The name-sum maps are a dynamical system on the positive integers induced by spelling each integer in a language and summing the letter values of its name. For every language with logarithmic name length, it is shown that a trapping theorem exists: all orbits are eventually periodic, confined to a terminal cycle whose scale is a computable functional of the alphabet. The terminal structures of seven natural languages are computed. Spelt equations
and their ghost-root monodromy are presented under valuation deformation, and the combinatorial law governing truthful and lying anagrams of number names is examined. Reversing the construction, the article proves that no logarithmic language can express the Collatz map, while a two-letter language of linear name length carries the Collatz dynamics exactly. Embedding this language into
yields: a second-order Euler-operator equation
whose characteristic variety is the two Collatz branch lines; a sourced relay functional equation whose universal sink is equivalent to the Collatz-conjecture; an orbit zeta function obeying the exact reflection identity
; a closed-form language zeta through the Riemann zeta function with an explicit residue ladder; an exact ladder inspection duality between the forward-flow and the backward tree, lifted to Mellin space where the critical residue factorizes into branch weight times the ladder probability generating function; a decomposition of the marked zeta into a module over exactly
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