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AUI

2024-06-27T04:19:59Z

Andiweil:

{{DISPLAYTITLE:aUI}}
{{Infobox language
|name = aUI
|creator = W. John Weilgart, PhD
|created = 1962
|setting = Designed to dissolve the discrepancy between [[w:homonym|homonym]]ous and [[w:synonym|synonym]]ous words
|familycolor=conlang
|fam1 = [[auxiliary language|auxiliary language]]
|fam2 = [[logical language|logical]] or [[philosophical language]]
|fam3 = [[A priori|a priori]]
|fam4 = [[oligosynthetic]]
|iso3 = none
|glotto=none
|notice=IPA
}}

'''aUI''' ({{IPA-all|aui}}) is a [[Philosophical language|philosophical]], [[A priori language|a priori]] language created in the 1950s by W. John Weilgart, Ph.D. (March 9, 1913– January 26, 1981; born Johann Wolfgang Weixlgärtner,
<ref name="Dr. Weilgart's Story">{{cite web |title=Dr. Weilgart's Story |url=https://auilanguage.space/Dr-weilgart/story |website=aUI, The Language of Space |publisher=Cosmic Communication Foundation |access-date=25 June 2024}}</ref>
and also known as John W. Weilgart
<ref name="Weilgart-LOS">Weilgart, John W. (1979). ''aUI, The Language of Space'' (4th ed.). Decorah, Iowa: Cosmic Communication Co. ISBN 978-0-912038-08-7 </ref>
a philosopher and psychoanalyst originally from Vienna, Austria. He described it as "the Language of Space", connoting universal communication, and published the fourth edition of the textbook in 1979;
<ref name="Weilgart-LOS" />
a philosophic description of each semantic element of the language was published in 1975.
<ref name="Weilgart-CEOM">Weilgart, John W. (1975). ''Cosmic Elements of Meaning: Symbols of the Spirit's Life'', Decorah, Iowa: Cosmic Communication Co.</ref>

As an effort toward world 'peace through understanding', it was Weilgart's goal to clarify and simplify communication. Ultimately it was his experiment in facilitating conscious thinking in that it is built from a proposed set of primitive, possibly universal elements that are designed to reflect a motivated, mnemonic relationship between symbol, sound, and meaning. In his psychotherapy work, he sometimes used client created aUI formulations to reveal possible subconscious associations to problematic concepts.
<ref>{{cite web|url=http://reykr.livejournal.com/249204.html|title=Another Birthday Yesterday: Dr. John W. Weilgart|author=reykr|date=10 March 2006|work=LIVE JOURNAL|publisher=LiveJournal, Inc.|access-date=8 April 2012}}</ref>
aUI can also be considered an experiment in applied cognitive lexical semantics, and Weilgart envisioned it serving as an international language.

== Introduction ==
aUI is built upon a set of proposed universal [[semantic primes]] or elements of meaning that are combined to create miniature definitions. Weilgart found these fundamental concepts to be at such a basic level that they likely could not be defined by any simpler concepts. Linguistically speaking, aUI attempts '[[oligosynthetic|oligosynthesis]]' in which words are synthesized or composed from a minimal number of total morphemes or units of meaning. The motivated relationship between morphology, phonology, and semantics means that if words look and sound similar, they also have similar meanings; homophonous words become synonymous.

aUI has 31 morpheme-phonemes each with an associated meaning, i.e. each [[morpheme]] = a [[phoneme]] = a [[sememe]].

== History ==
Weilgart followed Gottfried Leibniz' proposal for an [[w:alphabet of human thought|alphabet of human thought]] that would provide a universal way to analyze ideas by breaking them down into their component pieces—to be represented by a unique "real" character. In the early 18th century, Leibniz outlined his ''[[characteristica universalis]]'', the basic elements of which would be pictographic characters representing a limited number of elementary concepts. René Descartes suggested that a lexicon of a universal language should consist of primitive elements. The history of this language philosophy is delineated in Umberto Eco's ''[[w:The Search for the Perfect Language|The Search for the Perfect Language]]''.
<ref name="Eco">Eco, Umberto. (1995). ''The Search for the Perfect Language''. http://www.umbertoeco.com/en/. Blackwell. ISBN 978-0631205104. Archived from the original on 2015-08-13 /http://www.umbertoeco.com/en/. Retrieved 2012-03-09</ref>

As a young man, Weilgart observed the pervasive and insidious effects of state planned Nazi propaganda. In particular, he was struck by how double meanings, together with similar sounds in slogans often associated unrelated words into suggestive "stereotyped formulas", [that would] "arrest the attention and appeal to the hearts of the national masses"
<ref>Hitler, ''Mein Kampf,'' 1925.</ref>.
For example, in one of the most repeated political slogans, ''Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Führer!'' ("One people, One empire, One leader!" the word Volk sounds similar to ''folgt'', meaning to follow or obey; ''Reich'' also means rich; so the phrase points to a subliminal association: that the populace obeys and follows their leader, who leads them to a wealthy empire. ''Blu-Bo'' from ''Blut und Boden'' (Blood and Soil) was also a key slogan of Nazi ideology, as well as of course ''Heil Hitler!'' (Hail Hitler! - ''heil'' also meaning salvation, safe, well).

Based on research in semantic conditioning
<ref name="Vinogradova">Luria, A. R.; Vinogradova, O. S. (1959). "An Objective Investigation of the Dynamics of Semantic Systems". British Journal of Psychology. 50 (2): 89–105. doi:10.1111/j.2044-8295.1959.tb00687.x. ISSN 2044-8295.</ref>
<ref name="Gregory Razran">Razran, Gregory (1961). "The observable unconscious". Psychological Review. 68 (2): 81–147. doi:10.1037/h0039848. hdl:11858/00-001M-0000-002C-4D33-A.</ref>
<ref name=Razran>Razran, Gregory (1939). "A quantitative study of meaning by semantic conditioning". Science. 90 (2326): 89–90. doi:10.1126/science.90.2326.89. hdl:21.11116/0000-0001-913F-5. PMID 17798918. Archived from the original on June 5, 2024.</ref>
from the 1950s, Weilgart theorized that whereas the conscious mind links synonyms (similar meanings), the subconscious mind associates assonance (similar sounds). That is, while we ''think'' about and distinguish similar-sounding words by their different meanings, we nonetheless ''feel'' at some level that they are (or ought to be) also related in meaning. Alliterative slogans may suggest a link in words unrelated by meaning but related by common sounds. Weilgart posited that such slogans were one of the many significant factors that could lead to war under desperate and incendiary conditions. Further, he believed that the general discrepancy between homophonous and synonymous words in conventional language would add to the disconnect with the subconscious mind.

==Phonology==
===Orthography===
===Consonants===

===Vowels===
=== Morphophonology ===
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Meaning
!Letter
! IPA
|-
|SPACE || a||{{IPA|/a/}}
|-
|MOVEMENT||e||{{IPA|/e/}}
|-
|LIGHT||i||{{IPA|/ɪ/ or /i/}}
|-
|LIFE||o||{{IPA|/o/}}
|-
|HUMAN||u||{{IPA|/u/}}
|-
|TIME||A||{{IPA|/a:/}}
|-
|MATTER||E||{{IPA|/e:/}}
|-
|SOUND||I||{{IPA|/i:/}}
|-
|FEELING||O||{{IPA|/o:/}}
|-
|SPIRIT/MIND||U||{{IPA|/u:/}}
|-
|CONDITION||Q||{{IPA|/œ/ or /ø:/}}
|-
|NEGATION||Y||{{IPA|/y/ preceding consonants; /j/ preceding vowels}}
|-
|TOGETHER||b||{{IPA|/b/}}
|-
|EXISTENCE||c||{{IPA|/ʃ/}}
|-
|THROUGH||d||{{IPA|/d/}}
|-
|THIS||f||{{IPA|/f/}}
|-
|INSIDE||g||{{IPA|/ɡ/}}
|-
|QUESTION||h||{{IPA|/h/}}
|-
|EQUAL||j||{{IPA|/ʒ/}}
|-
|ABOVE||k||{{IPA|/k/}}

|-
|AROUND||L||{{IPA|/l/}}

|-
|QUALITY||m||{{IPA|/m/}}

|-

|QUANTITY||n||{{IPA|/n/}}

|-

|BEFORE||p||{{IPA|/p/}}

|-

|POSITIVE||r||{{IPA|/ʀ/ or /r/}}

|-

|THING||s||{{IPA|/s/}}

|-

|TOWARDS||t||{{IPA|/t/}}

|-

|ACTIVE||v||{{IPA|/v/}}

|-

|POWER||w||{{IPA|/w/}}

|-
|RELATION||x||{{IPA|/x/}}
|-
|PART||z||{{IPA|/z/}}
|}

Additionally, short nasal vowels (marked with an asterisk) are used for numerals:
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! 0 || 1 || 2 || 3 || 4 || 5 || 6 || 7 || 8 || 9 || 10
|-
|{{angbr|Ŷ}}||{{angbr|â}}||{{angbr|ê}}||{{angbr|î}}||{{angbr|û}}||{{angbr|ô}}||{{angbr|Â}}||{{angbr|Ê}}||{{angbr|Î}}||{{angbr|Û}}||{{angbr|Ô}}
|}

The phoneme {{IPA|/b/}}, for instance, meaning "Together", is a bilabial stop, pronounced with the lips pressed together. "Light" is pronounced with a short {{IPA|/ɪ/}}, as the brightest, highest-frequency sound, while "Sound", is pronounced with a longer {{IPA|/iː/}}, as sound travels more slowly than light.

Each phoneme also has an ideographic glyph or symbol that represents its meaning. The symbol for "Human", {{IPA|/u/}} is depicted by the two legs or arms of the human being, also suggesting our dichotomous nature. The "human" may be fulfilled by the whole triangular trinity of "Spirit", a 'deep, mysterious' {{IPA|/uː/}}, (there are many possible trinities found in philosophy and religion). "Life", {{IPA|/o/}}, represented by the shape of a leaf, is photosynthesis forming the basis of life on Earth. "Feeling", {{IPA|/oː/}} is a heart shape, blood pressure and pulse reflecting various feelings, and "action", a 'vibrant' {{IPA|/v/}}, is represented by a lightning bolt, the most active phenomenon in nature.

;Example
{| class="wikitable"
|+
!Compound
!Morphology
!IPA
!Meaning
|-
|io
|Light-Life
|{{IPA|/ɪo/}}
|plant
|-
|iO
|Light-Feeling/Sensation
|{{IPA|/ɪo:/}}
|sight
|-
|iOv
|sight-Action/Verb
|{{IPA|/ɪo:v/}}
|to see
|-
|fu
|This-Human
|{{IPA|/fu/}}
|I, me
|-
|bu
|Together-Human
|{{IPA|/bu/}}
|you
|-
|bru
|Together-Good-Human
|{{IPA|/bʀu/}}
|friend
|-
|brU
|Together-Good-Spirit
|{{IPA|/bʀu:/}}
|peace
|}

== Encoding and Fonts ==

aUI is currently included in the unofficial [[w:ConScript Unicode Registry|ConScript Unicode Registry]] (CSUR), which assigns code points in the [[w:Private Use Area|Private Use Area]]. aUI code points are mapped to the range U+E270 to U+E28F.

The eight “Aux” variant fonts of [https://Kurinto.com/ Kurinto] (Kurinto Text Aux, Book Aux, Sans Aux, etc.) support aUI.

==See also==
* [[w:Victor Klemperer|Victor Klemperer]] and his book ''[[w:LTI – Lingua Tertii Imperii|LTI – Lingua Tertii Imperii]]''. ISBN-13: 9780826457776

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* [https://auilanguage.space/ Official aUI website]
* Libert, Alan (2000), ''A Priori Artificial Languages'', Lincom Europa, Munich. ISBN 3-89586-667-9
* [http://www.anomalist.com/reports/language.html The "Language of Space" — critical commentary] (however, not fully factual, per Andrea Weilgart)

[[Category:Engineered languages]]
[[Category:Philosophical languages]]
[[Category:Languages]]
[[Category:A priori]]

AUI

2024-06-27T04:19:03Z

Andiweil: ISBN number

{{DISPLAYTITLE:aUI}}
{{Infobox language
|name = aUI
|creator = W. John Weilgart, PhD
|created = 1962
|setting = Designed to dissolve the discrepancy between [[w:homonym|homonym]]ous and [[w:synonym|synonym]]ous words
|familycolor=conlang
|fam1 = [[auxiliary language|auxiliary language]]
|fam2 = [[logical language|logical]] or [[philosophical language]]
|fam3 = [[A priori|a priori]]
|fam4 = [[oligosynthetic]]
|iso3 = none
|glotto=none
|notice=IPA
}}

'''aUI''' ({{IPA-all|aui}}) is a [[Philosophical language|philosophical]], [[A priori language|a priori]] language created in the 1950s by W. John Weilgart, Ph.D. (March 9, 1913– January 26, 1981; born Johann Wolfgang Weixlgärtner,
<ref name="Dr. Weilgart's Story">{{cite web |title=Dr. Weilgart's Story |url=https://auilanguage.space/Dr-weilgart/story |website=aUI, The Language of Space |publisher=Cosmic Communication Foundation |access-date=25 June 2024}}</ref>
and also known as John W. Weilgart
<ref name="Weilgart-LOS">Weilgart, John W. (1979). ''aUI, The Language of Space'' (4th ed.). Decorah, Iowa: Cosmic Communication Co. ISBN 978-0-912038-08-7 </ref>
a philosopher and psychoanalyst originally from Vienna, Austria. He described it as "the Language of Space", connoting universal communication, and published the fourth edition of the textbook in 1979;
<ref name="Weilgart-LOS" />
a philosophic description of each semantic element of the language was published in 1975.
<ref name="Weilgart-CEOM">Weilgart, John W. (1975). ''Cosmic Elements of Meaning: Symbols of the Spirit's Life'', Decorah, Iowa: Cosmic Communication Co.</ref>

As an effort toward world 'peace through understanding', it was Weilgart's goal to clarify and simplify communication. Ultimately it was his experiment in facilitating conscious thinking in that it is built from a proposed set of primitive, possibly universal elements that are designed to reflect a motivated, mnemonic relationship between symbol, sound, and meaning. In his psychotherapy work, he sometimes used client created aUI formulations to reveal possible subconscious associations to problematic concepts.
<ref>{{cite web|url=http://reykr.livejournal.com/249204.html|title=Another Birthday Yesterday: Dr. John W. Weilgart|author=reykr|date=10 March 2006|work=LIVE JOURNAL|publisher=LiveJournal, Inc.|access-date=8 April 2012}}</ref>
aUI can also be considered an experiment in applied cognitive lexical semantics, and Weilgart envisioned it serving as an international language.

== Introduction ==
aUI is built upon a set of proposed universal [[semantic primes]] or elements of meaning that are combined to create miniature definitions. Weilgart found these fundamental concepts to be at such a basic level that they likely could not be defined by any simpler concepts. Linguistically speaking, aUI attempts '[[oligosynthetic|oligosynthesis]]' in which words are synthesized or composed from a minimal number of total morphemes or units of meaning. The motivated relationship between morphology, phonology, and semantics means that if words look and sound similar, they also have similar meanings; homophonous words become synonymous.

aUI has 31 morpheme-phonemes each with an associated meaning, i.e. each [[morpheme]] = a [[phoneme]] = a [[sememe]].

== History ==
Weilgart followed Gottfried Leibniz' proposal for an [[w:alphabet of human thought|alphabet of human thought]] that would provide a universal way to analyze ideas by breaking them down into their component pieces—to be represented by a unique "real" character. In the early 18th century, Leibniz outlined his ''[[characteristica universalis]]'', the basic elements of which would be pictographic characters representing a limited number of elementary concepts. René Descartes suggested that a lexicon of a universal language should consist of primitive elements. The history of this language philosophy is delineated in Umberto Eco's ''[[w:The Search for the Perfect Language|The Search for the Perfect Language]]''.
<ref name="Eco">Eco, Umberto. (1995). ''The Search for the Perfect Language''. http://www.umbertoeco.com/en/. Blackwell. ISBN 978-0631205104. Archived from the original on 2015-08-13 /http://www.umbertoeco.com/en/. Retrieved 2012-03-09</ref>

As a young man, Weilgart observed the pervasive and insidious effects of state planned Nazi propaganda. In particular, he was struck by how double meanings, together with similar sounds in slogans often associated unrelated words into suggestive "stereotyped formulas", [that would] "arrest the attention and appeal to the hearts of the national masses"
<ref>Hitler, ''Mein Kampf,'' 1925.</ref>.
For example, in one of the most repeated political slogans, ''Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Führer!'' ("One people, One empire, One leader!" the word Volk sounds similar to ''folgt'', meaning to follow or obey; ''Reich'' also means rich; so the phrase points to a subliminal association: that the populace obeys and follows their leader, who leads them to a wealthy empire. ''Blu-Bo'' from ''Blut und Boden'' (Blood and Soil) was also a key slogan of Nazi ideology, as well as of course ''Heil Hitler!'' (Hail Hitler! - ''heil'' also meaning salvation, safe, well).

Based on research in semantic conditioning
<ref name="Vinogradova">Luria, A. R.; Vinogradova, O. S. (1959). "An Objective Investigation of the Dynamics of Semantic Systems". British Journal of Psychology. 50 (2): 89–105. doi:10.1111/j.2044-8295.1959.tb00687.x. ISSN 2044-8295.</ref>
<ref name="Gregory Razran">Razran, Gregory (1961). "The observable unconscious". Psychological Review. 68 (2): 81–147. doi:10.1037/h0039848. hdl:11858/00-001M-0000-002C-4D33-A.</ref>
<ref name=Razran>Razran, Gregory (1939). "A quantitative study of meaning by semantic conditioning". Science. 90 (2326): 89–90. doi:10.1126/science.90.2326.89. hdl:21.11116/0000-0001-913F-5. PMID 17798918. Archived from the original on June 5, 2024.</ref>
from the 1950s, Weilgart theorized that whereas the conscious mind links synonyms (similar meanings), the subconscious mind associates assonance (similar sounds). That is, while we ''think'' about and distinguish similar-sounding words by their different meanings, we nonetheless ''feel'' at some level that they are (or ought to be) also related in meaning. Alliterative slogans may suggest a link in words unrelated by meaning but related by common sounds. Weilgart posited that such slogans were one of the many significant factors that could lead to war under desperate and incendiary conditions. Further, he believed that the general discrepancy between homophonous and synonymous words in conventional language would add to the disconnect with the subconscious mind.

==Phonology==
===Orthography===
===Consonants===

===Vowels===
=== Morphophonology ===
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Meaning
!Letter
! IPA
|-
|SPACE || a||{{IPA|/a/}}
|-
|MOVEMENT||e||{{IPA|/e/}}
|-
|LIGHT||i||{{IPA|/ɪ/ or /i/}}
|-
|LIFE||o||{{IPA|/o/}}
|-
|HUMAN||u||{{IPA|/u/}}
|-
|TIME||A||{{IPA|/a:/}}
|-
|MATTER||E||{{IPA|/e:/}}
|-
|SOUND||I||{{IPA|/i:/}}
|-
|FEELING||O||{{IPA|/o:/}}
|-
|SPIRIT/MIND||U||{{IPA|/u:/}}
|-
|CONDITION||Q||{{IPA|/œ/ or /ø:/}}
|-
|NEGATION||Y||{{IPA|/y/ preceding consonants; /j/ preceding vowels}}
|-
|TOGETHER||b||{{IPA|/b/}}
|-
|EXISTENCE||c||{{IPA|/ʃ/}}
|-
|THROUGH||d||{{IPA|/d/}}
|-
|THIS||f||{{IPA|/f/}}
|-
|INSIDE||g||{{IPA|/ɡ/}}
|-
|QUESTION||h||{{IPA|/h/}}
|-
|EQUAL||j||{{IPA|/ʒ/}}
|-
|ABOVE||k||{{IPA|/k/}}

|-
|AROUND||L||{{IPA|/l/}}

|-
|QUALITY||m||{{IPA|/m/}}

|-

|QUANTITY||n||{{IPA|/n/}}

|-

|BEFORE||p||{{IPA|/p/}}

|-

|POSITIVE||r||{{IPA|/ʀ/ or /r/}}

|-

|THING||s||{{IPA|/s/}}

|-

|TOWARDS||t||{{IPA|/t/}}

|-

|ACTIVE||v||{{IPA|/v/}}

|-

|POWER||w||{{IPA|/w/}}

|-
|RELATION||x||{{IPA|/x/}}
|-
|PART||z||{{IPA|/z/}}
|}

Additionally, short nasal vowels (marked with an asterisk) are used for numerals:
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! 0 || 1 || 2 || 3 || 4 || 5 || 6 || 7 || 8 || 9 || 10
|-
|{{angbr|Ŷ}}||{{angbr|â}}||{{angbr|ê}}||{{angbr|î}}||{{angbr|û}}||{{angbr|ô}}||{{angbr|Â}}||{{angbr|Ê}}||{{angbr|Î}}||{{angbr|Û}}||{{angbr|Ô}}
|}

The phoneme {{IPA|/b/}}, for instance, meaning "Together", is a bilabial stop, pronounced with the lips pressed together. "Light" is pronounced with a short {{IPA|/ɪ/}}, as the brightest, highest-frequency sound, while "Sound", is pronounced with a longer {{IPA|/iː/}}, as sound travels more slowly than light.

