How it works
Tagology is an experiment to create a language for both humans and computers.
The rectangle serves as a marker to identify the position and size of the code and its bits.
Optical readers can read these images as bits. The first square is a 1 (1), the second 10 (2) the third 100 (4), etc.
The unique number refers to information in a database: 100100011…etc. means X.
- The 5 x 6 matrix provides 30 bits = 230 = 1.073.741.823 possible tags.
- Digital cameras can read black and white squares as zeros and ones, just like bar coding.
- For humans, the matrix provides enough space to make readable and writable images.
- Help to develop new codes, using the on line
Tag Editor.
In most languages people need only about several thousand words, while many nouns, verbs and adjectives are used in most languages.
Next, grammatical tags (e.g. plural, tense) and phonetic tags for names need to be generated.
This adds up to about 10.000 logos. Within a matrix of one billion possibilities,
there is enough room to create recognizable shapes.
Grammar
Single tags can be used in any way, but as soon as we construct sentences, we need a set of rules.
For now, we use the following word order: time, (number) noun, adjectives, particles, verb.
Bits - as - images - use – leads to – human – and – computer – from (possessive particle) – language – develop. Or, in proper English: “Using bits as images to create a language for humans and computers”.
Further research is needed on examples and lessons from current languages. Examples on how pictograms build sentences can be found in Chinese and Japanese. Nouns could be written twice to state the plural, as in Bahasa Indonesia, or else we can also just use a number.
Much can be learned from so called agglutinating languages in which basic words can be modified using affixes instead of changing the whole word, as in Turkish, Finnish and Japanese. Some language elements may prove to be unnecessary, such as the use of capitals, gender and case forms.
Examples
Tagology is based on some existing codes, such as pictograms, signs, Chinese and Japanese characters and alphabets.
And we develop many new codes.
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| 人 / human |
木 / tree |
T (Latin) |
語 / language |
我 / we |
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| 出口 / exit |
水 / water |
T (Arabic) |
月 / month |
今 / now |
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| 笑 / smile |
山 / mountain |
T (Braille) |
下 / under |
読 / read |