Toki Pimeja: write and say binary data in Toki Pona
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Toki Pimeja (lit. "obscure speech" in Toki Pona) is an encoding that
incorporates both the robustness of PGP wordlists and versatility of 
Bytewords into the beauty of Toki Pona constructed language. Due to the 
limited vocabulary size, each byte is encoded as two words from a 32-word 
list. For the first nibble (4 bits), the corresponding word is taken from 
the first column, and for the second nibble it's taken from the second one. 
Thus, the byte 5F is "mama wile" but the byte F5 is "weka meli". You can 
also use this encoding to say about really large numbers by converting them 
to hexadecimal first.

The following wordlist restrictions are in place to make the data easily
recognizable and decodable:

- all words must belong to the 137-word essential Toki Pona vocabulary;
- all words are two syllables long;
- all words start with a consonant;
- all words are distinct from each other by their first syllable;
- none of the words must be "luka", "nanpa", "sike" or start with "to" or
"pi" syllables.

Also, thanks to these limitations, one can write shorthand encoding of the
bytes even in a non-TP environment, as the nibble value and its position in 
the byte are fully identified by the first syllable (e.g. F5 will be 
"weme"). This is called the short encoding (toki pimeja lili).

Transmission begins with the words "toki pimeja open" (or "toki pimeja lili
open") and ends with "pini".

The Toki Pimeja wordlist:

0  jaki  jelo
1  kala  kili
2  kule  lape
3  leko  lili
4  loje  lupa
5  mama  meli
6  mije  moku
7  musi  nasa
8  nena  nimi
9  noka  pali
A  pona  sama
B  selo  sina
C  soko  suno
D  taso  telo
E  tomo  wawa
F  weka  wile

Example: 0xDEADBEEF = taso wawa pona telo selo wawa tomo wile, or
"tawapotesewatowi" in the short encoding. The full transmission (oral or 
written form, any writing system allowed) would look like:

toki pimeja open
taso wawa pona telo selo wawa tomo wile
pini

The short transmission (written form, Latin alphabet only) would look like:

toki pimeja lili open tawapotesewatowi pini

This spec was published on Dec 18 2023. No further extensions are expected.

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