Each phoneme also has an ideographic glyph or symbol that represents its meaning. The symbol for "Human", {{IPA|/u/}} is depicted by the two legs or arms of the human being, also suggesting our dichotomous nature. The "human" may be fulfilled by the whole triangular trinity of "Spirit", a 'deep, mysterious' {{IPA|/uː/}}, (there are many possible trinities found in philosophy and religion). "Life", {{IPA|/o/}}, represented by the shape of a leaf, is photosynthesis forming the basis of life on Earth. "Feeling", {{IPA|/oː/}} is a heart shape, blood pressure and pulse reflecting various feelings, and "action", a 'vibrant' {{IPA|/v/}}, is represented by a lightning bolt, the most active phenomenon in nature.

;Example
{| class="wikitable"
|+
!Compound
!Morphology
!IPA
!Meaning
|-
|io
|Light-Life
|{{IPA|/ɪo/}}
|plant
|-
|iO
|Light-Feeling/Sensation
|{{IPA|/ɪo:/}}
|sight
|-
|iOv
|sight-Action/Verb
|{{IPA|/ɪo:v/}}
|to see
|-
|fu
|This-Human
|{{IPA|/fu/}}
|I, me
|-
|bu
|Together-Human
|{{IPA|/bu/}}
|you
|-
|bru
|Together-Good-Human
|{{IPA|/bʀu/}}
|friend
|-
|brU
|Together-Good-Spirit
|{{IPA|/bʀu:/}}
|peace
|}

== Encoding and Fonts ==

aUI is currently included in the unofficial [[w:ConScript Unicode Registry|ConScript Unicode Registry]] (CSUR), which assigns code points in the [[w:Private Use Area|Private Use Area]]. aUI code points are mapped to the range U+E270 to U+E28F.

The eight “Aux” variant fonts of [https://Kurinto.com/ Kurinto] (Kurinto Text Aux, Book Aux, Sans Aux, etc.) support aUI.

==See also==
* [[w:Victor Klemperer|Victor Klemperer]] and his book ''[[w:LTI – Lingua Tertii Imperii|LTI – Lingua Tertii Imperii]]''ISBN-13: 9780826457776

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* [https://auilanguage.space/ Official aUI website]
* Libert, Alan (2000), ''A Priori Artificial Languages'', Lincom Europa, Munich. ISBN 3-89586-667-9
* [http://www.anomalist.com/reports/language.html The "Language of Space" — critical commentary] (however, not fully factual, per Andrea Weilgart)

[[Category:Engineered languages]]
[[Category:Philosophical languages]]
[[Category:Languages]]
[[Category:A priori]]

AUI

2024-06-27T04:01:03Z

Andiweil: w: before Victor in reference

{{DISPLAYTITLE:aUI}}
{{Infobox language
|name = aUI
|creator = W. John Weilgart, PhD
|created = 1962
|setting = Designed to dissolve the discrepancy between [[w:homonym|homonym]]ous and [[w:synonym|synonym]]ous words
|familycolor=conlang
|fam1 = [[auxiliary language|auxiliary language]]
|fam2 = [[logical language|logical]] or [[philosophical language]]
|fam3 = [[A priori|a priori]]
|fam4 = [[oligosynthetic]]
|iso3 = none
|glotto=none
|notice=IPA
}}

'''aUI''' ({{IPA-all|aui}}) is a [[Philosophical language|philosophical]], [[A priori language|a priori]] language created in the 1950s by W. John Weilgart, Ph.D. (March 9, 1913– January 26, 1981; born Johann Wolfgang Weixlgärtner,
<ref name="Dr. Weilgart's Story">{{cite web |title=Dr. Weilgart's Story |url=https://auilanguage.space/Dr-weilgart/story |website=aUI, The Language of Space |publisher=Cosmic Communication Foundation |access-date=25 June 2024}}</ref>
and also known as John W. Weilgart
<ref name="Weilgart-LOS">Weilgart, John W. (1979). ''aUI, The Language of Space'' (4th ed.). Decorah, Iowa: Cosmic Communication Co. ISBN 978-0-912038-08-7 </ref>
a philosopher and psychoanalyst originally from Vienna, Austria. He described it as "the Language of Space", connoting universal communication, and published the fourth edition of the textbook in 1979;
<ref name="Weilgart-LOS" />
a philosophic description of each semantic element of the language was published in 1975.
<ref name="Weilgart-CEOM">Weilgart, John W. (1975). ''Cosmic Elements of Meaning: Symbols of the Spirit's Life'', Decorah, Iowa: Cosmic Communication Co.</ref>

As an effort toward world 'peace through understanding', it was Weilgart's goal to clarify and simplify communication. Ultimately it was his experiment in facilitating conscious thinking in that it is built from a proposed set of primitive, possibly universal elements that are designed to reflect a motivated, mnemonic relationship between symbol, sound, and meaning. In his psychotherapy work, he sometimes used client created aUI formulations to reveal possible subconscious associations to problematic concepts.
<ref>{{cite web|url=http://reykr.livejournal.com/249204.html|title=Another Birthday Yesterday: Dr. John W. Weilgart|author=reykr|date=10 March 2006|work=LIVE JOURNAL|publisher=LiveJournal, Inc.|access-date=8 April 2012}}</ref>
aUI can also be considered an experiment in applied cognitive lexical semantics, and Weilgart envisioned it serving as an international language.

== Introduction ==
aUI is built upon a set of proposed universal [[semantic primes]] or elements of meaning that are combined to create miniature definitions. Weilgart found these fundamental concepts to be at such a basic level that they likely could not be defined by any simpler concepts. Linguistically speaking, aUI attempts '[[oligosynthetic|oligosynthesis]]' in which words are synthesized or composed from a minimal number of total morphemes or units of meaning. The motivated relationship between morphology, phonology, and semantics means that if words look and sound similar, they also have similar meanings; homophonous words become synonymous.

aUI has 31 morpheme-phonemes each with an associated meaning, i.e. each [[morpheme]] = a [[phoneme]] = a [[sememe]].

== History ==
Weilgart followed Gottfried Leibniz' proposal for an [[w:alphabet of human thought|alphabet of human thought]] that would provide a universal way to analyze ideas by breaking them down into their component pieces—to be represented by a unique "real" character. In the early 18th century, Leibniz outlined his ''[[characteristica universalis]]'', the basic elements of which would be pictographic characters representing a limited number of elementary concepts. René Descartes suggested that a lexicon of a universal language should consist of primitive elements. The history of this language philosophy is delineated in Umberto Eco's ''[[w:The Search for the Perfect Language|The Search for the Perfect Language]]''.
<ref name="Eco">Eco, Umberto. (1995). ''The Search for the Perfect Language''. http://www.umbertoeco.com/en/. Blackwell. ISBN 978-0631205104. Archived from the original on 2015-08-13 /http://www.umbertoeco.com/en/. Retrieved 2012-03-09</ref>

As a young man, Weilgart observed the pervasive and insidious effects of state planned Nazi propaganda. In particular, he was struck by how double meanings, together with similar sounds in slogans often associated unrelated words into suggestive "stereotyped formulas", [that would] "arrest the attention and appeal to the hearts of the national masses"
<ref>Hitler, ''Mein Kampf,'' 1925.</ref>.
For example, in one of the most repeated political slogans, ''Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Führer!'' ("One people, One empire, One leader!" the word Volk sounds similar to ''folgt'', meaning to follow or obey; ''Reich'' also means rich; so the phrase points to a subliminal association: that the populace obeys and follows their leader, who leads them to a wealthy empire. ''Blu-Bo'' from ''Blut und Boden'' (Blood and Soil) was also a key slogan of Nazi ideology, as well as of course ''Heil Hitler!'' (Hail Hitler! - ''heil'' also meaning salvation, safe, well).

Based on research in semantic conditioning
<ref name="Vinogradova">Luria, A. R.; Vinogradova, O. S. (1959). "An Objective Investigation of the Dynamics of Semantic Systems". British Journal of Psychology. 50 (2): 89–105. doi:10.1111/j.2044-8295.1959.tb00687.x. ISSN 2044-8295.</ref>
<ref name="Gregory Razran">Razran, Gregory (1961). "The observable unconscious". Psychological Review. 68 (2): 81–147. doi:10.1037/h0039848. hdl:11858/00-001M-0000-002C-4D33-A.</ref>
<ref name=Razran>Razran, Gregory (1939). "A quantitative study of meaning by semantic conditioning". Science. 90 (2326): 89–90. doi:10.1126/science.90.2326.89. hdl:21.11116/0000-0001-913F-5. PMID 17798918. Archived from the original on June 5, 2024.</ref>
from the 1950s, Weilgart theorized that whereas the conscious mind links synonyms (similar meanings), the subconscious mind associates assonance (similar sounds). That is, while we ''think'' about and distinguish similar-sounding words by their different meanings, we nonetheless ''feel'' at some level that they are (or ought to be) also related in meaning. Alliterative slogans may suggest a link in words unrelated by meaning but related by common sounds. Weilgart posited that such slogans were one of the many significant factors that could lead to war under desperate and incendiary conditions. Further, he believed that the general discrepancy between homophonous and synonymous words in conventional language would add to the disconnect with the subconscious mind.

==Phonology==
===Orthography===
===Consonants===

===Vowels===
=== Morphophonology ===
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Meaning
!Letter
! IPA
|-
|SPACE || a||{{IPA|/a/}}
|-
|MOVEMENT||e||{{IPA|/e/}}
|-
|LIGHT||i||{{IPA|/ɪ/ or /i/}}
|-
|LIFE||o||{{IPA|/o/}}
|-
|HUMAN||u||{{IPA|/u/}}
|-
|TIME||A||{{IPA|/a:/}}
|-
|MATTER||E||{{IPA|/e:/}}
|-
|SOUND||I||{{IPA|/i:/}}
|-
|FEELING||O||{{IPA|/o:/}}
|-
|SPIRIT/MIND||U||{{IPA|/u:/}}
|-
|CONDITION||Q||{{IPA|/œ/ or /ø:/}}
|-
|NEGATION||Y||{{IPA|/y/ preceding consonants; /j/ preceding vowels}}
|-
|TOGETHER||b||{{IPA|/b/}}
|-
|EXISTENCE||c||{{IPA|/ʃ/}}
|-
|THROUGH||d||{{IPA|/d/}}
|-
|THIS||f||{{IPA|/f/}}
|-
|INSIDE||g||{{IPA|/ɡ/}}
|-
|QUESTION||h||{{IPA|/h/}}
|-
|EQUAL||j||{{IPA|/ʒ/}}
|-
|ABOVE||k||{{IPA|/k/}}

|-
|AROUND||L||{{IPA|/l/}}

|-
|QUALITY||m||{{IPA|/m/}}

|-

|QUANTITY||n||{{IPA|/n/}}

|-

|BEFORE||p||{{IPA|/p/}}

|-

|POSITIVE||r||{{IPA|/ʀ/ or /r/}}

|-

|THING||s||{{IPA|/s/}}

|-

|TOWARDS||t||{{IPA|/t/}}

|-

|ACTIVE||v||{{IPA|/v/}}

|-

|POWER||w||{{IPA|/w/}}

|-
|RELATION||x||{{IPA|/x/}}
|-
|PART||z||{{IPA|/z/}}
|}

Additionally, short nasal vowels (marked with an asterisk) are used for numerals:
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! 0 || 1 || 2 || 3 || 4 || 5 || 6 || 7 || 8 || 9 || 10
|-
|{{angbr|Ŷ}}||{{angbr|â}}||{{angbr|ê}}||{{angbr|î}}||{{angbr|û}}||{{angbr|ô}}||{{angbr|Â}}||{{angbr|Ê}}||{{angbr|Î}}||{{angbr|Û}}||{{angbr|Ô}}
|}

The phoneme {{IPA|/b/}}, for instance, meaning "Together", is a bilabial stop, pronounced with the lips pressed together. "Light" is pronounced with a short {{IPA|/ɪ/}}, as the brightest, highest-frequency sound, while "Sound", is pronounced with a longer {{IPA|/iː/}}, as sound travels more slowly than light.

Each phoneme also has an ideographic glyph or symbol that represents its meaning. The symbol for "Human", {{IPA|/u/}} is depicted by the two legs or arms of the human being, also suggesting our dichotomous nature. The "human" may be fulfilled by the whole triangular trinity of "Spirit", a 'deep, mysterious' {{IPA|/uː/}}, (there are many possible trinities found in philosophy and religion). "Life", {{IPA|/o/}}, represented by the shape of a leaf, is photosynthesis forming the basis of life on Earth. "Feeling", {{IPA|/oː/}} is a heart shape, blood pressure and pulse reflecting various feelings, and "action", a 'vibrant' {{IPA|/v/}}, is represented by a lightning bolt, the most active phenomenon in nature.

;Example
{| class="wikitable"
|+
!Compound
!Morphology
!IPA
!Meaning
|-
|io
|Light-Life
|{{IPA|/ɪo/}}
|plant
|-
|iO
|Light-Feeling/Sensation
|{{IPA|/ɪo:/}}
|sight
|-
|iOv
|sight-Action/Verb
|{{IPA|/ɪo:v/}}
|to see
|-
|fu
|This-Human
|{{IPA|/fu/}}
|I, me
|-
|bu
|Together-Human
|{{IPA|/bu/}}
|you
|-
|bru
|Together-Good-Human
|{{IPA|/bʀu/}}
|friend
|-
|brU
|Together-Good-Spirit
|{{IPA|/bʀu:/}}
|peace
|}

== Encoding and Fonts ==

aUI is currently included in the unofficial [[w:ConScript Unicode Registry|ConScript Unicode Registry]] (CSUR), which assigns code points in the [[w:Private Use Area|Private Use Area]]. aUI code points are mapped to the range U+E270 to U+E28F.

The eight “Aux” variant fonts of [https://Kurinto.com/ Kurinto] (Kurinto Text Aux, Book Aux, Sans Aux, etc.) support aUI.

==See also==
* [[w:Victor Klemperer|Victor Klemperer]] and his book ''[[w:LTI – Lingua Tertii Imperii|LTI – Lingua Tertii Imperii]]''

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* [https://auilanguage.space/ Official aUI website]
* Libert, Alan (2000), ''A Priori Artificial Languages'', Lincom Europa, Munich. {{ISBN|3-89586-667-9}}
* [http://www.anomalist.com/reports/language.html The "Language of Space" — critical commentary] (however, not fully factual, per Andrea Weilgart)

[[Category:Engineered languages]]
[[Category:Philosophical languages]]
[[Category:Languages]]
[[Category:A priori]]

User talk:Chrysophylax

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== Language infobox color ==

Hello. I seem to be unable to change the color of my conlang's [[Riagi|infobox]], is there a trick to it?

== Ooops! Misplaced Page==

Hi Chrysophylax,

Apologies, I goofed when I was making an IPA template for the vowels in Nankôre. Now when I go to the Templates page I see "Nankôre" but I don't see the name for the template, which is "Nankore_Vowels_IPA". Could you please help me and remove "Nankôre" from the Templates page and replace it with "Nankore_Vowels_IPA"? I know I successfully created the template, because it appears on my conlang's page when I call the template.

Thanks!!

~~Anyar~~

== Subcategory for Czecklish ==

Can you make a subcategory for my conlang Czecklish? I have three separate articles for it, and it's getting hard to manage them. There will likely be three or four more articles concerning Czecklish in the future. I believe it would be more convenient for Linguifex visitors and users to view Czecklish and its various articles if it had a subcategory, like Khaz or Valian.

== Tagchen ==
Can you delete my [[Netagin]] page and all its associated pages? Many thanks, [[User:IlL|IlL]] ([[User talk:IlL|talk]]) 21:50, 29 October 2014 (CET)

::- Sure! If you don't mind me asking, any particular reason why? --[[File:Admin.png|35px|link=Linguifex:Administrators]] '''[[User talk:Chrysophylax|Χρυσοφύλαξ]]''' 22:02, 29 October 2014 (CET)

:::I decided to discontinue Netagin... it struck me as too much an ad-hoc hodgepodge. Though features from it will be absorbed into my other languages. In passing, what do you think about partaking in Linguifex Relay the Fourth (prematurely)? [[User:IlL|IlL]] ([[User talk:IlL|talk]]) 01:17, 30 October 2014 (CET)

::::Ah, I know that feeling. I would be okay with that! --[[File:Admin.png|35px|link=Linguifex:Administrators]] '''[[User talk:Chrysophylax|Χρυσοφύλαξ]]''' 01:42, 30 October 2014 (CET)

== How does one even ==
... make an a priori conlang they feel confident about? [[User:Ceige|'''CEIGE''']][[User talk:Ceige|⟨TAWK⟩]] 14:01, 7 December 2014 (CET)

== <strike>Ixnay'ed on the Acebookfay Accountway? </strike> ==
<strike>It's coming up as a removed account for spam/abuse - you've got my email (somewhere maybe...? :P ) so feel free to email me mate [[User:Ceige|'''CEIGE''']][[User talk:Ceige|⟨TAWK⟩]] 13:12, 10 March 2015 (CET)</strike>

==Concerning the Fourth Linguifex Relay==

Since Dē Graut Bʉr hasn't shown any signs of activity, I'm passing the relay to you.

===Fo hoinga fatipu===

''Rótrest léhkodé [[Fourth_Linguifex_Relay/Sceptrian|khugu]], lateeprlest roi bapu!'' (You should go there quickly and dance above the words!)

[[User:Juhhmi|Juhhmi]] ([[User talk:Juhhmi|talk]]) 21:57, 12 July 2015 (CEST)

===Wååhlis===
It seems Waahlis has not completed his whisper in time. Will you pass the relay to the next person? [[User:IlL|IlL]] ([[User talk:IlL|talk]]) 15:59, 16 July 2015 (CEST)

One å is enough. I got sick while translating the relay. But please, do pass it on. [[File:Waahlis.png|35px|link=Linguifex:Administrators]] '''[[User talk:Waahlis|Waahlis]]''' 16:17, 16 July 2015 (CEST)

:Done --[[File:Admin.png|35px|link=Linguifex:Administrators]] '''[[User talk:Chrysophylax|Χρυσοφύλαξ]]''' 16:23, 16 July 2015 (CEST)

== Can you do me a favor? ==

Could you delete every subpage and their talks listed here: [[User:Ílchőfti Lēmáthīd]]? You can leave a redirect from [[User:Ílchőfti Lēmáthīd]] to my current username. I've moved beyond that ugly name. [[User:IlL|IlL]] ([[User talk:IlL|talk]]) 04:14, 13 July 2015 (CEST)

:Done --[[File:Admin.png|35px|link=Linguifex:Administrators]] '''[[User talk:Chrysophylax|Χρυσοφύλαξ]]''' 15:13, 13 July 2015 (CEST)

== How do I tag? ==
I want to get my conlang, [[Latirdo]], on the list of languages, but I can't add the category to the article. What do I do?
Thanks.

--[[User:Sihithe Avralte|Sihithe Avralte]] ([[User talk:Sihithe Avralte|talk]]) 17:49, 22 March 2016 (CET)
:You add the category by writing <nowiki>[[Category:blahblah]]</nowiki> anywhere in the document. I usually recommend at the end. I have added the relevant tags to your article for you for now. If you have any other questions, I'lll gladly answer them. --[[File:Admin.png|35px|link=Linguifex:Administrators]] '''[[User talk:Chrysophylax|Χρυσοφύλαξ]]''' 20:01, 22 March 2016 (CET)

== Dėkujå ==
Just wanted to say thank you for fixing the page. Didn't know, where to do it though, so I'm just leaving it here. (Raistas)

== Delete ==

If I make a mistake and create a page that is clearly stupid, how do I tag it for deletion? I don't have the power and it doesn't seem right to bug specific people to delete a specific page. Is there something <nowiki>[[:Category:Delete me]]</nowiki>? --[[User:Aquatiki|Aquatiki]] ([[User talk:Aquatiki|talk]]) 03:39, 1 December 2018 (CET)

::You should tag it with <nowiki>{{speedy|reason}}</nowiki>. Check [[Template:Speedy]] out. [[File:Admin.png|35px|link=Linguifex:Administrators]] '''[[User talk:Chrysophylax|Χρυσοφύλαξ]]''' 11:07, 2 December 2018 (CET)

== Infobox language ==

So, I recently noticed that I'm prevented from editing templates that're transcluded on the main page, specifically [[Template:Infobox language]] and its subpages, and I was wondering either 1. if there's a way to work around this, 2. if you could turn-off cascading for the main page, or 3. if I could be given permission to edit these pages? If you just don't want non-admins editing these pages, that's completely fine too, but please let me know. -[[User:Учхљёная]] ([[User_talk:Учхљёная|talk]],[[:Category:Conlangs by Elliott Wheeler|conlangs]],[[Special:Contributions/Учхљёная|edits]]). 18:20, 19 January 2019 (CET).
:: Hi, that sounds perfectly reasonable. I will investigate this weekend if there's something we can do technically to allow safe users to edit high-frequency templates --[[File:Admin.png|35px|link=Linguifex:Administrators]] '''[[User talk:Chrysophylax|Χρυσοφύλαξ]]''' 14:35, 22 January 2019 (CET)
:: I've disabled cascading protection for now. Hopefully it won't bite the wiki in its bum. --[[File:Admin.png|35px|link=Linguifex:Administrators]] '''[[User talk:Chrysophylax|Χρυσοφύλαξ]]''' 00:03, 24 February 2020 (UTC)

== Deletion of Template:LangAbb ==

<del>[[Template:LangAbb]] was deleted, breaking functionality of [[Template:Etym]], which is used in various Contionary entries. I do not ask it be reinstated, but I would like to have access to its history so that I can view its interface and update Etym to use [[Template:ISO]].</del> Nevermind, I figured it out, the template is back in working order

--[[User:MIGUELbM|MIGUELbM]] ([[User talk:MIGUELbM|talk]]) 09:10, 8 February 2020 (UTC)

== Deletion of an image and changing of a page title ==

Hello,

</del>I'm quite new here in Linguifex and I did a (or two) mistake(s).
1. At updating a image which shows ,,Zimâna Ħāwārî (translates to ,,Hawari language")" in my newly invented Ṭoňżeĝâyî script, it always shows the former version of the image where I set the direction so: top to bottom, right to left, even if it should be left to right. To fix that issue, I would like to let it be deleted, and I don't know how one does it.
2. This mistake is less important to fix: Instead of giving my article title the name ,,Hawari language" I just wrote ,,Hawari". If possible, would you be able to change it?</del>

Thank you and have a good day👋🏼

Update (01.05.2020, 17:29 UTC): Thank you for fixing these two issues.😀

Yours sincerely, [[User:MansenBk|MansenBk]] ([[User talk:MansenBk|talk]]) 16:27, 1 May 2020 (UTC).

