Language tools make a language usable across more than one format. In the ABVX catalogue, the work spans AI-assisted translation, sitelen pona display, visual communication and experiments with emoji-based representation. These projects treat language as a system of choices and conventions, not only a list of translated words.
The Toki Pona Toolkit brings together translation, sitelen pona and emoji rendering work with reusable packages and manuscript quality checks. The sitelen-layer-plugin supports switching Toki Pona content among Latin script, sitelen pona and emoji modes. Pictiq explores a minimal visual protocol built from icon tiles and composition rules, while sitelen-emoji records an evolving Toki Pona-to-emoji mapping and helper library.
Translation is reconstruction
A sentence from a language with a large vocabulary may need to be reorganized before it can be expressed in a deliberately small language. Meaning depends on context and relationships among ideas; a literal dictionary substitution can lose the point. Translation tools can help draft or render alternatives, but choices still need review against the intended meaning and the conventions of the project.
Protocols support consistency
Visual languages and writing systems need decisions about vocabulary, composition and ambiguity. A protocol records enough of those choices for books, websites and software to use them consistently. It does not declare one approach universally correct, and it can evolve when a change is documented.
This distinction matters in experimental work: a prototype can show a possible approach without claiming a settled standard. Explore the individual project pages to see the scope of each tool, protocol and language experiment.