the BlanguageDOCK — every language a first-class passenger

WHY A DOCK, NOT A LOCALE LIST

	traditional i18n	BlanguageDOCK
locales	a product decision	a language docks itself — no gatekeeper decides worthiness
strings	en first, the rest are translation tasks	records with parents: who, when, which sweep passed
absence	silent fallback to English, unmarked	absent renders as absent — machine renders as machine, labeled
removal	an editor deletes a file	withdrawal with a receipt; history chain-anchored — the dock forgets nothing, it honors withdrawals
improvement	a release cycle	standing sweeps + git deliberation; forks are dissent

spec: DESIGN-BRIEF-04 — the Claude Design handoff ships at the alpha→beta transition, by founder order.

THE CONSENT LAYER — measurement, never decoration

the sibling of BiGen's integrity layer, with the same symmetry law: consent blocks apply to English, to our own hub strings, to a fluent elder and to a machine draft — identically. the failure mode this layer exists to prevent is appropriation theater: a warm veneer over heritage extraction. anchored in CARE — Carroll et al. 2020, Data Science Journal (Collective benefit · Authority to control · Responsibility · Ethics, GIDA) and UNDRIP Articles 13–14. where CARE and permissionless docking tension, this surface shows the tension; it does not resolve it silently.

consent:
  contributor:         git identity | persona nullifier — never the bzDiD root
                       (DisclosureMode per binding — BRIEF-04 §1, the attestation seam)
  community_attested:  true | false | not_sought   # a speaker/community of the language vouches
  provenance:          how the text came to be
  withdrawal:
    status:            none | withdrawn            # any contributor may withdraw THEIR OWN — permissionless
    effective:         YYYY-MM-DD                 # no one may remove another's, or the history
    history:           preserved, chain-anchored   # the dock forgets nothing; it honors withdrawals
  machine_generated:   true | false                # if true, renders LABELED — never silently

three negative controls: the consent block rendering softer on our own material → fail · a withdrawn string still rendering → fail · a withdrawal erasing history → also fail · a machine-drafted string rendering unlabeled → fail. (machine is never silent about being machine — the unmeasured-never-zero law, translated.)

THE DOCK — seed register, every status source-linked

vitality categories cite the UNESCO Atlas record (2010, Moseley ed.) and its methodology Language Vitality and Endangerment, 2003; the successor platform is the World Atlas of Languages. codes link ISO 639-3; a language with no code renders "no code — a finding, not a blank". English is the control specimen: ours, no special treatment. العربية is the first RTL member — direction goes load-bearing (D-13, tokens.css --flow/--hatch); its cells render dir=rtl natively, never as a mirrored afterthought. and the day's unification, recorded where both registers cite it: money is any language that expresses value — a currency docks for a jurisdiction the way a father tongue docks for a speech community, and the pointer principle holds: a currency rendering never owns the value it expresses (gate T-8: the EU/EUR/VAT lane).

the control specimen — English · eng · consent flags apply identically

community_attested
not_sought — rendered, not hidden

machine_generated
true (baseline authored by the hive, not a community of speakers)

withdrawal
none · provenance: this repo

vitality
safe — and irrelevant to its standing in the dock

if the consent block looks like a formality here, it is wrong everywhere (BRIEF-04 §5 — the same specimen-first lesson as BiGen's manufacturer-funded LiBBY block).

THE STRING CORPUS — the hub's own strings, and the honest empty cells

the corpus genesis: the dock starts by eating the organism's own UI. three lawful states per cell: community-attested (none yet), ⚙ machine-draft labeled (the father-tongue bridge, ruled 2026-08-20 — BLAI drafts through the pivot and the label never comes off until a community attests), or absent (never silently filled, never a silent English fallback pretending to be translation). the father column renders Русский; the genesis mother tongue latviešu enters through its pivots — the bridge's first live span, per FATHER-SET-1.

a string absent in a language renders absent on every surface, labeled — never a silent fallback to English pretending to be the reader's language. a string record never displays dock-entry furniture (vitality badges): a category error the brief forbids.

THE SWEEPS — self-healing as visible machinery, not a claim

- id: missing-key-sweep      # every UI key on every surface exists in the corpus, or renders Absent{reason}
  schedule: weekly
  last_run: 2026-08-19        # corpus seeded this run — zero violations, by construction
- id: withdrawal-sweep       # no withdrawn string still renders anywhere
  schedule: weekly
  last_run: 2026-08-19
- id: machine-label-sweep    # no machine text renders unlabeled
  schedule: weekly
  last_run: 2026-08-19
- id: direction-sweep        # dir=rtl renders logical properties (D-13), never a mirrored afterthought
  schedule: weekly
  last_run: 2026-08-19
  on_change: open_amendment  # a violation is an AMENDMENTS event, never a silent fix

the corpus improves the BiGen way: standing queries, receipts in git history, dissent by fork. a stranger can run the sweeps and check us.