== Lost Conlangs ==

Hi. A while ago a user on Frathwiki started a project to try and rescue info about conlangs that had been stored on Langmaker in the 2000s, gone down with it but was retrievable via the Web Archive copies of Langmaker. They got so far then drifted off. I'm volunteering to start it again, and I also want to make my own (privately run but publicly accessible) list of the world's conlangs (probably in spreadsheet and searchable database form). I want to combine the jobs to reduce work time; I also think it would be good to have the same info in different places (as what was so unfortunate about Langmaker going down was so much of its info was not stored elsewhere). So I was wondering, would you be interested in allowing similar records of such langs here? I'm guessing not on account of your "non-sufficient content/long inactivity" deletion rule plus high style standards etc. However even if not how about a single page (/multiple if running over) with a name and barest details? I'd be prepared to do all the work, although help would certainly be appreciated. :)
[[User:Matthew McVeagh|Matthew McVeagh]] ([[User talk:Matthew McVeagh|talk]]) 04:32, 22 July 2020 (UTC)
:: If you keep it on one page that'd be fine [[File:Admin.png|35px|link=Linguifex:Administrators]] '''[[User talk:Chrysophylax|Χρυσοφύλαξ]]''' 07:32, 22 July 2020 (UTC)

== Safety on the Website ==

Dear Chrysophylax,
I have a quite important question about the website itself. Well, whenever I (it is also not only me) open the site from Discord, I get a warning saying that this website may steal personal or financial information and thus should be closed. Do you know why the warning appears?

Yours sincerely,
MansenBk [[User:MansenBk|MansenBk]] ([[User talk:MansenBk|talk]]) 15:40, 2 February 2021 (UTC)

::Nope, no idea. We use TLS 1.3 and don't take any personal and financial data beyond your email and username when you register. [[File:Admin.png|35px|link=Linguifex:Administrators]] '''[[User talk:Chrysophylax|Χρυσοφύλαξ]]''' 00:02, 29 April 2021 (UTC)

== New featured language ==

Wow, I'm quite honored to see that [[Avendonian]] [[Special:Diff/231620|has become]] a featured language. Many thanks! Cheers, [[User:Sware|'''swar''''''e''']] • [[User talk:Sware#top|🗣]] • [[Special:Contributions/Sware|🏲]] 16:16, 19 July 2021 (UTC)

== Tahano Hikamu font ==

Hi! I've been tinkering around lately with [[:Category:Ayeri lemmas|Ayeri entries]]. As you probably know, Ayeri is written in this quite-Brahmic script called ''Tahano Hikamu''. The creator of Ayeri, Carsten Becker, created a font for it and [https://github.com/carbeck/tagatibookg released it]. I've been wondering if it'd be possible for you or any administrator to add this font to Linguifex so I can use it. Since it's based on SIL Graphite engine, the font declaration must use the .ttf file, not .woff. Thanks! Cheers, [[User:Sware|'''swar''''''e''']] • [[User talk:Sware#top|🗣]] • [[Special:Contributions/Sware|🏲]] 15:17, 25 June 2022 (UTC)

: '''Edit:''' Wording and further details. 11:46, 27 June 2022 (UTC)
: '''Edit 2:''' I'll also need a script definition in Linguifex's common.css for <code>.Ayer</code>, much like [[wikt:MediaWiki:Common.css|Wiktionary's]]. Thanks! 17:12, 3 August 2022 (UTC)

== Change of Username ==

Dear Chrysophylax,

I would like to change my username from Aydbayk into Aydın Baykara. Would you arrange it please?

Yours sincerely,

~~Aydın Baykara~~

Aydın Baykara [[User:Aydbayk]] ([[User talk:Aydbayk|talk]]) 30 April 2023

== Making citations show up ==

Hello Chrysophylax, 
I've made a few edits to the aUI page, but after hours of trying cannot make all the citations show up in the Reference list (also, there's no "Cite" menu item like in the main Wikipedia). I've compared them with the apparently original ones in Wikipedia and they seem exactly the same to me. As you can see, I'm getting these error messages:

Cite error: <ref> tag with name "Weilgart-LOS" defined in <references> has group attribute "" which does not appear in prior text.
and
Cite error: <ref> tag defined in <references> has no name attribute.

Could you please explain what I'm missing and/or fix it?

Thanks so much! 

Andrea Weilgart Patten[[User:Andiweil|Andiweil]] ([[User talk:Andiweil|talk]]) 16:54, 26 June 2024 (UTC)

 PS I got a work around to finally do the trick per @sware, thanks...if you want to check it[[User:Andiweil|Andiweil]] ([[User talk:Andiweil|talk]]) 03:45, 27 June 2024 (UTC)

User talk:Chrysophylax

2024-06-27T03:45:19Z

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== Language infobox color ==

Hello. I seem to be unable to change the color of my conlang's [[Riagi|infobox]], is there a trick to it?

== Ooops! Misplaced Page==

Hi Chrysophylax,

Apologies, I goofed when I was making an IPA template for the vowels in Nankôre. Now when I go to the Templates page I see "Nankôre" but I don't see the name for the template, which is "Nankore_Vowels_IPA". Could you please help me and remove "Nankôre" from the Templates page and replace it with "Nankore_Vowels_IPA"? I know I successfully created the template, because it appears on my conlang's page when I call the template.

Thanks!!

~~Anyar~~

== Subcategory for Czecklish ==

Can you make a subcategory for my conlang Czecklish? I have three separate articles for it, and it's getting hard to manage them. There will likely be three or four more articles concerning Czecklish in the future. I believe it would be more convenient for Linguifex visitors and users to view Czecklish and its various articles if it had a subcategory, like Khaz or Valian.

== Tagchen ==
Can you delete my [[Netagin]] page and all its associated pages? Many thanks, [[User:IlL|IlL]] ([[User talk:IlL|talk]]) 21:50, 29 October 2014 (CET)

::- Sure! If you don't mind me asking, any particular reason why? --[[File:Admin.png|35px|link=Linguifex:Administrators]] '''[[User talk:Chrysophylax|Χρυσοφύλαξ]]''' 22:02, 29 October 2014 (CET)

:::I decided to discontinue Netagin... it struck me as too much an ad-hoc hodgepodge. Though features from it will be absorbed into my other languages. In passing, what do you think about partaking in Linguifex Relay the Fourth (prematurely)? [[User:IlL|IlL]] ([[User talk:IlL|talk]]) 01:17, 30 October 2014 (CET)

::::Ah, I know that feeling. I would be okay with that! --[[File:Admin.png|35px|link=Linguifex:Administrators]] '''[[User talk:Chrysophylax|Χρυσοφύλαξ]]''' 01:42, 30 October 2014 (CET)

== How does one even ==
... make an a priori conlang they feel confident about? [[User:Ceige|'''CEIGE''']][[User talk:Ceige|⟨TAWK⟩]] 14:01, 7 December 2014 (CET)

== <strike>Ixnay'ed on the Acebookfay Accountway? </strike> ==
<strike>It's coming up as a removed account for spam/abuse - you've got my email (somewhere maybe...? :P ) so feel free to email me mate [[User:Ceige|'''CEIGE''']][[User talk:Ceige|⟨TAWK⟩]] 13:12, 10 March 2015 (CET)</strike>

==Concerning the Fourth Linguifex Relay==

Since Dē Graut Bʉr hasn't shown any signs of activity, I'm passing the relay to you.

===Fo hoinga fatipu===

''Rótrest léhkodé [[Fourth_Linguifex_Relay/Sceptrian|khugu]], lateeprlest roi bapu!'' (You should go there quickly and dance above the words!)

[[User:Juhhmi|Juhhmi]] ([[User talk:Juhhmi|talk]]) 21:57, 12 July 2015 (CEST)

===Wååhlis===
It seems Waahlis has not completed his whisper in time. Will you pass the relay to the next person? [[User:IlL|IlL]] ([[User talk:IlL|talk]]) 15:59, 16 July 2015 (CEST)

One å is enough. I got sick while translating the relay. But please, do pass it on. [[File:Waahlis.png|35px|link=Linguifex:Administrators]] '''[[User talk:Waahlis|Waahlis]]''' 16:17, 16 July 2015 (CEST)

:Done --[[File:Admin.png|35px|link=Linguifex:Administrators]] '''[[User talk:Chrysophylax|Χρυσοφύλαξ]]''' 16:23, 16 July 2015 (CEST)

== Can you do me a favor? ==

Could you delete every subpage and their talks listed here: [[User:Ílchőfti Lēmáthīd]]? You can leave a redirect from [[User:Ílchőfti Lēmáthīd]] to my current username. I've moved beyond that ugly name. [[User:IlL|IlL]] ([[User talk:IlL|talk]]) 04:14, 13 July 2015 (CEST)

:Done --[[File:Admin.png|35px|link=Linguifex:Administrators]] '''[[User talk:Chrysophylax|Χρυσοφύλαξ]]''' 15:13, 13 July 2015 (CEST)

== How do I tag? ==
I want to get my conlang, [[Latirdo]], on the list of languages, but I can't add the category to the article. What do I do?
Thanks.

--[[User:Sihithe Avralte|Sihithe Avralte]] ([[User talk:Sihithe Avralte|talk]]) 17:49, 22 March 2016 (CET)
:You add the category by writing <nowiki>[[Category:blahblah]]</nowiki> anywhere in the document. I usually recommend at the end. I have added the relevant tags to your article for you for now. If you have any other questions, I'lll gladly answer them. --[[File:Admin.png|35px|link=Linguifex:Administrators]] '''[[User talk:Chrysophylax|Χρυσοφύλαξ]]''' 20:01, 22 March 2016 (CET)

== Dėkujå ==
Just wanted to say thank you for fixing the page. Didn't know, where to do it though, so I'm just leaving it here. (Raistas)

== Delete ==

If I make a mistake and create a page that is clearly stupid, how do I tag it for deletion? I don't have the power and it doesn't seem right to bug specific people to delete a specific page. Is there something <nowiki>[[:Category:Delete me]]</nowiki>? --[[User:Aquatiki|Aquatiki]] ([[User talk:Aquatiki|talk]]) 03:39, 1 December 2018 (CET)

::You should tag it with <nowiki>{{speedy|reason}}</nowiki>. Check [[Template:Speedy]] out. [[File:Admin.png|35px|link=Linguifex:Administrators]] '''[[User talk:Chrysophylax|Χρυσοφύλαξ]]''' 11:07, 2 December 2018 (CET)

== Infobox language ==

So, I recently noticed that I'm prevented from editing templates that're transcluded on the main page, specifically [[Template:Infobox language]] and its subpages, and I was wondering either 1. if there's a way to work around this, 2. if you could turn-off cascading for the main page, or 3. if I could be given permission to edit these pages? If you just don't want non-admins editing these pages, that's completely fine too, but please let me know. -[[User:Учхљёная]] ([[User_talk:Учхљёная|talk]],[[:Category:Conlangs by Elliott Wheeler|conlangs]],[[Special:Contributions/Учхљёная|edits]]). 18:20, 19 January 2019 (CET).
:: Hi, that sounds perfectly reasonable. I will investigate this weekend if there's something we can do technically to allow safe users to edit high-frequency templates --[[File:Admin.png|35px|link=Linguifex:Administrators]] '''[[User talk:Chrysophylax|Χρυσοφύλαξ]]''' 14:35, 22 January 2019 (CET)
:: I've disabled cascading protection for now. Hopefully it won't bite the wiki in its bum. --[[File:Admin.png|35px|link=Linguifex:Administrators]] '''[[User talk:Chrysophylax|Χρυσοφύλαξ]]''' 00:03, 24 February 2020 (UTC)

== Deletion of Template:LangAbb ==

<del>[[Template:LangAbb]] was deleted, breaking functionality of [[Template:Etym]], which is used in various Contionary entries. I do not ask it be reinstated, but I would like to have access to its history so that I can view its interface and update Etym to use [[Template:ISO]].</del> Nevermind, I figured it out, the template is back in working order

--[[User:MIGUELbM|MIGUELbM]] ([[User talk:MIGUELbM|talk]]) 09:10, 8 February 2020 (UTC)

== Deletion of an image and changing of a page title ==

Hello,

</del>I'm quite new here in Linguifex and I did a (or two) mistake(s).
1. At updating a image which shows ,,Zimâna Ħāwārî (translates to ,,Hawari language")" in my newly invented Ṭoňżeĝâyî script, it always shows the former version of the image where I set the direction so: top to bottom, right to left, even if it should be left to right. To fix that issue, I would like to let it be deleted, and I don't know how one does it.
2. This mistake is less important to fix: Instead of giving my article title the name ,,Hawari language" I just wrote ,,Hawari". If possible, would you be able to change it?</del>

Thank you and have a good day👋🏼

Update (01.05.2020, 17:29 UTC): Thank you for fixing these two issues.😀

Yours sincerely, [[User:MansenBk|MansenBk]] ([[User talk:MansenBk|talk]]) 16:27, 1 May 2020 (UTC).

== Lost Conlangs ==

Hi. A while ago a user on Frathwiki started a project to try and rescue info about conlangs that had been stored on Langmaker in the 2000s, gone down with it but was retrievable via the Web Archive copies of Langmaker. They got so far then drifted off. I'm volunteering to start it again, and I also want to make my own (privately run but publicly accessible) list of the world's conlangs (probably in spreadsheet and searchable database form). I want to combine the jobs to reduce work time; I also think it would be good to have the same info in different places (as what was so unfortunate about Langmaker going down was so much of its info was not stored elsewhere). So I was wondering, would you be interested in allowing similar records of such langs here? I'm guessing not on account of your "non-sufficient content/long inactivity" deletion rule plus high style standards etc. However even if not how about a single page (/multiple if running over) with a name and barest details? I'd be prepared to do all the work, although help would certainly be appreciated. :)
[[User:Matthew McVeagh|Matthew McVeagh]] ([[User talk:Matthew McVeagh|talk]]) 04:32, 22 July 2020 (UTC)
:: If you keep it on one page that'd be fine [[File:Admin.png|35px|link=Linguifex:Administrators]] '''[[User talk:Chrysophylax|Χρυσοφύλαξ]]''' 07:32, 22 July 2020 (UTC)

== Safety on the Website ==

Dear Chrysophylax,
I have a quite important question about the website itself. Well, whenever I (it is also not only me) open the site from Discord, I get a warning saying that this website may steal personal or financial information and thus should be closed. Do you know why the warning appears?

Yours sincerely,
MansenBk [[User:MansenBk|MansenBk]] ([[User talk:MansenBk|talk]]) 15:40, 2 February 2021 (UTC)

::Nope, no idea. We use TLS 1.3 and don't take any personal and financial data beyond your email and username when you register. [[File:Admin.png|35px|link=Linguifex:Administrators]] '''[[User talk:Chrysophylax|Χρυσοφύλαξ]]''' 00:02, 29 April 2021 (UTC)

== New featured language ==

Wow, I'm quite honored to see that [[Avendonian]] [[Special:Diff/231620|has become]] a featured language. Many thanks! Cheers, [[User:Sware|'''swar''''''e''']] • [[User talk:Sware#top|🗣]] • [[Special:Contributions/Sware|🏲]] 16:16, 19 July 2021 (UTC)

== Tahano Hikamu font ==

Hi! I've been tinkering around lately with [[:Category:Ayeri lemmas|Ayeri entries]]. As you probably know, Ayeri is written in this quite-Brahmic script called ''Tahano Hikamu''. The creator of Ayeri, Carsten Becker, created a font for it and [https://github.com/carbeck/tagatibookg released it]. I've been wondering if it'd be possible for you or any administrator to add this font to Linguifex so I can use it. Since it's based on SIL Graphite engine, the font declaration must use the .ttf file, not .woff. Thanks! Cheers, [[User:Sware|'''swar''''''e''']] • [[User talk:Sware#top|🗣]] • [[Special:Contributions/Sware|🏲]] 15:17, 25 June 2022 (UTC)

: '''Edit:''' Wording and further details. 11:46, 27 June 2022 (UTC)
: '''Edit 2:''' I'll also need a script definition in Linguifex's common.css for <code>.Ayer</code>, much like [[wikt:MediaWiki:Common.css|Wiktionary's]]. Thanks! 17:12, 3 August 2022 (UTC)

== Change of Username ==

Dear Chrysophylax,

I would like to change my username from Aydbayk into Aydın Baykara. Would you arrange it please?

Yours sincerely,

~~Aydın Baykara~~

Aydın Baykara [[User:Aydbayk]] ([[User talk:Aydbayk|talk]]) 30 April 2023

== Making citations show up ==

Hello Chrysophylax, 
I've made a few edits to the aUI page, but after hours of trying cannot make all the citations show up in the Reference list (also, there's no "Cite" menu item like in the main Wikipedia). I've compared them with the apparently original ones in Wikipedia and they seem exactly the same to me. As you can see, I'm getting these error messages:

Cite error: <ref> tag with name "Weilgart-LOS" defined in <references> has group attribute "" which does not appear in prior text.
and
Cite error: <ref> tag defined in <references> has no name attribute.

Could you please explain what I'm missing and/or fix it?

Thanks so much! 

Andrea Weilgart Patten[[User:Andiweil|Andiweil]] ([[User talk:Andiweil|talk]]) 16:54, 26 June 2024 (UTC)

 PS I got a work around to do the trick per @sware, thanks...if you want to check it[[User:Andiweil|Andiweil]] ([[User talk:Andiweil|talk]]) 03:45, 27 June 2024 (UTC)

User talk:Chrysophylax

2024-06-27T03:43:41Z

Andiweil: /* Making citations show up */

And welcome to my talk page! I Welcome you, who has come to my talk page! Everything is possible at my talk page! The only limit is your imagination! {{archive}}
<div style="width: 350px; border: 2px solid white; background: white; padding: 1em; -moz-box-shadow: 0 0 5px 5px #; -webkit-box-shadow: 0 0 3px 3px #; box-shadow: 0 0 3px 3px #;">
* Please add a new topic when posting a comment.
* Forget not to sign with <nowiki>~~~~</nowiki> (yes, that's four tildes.)
* Keep it concise.
* And for the love of me, indent when replying or commenting on a post!
</div>

== Language infobox color ==

Hello. I seem to be unable to change the color of my conlang's [[Riagi|infobox]], is there a trick to it?

== Ooops! Misplaced Page==

Hi Chrysophylax,

Apologies, I goofed when I was making an IPA template for the vowels in Nankôre. Now when I go to the Templates page I see "Nankôre" but I don't see the name for the template, which is "Nankore_Vowels_IPA". Could you please help me and remove "Nankôre" from the Templates page and replace it with "Nankore_Vowels_IPA"? I know I successfully created the template, because it appears on my conlang's page when I call the template.

Thanks!!

~~Anyar~~

== Subcategory for Czecklish ==

Can you make a subcategory for my conlang Czecklish? I have three separate articles for it, and it's getting hard to manage them. There will likely be three or four more articles concerning Czecklish in the future. I believe it would be more convenient for Linguifex visitors and users to view Czecklish and its various articles if it had a subcategory, like Khaz or Valian.

== Tagchen ==
Can you delete my [[Netagin]] page and all its associated pages? Many thanks, [[User:IlL|IlL]] ([[User talk:IlL|talk]]) 21:50, 29 October 2014 (CET)

::- Sure! If you don't mind me asking, any particular reason why? --[[File:Admin.png|35px|link=Linguifex:Administrators]] '''[[User talk:Chrysophylax|Χρυσοφύλαξ]]''' 22:02, 29 October 2014 (CET)

:::I decided to discontinue Netagin... it struck me as too much an ad-hoc hodgepodge. Though features from it will be absorbed into my other languages. In passing, what do you think about partaking in Linguifex Relay the Fourth (prematurely)? [[User:IlL|IlL]] ([[User talk:IlL|talk]]) 01:17, 30 October 2014 (CET)

::::Ah, I know that feeling. I would be okay with that! --[[File:Admin.png|35px|link=Linguifex:Administrators]] '''[[User talk:Chrysophylax|Χρυσοφύλαξ]]''' 01:42, 30 October 2014 (CET)

== How does one even ==
... make an a priori conlang they feel confident about? [[User:Ceige|'''CEIGE''']][[User talk:Ceige|⟨TAWK⟩]] 14:01, 7 December 2014 (CET)

== <strike>Ixnay'ed on the Acebookfay Accountway? </strike> ==
<strike>It's coming up as a removed account for spam/abuse - you've got my email (somewhere maybe...? :P ) so feel free to email me mate [[User:Ceige|'''CEIGE''']][[User talk:Ceige|⟨TAWK⟩]] 13:12, 10 March 2015 (CET)</strike>

==Concerning the Fourth Linguifex Relay==

Since Dē Graut Bʉr hasn't shown any signs of activity, I'm passing the relay to you.

