aUI - I actually studied with Dr. Weilgart, and did my college senior paper on this language:
Probably the most bizarre artificial "universal" language of recent times is aUI (pronounced "a-OO-ee"), the "Language of Space." aUI, meaning "space-spirit-sound" or "space-language," and advertised as the "Pentecostal Logos of Love and Peace," was launched on Planet Earth in the 1960's by John W. Weilgart, an Austrian-born Iowa psychiatrist who claimed to have learned the language as a young boy from a little green elf-like humanoid from outer space. The little green spaceman told Weilgart that aUI was the literally universal language used by intelligent beings on all planets throughout the Cosmos. aUI, according to Weilgart, is a perfectly logical and rational language, and learning aUI can actually cure a person of irrational thinking patterns.
In aUI, each sound of the language--each vowel and each consonant--is a "basic element" signifying one basic concept, and the meaning of every word can be analyzed into the "elements" of which it is built up. Essentially, this means that every letter stands for one particular basic idea, and always stands for that idea. The aUI alphabet and sound-system consists of the short vowels (lower-case) a,e,i,o,u,y,q, the long vowels (upper-case) A, E,I,O,U, the nasalized vowels (long and short) a*,e*,i*,o*,u*,y*,A*,E*,I*,O*,U*, Y*, and the consonants r, L, m, n, w, v, f., h, j, c, s, z, g, k, t, d, p, b. The long and short vowels aeiouAEIOU are pronounced as in Spanish, Italian, and German; y is pronounced like German ü in Brücke, fünf or French u in lutte, duc; Y* corresponds to the German ü, üh in über, kühl or the French u, û in pur, mur, dur, Vaucluse, s'amuse, sûr; q has the sound of German ö or French eu; c is like English sh in ship, shoe, fish; j has the zh sound of s in pleasure, z in azure; x has the sound of German ch in Buch, Nacht, machen, sprach, doch; g is always "hard" or velar as in English go, get; the b,d,f,h,k,L,m,n,p,r,s,t,v,w,z have their usual English values. The short nasal vowels a*,e*,i*,u*,o* stand for respectively the numbers 1,2,3,4,5, while the long nasal vowels A*,E*,I*,U*,O* represent respectively the numbers 6,7,8,9,10; zero is indicated by Y*, the nasalized version of the sound of Germanü in über, Führer or French u.in dur, mur, s'amuse, Vaucluse. The short vowels a,e,i,u,o,y,q stand respectively for "space/place (a), movement (e), light (i), man/human/person (u), life (o), no/not (y), Condition(al)/if (q)."
As to Emoji:
Emoji (絵文字?, Japanese pronunciation: [emodʑi]) are the ideograms or smileys used in Japanese electronic messages and Web pages, the use of which is spreading outside Japan. Originally meaning pictograph, the word emoji literally means "picture" (e) + "character" (moji). The characters are used much like ASCII emoticons or kaomoji, but a wider range is provided, and the icons are standardized and built into the handsets. Some emoji are very specific to Japanese culture, such as a bowing businessman, a face wearing a face mask, a white flower used to denote "brilliant homework," or a group of emoji representing popular foods: ramen noodles, dango, onigiri, Japanese curry, and sushi.
Hmmm... make sentences out of pictures
Face with Stuck-Out Tongue and Winking Eye
Cara sacando la lengua y guiñando
• kidding, not seriousMore later.
