z0glyphic 913 · Shitty Productionsbuilt 2026-10-09 · dictionary 744786d3f7fdb4b5

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12,395 words. 142 of them are atoms, the pieces everything else is built from. 685 carry the salvage mark, meaning they were recovered from the old archive rather than coined new. 5728 carry a new mark with the day they were made: those are the words the language coined for itself from Brett's own writing and the books it has read, the most recent on 2026-10-09. 15,247 English words map onto them. Press ▶ to hear a word. Note on the sound: the language is spoken in clicks and only a few atoms carry a distinct one, so different words can sound the same. Of 12,368 recordings, 218 are shared by more than one word, and one sound is used by 2 of them. Hearing two words alike does not mean they are alike.

Every word in this list can be written in the language and read back as the same English word. That is what it takes to be in here: not that it looks convincing, but that it survives the trip out and back without changing.

142 of the entries are atoms, the marks that cannot be broken down any further. Everything else is built by setting those atoms next to each other. The word atom beside an entry is a link to the atom itself.

15,247 English words map onto these 12,395, which is why several English words can come back as one z0glyphic word.

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