===Fo hoinga fatipu===

''Rótrest léhkodé [[Fourth_Linguifex_Relay/Sceptrian|khugu]], lateeprlest roi bapu!'' (You should go there quickly and dance above the words!)

[[User:Juhhmi|Juhhmi]] ([[User talk:Juhhmi|talk]]) 21:57, 12 July 2015 (CEST)

===Wååhlis===
It seems Waahlis has not completed his whisper in time. Will you pass the relay to the next person? [[User:IlL|IlL]] ([[User talk:IlL|talk]]) 15:59, 16 July 2015 (CEST)

One å is enough. I got sick while translating the relay. But please, do pass it on. [[File:Waahlis.png|35px|link=Linguifex:Administrators]] '''[[User talk:Waahlis|Waahlis]]''' 16:17, 16 July 2015 (CEST)

:Done --[[File:Admin.png|35px|link=Linguifex:Administrators]] '''[[User talk:Chrysophylax|Χρυσοφύλαξ]]''' 16:23, 16 July 2015 (CEST)

== Can you do me a favor? ==

Could you delete every subpage and their talks listed here: [[User:Ílchőfti Lēmáthīd]]? You can leave a redirect from [[User:Ílchőfti Lēmáthīd]] to my current username. I've moved beyond that ugly name. [[User:IlL|IlL]] ([[User talk:IlL|talk]]) 04:14, 13 July 2015 (CEST)

:Done --[[File:Admin.png|35px|link=Linguifex:Administrators]] '''[[User talk:Chrysophylax|Χρυσοφύλαξ]]''' 15:13, 13 July 2015 (CEST)

== How do I tag? ==
I want to get my conlang, [[Latirdo]], on the list of languages, but I can't add the category to the article. What do I do?
Thanks.

--[[User:Sihithe Avralte|Sihithe Avralte]] ([[User talk:Sihithe Avralte|talk]]) 17:49, 22 March 2016 (CET)
:You add the category by writing <nowiki>[[Category:blahblah]]</nowiki> anywhere in the document. I usually recommend at the end. I have added the relevant tags to your article for you for now. If you have any other questions, I'lll gladly answer them. --[[File:Admin.png|35px|link=Linguifex:Administrators]] '''[[User talk:Chrysophylax|Χρυσοφύλαξ]]''' 20:01, 22 March 2016 (CET)

== Dėkujå ==
Just wanted to say thank you for fixing the page. Didn't know, where to do it though, so I'm just leaving it here. (Raistas)

== Delete ==

If I make a mistake and create a page that is clearly stupid, how do I tag it for deletion? I don't have the power and it doesn't seem right to bug specific people to delete a specific page. Is there something <nowiki>[[:Category:Delete me]]</nowiki>? --[[User:Aquatiki|Aquatiki]] ([[User talk:Aquatiki|talk]]) 03:39, 1 December 2018 (CET)

::You should tag it with <nowiki>{{speedy|reason}}</nowiki>. Check [[Template:Speedy]] out. [[File:Admin.png|35px|link=Linguifex:Administrators]] '''[[User talk:Chrysophylax|Χρυσοφύλαξ]]''' 11:07, 2 December 2018 (CET)

== Infobox language ==

So, I recently noticed that I'm prevented from editing templates that're transcluded on the main page, specifically [[Template:Infobox language]] and its subpages, and I was wondering either 1. if there's a way to work around this, 2. if you could turn-off cascading for the main page, or 3. if I could be given permission to edit these pages? If you just don't want non-admins editing these pages, that's completely fine too, but please let me know. -[[User:Учхљёная]] ([[User_talk:Учхљёная|talk]],[[:Category:Conlangs by Elliott Wheeler|conlangs]],[[Special:Contributions/Учхљёная|edits]]). 18:20, 19 January 2019 (CET).
:: Hi, that sounds perfectly reasonable. I will investigate this weekend if there's something we can do technically to allow safe users to edit high-frequency templates --[[File:Admin.png|35px|link=Linguifex:Administrators]] '''[[User talk:Chrysophylax|Χρυσοφύλαξ]]''' 14:35, 22 January 2019 (CET)
:: I've disabled cascading protection for now. Hopefully it won't bite the wiki in its bum. --[[File:Admin.png|35px|link=Linguifex:Administrators]] '''[[User talk:Chrysophylax|Χρυσοφύλαξ]]''' 00:03, 24 February 2020 (UTC)

== Deletion of Template:LangAbb ==

<del>[[Template:LangAbb]] was deleted, breaking functionality of [[Template:Etym]], which is used in various Contionary entries. I do not ask it be reinstated, but I would like to have access to its history so that I can view its interface and update Etym to use [[Template:ISO]].</del> Nevermind, I figured it out, the template is back in working order

--[[User:MIGUELbM|MIGUELbM]] ([[User talk:MIGUELbM|talk]]) 09:10, 8 February 2020 (UTC)

== Deletion of an image and changing of a page title ==

Hello,

</del>I'm quite new here in Linguifex and I did a (or two) mistake(s).
1. At updating a image which shows ,,Zimâna Ħāwārî (translates to ,,Hawari language")" in my newly invented Ṭoňżeĝâyî script, it always shows the former version of the image where I set the direction so: top to bottom, right to left, even if it should be left to right. To fix that issue, I would like to let it be deleted, and I don't know how one does it.
2. This mistake is less important to fix: Instead of giving my article title the name ,,Hawari language" I just wrote ,,Hawari". If possible, would you be able to change it?</del>

Thank you and have a good day👋🏼

Update (01.05.2020, 17:29 UTC): Thank you for fixing these two issues.😀

Yours sincerely, [[User:MansenBk|MansenBk]] ([[User talk:MansenBk|talk]]) 16:27, 1 May 2020 (UTC).

== Lost Conlangs ==

Hi. A while ago a user on Frathwiki started a project to try and rescue info about conlangs that had been stored on Langmaker in the 2000s, gone down with it but was retrievable via the Web Archive copies of Langmaker. They got so far then drifted off. I'm volunteering to start it again, and I also want to make my own (privately run but publicly accessible) list of the world's conlangs (probably in spreadsheet and searchable database form). I want to combine the jobs to reduce work time; I also think it would be good to have the same info in different places (as what was so unfortunate about Langmaker going down was so much of its info was not stored elsewhere). So I was wondering, would you be interested in allowing similar records of such langs here? I'm guessing not on account of your "non-sufficient content/long inactivity" deletion rule plus high style standards etc. However even if not how about a single page (/multiple if running over) with a name and barest details? I'd be prepared to do all the work, although help would certainly be appreciated. :)
[[User:Matthew McVeagh|Matthew McVeagh]] ([[User talk:Matthew McVeagh|talk]]) 04:32, 22 July 2020 (UTC)
:: If you keep it on one page that'd be fine [[File:Admin.png|35px|link=Linguifex:Administrators]] '''[[User talk:Chrysophylax|Χρυσοφύλαξ]]''' 07:32, 22 July 2020 (UTC)

== Safety on the Website ==

Dear Chrysophylax,
I have a quite important question about the website itself. Well, whenever I (it is also not only me) open the site from Discord, I get a warning saying that this website may steal personal or financial information and thus should be closed. Do you know why the warning appears?

Yours sincerely,
MansenBk [[User:MansenBk|MansenBk]] ([[User talk:MansenBk|talk]]) 15:40, 2 February 2021 (UTC)

::Nope, no idea. We use TLS 1.3 and don't take any personal and financial data beyond your email and username when you register. [[File:Admin.png|35px|link=Linguifex:Administrators]] '''[[User talk:Chrysophylax|Χρυσοφύλαξ]]''' 00:02, 29 April 2021 (UTC)

== New featured language ==

Wow, I'm quite honored to see that [[Avendonian]] [[Special:Diff/231620|has become]] a featured language. Many thanks! Cheers, [[User:Sware|'''swar''''''e''']] • [[User talk:Sware#top|🗣]] • [[Special:Contributions/Sware|🏲]] 16:16, 19 July 2021 (UTC)

== Tahano Hikamu font ==

Hi! I've been tinkering around lately with [[:Category:Ayeri lemmas|Ayeri entries]]. As you probably know, Ayeri is written in this quite-Brahmic script called ''Tahano Hikamu''. The creator of Ayeri, Carsten Becker, created a font for it and [https://github.com/carbeck/tagatibookg released it]. I've been wondering if it'd be possible for you or any administrator to add this font to Linguifex so I can use it. Since it's based on SIL Graphite engine, the font declaration must use the .ttf file, not .woff. Thanks! Cheers, [[User:Sware|'''swar''''''e''']] • [[User talk:Sware#top|🗣]] • [[Special:Contributions/Sware|🏲]] 15:17, 25 June 2022 (UTC)

: '''Edit:''' Wording and further details. 11:46, 27 June 2022 (UTC)
: '''Edit 2:''' I'll also need a script definition in Linguifex's common.css for <code>.Ayer</code>, much like [[wikt:MediaWiki:Common.css|Wiktionary's]]. Thanks! 17:12, 3 August 2022 (UTC)

== Change of Username ==

Dear Chrysophylax,

I would like to change my username from Aydbayk into Aydın Baykara. Would you arrange it please?

Yours sincerely,

~~Aydın Baykara~~

Aydın Baykara [[User:Aydbayk]] ([[User talk:Aydbayk|talk]]) 30 April 2023

== Making citations show up ==

Hello Chrysophylax, 
I've made a few edits to the aUI page, but after hours of trying cannot make all the citations show up in the Reference list (also, there's no "Cite" menu item like in the main Wikipedia). I've compared them with the apparently original ones in Wikipedia and they seem exactly the same to me. As you can see, I'm getting these error messages:

Cite error: <ref> tag with name "Weilgart-LOS" defined in <references> has group attribute "" which does not appear in prior text.
and
Cite error: <ref> tag defined in <references> has no name attribute.

Could you please explain what I'm missing and/or fix it?

Thanks so much! 

Andrea Weilgart Patten[[User:Andiweil|Andiweil]] ([[User talk:Andiweil|talk]]) 16:54, 26 June 2024 (UTC)

 PS I got a work around to do the trick per @sware, thanks...if you want to check it

User talk:Chrysophylax

2024-06-27T03:42:38Z

Andiweil: /* Making citations show up */

And welcome to my talk page! I Welcome you, who has come to my talk page! Everything is possible at my talk page! The only limit is your imagination! {{archive}}
<div style="width: 350px; border: 2px solid white; background: white; padding: 1em; -moz-box-shadow: 0 0 5px 5px #; -webkit-box-shadow: 0 0 3px 3px #; box-shadow: 0 0 3px 3px #;">
* Please add a new topic when posting a comment.
* Forget not to sign with <nowiki>~~~~</nowiki> (yes, that's four tildes.)
* Keep it concise.
* And for the love of me, indent when replying or commenting on a post!
</div>

== Language infobox color ==

Hello. I seem to be unable to change the color of my conlang's [[Riagi|infobox]], is there a trick to it?

== Ooops! Misplaced Page==

Hi Chrysophylax,

Apologies, I goofed when I was making an IPA template for the vowels in Nankôre. Now when I go to the Templates page I see "Nankôre" but I don't see the name for the template, which is "Nankore_Vowels_IPA". Could you please help me and remove "Nankôre" from the Templates page and replace it with "Nankore_Vowels_IPA"? I know I successfully created the template, because it appears on my conlang's page when I call the template.

Thanks!!

~~Anyar~~

== Subcategory for Czecklish ==

Can you make a subcategory for my conlang Czecklish? I have three separate articles for it, and it's getting hard to manage them. There will likely be three or four more articles concerning Czecklish in the future. I believe it would be more convenient for Linguifex visitors and users to view Czecklish and its various articles if it had a subcategory, like Khaz or Valian.

== Tagchen ==
Can you delete my [[Netagin]] page and all its associated pages? Many thanks, [[User:IlL|IlL]] ([[User talk:IlL|talk]]) 21:50, 29 October 2014 (CET)

::- Sure! If you don't mind me asking, any particular reason why? --[[File:Admin.png|35px|link=Linguifex:Administrators]] '''[[User talk:Chrysophylax|Χρυσοφύλαξ]]''' 22:02, 29 October 2014 (CET)

:::I decided to discontinue Netagin... it struck me as too much an ad-hoc hodgepodge. Though features from it will be absorbed into my other languages. In passing, what do you think about partaking in Linguifex Relay the Fourth (prematurely)? [[User:IlL|IlL]] ([[User talk:IlL|talk]]) 01:17, 30 October 2014 (CET)

::::Ah, I know that feeling. I would be okay with that! --[[File:Admin.png|35px|link=Linguifex:Administrators]] '''[[User talk:Chrysophylax|Χρυσοφύλαξ]]''' 01:42, 30 October 2014 (CET)

== How does one even ==
... make an a priori conlang they feel confident about? [[User:Ceige|'''CEIGE''']][[User talk:Ceige|⟨TAWK⟩]] 14:01, 7 December 2014 (CET)

== <strike>Ixnay'ed on the Acebookfay Accountway? </strike> ==
<strike>It's coming up as a removed account for spam/abuse - you've got my email (somewhere maybe...? :P ) so feel free to email me mate [[User:Ceige|'''CEIGE''']][[User talk:Ceige|⟨TAWK⟩]] 13:12, 10 March 2015 (CET)</strike>

==Concerning the Fourth Linguifex Relay==

Since Dē Graut Bʉr hasn't shown any signs of activity, I'm passing the relay to you.

===Fo hoinga fatipu===

''Rótrest léhkodé [[Fourth_Linguifex_Relay/Sceptrian|khugu]], lateeprlest roi bapu!'' (You should go there quickly and dance above the words!)

[[User:Juhhmi|Juhhmi]] ([[User talk:Juhhmi|talk]]) 21:57, 12 July 2015 (CEST)

===Wååhlis===
It seems Waahlis has not completed his whisper in time. Will you pass the relay to the next person? [[User:IlL|IlL]] ([[User talk:IlL|talk]]) 15:59, 16 July 2015 (CEST)

One å is enough. I got sick while translating the relay. But please, do pass it on. [[File:Waahlis.png|35px|link=Linguifex:Administrators]] '''[[User talk:Waahlis|Waahlis]]''' 16:17, 16 July 2015 (CEST)

:Done --[[File:Admin.png|35px|link=Linguifex:Administrators]] '''[[User talk:Chrysophylax|Χρυσοφύλαξ]]''' 16:23, 16 July 2015 (CEST)

== Can you do me a favor? ==

Could you delete every subpage and their talks listed here: [[User:Ílchőfti Lēmáthīd]]? You can leave a redirect from [[User:Ílchőfti Lēmáthīd]] to my current username. I've moved beyond that ugly name. [[User:IlL|IlL]] ([[User talk:IlL|talk]]) 04:14, 13 July 2015 (CEST)

:Done --[[File:Admin.png|35px|link=Linguifex:Administrators]] '''[[User talk:Chrysophylax|Χρυσοφύλαξ]]''' 15:13, 13 July 2015 (CEST)

== How do I tag? ==
I want to get my conlang, [[Latirdo]], on the list of languages, but I can't add the category to the article. What do I do?
Thanks.

--[[User:Sihithe Avralte|Sihithe Avralte]] ([[User talk:Sihithe Avralte|talk]]) 17:49, 22 March 2016 (CET)
:You add the category by writing <nowiki>[[Category:blahblah]]</nowiki> anywhere in the document. I usually recommend at the end. I have added the relevant tags to your article for you for now. If you have any other questions, I'lll gladly answer them. --[[File:Admin.png|35px|link=Linguifex:Administrators]] '''[[User talk:Chrysophylax|Χρυσοφύλαξ]]''' 20:01, 22 March 2016 (CET)

== Dėkujå ==
Just wanted to say thank you for fixing the page. Didn't know, where to do it though, so I'm just leaving it here. (Raistas)

== Delete ==

If I make a mistake and create a page that is clearly stupid, how do I tag it for deletion? I don't have the power and it doesn't seem right to bug specific people to delete a specific page. Is there something <nowiki>[[:Category:Delete me]]</nowiki>? --[[User:Aquatiki|Aquatiki]] ([[User talk:Aquatiki|talk]]) 03:39, 1 December 2018 (CET)

::You should tag it with <nowiki>{{speedy|reason}}</nowiki>. Check [[Template:Speedy]] out. [[File:Admin.png|35px|link=Linguifex:Administrators]] '''[[User talk:Chrysophylax|Χρυσοφύλαξ]]''' 11:07, 2 December 2018 (CET)

== Infobox language ==

So, I recently noticed that I'm prevented from editing templates that're transcluded on the main page, specifically [[Template:Infobox language]] and its subpages, and I was wondering either 1. if there's a way to work around this, 2. if you could turn-off cascading for the main page, or 3. if I could be given permission to edit these pages? If you just don't want non-admins editing these pages, that's completely fine too, but please let me know. -[[User:Учхљёная]] ([[User_talk:Учхљёная|talk]],[[:Category:Conlangs by Elliott Wheeler|conlangs]],[[Special:Contributions/Учхљёная|edits]]). 18:20, 19 January 2019 (CET).
:: Hi, that sounds perfectly reasonable. I will investigate this weekend if there's something we can do technically to allow safe users to edit high-frequency templates --[[File:Admin.png|35px|link=Linguifex:Administrators]] '''[[User talk:Chrysophylax|Χρυσοφύλαξ]]''' 14:35, 22 January 2019 (CET)
:: I've disabled cascading protection for now. Hopefully it won't bite the wiki in its bum. --[[File:Admin.png|35px|link=Linguifex:Administrators]] '''[[User talk:Chrysophylax|Χρυσοφύλαξ]]''' 00:03, 24 February 2020 (UTC)

== Deletion of Template:LangAbb ==

<del>[[Template:LangAbb]] was deleted, breaking functionality of [[Template:Etym]], which is used in various Contionary entries. I do not ask it be reinstated, but I would like to have access to its history so that I can view its interface and update Etym to use [[Template:ISO]].</del> Nevermind, I figured it out, the template is back in working order

--[[User:MIGUELbM|MIGUELbM]] ([[User talk:MIGUELbM|talk]]) 09:10, 8 February 2020 (UTC)

== Deletion of an image and changing of a page title ==

Hello,

</del>I'm quite new here in Linguifex and I did a (or two) mistake(s).
1. At updating a image which shows ,,Zimâna Ħāwārî (translates to ,,Hawari language")" in my newly invented Ṭoňżeĝâyî script, it always shows the former version of the image where I set the direction so: top to bottom, right to left, even if it should be left to right. To fix that issue, I would like to let it be deleted, and I don't know how one does it.
2. This mistake is less important to fix: Instead of giving my article title the name ,,Hawari language" I just wrote ,,Hawari". If possible, would you be able to change it?</del>

Thank you and have a good day👋🏼

Update (01.05.2020, 17:29 UTC): Thank you for fixing these two issues.😀

Yours sincerely, [[User:MansenBk|MansenBk]] ([[User talk:MansenBk|talk]]) 16:27, 1 May 2020 (UTC).

== Lost Conlangs ==

Hi. A while ago a user on Frathwiki started a project to try and rescue info about conlangs that had been stored on Langmaker in the 2000s, gone down with it but was retrievable via the Web Archive copies of Langmaker. They got so far then drifted off. I'm volunteering to start it again, and I also want to make my own (privately run but publicly accessible) list of the world's conlangs (probably in spreadsheet and searchable database form). I want to combine the jobs to reduce work time; I also think it would be good to have the same info in different places (as what was so unfortunate about Langmaker going down was so much of its info was not stored elsewhere). So I was wondering, would you be interested in allowing similar records of such langs here? I'm guessing not on account of your "non-sufficient content/long inactivity" deletion rule plus high style standards etc. However even if not how about a single page (/multiple if running over) with a name and barest details? I'd be prepared to do all the work, although help would certainly be appreciated. :)
[[User:Matthew McVeagh|Matthew McVeagh]] ([[User talk:Matthew McVeagh|talk]]) 04:32, 22 July 2020 (UTC)
:: If you keep it on one page that'd be fine [[File:Admin.png|35px|link=Linguifex:Administrators]] '''[[User talk:Chrysophylax|Χρυσοφύλαξ]]''' 07:32, 22 July 2020 (UTC)

== Safety on the Website ==

Dear Chrysophylax,
I have a quite important question about the website itself. Well, whenever I (it is also not only me) open the site from Discord, I get a warning saying that this website may steal personal or financial information and thus should be closed. Do you know why the warning appears?

