Open protocol · spec v0.3 · canon v15

Unicode for meaning.

NeuroGlyph is a semantic substrate for human ↔ machine communication. Sixty-five universal atoms of meaning — the same graph in any language, for any agent. The words you see are just a render.

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65
semantic atoms
12
cultural macros
1
graph per meaning
languages render
The problem

Words travel. Meaning drifts.

Every translation is a negotiation. Four hops and the sentence is intact — while the image, the colour, the specific ache have quietly disappeared.

drift 0
English
“He’s feeling blue today.”
+1
Русский
«Он сегодня грустит.»
+2
中文
「他今天心情很沉重。」
+3
Deutsch
“Ihm geht es heute nicht gut.”
meaning preserved
meaning lost

The colour, the image, the weight of the mood — gone. Only the gist survives.

ŋ
one glyph graph
English
feeling blue
Русский
грустит
中文
沉重
Deutsch
nicht gut

NeuroGlyph carries the meaning once. Every language is a render, not a translation.

The vocabulary

Sixty-five primes. Everything decomposes.

After fifty years of cross-linguistic research, a universal inventory of semantic atoms has been identified — meanings that every human language encodes and that cannot be defined any further. Every idea, in any language, is a combination of these 65 atoms. (Chart of NSM Semantic Primes v15)

Hover an atom to see it render. Core atoms already carry RU / EN / ZH — the rest arrive with the full lexicon.

How it works

One graph. Any language.

The meaning is parsed into a language-neutral graph of primes. The words you read are a render — a font for meaning, applied at the last step.

01 · source
“I want this.”
a sentence in any human language
02 · parse
IWANTTHIS
semantic parsing into universal concepts — the words of the source are not carried over
03 · glyph graph
Arg0 Arg1 WANT I THIS
one graph, identical in every language
04 · render
я хочу этоI want thisこれが欲しい
the graph renders into any language — losslessly, in any direction
The demo

Watch meaning travel.

Four real phrases, encoded into glyph graphs by the tracer. Click one, render it into another language — the meaning does not change.

macro (compositional alias) prime coreference
The stack

From source to screen.

A message in NeuroGlyph is a small stack — each layer adds one kind of information, from what was meant to how it is shown.

L0
Source meaning
what was actually meant, before words
L1
Semantic graph
concepts and their relations
L2
Features
diacritics — tone, power, aspect, evidentials
L3
Pragmatics
intent and mode: assert, request, emote…
L4
Envelope
sender, channel, context
L5
Provenance
where the message came from
L6
Render
the words your language shows
L7
Visual
glyphs your eye can read at a glance
Open

Built in the open.

The schema, the registry and the grammar are free and versioned. NeuroGlyph is a public good — a protocol, not a product.