The hybrid vocabulary of the archive.

The civilisational homeland of the Tamil people of the island.

Eelam is used throughout the archive as a civilisational and cultural referent — not as a territorial claim, a flag, or a successor to any armed movement. It is the word the diaspora uses for the place it remembers. The archive is rooted in Eelam in the same way an academic centre on Yiddish letters is rooted in Yiddishland.

The digital homeland — the public platform layer.

VinMin (literally 'sky-spark' / 'lightning') is the Tamil-first public surface of the TLTE archive — Sanctuary, Charter, Pattarai, Min economy, Velicham. It is the place the diaspora actually visits. TLTE is the constitutional layer underneath it.

The ethical floor under every decision in the system.

Aram is the classical Tamil concept of ethical conduct — the floor under any Council decision, any Velicham answer, any desk action. The archive treats Aram as a constraint, not a value to be optimised against.

Civilisational strength — the capacity to remain.

Anmai is the strength of a people that has chosen not to be erased. The archive treats Anmai as the test of every protocol: does this protocol increase the standing of the diaspora, or does it merely entertain it?

The current era — the founding period of TLTE.

Aarambam is the era marker used in place of calendar dates throughout the archive. The site never says '2025' or '2026'. It says 'this era, Aarambam'. This is a civilisational time-frame, not a sprint timeline.

The civilisational target layer of every policy page.

Nilaiththanmai pairs with Aarambam. Every policy page in the archive renders a Now (Aarambam) layer of live operational truth and a Becoming (Nilaiththanmai) layer of civilisational specification. The reader is asked to hold both, not to choose.

The maker layer — creators, archivists, craftspeople.

Pattarai is the guild of contributors who turn the archive into a living workshop. Not employees, not volunteers in a charity sense — craftspeople bound by the Charter.

Governance · Economic · Culture · Infrastructure · Integrity.

The Five Councils are the entire governance architecture. No founder override, no permanent leaders, no emergency powers, rotating membership, revocable seats. Confirmation of an Archon requires Witnesses from at least two other councils.

The desk that holds the land-and-sea civic files.

Thayagam is the home of the Maritime Desk (Katchatheevu & Palk Strait), the land file, and other place-bound files. The archive never claims TLTE wants Katchatheevu back, never aggregates fisher incident counts, always cites both 1974 and 1976 treaties.

Internal contribution credit. At maturity, a non-tradable energy marker.

Today, Min powers the cosmetic marketplace inside the Sanctuary. At maturity, Min is a pure non-tradable marker of contribution and care — not a currency, not a token, not a security. The archive states both states explicitly and never confuses one for the other.

The observational AI assistant — grounded, human-reviewed.

Velicham is the gold pill that appears on every page. It is observational only — never autonomous, never an intake surface, never names a perpetrator, never aggregates counts. It is grounded only on the corpus and the citation registry, and audited against a public eval suite.

The observational AI layer of the wider ecosystem.

MOZI is an observational AI layer. It never frames itself as autonomous. Every output is human-reviewed before it leaves the archive.

The women's council — citation-only, no live intake.

Magalir Avai is the women's council. The site never accepts survivor intake, never names a survivor or family of the disappeared, never aggregates CRSV or disappearance counts. It defers to OHCHR, ITJP, PEARL, Adayaalam, Global Survivors Fund.

The safety framework — becoming-layer only.

Kaaval is the safeguarding framework inside Magalir Avai. It is becoming-layer only — never live intake, never a trigger alert, never a find-person service. Calm language, deference to UK 999 / Refuge / SL WIN / TN 181.

The live intelligence system — preserve · respond · study.

Unmai is the live intelligence system: seven standing desks, citation-only, no intake, no naming, no count aggregation, no verdicts. Ring 1 is live OSINT on site; Ring 2 is the becoming specification in markdown.

A rotating, revocable seat on one of the Five Councils.

Archon is the role — not a title, not an honour. Archons are coordinators, not leaders. They rotate. They can be recalled. They serve the Charter, not the other way around.

Members who confirm Council decisions across councils.

Witnesses are the cross-council check. No council can self-replenish: confirmation of a new Archon requires Witnesses from at least two other councils.