Yours sincerely,
MansenBk [[User:MansenBk|MansenBk]] ([[User talk:MansenBk|talk]]) 15:40, 2 February 2021 (UTC)

::Nope, no idea. We use TLS 1.3 and don't take any personal and financial data beyond your email and username when you register. [[File:Admin.png|35px|link=Linguifex:Administrators]] '''[[User talk:Chrysophylax|Χρυσοφύλαξ]]''' 00:02, 29 April 2021 (UTC)

== New featured language ==

Wow, I'm quite honored to see that [[Avendonian]] [[Special:Diff/231620|has become]] a featured language. Many thanks! Cheers, [[User:Sware|'''swar''''''e''']] • [[User talk:Sware#top|🗣]] • [[Special:Contributions/Sware|🏲]] 16:16, 19 July 2021 (UTC)

== Tahano Hikamu font ==

Hi! I've been tinkering around lately with [[:Category:Ayeri lemmas|Ayeri entries]]. As you probably know, Ayeri is written in this quite-Brahmic script called ''Tahano Hikamu''. The creator of Ayeri, Carsten Becker, created a font for it and [https://github.com/carbeck/tagatibookg released it]. I've been wondering if it'd be possible for you or any administrator to add this font to Linguifex so I can use it. Since it's based on SIL Graphite engine, the font declaration must use the .ttf file, not .woff. Thanks! Cheers, [[User:Sware|'''swar''''''e''']] • [[User talk:Sware#top|🗣]] • [[Special:Contributions/Sware|🏲]] 15:17, 25 June 2022 (UTC)

: '''Edit:''' Wording and further details. 11:46, 27 June 2022 (UTC)
: '''Edit 2:''' I'll also need a script definition in Linguifex's common.css for <code>.Ayer</code>, much like [[wikt:MediaWiki:Common.css|Wiktionary's]]. Thanks! 17:12, 3 August 2022 (UTC)

== Change of Username ==

Dear Chrysophylax,

I would like to change my username from Aydbayk into Aydın Baykara. Would you arrange it please?

Yours sincerely,

~~Aydın Baykara~~

Aydın Baykara [[User:Aydbayk]] ([[User talk:Aydbayk|talk]]) 30 April 2023

== Making citations show up ==

Hello Chrysophylax, 
I've made a few edits to the aUI page, but after hours of trying cannot make all the citations show up in the Reference list (also, there's no "Cite" menu item like in the main Wikipedia). I've compared them with the apparently original ones in Wikipedia and they seem exactly the same to me. As you can see, I'm getting these error messages:

Cite error: <ref> tag with name "Weilgart-LOS" defined in <references> has group attribute "" which does not appear in prior text.
and
Cite error: <ref> tag defined in <references> has no name attribute.

Could you please explain what I'm missing and/or fix it?

Thanks so much! 

Andrea Weilgart Patten[[User:Andiweil|Andiweil]] ([[User talk:Andiweil|talk]]) 16:54, 26 June 2024 (UTC)

 :PS I got a work around to do the trick per @sware, thanks...if you want to check it

AUI

2024-06-27T03:31:03Z

Andiweil: references

{{DISPLAYTITLE:aUI}}
{{Infobox language
|name = aUI
|creator = W. John Weilgart, PhD
|created = 1962
|setting = Designed to dissolve the discrepancy between [[w:homonym|homonym]]ous and [[w:synonym|synonym]]ous words
|familycolor=conlang
|fam1 = [[auxiliary language|auxiliary language]]
|fam2 = [[logical language|logical]] or [[philosophical language]]
|fam3 = [[A priori|a priori]]
|fam4 = [[oligosynthetic]]
|iso3 = none
|glotto=none
|notice=IPA
}}

'''aUI''' ({{IPA-all|aui}}) is a [[Philosophical language|philosophical]], [[A priori language|a priori]] language created in the 1950s by W. John Weilgart, Ph.D. (March 9, 1913– January 26, 1981; born Johann Wolfgang Weixlgärtner,
<ref name="Dr. Weilgart's Story">{{cite web |title=Dr. Weilgart's Story |url=https://auilanguage.space/Dr-weilgart/story |website=aUI, The Language of Space |publisher=Cosmic Communication Foundation |access-date=25 June 2024}}</ref>
and also known as John W. Weilgart
<ref name="Weilgart-LOS">Weilgart, John W. (1979). ''aUI, The Language of Space'' (4th ed.). Decorah, Iowa: Cosmic Communication Co. ISBN 978-0-912038-08-7 </ref>
a philosopher and psychoanalyst originally from Vienna, Austria. He described it as "the Language of Space", connoting universal communication, and published the fourth edition of the textbook in 1979;
<ref name="Weilgart-LOS" />
a philosophic description of each semantic element of the language was published in 1975.
<ref name="Weilgart-CEOM">Weilgart, John W. (1975). ''Cosmic Elements of Meaning: Symbols of the Spirit's Life'', Decorah, Iowa: Cosmic Communication Co.</ref>

As an effort toward world 'peace through understanding', it was Weilgart's goal to clarify and simplify communication. Ultimately it was his experiment in facilitating conscious thinking in that it is built from a proposed set of primitive, possibly universal elements that are designed to reflect a motivated, mnemonic relationship between symbol, sound, and meaning. In his psychotherapy work, he sometimes used client created aUI formulations to reveal possible subconscious associations to problematic concepts.
<ref>{{cite web|url=http://reykr.livejournal.com/249204.html|title=Another Birthday Yesterday: Dr. John W. Weilgart|author=reykr|date=10 March 2006|work=LIVE JOURNAL|publisher=LiveJournal, Inc.|access-date=8 April 2012}}</ref>
aUI can also be considered an experiment in applied cognitive lexical semantics, and Weilgart envisioned it serving as an international language.

== Introduction ==
aUI is built upon a set of proposed universal [[semantic primes]] or elements of meaning that are combined to create miniature definitions. Weilgart found these fundamental concepts to be at such a basic level that they likely could not be defined by any simpler concepts. Linguistically speaking, aUI attempts '[[oligosynthetic|oligosynthesis]]' in which words are synthesized or composed from a minimal number of total morphemes or units of meaning. The motivated relationship between morphology, phonology, and semantics means that if words look and sound similar, they also have similar meanings; homophonous words become synonymous.

aUI has 31 morpheme-phonemes each with an associated meaning, i.e. each [[morpheme]] = a [[phoneme]] = a [[sememe]].

== History ==
Weilgart followed Gottfried Leibniz' proposal for an [[w:alphabet of human thought|alphabet of human thought]] that would provide a universal way to analyze ideas by breaking them down into their component pieces—to be represented by a unique "real" character. In the early 18th century, Leibniz outlined his ''[[characteristica universalis]]'', the basic elements of which would be pictographic characters representing a limited number of elementary concepts. René Descartes suggested that a lexicon of a universal language should consist of primitive elements. The history of this language philosophy is delineated in Umberto Eco's ''[[w:The Search for the Perfect Language|The Search for the Perfect Language]]''.
<ref name="Eco">Eco, Umberto. (1995). ''The Search for the Perfect Language''. http://www.umbertoeco.com/en/. Blackwell. ISBN 978-0631205104. Archived from the original on 2015-08-13 /http://www.umbertoeco.com/en/. Retrieved 2012-03-09</ref>

As a young man, Weilgart observed the pervasive and insidious effects of state planned Nazi propaganda. In particular, he was struck by how double meanings, together with similar sounds in slogans often associated unrelated words into suggestive "stereotyped formulas", [that would] "arrest the attention and appeal to the hearts of the national masses"
<ref>Hitler, ''Mein Kampf,'' 1925.</ref>.
For example, in one of the most repeated political slogans, ''Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Führer!'' ("One people, One empire, One leader!" the word Volk sounds similar to ''folgt'', meaning to follow or obey; ''Reich'' also means rich; so the phrase points to a subliminal association: that the populace obeys and follows their leader, who leads them to a wealthy empire. ''Blu-Bo'' from ''Blut und Boden'' (Blood and Soil) was also a key slogan of Nazi ideology, as well as of course ''Heil Hitler!'' (Hail Hitler! - ''heil'' also meaning salvation, safe, well).

Based on research in semantic conditioning
<ref name="Vinogradova">Luria, A. R.; Vinogradova, O. S. (1959). "An Objective Investigation of the Dynamics of Semantic Systems". British Journal of Psychology. 50 (2): 89–105. doi:10.1111/j.2044-8295.1959.tb00687.x. ISSN 2044-8295.</ref>
<ref name="Gregory Razran">Razran, Gregory (1961). "The observable unconscious". Psychological Review. 68 (2): 81–147. doi:10.1037/h0039848. hdl:11858/00-001M-0000-002C-4D33-A.</ref>
<ref name=Razran>Razran, Gregory (1939). "A quantitative study of meaning by semantic conditioning". Science. 90 (2326): 89–90. doi:10.1126/science.90.2326.89. hdl:21.11116/0000-0001-913F-5. PMID 17798918. Archived from the original on June 5, 2024.</ref>
from the 1950s, Weilgart theorized that whereas the conscious mind links synonyms (similar meanings), the subconscious mind associates assonance (similar sounds). That is, while we ''think'' about and distinguish similar-sounding words by their different meanings, we nonetheless ''feel'' at some level that they are (or ought to be) also related in meaning. Alliterative slogans may suggest a link in words unrelated by meaning but related by common sounds. Weilgart posited that such slogans were one of the many significant factors that could lead to war under desperate and incendiary conditions. Further, he believed that the general discrepancy between homophonous and synonymous words in conventional language would add to the disconnect with the subconscious mind.

==Phonology==
===Orthography===
===Consonants===

===Vowels===
=== Morphophonology ===
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Meaning
!Letter
! IPA
|-
|SPACE || a||{{IPA|/a/}}
|-
|MOVEMENT||e||{{IPA|/e/}}
|-
|LIGHT||i||{{IPA|/ɪ/ or /i/}}
|-
|LIFE||o||{{IPA|/o/}}
|-
|HUMAN||u||{{IPA|/u/}}
|-
|TIME||A||{{IPA|/a:/}}
|-
|MATTER||E||{{IPA|/e:/}}
|-
|SOUND||I||{{IPA|/i:/}}
|-
|FEELING||O||{{IPA|/o:/}}
|-
|SPIRIT/MIND||U||{{IPA|/u:/}}
|-
|CONDITION||Q||{{IPA|/œ/ or /ø:/}}
|-
|NEGATION||Y||{{IPA|/y/ preceding consonants; /j/ preceding vowels}}
|-
|TOGETHER||b||{{IPA|/b/}}
|-
|EXISTENCE||c||{{IPA|/ʃ/}}
|-
|THROUGH||d||{{IPA|/d/}}
|-
|THIS||f||{{IPA|/f/}}
|-
|INSIDE||g||{{IPA|/ɡ/}}
|-
|QUESTION||h||{{IPA|/h/}}
|-
|EQUAL||j||{{IPA|/ʒ/}}
|-
|ABOVE||k||{{IPA|/k/}}

|-
|AROUND||L||{{IPA|/l/}}

|-
|QUALITY||m||{{IPA|/m/}}

|-

|QUANTITY||n||{{IPA|/n/}}

|-

|BEFORE||p||{{IPA|/p/}}

|-

|POSITIVE||r||{{IPA|/ʀ/ or /r/}}

|-

|THING||s||{{IPA|/s/}}

|-

|TOWARDS||t||{{IPA|/t/}}

|-

|ACTIVE||v||{{IPA|/v/}}

|-

|POWER||w||{{IPA|/w/}}

|-
|RELATION||x||{{IPA|/x/}}
|-
|PART||z||{{IPA|/z/}}
|}

Additionally, short nasal vowels (marked with an asterisk) are used for numerals:
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! 0 || 1 || 2 || 3 || 4 || 5 || 6 || 7 || 8 || 9 || 10
|-
|{{angbr|Ŷ}}||{{angbr|â}}||{{angbr|ê}}||{{angbr|î}}||{{angbr|û}}||{{angbr|ô}}||{{angbr|Â}}||{{angbr|Ê}}||{{angbr|Î}}||{{angbr|Û}}||{{angbr|Ô}}
|}

The phoneme {{IPA|/b/}}, for instance, meaning "Together", is a bilabial stop, pronounced with the lips pressed together. "Light" is pronounced with a short {{IPA|/ɪ/}}, as the brightest, highest-frequency sound, while "Sound", is pronounced with a longer {{IPA|/iː/}}, as sound travels more slowly than light.

Each phoneme also has an ideographic glyph or symbol that represents its meaning. The symbol for "Human", {{IPA|/u/}} is depicted by the two legs or arms of the human being, also suggesting our dichotomous nature. The "human" may be fulfilled by the whole triangular trinity of "Spirit", a 'deep, mysterious' {{IPA|/uː/}}, (there are many possible trinities found in philosophy and religion). "Life", {{IPA|/o/}}, represented by the shape of a leaf, is photosynthesis forming the basis of life on Earth. "Feeling", {{IPA|/oː/}} is a heart shape, blood pressure and pulse reflecting various feelings, and "action", a 'vibrant' {{IPA|/v/}}, is represented by a lightning bolt, the most active phenomenon in nature.

;Example
{| class="wikitable"
|+
!Compound
!Morphology
!IPA
!Meaning
|-
|io
|Light-Life
|{{IPA|/ɪo/}}
|plant
|-
|iO
|Light-Feeling/Sensation
|{{IPA|/ɪo:/}}
|sight
|-
|iOv
|sight-Action/Verb
|{{IPA|/ɪo:v/}}
|to see
|-
|fu
|This-Human
|{{IPA|/fu/}}
|I, me
|-
|bu
|Together-Human
|{{IPA|/bu/}}
|you
|-
|bru
|Together-Good-Human
|{{IPA|/bʀu/}}
|friend
|-
|brU
|Together-Good-Spirit
|{{IPA|/bʀu:/}}
|peace
|}

== Encoding and Fonts ==

aUI is currently included in the unofficial [[w:ConScript Unicode Registry|ConScript Unicode Registry]] (CSUR), which assigns code points in the [[w:Private Use Area|Private Use Area]]. aUI code points are mapped to the range U+E270 to U+E28F.

The eight “Aux” variant fonts of [https://Kurinto.com/ Kurinto] (Kurinto Text Aux, Book Aux, Sans Aux, etc.) support aUI.

==See also==
* [[Victor Klemperer|Victor Klemperer]] and his book ''[[w:LTI – Lingua Tertii Imperii|LTI – Lingua Tertii Imperii]]''

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* [https://auilanguage.space/ Official aUI website]
* Libert, Alan (2000), ''A Priori Artificial Languages'', Lincom Europa, Munich. {{ISBN|3-89586-667-9}}
* [http://www.anomalist.com/reports/language.html The "Language of Space" — critical commentary] (however, not fully factual, per Andrea Weilgart)

[[Category:Engineered languages]]
[[Category:Philosophical languages]]
[[Category:Languages]]
[[Category:A priori]]

AUI

2024-06-27T03:10:59Z

Andiweil: references

{{DISPLAYTITLE:aUI}}
{{Infobox language
|name = aUI
|creator = W. John Weilgart, PhD
|created = 1962
|setting = Designed to dissolve the discrepancy between [[w:homonym|homonym]]ous and [[w:synonym|synonym]]ous words
|familycolor=conlang
|fam1 = [[auxiliary language|auxiliary language]]
|fam2 = [[logical language|logical]] or [[philosophical language]]
|fam3 = [[A priori|a priori]]
|fam4 = [[oligosynthetic]]
|iso3 = none
|glotto=none
|notice=IPA
}}

'''aUI''' ({{IPA-all|aui}}) is a [[Philosophical language|philosophical]], [[A priori language|a priori]] language created in the 1950s by W. John Weilgart, Ph.D. (March 9, 1913– January 26, 1981; born Johann Wolfgang Weixlgärtner,
<ref name="Dr. Weilgart's Story">{{cite web |title=Dr. Weilgart's Story |url=https://auilanguage.space/Dr-weilgart/story |website=aUI, The Language of Space |publisher=Cosmic Communication Foundation |access-date=25 June 2024}}</ref>
and also known as John W. Weilgart
<ref name="Weilgart-LOS">Weilgart, John W. (1979). ''aUI, The Language of Space'' (4th ed.). Decorah, Iowa: Cosmic Communication Co. ISBN 978-0-912038-08-7 </ref>
a philosopher and psychoanalyst originally from Vienna, Austria. He described it as "the Language of Space", connoting universal communication, and published the fourth edition of the textbook in 1979;
<ref name="Weilgart-LOS" />
a philosophic description of each semantic element of the language was published in 1975.
<ref name="Weilgart-CEOM">Weilgart, John W. (1975). ''Cosmic Elements of Meaning: Symbols of the Spirit's Life'', Decorah, Iowa: Cosmic Communication Co.</ref>

As an effort toward world 'peace through understanding', it was Weilgart's goal to clarify and simplify communication. Ultimately it was his experiment in facilitating conscious thinking in that it is built from a proposed set of primitive, possibly universal elements that are designed to reflect a motivated, mnemonic relationship between symbol, sound, and meaning. In his psychotherapy work, he sometimes used client created aUI formulations to reveal possible subconscious associations to problematic concepts.
<ref>{{cite web|url=http://reykr.livejournal.com/249204.html|title=Another Birthday Yesterday: Dr. John W. Weilgart|author=reykr|date=10 March 2006|work=LIVE JOURNAL|publisher=LiveJournal, Inc.|access-date=8 April 2012}}</ref>
aUI can also be considered an experiment in applied cognitive lexical semantics, and Weilgart envisioned it serving as an international language.

== Introduction ==
aUI is built upon a set of proposed universal [[semantic primes]] or elements of meaning that are combined to create miniature definitions. Weilgart found these fundamental concepts to be at such a basic level that they likely could not be defined by any simpler concepts. Linguistically speaking, aUI attempts '[[oligosynthetic|oligosynthesis]]' in which words are synthesized or composed from a minimal number of total morphemes or units of meaning. The motivated relationship between morphology, phonology, and semantics means that if words look and sound similar, they also have similar meanings; homophonous words become synonymous.

aUI has 31 morpheme-phonemes each with an associated meaning, i.e. each [[morpheme]] = a [[phoneme]] = a [[sememe]].

== History ==
Weilgart followed Gottfried Leibniz' proposal for an [[w:alphabet of human thought|alphabet of human thought]] that would provide a universal way to analyze ideas by breaking them down into their component pieces—to be represented by a unique "real" character. In the early 18th century, Leibniz outlined his ''[[characteristica universalis]]'', the basic elements of which would be pictographic characters representing a limited number of elementary concepts. René Descartes suggested that a lexicon of a universal language should consist of primitive elements. The history of this language philosophy is delineated in Umberto Eco's ''[[w:The Search for the Perfect Language|The Search for the Perfect Language]]''.
<ref name="Eco">Eco, Umberto. (1995). ''The Search for the Perfect Language''. http://www.umbertoeco.com/en/. Blackwell. ISBN 978-0631205104. Archived from the original on 2015-08-13 /http://www.umbertoeco.com/en/. Retrieved 2012-03-09</ref>

As a young man, Weilgart observed the pervasive and insidious effects of state planned Nazi propaganda. In particular, he was struck by how double meanings, together with similar sounds in slogans often associated unrelated words into suggestive "stereotyped formulas", [that would] "arrest the attention and appeal to the hearts of the national masses"
<ref>Hitler, ''Mein Kampf,'' 1925.</ref>.
For example, in one of the most repeated political slogans, ''Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Führer!'' ("One people, One empire, One leader!" the word Volk sounds similar to ''folgt'', meaning to follow or obey; ''Reich'' also means rich; so the phrase points to a subliminal association: that the populace obeys and follows their leader, who leads them to a wealthy empire. ''Blu-Bo'' from ''Blut und Boden'' (Blood and Soil) was also a key slogan of Nazi ideology, as well as of course ''Heil Hitler!'' (Hail Hitler! - ''heil'' also meaning salvation, safe, well).

Based on research in semantic conditioning
<ref name="Vinogradova">Luria, A. R.; Vinogradova, O. S. (1959). "An Objective Investigation of the Dynamics of Semantic Systems". British Journal of Psychology. 50 (2): 89–105. doi:10.1111/j.2044-8295.1959.tb00687.x. ISSN 2044-8295.</ref>
<ref name="Gregory Razran">Razran, Gregory (1961). "The observable unconscious". Psychological Review. 68 (2): 81–147. doi:10.1037/h0039848. hdl:11858/00-001M-0000-002C-4D33-A.</ref
<ref name=Razran>Razran, Gregory. (1939). "A quantitative study of meaning by semantic conditioning". Science. 90 (2326): 89–90. doi:10.1126/science.90.2326.89. hdl:21.11116/0000-0001-913F-5. PMID 17798918. Archived from the original on June 5, 2024.</ref>
from the 1950s, Weilgart theorized that whereas the conscious mind links synonyms (similar meanings), the subconscious mind associates assonance (similar sounds). That is, while we ''think'' about and distinguish similar-sounding words by their different meanings, we nonetheless ''feel'' at some level that they are (or ought to be) also related in meaning. Alliterative slogans may suggest a link in words unrelated by meaning but related by common sounds. Weilgart posited that such slogans were one of the many significant factors that could lead to war under desperate and incendiary conditions. Further, he believed that the general discrepancy between homophonous and synonymous words in conventional language would add to the disconnect with the subconscious mind.

