant which precedes them. For example, the word for plant in Toki Pona is kasi. In tengwar, you can write it . As you can see, the a () which comes after k () in the word has its vowel sign written above the k. Similarly, the i is written above the s.

Some words begin with vowels, however. For example, consider the word akesi. In tengwar you can write it . As you can see, if the vowel does not have a consonant before it, you place the vowel sign on a separate line, which looks like an undotted i.

Sometimes you must use a special symbol to represent the letter n. If the n comes at the end of a syllable (such as in tenpo, sitelen, and anpa) rather than at the beginning (such as in nimi, noka, and pona), you will need to put a special line over the previous consonant (or the previous undotted-i stem) that represents an n. As example, here are the words tenpo, sitelen, and anpa:

To make a sentence, there must be a : at the beginning and end of the sentence. To make a question or use an exclamation mark, simply add their symbols next to the final : of the sentence. To provide examples, below are three sentences in Toki Pona using tengwar. The first is a normal sentence, the second is a question, and the third an exclamation:

 
   Automatic text-to-tengwar conversion
Regular Toki Pona text has to be changed a lot to make the text look right in the TokiTengwar font that you can download at the top of this page. For example, you would have to change the word en to qeN. To save you from having to make all these changes, the tool below can make most of these changes for you.

Type the Toki Pona text that you want to convert into tengwar into the box below. When you're done, hit the Convert button.

   
        Convert

After you hit the Convert button, below you will see your converted text. Copy-paste this text into your word processor, switch its font to TokiTengwar, and your text will now be in Toki Pona tengwar..

Your converted text appears here:

Some notes about the converted text:

The convertor automatically assumes you are writing a sentence. If you want to write just a name or a word, remove the periods that appear at the beginning and end of the phrase. The convertor does not distinguish between open and closed quotation marks. If you want to use quotations in your text, you must manually change the opening quotation mark to '. The convertor does not change : (colon) to , (comma). You will have to make this change yourself.