THE DOCK AS DATA — clone it, fork the verdicts, show your work

the seed register as YAML (lives in-repo; this page renders it)

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THE WORD ENTRY — skaists · Latvian · adjective

One of our six doors is called skaists.social. It is a real Latvian word, and it means beautiful. This is its dictionary entry, laid out the way a dictionary lays one out — where the word came from, what it means (it means four things), and how it changes shape in a sentence.

skaists — Latvian for beautiful. it started out meaning hot. hot → flushed → bright → beautiful. a word that walked from a fever to a face.

Entry shape follows en.wiktionary.org: language as the heading, not the interface; etymology, IPA, numbered senses, inflection, cognates, source. Every string below is quoted from the cited source. The IPA cell is deliberately empty — the source's transcription could not be read cleanly through this seat's fetch, and this page does not print a phonetic string it cannot vouch for (SOURCES: cite or the cell stays silent).

Etymology — quoted, Wiktionary after Karulis (1992, 2001)

“This word results from the merging of two different lines: (a) a derivation from the same stem as skaidrs (“clear”): *skaid-tas > *skaista > skaists; the older “clear, pure” meaning can be found in examples up to the beginning of the 19th century; and (b) the past participle of kaist (“to be hot, to glow”), with an extra initial s from a former reflexive marker (compare apskaisties (“to get angry”) from ap-s-kaist-ies). The meaning probably changed as follows: “warm, hot, heated” > “red, flushed” > “bright, attractive, beautiful.” The older “red, flushed” meaning can be found in older sources and in folk tales (skaistiem vaigiem “with flushed cheeks”). Cognates include Lithuanian skaistùs, dialectal skáistas (“bright, light, clear, glittering, sparkling, beautiful, pure, chaste”).”

Senses — four, numbered as the source numbers them

1	beautiful (having beauty; corresponding to certain aesthetic ideals, provoking certain aesthetic feelings)
2	beautiful, pleasant (which causes, gives pleasure)
3	beautiful, good (having good moral value, being socially useful)
4	(of animals, plants) beautiful, good (well kept, having desirable characteristics, e.g., for breeding)

Sense 3 is the one the domain is named for: beautiful and good are the same word here — a thing is beautiful because it is socially useful. That is not a pun this estate invented; it is the third sense in the dictionary.

Declension — indefinite, singular

case	masculine	feminine
nominative	skaists	skaista
genitive	skaista	skaistas
dative	skaistam	skaistai
accusative	skaistu	skaistu
instrumental	skaistu	skaistu
locative	skaistā	skaistā

The definite forms and the plural exist and are not reproduced here — the full paradigm is at the source, linked below. A partial table that does not say it is partial is the same defect as a claim without a receipt.

Around the word

pronunciation	not printed — the source's transcription did not survive this seat's fetch cleanly, and a phonetic string that cannot be vouched for stays out of the cell. It is at the source.
synonyms	daiļš · glīts · grezns · krāšņs · (colloquial) smuks
antonym	neglīts
cognates	Lithuanian skaistùs, dialectal skáistas

SOURCES — cite or the cell stays silent

THE WORKSHOP — dock your tongue: create · merge · migrate · remove

the four verbs, live against the estate's real corpus (lang-corpus.json — the file the 🌐 picker on every page reads). this page composes; a person publishes. your export is a ready-to-carry fragment for a repo PR or a signed [bX lang] pointer — the page never posts, never holds a key, and a machine draft never finalizes a consent.

the corpus, right now

reading the live corpus…

where the corpus itself lives, by the estate's own routing law: … — small public immutable rides Arweave; if the docking works and the corpus outgrows the price break, the same law that routes every other payload graduates it to Autonomi. The anchors field in the corpus meta is append-only and waits for exactly that ceremony (the founder signs, the seat prepares).

pick your verb

➕ create
dock a tongue the corpus lacks

🔀 merge
improve lines in a docked tongue

🚚 migrate
carry lines to a truer code — history kept

🕊 remove
withdraw — honored, never erased

language code native name

no ISO code for your tongue? that is not a wall: use an x- tag — the dock accepts what the registries have not yet named. rtl? add right-to-left

how it lands (pick either rail): open a PR against surfaces/lang-corpus.json with this fragment, or publish it as a signed [bX lang] pointer on your own rail and link it in an issue. either way a human carries it, the sweeps verify it, and your name (or your chosen silence) rides the attestation block.

A place for your language.

Your words belong on this floor.

🌐 the BlanguageDOCK