==Phonology==
===Orthography===
===Consonants===

===Vowels===
=== Morphophonology ===
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Meaning
!Letter
! IPA
|-
|SPACE || a||{{IPA|/a/}}
|-
|MOVEMENT||e||{{IPA|/e/}}
|-
|LIGHT||i||{{IPA|/ɪ/ or /i/}}
|-
|LIFE||o||{{IPA|/o/}}
|-
|HUMAN||u||{{IPA|/u/}}
|-
|TIME||A||{{IPA|/a:/}}
|-
|MATTER||E||{{IPA|/e:/}}
|-
|SOUND||I||{{IPA|/i:/}}
|-
|FEELING||O||{{IPA|/o:/}}
|-
|SPIRIT/MIND||U||{{IPA|/u:/}}
|-
|CONDITION||Q||{{IPA|/œ/ or /ø:/}}
|-
|NEGATION||Y||{{IPA|/y/ preceding consonants; /j/ preceding vowels}}
|-
|TOGETHER||b||{{IPA|/b/}}
|-
|EXISTENCE||c||{{IPA|/ʃ/}}
|-
|THROUGH||d||{{IPA|/d/}}
|-
|THIS||f||{{IPA|/f/}}
|-
|INSIDE||g||{{IPA|/ɡ/}}
|-
|QUESTION||h||{{IPA|/h/}}
|-
|EQUAL||j||{{IPA|/ʒ/}}
|-
|ABOVE||k||{{IPA|/k/}}

|-
|AROUND||L||{{IPA|/l/}}

|-
|QUALITY||m||{{IPA|/m/}}

|-

|QUANTITY||n||{{IPA|/n/}}

|-

|BEFORE||p||{{IPA|/p/}}

|-

|POSITIVE||r||{{IPA|/ʀ/ or /r/}}

|-

|THING||s||{{IPA|/s/}}

|-

|TOWARDS||t||{{IPA|/t/}}

|-

|ACTIVE||v||{{IPA|/v/}}

|-

|POWER||w||{{IPA|/w/}}

|-
|RELATION||x||{{IPA|/x/}}
|-
|PART||z||{{IPA|/z/}}
|}

Additionally, short nasal vowels (marked with an asterisk) are used for numerals:
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! 0 || 1 || 2 || 3 || 4 || 5 || 6 || 7 || 8 || 9 || 10
|-
|{{angbr|Ŷ}}||{{angbr|â}}||{{angbr|ê}}||{{angbr|î}}||{{angbr|û}}||{{angbr|ô}}||{{angbr|Â}}||{{angbr|Ê}}||{{angbr|Î}}||{{angbr|Û}}||{{angbr|Ô}}
|}

The phoneme {{IPA|/b/}}, for instance, meaning "Together", is a bilabial stop, pronounced with the lips pressed together. "Light" is pronounced with a short {{IPA|/ɪ/}}, as the brightest, highest-frequency sound, while "Sound", is pronounced with a longer {{IPA|/iː/}}, as sound travels more slowly than light.

Each phoneme also has an ideographic glyph or symbol that represents its meaning. The symbol for "Human", {{IPA|/u/}} is depicted by the two legs or arms of the human being, also suggesting our dichotomous nature. The "human" may be fulfilled by the whole triangular trinity of "Spirit", a 'deep, mysterious' {{IPA|/uː/}}, (there are many possible trinities found in philosophy and religion). "Life", {{IPA|/o/}}, represented by the shape of a leaf, is photosynthesis forming the basis of life on Earth. "Feeling", {{IPA|/oː/}} is a heart shape, blood pressure and pulse reflecting various feelings, and "action", a 'vibrant' {{IPA|/v/}}, is represented by a lightning bolt, the most active phenomenon in nature.

;Example
{| class="wikitable"
|+
!Compound
!Morphology
!IPA
!Meaning
|-
|io
|Light-Life
|{{IPA|/ɪo/}}
|plant
|-
|iO
|Light-Feeling/Sensation
|{{IPA|/ɪo:/}}
|sight
|-
|iOv
|sight-Action/Verb
|{{IPA|/ɪo:v/}}
|to see
|-
|fu
|This-Human
|{{IPA|/fu/}}
|I, me
|-
|bu
|Together-Human
|{{IPA|/bu/}}
|you
|-
|bru
|Together-Good-Human
|{{IPA|/bʀu/}}
|friend
|-
|brU
|Together-Good-Spirit
|{{IPA|/bʀu:/}}
|peace
|}

== Encoding and Fonts ==

aUI is currently included in the unofficial [[w:ConScript Unicode Registry|ConScript Unicode Registry]] (CSUR), which assigns code points in the [[w:Private Use Area|Private Use Area]]. aUI code points are mapped to the range U+E270 to U+E28F.

The eight “Aux” variant fonts of [https://Kurinto.com/ Kurinto] (Kurinto Text Aux, Book Aux, Sans Aux, etc.) support aUI.

==See also==
* [[w:Victor Klemperer|Victor Klemperer]] and his book ''[[w:LTI – Lingua Tertii Imperii|LTI – Lingua Tertii Imperii]]''

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* [https://auilanguage.space/ Official aUI website]
* Libert, Alan (2000), ''A Priori Artificial Languages'', Lincom Europa, Munich. {{ISBN|3-89586-667-9}}
* [http://www.anomalist.com/reports/language.html The "Language of Space" — critical commentary] (however, not fully factual, per Andrea Weilgart)

[[Category:Engineered languages]]
[[Category:Philosophical languages]]
[[Category:Languages]]
[[Category:A priori]]

AUI

2024-06-26T23:24:57Z

Andiweil: references

{{DISPLAYTITLE:aUI}}
{{Infobox language
|name = aUI
|creator = W. John Weilgart, PhD
|created = 1962
|setting = Designed to dissolve the discrepancy between [[w:homonym|homonym]]ous and [[w:synonym|synonym]]ous words
|familycolor=conlang
|fam1 = [[auxiliary language|auxiliary language]]
|fam2 = [[logical language|logical]] or [[philosophical language]]
|fam3 = [[A priori|a priori]]
|fam4 = [[oligosynthetic]]
|iso3 = none
|glotto=none
|notice=IPA
}}

'''aUI''' ({{IPA-all|aui}}) is a [[Philosophical language|philosophical]], [[A priori language|a priori]] language created in the 1950s by W. John Weilgart, Ph.D. (March 9, 1913– January 26, 1981; born Johann Wolfgang Weixlgärtner,
<ref name="Dr. Weilgart's Story">{{cite web |title=Dr. Weilgart's Story |url=https://auilanguage.space/Dr-weilgart/story |website=aUI, The Language of Space |publisher=Cosmic Communication Foundation |access-date=25 June 2024}}</ref>
and also known as John W. Weilgart
<ref name="Weilgart-LOS">Weilgart, John W. (1979). ''aUI, The Language of Space'' (4th ed.). Decorah, Iowa: Cosmic Communication Co. ISBN 978-0-912038-08-7 </ref>
a philosopher and psychoanalyst originally from Vienna, Austria. He described it as "the Language of Space", connoting universal communication, and published the fourth edition of the textbook in 1979;
<ref name="Weilgart-LOS" />
a philosophic description of each semantic element of the language was published in 1975.
<ref name="Weilgart-CEOM">Weilgart, John W. (1975). ''Cosmic Elements of Meaning: Symbols of the Spirit's Life'', Decorah, Iowa: Cosmic Communication Co.</ref>

As an effort toward world 'peace through understanding', it was Weilgart's goal to clarify and simplify communication. Ultimately it was his experiment in facilitating conscious thinking in that it is built from a proposed set of primitive, possibly universal elements that are designed to reflect a motivated, mnemonic relationship between symbol, sound, and meaning. In his psychotherapy work, he sometimes used client created aUI formulations to reveal possible subconscious associations to problematic concepts.
<ref>{{cite web|url=http://reykr.livejournal.com/249204.html|title=Another Birthday Yesterday: Dr. John W. Weilgart|author=reykr|date=10 March 2006|work=LIVE JOURNAL|publisher=LiveJournal, Inc.|access-date=8 April 2012}}</ref>
aUI can also be considered an experiment in applied cognitive lexical semantics, and Weilgart envisioned it serving as an international language.

== Introduction ==
aUI is built upon a set of proposed universal [[semantic primes]] or elements of meaning that are combined to create miniature definitions. Weilgart found these fundamental concepts to be at such a basic level that they likely could not be defined by any simpler concepts. Linguistically speaking, aUI attempts '[[oligosynthetic|oligosynthesis]]' in which words are synthesized or composed from a minimal number of total morphemes or units of meaning. The motivated relationship between morphology, phonology, and semantics means that if words look and sound similar, they also have similar meanings; homophonous words become synonymous.

aUI has 31 morpheme-phonemes each with an associated meaning, i.e. each [[morpheme]] = a [[phoneme]] = a [[sememe]].

== History ==
Weilgart followed Gottfried Leibniz' proposal for an [[w:alphabet of human thought|alphabet of human thought]] that would provide a universal way to analyze ideas by breaking them down into their component pieces—to be represented by a unique "real" character. In the early 18th century, Leibniz outlined his ''[[characteristica universalis]]'', the basic elements of which would be pictographic characters representing a limited number of elementary concepts. René Descartes suggested that a lexicon of a universal language should consist of primitive elements. The history of this language philosophy is delineated in Umberto Eco's ''[[w:The Search for the Perfect Language|The Search for the Perfect Language]]''.
<ref name="Eco">Eco, Umberto. (1995). ''The Search for the Perfect Language''. http://www.umbertoeco.com/en/. Blackwell. ISBN 978-0631205104 Archived from the original on 2015-08-13 https://web.archive.org/web/20150813225954/http://www.umbertoeco.com/en/. Retrieved 2012-03-09</ref>

As a young man, Weilgart observed the pervasive and insidious effects of state planned Nazi propaganda. In particular, he was struck by how double meanings, together with similar sounds in slogans often associated unrelated words into suggestive "stereotyped formulas", [that would] "arrest the attention and appeal to the hearts of the national masses"
<ref>Hitler, ''Mein Kampf,'' 1925</ref>.
For example, in one of the most repeated political slogans, ''Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Führer!'' ("One people, One empire, One leader!" the word Volk sounds similar to ''folgt'', meaning to follow or obey; ''Reich'' also means rich; so the phrase points to a subliminal association: that the populace obeys and follows their leader, who leads them to a wealthy empire. ''Blu-Bo'' from ''Blut und Boden'' (Blood and Soil) was also a key slogan of Nazi ideology, as well as of course ''Heil Hitler!'' (Hail Hitler! - ''heil'' also meaning salvation, safe, well).

Based on research in semantic conditioning
<ref name="Vinogradova">{{Cite journal|last=Luria|first=A. R.|last2=Vinogradova|first2=O. S.|date=1959-05-01|title=An Objective Investigation of the Dynamics of Semantic Systems|journal=British Journal of Psychology|language=en|volume=50|issue=2|pages=89–105|doi=10.1111/j.2044-8295.1959.tb00687.x|issn=2044-8295}}</ref>
<ref name="Gregory Razran">{{Cite journal|last=Razran|author-link=Gregory Razran|first=Gregory|date=1961|title=The observable unconscious|journal=Psychological Review|volume=68|issue=2|pages=81–147|doi=10.1037/h0039848|hdl=11858/00-001M-0000-002C-4D33-A|hdl-access=free}}</ref>
<ref name=Razran>{{Cite journal|last=Razran|first=Gregory|date=1939|title=A quantitative study of meaning by semantic conditioning|journal=Science|volume=90|issue=2326|pages=89–90|doi=10.1126/science.90.2326.89-a| pmid= 17798918|hdl=21.11116/0000-0001-913F-5|hdl-access=free}}</ref>
from the 1950s, Weilgart theorized that whereas the conscious mind links synonyms (similar meanings), the subconscious mind associates assonance (similar sounds). That is, while we ''think'' about and distinguish similar-sounding words by their different meanings, we nonetheless ''feel'' at some level that they are (or ought to be) also related in meaning. Alliterative slogans may suggest a link in words unrelated by meaning but related by common sounds. Weilgart posited that such slogans were one of the many significant factors that could lead to war under desperate and incendiary conditions. Further, he believed that the general discrepancy between homophonous and synonymous words in conventional language would add to the disconnect with the subconscious mind.

==Phonology==
===Orthography===
===Consonants===

===Vowels===
=== Morphophonology ===
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Meaning
!Letter
! IPA
|-
|SPACE || a||{{IPA|/a/}}
|-
|MOVEMENT||e||{{IPA|/e/}}
|-
|LIGHT||i||{{IPA|/ɪ/ or /i/}}
|-
|LIFE||o||{{IPA|/o/}}
|-
|HUMAN||u||{{IPA|/u/}}
|-
|TIME||A||{{IPA|/a:/}}
|-
|MATTER||E||{{IPA|/e:/}}
|-
|SOUND||I||{{IPA|/i:/}}
|-
|FEELING||O||{{IPA|/o:/}}
|-
|SPIRIT/MIND||U||{{IPA|/u:/}}
|-
|CONDITION||Q||{{IPA|/œ/ or /ø:/}}
|-
|NEGATION||Y||{{IPA|/y/ preceding consonants; /j/ preceding vowels}}
|-
|TOGETHER||b||{{IPA|/b/}}
|-
|EXISTENCE||c||{{IPA|/ʃ/}}
|-
|THROUGH||d||{{IPA|/d/}}
|-
|THIS||f||{{IPA|/f/}}
|-
|INSIDE||g||{{IPA|/ɡ/}}
|-
|QUESTION||h||{{IPA|/h/}}
|-
|EQUAL||j||{{IPA|/ʒ/}}
|-
|ABOVE||k||{{IPA|/k/}}

|-
|AROUND||L||{{IPA|/l/}}

|-
|QUALITY||m||{{IPA|/m/}}

|-

|QUANTITY||n||{{IPA|/n/}}

|-

|BEFORE||p||{{IPA|/p/}}

|-

|POSITIVE||r||{{IPA|/ʀ/ or /r/}}

|-

|THING||s||{{IPA|/s/}}

|-

|TOWARDS||t||{{IPA|/t/}}

|-

|ACTIVE||v||{{IPA|/v/}}

|-

|POWER||w||{{IPA|/w/}}

|-
|RELATION||x||{{IPA|/x/}}
|-
|PART||z||{{IPA|/z/}}
|}

Additionally, short nasal vowels (marked with an asterisk) are used for numerals:
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! 0 || 1 || 2 || 3 || 4 || 5 || 6 || 7 || 8 || 9 || 10
|-
|{{angbr|Ŷ}}||{{angbr|â}}||{{angbr|ê}}||{{angbr|î}}||{{angbr|û}}||{{angbr|ô}}||{{angbr|Â}}||{{angbr|Ê}}||{{angbr|Î}}||{{angbr|Û}}||{{angbr|Ô}}
|}

The phoneme {{IPA|/b/}}, for instance, meaning "Together", is a bilabial stop, pronounced with the lips pressed together. "Light" is pronounced with a short {{IPA|/ɪ/}}, as the brightest, highest-frequency sound, while "Sound", is pronounced with a longer {{IPA|/iː/}}, as sound travels more slowly than light.

Each phoneme also has an ideographic glyph or symbol that represents its meaning. The symbol for "Human", {{IPA|/u/}} is depicted by the two legs or arms of the human being, also suggesting our dichotomous nature. The "human" may be fulfilled by the whole triangular trinity of "Spirit", a 'deep, mysterious' {{IPA|/uː/}}, (there are many possible trinities found in philosophy and religion). "Life", {{IPA|/o/}}, represented by the shape of a leaf, is photosynthesis forming the basis of life on Earth. "Feeling", {{IPA|/oː/}} is a heart shape, blood pressure and pulse reflecting various feelings, and "action", a 'vibrant' {{IPA|/v/}}, is represented by a lightning bolt, the most active phenomenon in nature.

;Example
{| class="wikitable"
|+
!Compound
!Morphology
!IPA
!Meaning
|-
|io
|Light-Life
|{{IPA|/ɪo/}}
|plant
|-
|iO
|Light-Feeling/Sensation
|{{IPA|/ɪo:/}}
|sight
|-
|iOv
|sight-Action/Verb
|{{IPA|/ɪo:v/}}
|to see
|-
|fu
|This-Human
|{{IPA|/fu/}}
|I, me
|-
|bu
|Together-Human
|{{IPA|/bu/}}
|you
|-
|bru
|Together-Good-Human
|{{IPA|/bʀu/}}
|friend
|-
|brU
|Together-Good-Spirit
|{{IPA|/bʀu:/}}
|peace
|}

== Encoding and Fonts ==

aUI is currently included in the unofficial [[w:ConScript Unicode Registry|ConScript Unicode Registry]] (CSUR), which assigns code points in the [[w:Private Use Area|Private Use Area]]. aUI code points are mapped to the range U+E270 to U+E28F.

The eight “Aux” variant fonts of [https://Kurinto.com/ Kurinto] (Kurinto Text Aux, Book Aux, Sans Aux, etc.) support aUI.

==See also==
* [[w:Victor Klemperer|Victor Klemperer]] and his book ''[[w:LTI – Lingua Tertii Imperii|LTI – Lingua Tertii Imperii]]''

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* [https://auilanguage.space/ Official aUI website]
* Libert, Alan (2000), ''A Priori Artificial Languages'', Lincom Europa, Munich. {{ISBN|3-89586-667-9}}
* [http://www.anomalist.com/reports/language.html The "Language of Space" — critical commentary] (however, not fully factual, per Andrea Weilgart)

[[Category:Engineered languages]]
[[Category:Philosophical languages]]
[[Category:Languages]]
[[Category:A priori]]

AUI

2024-06-26T22:22:46Z

Andiweil: reference

{{DISPLAYTITLE:aUI}}
{{Infobox language
|name = aUI
|creator = W. John Weilgart, PhD
|created = 1962
|setting = Designed to dissolve the discrepancy between [[w:homonym|homonym]]ous and [[w:synonym|synonym]]ous words
|familycolor=conlang
|fam1 = [[auxiliary language|auxiliary language]]
|fam2 = [[logical language|logical]] or [[philosophical language]]
|fam3 = [[A priori|a priori]]
|fam4 = [[oligosynthetic]]
|iso3 = none
|glotto=none
|notice=IPA
}}

'''aUI''' ({{IPA-all|aui}}) is a [[Philosophical language|philosophical]], [[A priori language|a priori]] language created in the 1950s by W. John Weilgart, Ph.D. (March 9, 1913– January 26, 1981; born Johann Wolfgang Weixlgärtner,
<ref name="Dr. Weilgart's Story">{{cite web |title=Dr. Weilgart's Story |url=https://auilanguage.space/Dr-weilgart/story |website=aUI – the language of space |publisher=Cosmic Communication Foundation |access-date=25 June 2024}}</ref>
and also known as John W. Weilgart
<ref name="Weilgart-LOS">Weilgart, John W. (1979). aUI, The Language of Space (4th ed.). Decorah, Iowa: Cosmic Communication Co. ISBN 978-0-912038-08-7 </ref>
a philosopher and psychoanalyst originally from Vienna, Austria. He described it as "the Language of Space", connoting universal communication, and published the fourth edition of the textbook in 1979;
<ref name="Weilgart-LOS" />
a philosophic description of each semantic element of the language was published in 1975.
<ref name="Weilgart-CEOM">Weilgart, John W. (1975). Cosmic Elements of Meaning: Symbols of the Spirit's Life, Decorah, Iowa: Cosmic Communication Co.</ref>

As an effort toward world 'peace through understanding', it was Weilgart's goal to clarify and simplify communication. Ultimately it was his experiment in facilitating conscious thinking in that it is built from a proposed set of primitive, possibly universal elements that are designed to reflect a motivated, mnemonic relationship between symbol, sound, and meaning. In his psychotherapy work, he sometimes used client created aUI formulations to reveal possible subconscious associations to problematic concepts.
<ref>{{cite web|url=http://reykr.livejournal.com/249204.html|title=Another Birthday Yesterday: Dr. John W. Weilgart|author=reykr|date=10 March 2006|work=LIVE JOURNAL|publisher=LiveJournal, Inc.|access-date=8 April 2012}}</ref>
aUI can also be considered an experiment in applied cognitive lexical semantics, and Weilgart envisioned it serving as an international language.

== Introduction ==
aUI is built upon a set of proposed universal [[semantic primes]] or elements of meaning that are combined to create miniature definitions. Weilgart found these fundamental concepts to be at such a basic level that they likely could not be defined by any simpler concepts. Linguistically speaking, aUI attempts '[[oligosynthetic|oligosynthesis]]' in which words are synthesized or composed from a minimal number of total morphemes or units of meaning. The motivated relationship between morphology, phonology, and semantics means that if words look and sound similar, they also have similar meanings; homophonous words become synonymous.

aUI has 31 morpheme-phonemes each with an associated meaning, i.e. each [[morpheme]] = a [[phoneme]] = a [[sememe]].

