The Global Registry is a public dictionary. Each concept receives a permanent number, while every language keeps its own wording. This page shows the current registry and explains how to contribute, download a copy, and use it.
"Allergy" and "alergia" are the same idea wearing two languages. Underneath, the registry gives that one idea one permanent number.
When a word is anchored to a number, anything written with it can change languages without changing meaning. A form filled out in Spanish can print in English for an English-speaking doctor. The form's fields were numbers all along, and the speakers of each language had already agreed on their own words for them, out loud, in advance. No software guessed at a translation in the moment.
Two rules preserve the record. Numbers are never reused or deleted: a wrong term is retired with a pointer to its replacement, the way a repealed law stays on the books. And you will never be shown a number. People see words in their own language; the numbers support the tools underneath. A zeroth language comes before words: a small set of drawn symbols for moments when reading is too much.
This is the entire registry as of July 17, 2026. Nine terms, young on purpose: each one was pulled from pages and papers this project has already shipped, so every term has a real sentence using it somewhere. Rows are terms; columns are languages; the third column is an open seat.
| # | L1 · English | L2 · español | L3 · (being chosen) |
|---|---|---|---|
| K-100001 | personal archive 📋 | archivo personal 📋 | — |
| K-100002 | magnesium 📋 | magnesio 📋 | — |
| K-100003 | consent 📋 | consentimiento 📋 | — |
| K-100004 | caregiver 📋 | cuidador / cuidadora 📋 | — |
| K-100005 | lease 📋 | contrato de alquiler 📋 | — |
| K-100006 | power of attorney 📋 † | poder notarial 📋 † | — |
| K-100007 | allergy 📋 | alergia 📋 | — |
| K-100008 | medical records 📋 | expediente médico 📋 | — |
| K-100009 | manganese 📋 | manganeso 📋 | — |
9 terms × 2 active languages = 18 renderings: 0 ✅ verified · 18 📋 drafted · 0 ⚠️ machine. The verification ledger is empty. We show it as it is.
Verified. A named native-speaking professional read this rendering aloud, fixed what a real person wouldn't say, and signed it: name, credential, date. The signature is public and permanent.
Drafted. Written carefully, by a competent human or a strong AI model, but no native speaker has signed it yet. Usable, and labeled so you know exactly how much weight it can hold.
Machine. Raw machine translation. If one of these ever appears, it appears with this warning attached. It is never dressed up as more than it is.
A gap. A language that doesn't have this term yet. We show gaps. A visible gap is a job someone can fund or fill.
And the small dagger (†): it marks a term carrying a culture warning, a note that protects people. The one in the table above is the famous example: in much of Latin America a notario is a high-standing legal professional; in the United States a notary public emphatically is not. People have been exploited in the space between those two meanings. The registry writes that warning into the term itself, in both languages, so no tool built on it can quietly drop the caution.
Languages get the same discipline as terms: each is a numbered column (L1 is English, L2 is Spanish), and column numbers are never reused and carry no rank. L1 is simply the first column that was registered. Nobody has to wait for the whole registry to be translated before adding a language: the column is registered once, then filled term by term, gap by visible gap.
The third column is an open decision, being chosen now, by the founder, based on where this project's people actually live. When it's assigned, this page will say so, dated.
One more thing about the columns: a language is half of what makes a place a place. The other half is its laws, and this project pays a country's law the same respect it pays a country's words: learned, cited, verified by named people who live under it, never ranked against anyone else's. That story has its own page: Your records live where you live.
The registry is built one signature at a time. The most valuable contribution is also the smallest:
Verify a rendering (fifteen minutes, if you're bilingual). Pick a term in a language you live in. Read it aloud. Fix anything a real person wouldn't say. Check that a child in early grade school could follow the definition. Then sign it: your name, your credential, the date. The mark flips from 📋 to ✅ with your name in the public ledger. That's it. That's the whole job, and it's the engine of everything here.
Propose a term. "I don't have a word for this" is a contribution. A proposed term gets a provisional number while it's discussed; acceptance gives it a permanent one.
Flag a problem. "That word is wrong where I live" is a contribution too: tell us the term and the place. Language is local; we built the registry to record that.
Fund a language. A whole column, for a community you belong to or serve, is a fundable piece of work: drafting by AI, verification by paid native-speaking professionals, released free to everyone, forever.
Today, all four doors are the same door: on the main site, Write to us → "feedback," and say which of the four you mean. When the registry's public repository opens (see below), contributions will flow through it directly, with the same rule either way: every rendering carries its verifier's name and date, forever.
Planning something bigger than a flag? The contributor's guide lays the whole thing out the way good open-source projects do: the file layout, the exact steps for each kind of contribution, the rules that don't bend, and how signing works (every contribution is signed; every verification is signed twice over).
The registry is meant to leave this page. Both buttons work right here in your browser, from the table you just read: nothing is sent anywhere, no account, no email, nothing to sign up for.
The CSV opens in any spreadsheet and matches, column for column, the file our own working folder generates. The JSON carries the same nine terms with their numbers, statuses, and (empty, for now) verification fields: the real data, including the marks on what's unverified.
What you're downloading is a snapshot of a nine-term registry with nothing verified yet. It's real, it's exactly what we have, and it's young. The registry's permanent public home (a repository where every term file, every signature, and every change lives in the open) is planned and not yet live. When it opens, that becomes the canonical way to download and follow the registry, and this page will link it, dated.
Two things are true at once, and we refuse to blur them:
The registry is open knowledge. The intention, written into this project's charter thinking from the start: free for every person, forever, downloadable whole by anyone, gaps shown, every verification signed and public, no paywall on words. The entire point of a shared dictionary is that every tool, ours or anyone's, can speak the same words to the people it serves.
Which license text gets attached is a real choice with real consequences, and it's being made carefully with counsel: a no-strings public-domain dedication (the most frictionless), an attribution license (reuse freely, name the source), or terms that stay free for people while asking large commercial users to help sustain the upkeep. Verified words cost real money (paid native-speaking professionals), and the choice of instrument decides who carries that cost.
Until an instrument is attached, no license exists here yet, and we won't pretend otherwise. The paragraphs above are a promise of direction. They are not yet a grant you could rely on. If you want to build the registry into something of your own, wait for the license line on this page to change, or write to us through the main site first. When the license is chosen, it will appear here, dated, and it will apply to everything above.
Written July 17, 2026, the day the registry's global table went live in our working system. Nine terms, English and Spanish, all drafted, none yet verified — the first signature will be the founder's, and the ledger will show it. The third language column is reserved and unassigned. The public repository is planned and not yet live. The license is still being decided. The Spanish edition of this page is pending.
This page will say so, dated, when any of that changes. Same as every page here.
See a problem, or something that worries you? On the main site: Write to us → "feedback," or Write to us → "security" for good-faith lock-testing: welcomed, credited, and protected by a safe harbor written into our Terms, §15.
Bilingual, and have fifteen minutes? Read the "How you can help" section above: the first verification signature in this registry's history is still unclaimed by anyone but the founder.
Just following along? The "New in this place" board on the home page announces every change, dated.