aUI (The Language of Space) - Conlang Profile	Advanced
Language Name aUI Language Author W. John Weilgart, Ph.D. Year Began 1950 Site aUI - site 1 aUI - site 2 Broken Link No Site Language English Site Author W. John Weilgart, Ph.D. Language Type philosophical language Uniqueness aUI is a philosophical a priori language based on a set of (31) proposed universal semantic primitives, each designated with a simple ideograph, from which words from any culture can be created. Mini-definitions of a word's essential meaning, analogous to chemical formulas, are composed from these elements of meaning. aUI for the first time overcomes the arbitrary nature of existing languages and incorporates an inherently meaningful relationship between Word, Meaning, and Reality, between Sound, Symbol, and Meaning. Language Sources Perhaps Egyptian hieroglyphs but it is essentially a priori, meant to comprehensible even by rational alien creatures. Design Principles The semantic primitives were chosen to be concepts that are no further or more simply definable in a dictionary and therefore make up a finite set from which all other words can be created. They are thought to be universal to all languages and cultures. Combinations of elements actually define the essential meaning of a word. Sound, symbol, and meaning are in harmony in that there is an intrinsically meaningful relationship between them: e.g. two dots connected together (like a telephone receiver) means "together" and is pronounced \b\, a bilabial stop, with lips pressed together. Interest Of Others Andrea Patten is preparing to publish aspects of aUI in scientific journals in the context of modeling lexical semantic structure via semantic primitives. Conculture Noun Phrase Space Quotation bru Explanation Together-Good-Human: a Human one has a Good Togetherness with Translation friend Dictionary Yes Etymologies Yes Grammar Yes Sample Texts No Unique Script No Primer No Babel Text No Lexicon Size 64 Submitted By Andrea Patten Date Edited Saturday, September 04, 2004 Date To Headline Wednesday, June 09, 2004 < Aubhárith  aUI  Auld Elvish >
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