== History ==
Weilgart followed Gottfried Leibniz' proposal for an [[w:alphabet of human thought|alphabet of human thought]] that would provide a universal way to analyze ideas by breaking them down into their component pieces—to be represented by a unique "real" character. In the early 18th century, Leibniz outlined his ''[[characteristica universalis]]'', the basic elements of which would be pictographic characters representing a limited number of elementary concepts. René Descartes suggested that a lexicon of a universal language should consist of primitive elements. The history of this language philosophy is delineated in Umberto Eco's ''[[w:The Search for the Perfect Language|The Search for the Perfect Language]]''.
<ref name="Eco">Eco, Umberto, The Search for the Perfect Language, http://www.umbertoeco.com/en/. Blackwell. ISBN 978-0631205104|access-date=2012-03-09|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150813225954/http://www.umbertoeco.com/en/|archive-date=2015-08-13|url-status=dead</ref>

As a young man, Weilgart observed the pervasive and insidious effects of state planned Nazi propaganda. In particular, he was struck by how double meanings, together with similar sounds in slogans often associated unrelated words into suggestive "stereotyped formulas", [that would] "arrest the attention and appeal to the hearts of the national masses"
<ref>Hitler, ''Mein Kampf,'' 1925</ref>.
For example, in one of the most repeated political slogans, ''Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Führer!'' ("One people, One empire, One leader!" the word Volk sounds similar to ''folgt'', meaning to follow or obey; ''Reich'' also means rich; so the phrase points to a subliminal association: that the populace obeys and follows their leader, who leads them to a wealthy empire. ''Blu-Bo'' from ''Blut und Boden'' (Blood and Soil) was also a key slogan of Nazi ideology, as well as of course ''Heil Hitler!'' (Hail Hitler! - ''heil'' also meaning salvation, safe, well).

Based on research in semantic conditioning
<ref name="Vinogradova">{{Cite journal|last=Luria|first=A. R.|last2=Vinogradova|first2=O. S.|date=1959-05-01|title=An Objective Investigation of the Dynamics of Semantic Systems|journal=British Journal of Psychology|language=en|volume=50|issue=2|pages=89–105|doi=10.1111/j.2044-8295.1959.tb00687.x|issn=2044-8295}}</ref>
<ref name="Gregory Razran">{{Cite journal|last=Razran|author-link=Gregory Razran|first=Gregory|date=1961|title=The observable unconscious|journal=Psychological Review|volume=68|issue=2|pages=81–147|doi=10.1037/h0039848|hdl=11858/00-001M-0000-002C-4D33-A|hdl-access=free}}</ref>
<ref name=Razran>{{Cite journal|last=Razran|first=Gregory|date=1939|title=A quantitative study of meaning by semantic conditioning|journal=Science|volume=90|issue=2326|pages=89–90|doi=10.1126/science.90.2326.89-a| pmid= 17798918|hdl=21.11116/0000-0001-913F-5|hdl-access=free}}</ref>
from the 1950s, Weilgart theorized that whereas the conscious mind links synonyms (similar meanings), the subconscious mind associates assonance (similar sounds). That is, while we ''think'' about and distinguish similar-sounding words by their different meanings, we nonetheless ''feel'' at some level that they are (or ought to be) also related in meaning. Alliterative slogans may suggest a link in words unrelated by meaning but related by common sounds. Weilgart posited that such slogans were one of the many significant factors that could lead to war under desperate and incendiary conditions. Further, he believed that the general discrepancy between homophonous and synonymous words in conventional language would add to the disconnect with the subconscious mind.

==Phonology==
===Orthography===
===Consonants===

===Vowels===
=== Morphophonology ===
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Meaning
!Letter
! IPA
|-
|SPACE || a||{{IPA|/a/}}
|-
|MOVEMENT||e||{{IPA|/e/}}
|-
|LIGHT||i||{{IPA|/ɪ/ or /i/}}
|-
|LIFE||o||{{IPA|/o/}}
|-
|HUMAN||u||{{IPA|/u/}}
|-
|TIME||A||{{IPA|/a:/}}
|-
|MATTER||E||{{IPA|/e:/}}
|-
|SOUND||I||{{IPA|/i:/}}
|-
|FEELING||O||{{IPA|/o:/}}
|-
|SPIRIT/MIND||U||{{IPA|/u:/}}
|-
|CONDITION||Q||{{IPA|/œ/ or /ø:/}}
|-
|NEGATION||Y||{{IPA|/y/ preceding consonants; /j/ preceding vowels}}
|-
|TOGETHER||b||{{IPA|/b/}}
|-
|EXISTENCE||c||{{IPA|/ʃ/}}
|-
|THROUGH||d||{{IPA|/d/}}
|-
|THIS||f||{{IPA|/f/}}
|-
|INSIDE||g||{{IPA|/ɡ/}}
|-
|QUESTION||h||{{IPA|/h/}}
|-
|EQUAL||j||{{IPA|/ʒ/}}
|-
|ABOVE||k||{{IPA|/k/}}

|-
|AROUND||L||{{IPA|/l/}}

|-
|QUALITY||m||{{IPA|/m/}}

|-

|QUANTITY||n||{{IPA|/n/}}

|-

|BEFORE||p||{{IPA|/p/}}

|-

|POSITIVE||r||{{IPA|/ʀ/ or /r/}}

|-

|THING||s||{{IPA|/s/}}

|-

|TOWARDS||t||{{IPA|/t/}}

|-

|ACTIVE||v||{{IPA|/v/}}

|-

|POWER||w||{{IPA|/w/}}

|-
|RELATION||x||{{IPA|/x/}}
|-
|PART||z||{{IPA|/z/}}
|}

Additionally, short nasal vowels (marked with an asterisk) are used for numerals:
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! 0 || 1 || 2 || 3 || 4 || 5 || 6 || 7 || 8 || 9 || 10
|-
|{{angbr|Ŷ}}||{{angbr|â}}||{{angbr|ê}}||{{angbr|î}}||{{angbr|û}}||{{angbr|ô}}||{{angbr|Â}}||{{angbr|Ê}}||{{angbr|Î}}||{{angbr|Û}}||{{angbr|Ô}}
|}

The phoneme {{IPA|/b/}}, for instance, meaning "Together", is a bilabial stop, pronounced with the lips pressed together. "Light" is pronounced with a short {{IPA|/ɪ/}}, as the brightest, highest-frequency sound, while "Sound", is pronounced with a longer {{IPA|/iː/}}, as sound travels more slowly than light.

Each phoneme also has an ideographic glyph or symbol that represents its meaning. The symbol for "Human", {{IPA|/u/}} is depicted by the two legs or arms of the human being, also suggesting our dichotomous nature. The "human" may be fulfilled by the whole triangular trinity of "Spirit", a 'deep, mysterious' {{IPA|/uː/}}, (there are many possible trinities found in philosophy and religion). "Life", {{IPA|/o/}}, represented by the shape of a leaf, is photosynthesis forming the basis of life on Earth. "Feeling", {{IPA|/oː/}} is a heart shape, blood pressure and pulse reflecting various feelings, and "action", a 'vibrant' {{IPA|/v/}}, is represented by a lightning bolt, the most active phenomenon in nature.

;Example
{| class="wikitable"
|+
!Compound
!Morphology
!IPA
!Meaning
|-
|io
|Light-Life
|{{IPA|/ɪo/}}
|plant
|-
|iO
|Light-Feeling/Sensation
|{{IPA|/ɪo:/}}
|sight
|-
|iOv
|sight-Action/Verb
|{{IPA|/ɪo:v/}}
|to see
|-
|fu
|This-Human
|{{IPA|/fu/}}
|I, me
|-
|bu
|Together-Human
|{{IPA|/bu/}}
|you
|-
|bru
|Together-Good-Human
|{{IPA|/bʀu/}}
|friend
|-
|brU
|Together-Good-Spirit
|{{IPA|/bʀu:/}}
|peace
|}

== Encoding and Fonts ==

aUI is currently included in the unofficial [[w:ConScript Unicode Registry|ConScript Unicode Registry]] (CSUR), which assigns code points in the [[w:Private Use Area|Private Use Area]]. aUI code points are mapped to the range U+E270 to U+E28F.

The eight “Aux” variant fonts of [https://Kurinto.com/ Kurinto] (Kurinto Text Aux, Book Aux, Sans Aux, etc.) support aUI.

==See also==
* [[w:Victor Klemperer|Victor Klemperer]] and his book ''[[w:LTI – Lingua Tertii Imperii|LTI – Lingua Tertii Imperii]]''

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* [https://auilanguage.space/ Official aUI website]
* Libert, Alan (2000), ''A Priori Artificial Languages'', Lincom Europa, Munich. {{ISBN|3-89586-667-9}}
* [http://www.anomalist.com/reports/language.html The "Language of Space" — critical commentary] (however, not fully factual, per Andrea Weilgart)

[[Category:Engineered languages]]
[[Category:Philosophical languages]]
[[Category:Languages]]
[[Category:A priori]]

AUI

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{{DISPLAYTITLE:aUI}}
{{Infobox language
|name = aUI
|creator = W. John Weilgart, PhD
|created = 1962
|setting = Designed to dissolve the discrepancy between [[w:homonym|homonym]]ous and [[w:synonym|synonym]]ous words
|familycolor=conlang
|fam1 = [[auxiliary language|auxiliary language]]
|fam2 = [[logical language|logical]] or [[philosophical language]]
|fam3 = [[A priori|a priori]]
|fam4 = [[oligosynthetic]]
|iso3 = none
|glotto=none
|notice=IPA
}}

'''aUI''' ({{IPA-all|aui}}) is a [[Philosophical language|philosophical]], [[A priori language|a priori]] language created in the 1950s by W. John Weilgart, Ph.D. (March 9, 1913– January 26, 1981; born Johann Wolfgang Weixlgärtner,
<ref name="Dr. Weilgart's Story">{{cite web |title=Dr. Weilgart's Story |url=https://auilanguage.space/Dr-weilgart/story |website=aUI – the language of space |publisher=Cosmic Communication Foundation |access-date=25 June 2024}}</ref>
and also known as John W. Weilgart
<ref name="Weilgart-LOS">Weilgart, John W. (1979). aUI, The Language of Space (4th ed.). Decorah, Iowa: Cosmic Communication Co. ISBN 978-0-912038-08-7 </ref>
a philosopher and psychoanalyst originally from Vienna, Austria. He described it as "the Language of Space", connoting universal communication, and published the fourth edition of the textbook in 1979;
<ref name="Weilgart-LOS" />
a philosophic description of each semantic element of the language was published in 1975.
<ref name="Weilgart-CEOM">Weilgart, John W. (1975). Cosmic Elements of Meaning: Symbols of the Spirit's Life, Decorah, Iowa: Cosmic Communication Co.</ref>

As an effort toward world 'peace through understanding', it was Weilgart's goal to clarify and simplify communication. Ultimately it was his experiment in facilitating conscious thinking in that it is built from a proposed set of primitive, possibly universal elements that are designed to reflect a motivated, mnemonic relationship between symbol, sound, and meaning. In his psychotherapy work, he sometimes used client created aUI formulations to reveal possible subconscious associations to problematic concepts.
<ref>{{cite web|url=http://reykr.livejournal.com/249204.html|title=Another Birthday Yesterday: Dr. John W. Weilgart|author=reykr|date=10 March 2006|work=LIVE JOURNAL|publisher=LiveJournal, Inc.|access-date=8 April 2012}}</ref>
aUI can also be considered an experiment in applied cognitive lexical semantics, and Weilgart envisioned it serving as an international language.

== Introduction ==
aUI is built upon a set of proposed universal [[semantic primes]] or elements of meaning that are combined to create miniature definitions. Weilgart found these fundamental concepts to be at such a basic level that they likely could not be defined by any simpler concepts. Linguistically speaking, aUI attempts '[[oligosynthetic|oligosynthesis]]' in which words are synthesized or composed from a minimal number of total morphemes or units of meaning. The motivated relationship between morphology, phonology, and semantics means that if words look and sound similar, they also have similar meanings; homophonous words become synonymous.

aUI has 31 morpheme-phonemes each with an associated meaning, i.e. each [[morpheme]] = a [[phoneme]] = a [[sememe]].

== History ==
Weilgart followed Gottfried Leibniz' proposal for an [[w:alphabet of human thought|alphabet of human thought]] that would provide a universal way to analyze ideas by breaking them down into their component pieces—to be represented by a unique "real" character. In the early 18th century, Leibniz outlined his ''[[characteristica universalis]]'', the basic elements of which would be pictographic characters representing a limited number of elementary concepts. René Descartes suggested that a lexicon of a universal language should consist of primitive elements. The history of this language philosophy is delineated in Umberto Eco's ''[[w:The Search for the Perfect Language|The Search for the Perfect Language]]''.
<ref name="Eco">{{Cite book|url=http://www.umbertoeco.com/en/|title=The Search for the Perfect Language|last=Eco|first=Umberto|publisher=Blackwell|year=1995|isbn=978-0631205104|access-date=2012-03-09|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150813225954/http://www.umbertoeco.com/en/|archive-date=2015-08-13|url-status=dead}}</ref>

As a young man, Weilgart observed the pervasive and insidious effects of state planned Nazi propaganda. In particular, he was struck by how double meanings, together with similar sounds in slogans often associated unrelated words into suggestive "stereotyped formulas", [that would] "arrest the attention and appeal to the hearts of the national masses"
<ref>Hitler, ''Mein Kampf,'' 1925</ref>.
For example, in one of the most repeated political slogans, ''Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Führer!'' ("One people, One empire, One leader!" the word Volk sounds similar to ''folgt'', meaning to follow or obey; ''Reich'' also means rich; so the phrase points to a subliminal association: that the populace obeys and follows their leader, who leads them to a wealthy empire. ''Blu-Bo'' from ''Blut und Boden'' (Blood and Soil) was also a key slogan of Nazi ideology, as well as of course ''Heil Hitler!'' (Hail Hitler! - ''heil'' also meaning salvation, safe, well).

Based on research in semantic conditioning
<ref name="Vinogradova">{{Cite journal|last=Luria|first=A. R.|last2=Vinogradova|first2=O. S.|date=1959-05-01|title=An Objective Investigation of the Dynamics of Semantic Systems|journal=British Journal of Psychology|language=en|volume=50|issue=2|pages=89–105|doi=10.1111/j.2044-8295.1959.tb00687.x|issn=2044-8295}}</ref>
<ref name="Gregory Razran">{{Cite journal|last=Razran|author-link=Gregory Razran|first=Gregory|date=1961|title=The observable unconscious|journal=Psychological Review|volume=68|issue=2|pages=81–147|doi=10.1037/h0039848|hdl=11858/00-001M-0000-002C-4D33-A|hdl-access=free}}</ref>
<ref name=Razran>{{Cite journal|last=Razran|first=Gregory|date=1939|title=A quantitative study of meaning by semantic conditioning|journal=Science|volume=90|issue=2326|pages=89–90|doi=10.1126/science.90.2326.89-a| pmid= 17798918|hdl=21.11116/0000-0001-913F-5|hdl-access=free}}</ref>
from the 1950s, Weilgart theorized that whereas the conscious mind links synonyms (similar meanings), the subconscious mind associates assonance (similar sounds). That is, while we ''think'' about and distinguish similar-sounding words by their different meanings, we nonetheless ''feel'' at some level that they are (or ought to be) also related in meaning. Alliterative slogans may suggest a link in words unrelated by meaning but related by common sounds. Weilgart posited that such slogans were one of the many significant factors that could lead to war under desperate and incendiary conditions. Further, he believed that the general discrepancy between homophonous and synonymous words in conventional language would add to the disconnect with the subconscious mind.

==Phonology==
===Orthography===
===Consonants===

===Vowels===
=== Morphophonology ===
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Meaning
!Letter
! IPA
|-
|SPACE || a||{{IPA|/a/}}
|-
|MOVEMENT||e||{{IPA|/e/}}
|-
|LIGHT||i||{{IPA|/ɪ/ or /i/}}
|-
|LIFE||o||{{IPA|/o/}}
|-
|HUMAN||u||{{IPA|/u/}}
|-
|TIME||A||{{IPA|/a:/}}
|-
|MATTER||E||{{IPA|/e:/}}
|-
|SOUND||I||{{IPA|/i:/}}
|-
|FEELING||O||{{IPA|/o:/}}
|-
|SPIRIT/MIND||U||{{IPA|/u:/}}
|-
|CONDITION||Q||{{IPA|/œ/ or /ø:/}}
|-
|NEGATION||Y||{{IPA|/y/ preceding consonants; /j/ preceding vowels}}
|-
|TOGETHER||b||{{IPA|/b/}}
|-
|EXISTENCE||c||{{IPA|/ʃ/}}
|-
|THROUGH||d||{{IPA|/d/}}
|-
|THIS||f||{{IPA|/f/}}
|-
|INSIDE||g||{{IPA|/ɡ/}}
|-
|QUESTION||h||{{IPA|/h/}}
|-
|EQUAL||j||{{IPA|/ʒ/}}
|-
|ABOVE||k||{{IPA|/k/}}

|-
|AROUND||L||{{IPA|/l/}}

|-
|QUALITY||m||{{IPA|/m/}}

|-

|QUANTITY||n||{{IPA|/n/}}

|-

|BEFORE||p||{{IPA|/p/}}

|-

|POSITIVE||r||{{IPA|/ʀ/ or /r/}}

|-

|THING||s||{{IPA|/s/}}

|-

|TOWARDS||t||{{IPA|/t/}}

|-

|ACTIVE||v||{{IPA|/v/}}

|-

|POWER||w||{{IPA|/w/}}

|-
|RELATION||x||{{IPA|/x/}}
|-
|PART||z||{{IPA|/z/}}
|}

Additionally, short nasal vowels (marked with an asterisk) are used for numerals:
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! 0 || 1 || 2 || 3 || 4 || 5 || 6 || 7 || 8 || 9 || 10
|-
|{{angbr|Ŷ}}||{{angbr|â}}||{{angbr|ê}}||{{angbr|î}}||{{angbr|û}}||{{angbr|ô}}||{{angbr|Â}}||{{angbr|Ê}}||{{angbr|Î}}||{{angbr|Û}}||{{angbr|Ô}}
|}

The phoneme {{IPA|/b/}}, for instance, meaning "Together", is a bilabial stop, pronounced with the lips pressed together. "Light" is pronounced with a short {{IPA|/ɪ/}}, as the brightest, highest-frequency sound, while "Sound", is pronounced with a longer {{IPA|/iː/}}, as sound travels more slowly than light.

Each phoneme also has an ideographic glyph or symbol that represents its meaning. The symbol for "Human", {{IPA|/u/}} is depicted by the two legs or arms of the human being, also suggesting our dichotomous nature. The "human" may be fulfilled by the whole triangular trinity of "Spirit", a 'deep, mysterious' {{IPA|/uː/}}, (there are many possible trinities found in philosophy and religion). "Life", {{IPA|/o/}}, represented by the shape of a leaf, is photosynthesis forming the basis of life on Earth. "Feeling", {{IPA|/oː/}} is a heart shape, blood pressure and pulse reflecting various feelings, and "action", a 'vibrant' {{IPA|/v/}}, is represented by a lightning bolt, the most active phenomenon in nature.

;Example
{| class="wikitable"
|+
!Compound
!Morphology
!IPA
!Meaning
|-
|io
|Light-Life
|{{IPA|/ɪo/}}
|plant
|-
|iO
|Light-Feeling/Sensation
|{{IPA|/ɪo:/}}
|sight
|-
|iOv
|sight-Action/Verb
|{{IPA|/ɪo:v/}}
|to see
|-
|fu
|This-Human
|{{IPA|/fu/}}
|I, me
|-
|bu
|Together-Human
|{{IPA|/bu/}}
|you
|-
|bru
|Together-Good-Human
|{{IPA|/bʀu/}}
|friend
|-
|brU
|Together-Good-Spirit
|{{IPA|/bʀu:/}}
|peace
|}

== Encoding and Fonts ==

aUI is currently included in the unofficial [[w:ConScript Unicode Registry|ConScript Unicode Registry]] (CSUR), which assigns code points in the [[w:Private Use Area|Private Use Area]]. aUI code points are mapped to the range U+E270 to U+E28F.

The eight “Aux” variant fonts of [https://Kurinto.com/ Kurinto] (Kurinto Text Aux, Book Aux, Sans Aux, etc.) support aUI.

==See also==
* [[w:Victor Klemperer|Victor Klemperer]] and his book ''[[w:LTI – Lingua Tertii Imperii|LTI – Lingua Tertii Imperii]]''

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* [https://auilanguage.space/ Official aUI website]
* Libert, Alan (2000), ''A Priori Artificial Languages'', Lincom Europa, Munich. {{ISBN|3-89586-667-9}}
* [http://www.anomalist.com/reports/language.html The "Language of Space" — critical commentary] (however, not fully factual, per Andrea Weilgart)

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[[Category:Languages]]
[[Category:A priori]]

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== Language infobox color ==

Hello. I seem to be unable to change the color of my conlang's [[Riagi|infobox]], is there a trick to it?

== Ooops! Misplaced Page==

Hi Chrysophylax,

Apologies, I goofed when I was making an IPA template for the vowels in Nankôre. Now when I go to the Templates page I see "Nankôre" but I don't see the name for the template, which is "Nankore_Vowels_IPA". Could you please help me and remove "Nankôre" from the Templates page and replace it with "Nankore_Vowels_IPA"? I know I successfully created the template, because it appears on my conlang's page when I call the template.

Thanks!!

~~Anyar~~

== Subcategory for Czecklish ==

Can you make a subcategory for my conlang Czecklish? I have three separate articles for it, and it's getting hard to manage them. There will likely be three or four more articles concerning Czecklish in the future. I believe it would be more convenient for Linguifex visitors and users to view Czecklish and its various articles if it had a subcategory, like Khaz or Valian.

