Keep the original
The source words, name, sound, sign, picture, or cultural meaning remain available beside any adaptation.
Every language is a doorway
Bring the words
that feel like home.
The system accepts any well-formed language tag instead of limiting people to a short menu. Original words stay visible, translations show how they were made, and nobody has to trade meaning for entry.
One message may need many forms.
Show who helped
Every translation says whether it is original, machine-assisted, a community draft, native-speaker reviewed, subject approved, disputed, or unresolved.
Respect the script
Left-to-right, right-to-left, vertical, bidirectional, complex scripts, braille, captions, transcripts, symbols, and signed pathways belong in the same garden.
Choice follows translation
A new language can reach a new audience. That means translation may require a fresh preview and a fresh choice before something becomes public.
Machine help may open a first doorway. It may not pretend to be trusted human understanding.
Ways people communicate
Language is larger than typed words.
Written and spoken
Original text, translation, audio, pronunciation, transliteration, captions, and transcripts.
Signed and tactile
Signed language, tactile signing, gesture, visual interpretation, and human interpreters.
Symbols and pictures
AAC symbols, pictograms, diagrams, drawings, photographs, and visual schedules with text alternatives.
Plain and detailed
A short plain-language path and a full-detail path may coexist without treating either person as less intelligent.
Numbers and time
Locale-aware display stays beside an unambiguous date, time, amount, and unit when misunderstanding could matter.
Human help
A person may ask for an interpreter, communication partner, cultural reviewer, or trusted guide without surrendering their own voice.
No preloaded list owns the world.
The launch registry includes a broad set of spoken, written, Indigenous, classical, constructed, and signed-language identifiers, but the real rule is larger: a new or uncommon well-formed language tag is accepted, preserved, and marked for review rather than rejected.