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by dragonwriter 2522 days ago
Well, the base layer of primes references the term “NSM” (which stands for “natural semantic metalanguage”, Wierzbicka and Goddard’s theory which holds, among other things, that there is a universal core of base concepts across languages; the count of 60 such primes coincides with the 2002 iteration; there's also a 14 prime version from 1972 and a 65 prime version from ~2014.)

The layering beyond the primes isn't consistent though, and wouldn't be so much a translation as new work for each language.