== Tagchen ==
Can you delete my [[Netagin]] page and all its associated pages? Many thanks, [[User:IlL|IlL]] ([[User talk:IlL|talk]]) 21:50, 29 October 2014 (CET)

::- Sure! If you don't mind me asking, any particular reason why? --[[File:Admin.png|35px|link=Linguifex:Administrators]] '''[[User talk:Chrysophylax|Χρυσοφύλαξ]]''' 22:02, 29 October 2014 (CET)

:::I decided to discontinue Netagin... it struck me as too much an ad-hoc hodgepodge. Though features from it will be absorbed into my other languages. In passing, what do you think about partaking in Linguifex Relay the Fourth (prematurely)? [[User:IlL|IlL]] ([[User talk:IlL|talk]]) 01:17, 30 October 2014 (CET)

::::Ah, I know that feeling. I would be okay with that! --[[File:Admin.png|35px|link=Linguifex:Administrators]] '''[[User talk:Chrysophylax|Χρυσοφύλαξ]]''' 01:42, 30 October 2014 (CET)

== How does one even ==
... make an a priori conlang they feel confident about? [[User:Ceige|'''CEIGE''']][[User talk:Ceige|⟨TAWK⟩]] 14:01, 7 December 2014 (CET)

== <strike>Ixnay'ed on the Acebookfay Accountway? </strike> ==
<strike>It's coming up as a removed account for spam/abuse - you've got my email (somewhere maybe...? :P ) so feel free to email me mate [[User:Ceige|'''CEIGE''']][[User talk:Ceige|⟨TAWK⟩]] 13:12, 10 March 2015 (CET)</strike>

==Concerning the Fourth Linguifex Relay==

Since Dē Graut Bʉr hasn't shown any signs of activity, I'm passing the relay to you.

===Fo hoinga fatipu===

''Rótrest léhkodé [[Fourth_Linguifex_Relay/Sceptrian|khugu]], lateeprlest roi bapu!'' (You should go there quickly and dance above the words!)

[[User:Juhhmi|Juhhmi]] ([[User talk:Juhhmi|talk]]) 21:57, 12 July 2015 (CEST)

===Wååhlis===
It seems Waahlis has not completed his whisper in time. Will you pass the relay to the next person? [[User:IlL|IlL]] ([[User talk:IlL|talk]]) 15:59, 16 July 2015 (CEST)

One å is enough. I got sick while translating the relay. But please, do pass it on. [[File:Waahlis.png|35px|link=Linguifex:Administrators]] '''[[User talk:Waahlis|Waahlis]]''' 16:17, 16 July 2015 (CEST)

:Done --[[File:Admin.png|35px|link=Linguifex:Administrators]] '''[[User talk:Chrysophylax|Χρυσοφύλαξ]]''' 16:23, 16 July 2015 (CEST)

== Can you do me a favor? ==

Could you delete every subpage and their talks listed here: [[User:Ílchőfti Lēmáthīd]]? You can leave a redirect from [[User:Ílchőfti Lēmáthīd]] to my current username. I've moved beyond that ugly name. [[User:IlL|IlL]] ([[User talk:IlL|talk]]) 04:14, 13 July 2015 (CEST)

:Done --[[File:Admin.png|35px|link=Linguifex:Administrators]] '''[[User talk:Chrysophylax|Χρυσοφύλαξ]]''' 15:13, 13 July 2015 (CEST)

== How do I tag? ==
I want to get my conlang, [[Latirdo]], on the list of languages, but I can't add the category to the article. What do I do?
Thanks.

--[[User:Sihithe Avralte|Sihithe Avralte]] ([[User talk:Sihithe Avralte|talk]]) 17:49, 22 March 2016 (CET)
:You add the category by writing <nowiki>[[Category:blahblah]]</nowiki> anywhere in the document. I usually recommend at the end. I have added the relevant tags to your article for you for now. If you have any other questions, I'lll gladly answer them. --[[File:Admin.png|35px|link=Linguifex:Administrators]] '''[[User talk:Chrysophylax|Χρυσοφύλαξ]]''' 20:01, 22 March 2016 (CET)

== Dėkujå ==
Just wanted to say thank you for fixing the page. Didn't know, where to do it though, so I'm just leaving it here. (Raistas)

== Delete ==

If I make a mistake and create a page that is clearly stupid, how do I tag it for deletion? I don't have the power and it doesn't seem right to bug specific people to delete a specific page. Is there something <nowiki>[[:Category:Delete me]]</nowiki>? --[[User:Aquatiki|Aquatiki]] ([[User talk:Aquatiki|talk]]) 03:39, 1 December 2018 (CET)

::You should tag it with <nowiki>{{speedy|reason}}</nowiki>. Check [[Template:Speedy]] out. [[File:Admin.png|35px|link=Linguifex:Administrators]] '''[[User talk:Chrysophylax|Χρυσοφύλαξ]]''' 11:07, 2 December 2018 (CET)

== Infobox language ==

So, I recently noticed that I'm prevented from editing templates that're transcluded on the main page, specifically [[Template:Infobox language]] and its subpages, and I was wondering either 1. if there's a way to work around this, 2. if you could turn-off cascading for the main page, or 3. if I could be given permission to edit these pages? If you just don't want non-admins editing these pages, that's completely fine too, but please let me know. -[[User:Учхљёная]] ([[User_talk:Учхљёная|talk]],[[:Category:Conlangs by Elliott Wheeler|conlangs]],[[Special:Contributions/Учхљёная|edits]]). 18:20, 19 January 2019 (CET).
:: Hi, that sounds perfectly reasonable. I will investigate this weekend if there's something we can do technically to allow safe users to edit high-frequency templates --[[File:Admin.png|35px|link=Linguifex:Administrators]] '''[[User talk:Chrysophylax|Χρυσοφύλαξ]]''' 14:35, 22 January 2019 (CET)
:: I've disabled cascading protection for now. Hopefully it won't bite the wiki in its bum. --[[File:Admin.png|35px|link=Linguifex:Administrators]] '''[[User talk:Chrysophylax|Χρυσοφύλαξ]]''' 00:03, 24 February 2020 (UTC)

== Deletion of Template:LangAbb ==

<del>[[Template:LangAbb]] was deleted, breaking functionality of [[Template:Etym]], which is used in various Contionary entries. I do not ask it be reinstated, but I would like to have access to its history so that I can view its interface and update Etym to use [[Template:ISO]].</del> Nevermind, I figured it out, the template is back in working order

--[[User:MIGUELbM|MIGUELbM]] ([[User talk:MIGUELbM|talk]]) 09:10, 8 February 2020 (UTC)

== Deletion of an image and changing of a page title ==

Hello,

</del>I'm quite new here in Linguifex and I did a (or two) mistake(s).
1. At updating a image which shows ,,Zimâna Ħāwārî (translates to ,,Hawari language")" in my newly invented Ṭoňżeĝâyî script, it always shows the former version of the image where I set the direction so: top to bottom, right to left, even if it should be left to right. To fix that issue, I would like to let it be deleted, and I don't know how one does it.
2. This mistake is less important to fix: Instead of giving my article title the name ,,Hawari language" I just wrote ,,Hawari". If possible, would you be able to change it?</del>

Thank you and have a good day👋🏼

Update (01.05.2020, 17:29 UTC): Thank you for fixing these two issues.😀

Yours sincerely, [[User:MansenBk|MansenBk]] ([[User talk:MansenBk|talk]]) 16:27, 1 May 2020 (UTC).

== Lost Conlangs ==

Hi. A while ago a user on Frathwiki started a project to try and rescue info about conlangs that had been stored on Langmaker in the 2000s, gone down with it but was retrievable via the Web Archive copies of Langmaker. They got so far then drifted off. I'm volunteering to start it again, and I also want to make my own (privately run but publicly accessible) list of the world's conlangs (probably in spreadsheet and searchable database form). I want to combine the jobs to reduce work time; I also think it would be good to have the same info in different places (as what was so unfortunate about Langmaker going down was so much of its info was not stored elsewhere). So I was wondering, would you be interested in allowing similar records of such langs here? I'm guessing not on account of your "non-sufficient content/long inactivity" deletion rule plus high style standards etc. However even if not how about a single page (/multiple if running over) with a name and barest details? I'd be prepared to do all the work, although help would certainly be appreciated. :)
[[User:Matthew McVeagh|Matthew McVeagh]] ([[User talk:Matthew McVeagh|talk]]) 04:32, 22 July 2020 (UTC)
:: If you keep it on one page that'd be fine [[File:Admin.png|35px|link=Linguifex:Administrators]] '''[[User talk:Chrysophylax|Χρυσοφύλαξ]]''' 07:32, 22 July 2020 (UTC)

== Safety on the Website ==

Dear Chrysophylax,
I have a quite important question about the website itself. Well, whenever I (it is also not only me) open the site from Discord, I get a warning saying that this website may steal personal or financial information and thus should be closed. Do you know why the warning appears?

Yours sincerely,
MansenBk [[User:MansenBk|MansenBk]] ([[User talk:MansenBk|talk]]) 15:40, 2 February 2021 (UTC)

::Nope, no idea. We use TLS 1.3 and don't take any personal and financial data beyond your email and username when you register. [[File:Admin.png|35px|link=Linguifex:Administrators]] '''[[User talk:Chrysophylax|Χρυσοφύλαξ]]''' 00:02, 29 April 2021 (UTC)

== New featured language ==

Wow, I'm quite honored to see that [[Avendonian]] [[Special:Diff/231620|has become]] a featured language. Many thanks! Cheers, [[User:Sware|'''swar''''''e''']] • [[User talk:Sware#top|🗣]] • [[Special:Contributions/Sware|🏲]] 16:16, 19 July 2021 (UTC)

== Tahano Hikamu font ==

Hi! I've been tinkering around lately with [[:Category:Ayeri lemmas|Ayeri entries]]. As you probably know, Ayeri is written in this quite-Brahmic script called ''Tahano Hikamu''. The creator of Ayeri, Carsten Becker, created a font for it and [https://github.com/carbeck/tagatibookg released it]. I've been wondering if it'd be possible for you or any administrator to add this font to Linguifex so I can use it. Since it's based on SIL Graphite engine, the font declaration must use the .ttf file, not .woff. Thanks! Cheers, [[User:Sware|'''swar''''''e''']] • [[User talk:Sware#top|🗣]] • [[Special:Contributions/Sware|🏲]] 15:17, 25 June 2022 (UTC)

: '''Edit:''' Wording and further details. 11:46, 27 June 2022 (UTC)
: '''Edit 2:''' I'll also need a script definition in Linguifex's common.css for <code>.Ayer</code>, much like [[wikt:MediaWiki:Common.css|Wiktionary's]]. Thanks! 17:12, 3 August 2022 (UTC)

== Change of Username ==

Dear Chrysophylax,

I would like to change my username from Aydbayk into Aydın Baykara. Would you arrange it please?

Yours sincerely,

~~Aydın Baykara~~

Aydın Baykara [[User:Aydbayk]] ([[User talk:Aydbayk|talk]]) 30 April 2023

== Making citations show up ==

Hello Chrysophylax, 
I've made a few edits to the aUI page, but after hours of trying cannot make all the citations show up in the Reference list (also, there's no "Cite" menu item like in the main Wikipedia). I've compared them with the apparently original ones in Wikipedia and they seem exactly the same to me. As you can see, I'm getting these error messages:

Cite error: <ref> tag with name "Weilgart-LOS" defined in <references> has group attribute "" which does not appear in prior text.
and
Cite error: <ref> tag defined in <references> has no name attribute.

Could you please explain what I'm missing and/or fix it?

Thanks so much!
Andrea Weilgart Patten[[User:Andiweil|Andiweil]] ([[User talk:Andiweil|talk]]) 16:54, 26 June 2024 (UTC)

User talk:Chrysophylax

2024-06-26T16:54:30Z

Andiweil: /* Making citations show up in the Reference list */

And welcome to my talk page! I Welcome you, who has come to my talk page! Everything is possible at my talk page! The only limit is your imagination! {{archive}}
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* Please add a new topic when posting a comment.
* Forget not to sign with <nowiki>~~~~</nowiki> (yes, that's four tildes.)
* Keep it concise.
* And for the love of me, indent when replying or commenting on a post!
</div>

== Language infobox color ==

Hello. I seem to be unable to change the color of my conlang's [[Riagi|infobox]], is there a trick to it?

== Ooops! Misplaced Page==

Hi Chrysophylax,

Apologies, I goofed when I was making an IPA template for the vowels in Nankôre. Now when I go to the Templates page I see "Nankôre" but I don't see the name for the template, which is "Nankore_Vowels_IPA". Could you please help me and remove "Nankôre" from the Templates page and replace it with "Nankore_Vowels_IPA"? I know I successfully created the template, because it appears on my conlang's page when I call the template.

Thanks!!

~~Anyar~~

== Subcategory for Czecklish ==

Can you make a subcategory for my conlang Czecklish? I have three separate articles for it, and it's getting hard to manage them. There will likely be three or four more articles concerning Czecklish in the future. I believe it would be more convenient for Linguifex visitors and users to view Czecklish and its various articles if it had a subcategory, like Khaz or Valian.

== Tagchen ==
Can you delete my [[Netagin]] page and all its associated pages? Many thanks, [[User:IlL|IlL]] ([[User talk:IlL|talk]]) 21:50, 29 October 2014 (CET)

::- Sure! If you don't mind me asking, any particular reason why? --[[File:Admin.png|35px|link=Linguifex:Administrators]] '''[[User talk:Chrysophylax|Χρυσοφύλαξ]]''' 22:02, 29 October 2014 (CET)

:::I decided to discontinue Netagin... it struck me as too much an ad-hoc hodgepodge. Though features from it will be absorbed into my other languages. In passing, what do you think about partaking in Linguifex Relay the Fourth (prematurely)? [[User:IlL|IlL]] ([[User talk:IlL|talk]]) 01:17, 30 October 2014 (CET)

::::Ah, I know that feeling. I would be okay with that! --[[File:Admin.png|35px|link=Linguifex:Administrators]] '''[[User talk:Chrysophylax|Χρυσοφύλαξ]]''' 01:42, 30 October 2014 (CET)

== How does one even ==
... make an a priori conlang they feel confident about? [[User:Ceige|'''CEIGE''']][[User talk:Ceige|⟨TAWK⟩]] 14:01, 7 December 2014 (CET)

== <strike>Ixnay'ed on the Acebookfay Accountway? </strike> ==
<strike>It's coming up as a removed account for spam/abuse - you've got my email (somewhere maybe...? :P ) so feel free to email me mate [[User:Ceige|'''CEIGE''']][[User talk:Ceige|⟨TAWK⟩]] 13:12, 10 March 2015 (CET)</strike>

==Concerning the Fourth Linguifex Relay==

Since Dē Graut Bʉr hasn't shown any signs of activity, I'm passing the relay to you.

===Fo hoinga fatipu===

''Rótrest léhkodé [[Fourth_Linguifex_Relay/Sceptrian|khugu]], lateeprlest roi bapu!'' (You should go there quickly and dance above the words!)

[[User:Juhhmi|Juhhmi]] ([[User talk:Juhhmi|talk]]) 21:57, 12 July 2015 (CEST)

===Wååhlis===
It seems Waahlis has not completed his whisper in time. Will you pass the relay to the next person? [[User:IlL|IlL]] ([[User talk:IlL|talk]]) 15:59, 16 July 2015 (CEST)

One å is enough. I got sick while translating the relay. But please, do pass it on. [[File:Waahlis.png|35px|link=Linguifex:Administrators]] '''[[User talk:Waahlis|Waahlis]]''' 16:17, 16 July 2015 (CEST)

:Done --[[File:Admin.png|35px|link=Linguifex:Administrators]] '''[[User talk:Chrysophylax|Χρυσοφύλαξ]]''' 16:23, 16 July 2015 (CEST)

== Can you do me a favor? ==

Could you delete every subpage and their talks listed here: [[User:Ílchőfti Lēmáthīd]]? You can leave a redirect from [[User:Ílchőfti Lēmáthīd]] to my current username. I've moved beyond that ugly name. [[User:IlL|IlL]] ([[User talk:IlL|talk]]) 04:14, 13 July 2015 (CEST)

:Done --[[File:Admin.png|35px|link=Linguifex:Administrators]] '''[[User talk:Chrysophylax|Χρυσοφύλαξ]]''' 15:13, 13 July 2015 (CEST)

== How do I tag? ==
I want to get my conlang, [[Latirdo]], on the list of languages, but I can't add the category to the article. What do I do?
Thanks.

--[[User:Sihithe Avralte|Sihithe Avralte]] ([[User talk:Sihithe Avralte|talk]]) 17:49, 22 March 2016 (CET)
:You add the category by writing <nowiki>[[Category:blahblah]]</nowiki> anywhere in the document. I usually recommend at the end. I have added the relevant tags to your article for you for now. If you have any other questions, I'lll gladly answer them. --[[File:Admin.png|35px|link=Linguifex:Administrators]] '''[[User talk:Chrysophylax|Χρυσοφύλαξ]]''' 20:01, 22 March 2016 (CET)

== Dėkujå ==
Just wanted to say thank you for fixing the page. Didn't know, where to do it though, so I'm just leaving it here. (Raistas)

== Delete ==

If I make a mistake and create a page that is clearly stupid, how do I tag it for deletion? I don't have the power and it doesn't seem right to bug specific people to delete a specific page. Is there something <nowiki>[[:Category:Delete me]]</nowiki>? --[[User:Aquatiki|Aquatiki]] ([[User talk:Aquatiki|talk]]) 03:39, 1 December 2018 (CET)

::You should tag it with <nowiki>{{speedy|reason}}</nowiki>. Check [[Template:Speedy]] out. [[File:Admin.png|35px|link=Linguifex:Administrators]] '''[[User talk:Chrysophylax|Χρυσοφύλαξ]]''' 11:07, 2 December 2018 (CET)

== Infobox language ==

So, I recently noticed that I'm prevented from editing templates that're transcluded on the main page, specifically [[Template:Infobox language]] and its subpages, and I was wondering either 1. if there's a way to work around this, 2. if you could turn-off cascading for the main page, or 3. if I could be given permission to edit these pages? If you just don't want non-admins editing these pages, that's completely fine too, but please let me know. -[[User:Учхљёная]] ([[User_talk:Учхљёная|talk]],[[:Category:Conlangs by Elliott Wheeler|conlangs]],[[Special:Contributions/Учхљёная|edits]]). 18:20, 19 January 2019 (CET).
:: Hi, that sounds perfectly reasonable. I will investigate this weekend if there's something we can do technically to allow safe users to edit high-frequency templates --[[File:Admin.png|35px|link=Linguifex:Administrators]] '''[[User talk:Chrysophylax|Χρυσοφύλαξ]]''' 14:35, 22 January 2019 (CET)
:: I've disabled cascading protection for now. Hopefully it won't bite the wiki in its bum. --[[File:Admin.png|35px|link=Linguifex:Administrators]] '''[[User talk:Chrysophylax|Χρυσοφύλαξ]]''' 00:03, 24 February 2020 (UTC)

== Deletion of Template:LangAbb ==

<del>[[Template:LangAbb]] was deleted, breaking functionality of [[Template:Etym]], which is used in various Contionary entries. I do not ask it be reinstated, but I would like to have access to its history so that I can view its interface and update Etym to use [[Template:ISO]].</del> Nevermind, I figured it out, the template is back in working order

--[[User:MIGUELbM|MIGUELbM]] ([[User talk:MIGUELbM|talk]]) 09:10, 8 February 2020 (UTC)

== Deletion of an image and changing of a page title ==

Hello,

</del>I'm quite new here in Linguifex and I did a (or two) mistake(s).
1. At updating a image which shows ,,Zimâna Ħāwārî (translates to ,,Hawari language")" in my newly invented Ṭoňżeĝâyî script, it always shows the former version of the image where I set the direction so: top to bottom, right to left, even if it should be left to right. To fix that issue, I would like to let it be deleted, and I don't know how one does it.
2. This mistake is less important to fix: Instead of giving my article title the name ,,Hawari language" I just wrote ,,Hawari". If possible, would you be able to change it?</del>

Thank you and have a good day👋🏼

Update (01.05.2020, 17:29 UTC): Thank you for fixing these two issues.😀

Yours sincerely, [[User:MansenBk|MansenBk]] ([[User talk:MansenBk|talk]]) 16:27, 1 May 2020 (UTC).

== Lost Conlangs ==

Hi. A while ago a user on Frathwiki started a project to try and rescue info about conlangs that had been stored on Langmaker in the 2000s, gone down with it but was retrievable via the Web Archive copies of Langmaker. They got so far then drifted off. I'm volunteering to start it again, and I also want to make my own (privately run but publicly accessible) list of the world's conlangs (probably in spreadsheet and searchable database form). I want to combine the jobs to reduce work time; I also think it would be good to have the same info in different places (as what was so unfortunate about Langmaker going down was so much of its info was not stored elsewhere). So I was wondering, would you be interested in allowing similar records of such langs here? I'm guessing not on account of your "non-sufficient content/long inactivity" deletion rule plus high style standards etc. However even if not how about a single page (/multiple if running over) with a name and barest details? I'd be prepared to do all the work, although help would certainly be appreciated. :)
[[User:Matthew McVeagh|Matthew McVeagh]] ([[User talk:Matthew McVeagh|talk]]) 04:32, 22 July 2020 (UTC)
:: If you keep it on one page that'd be fine [[File:Admin.png|35px|link=Linguifex:Administrators]] '''[[User talk:Chrysophylax|Χρυσοφύλαξ]]''' 07:32, 22 July 2020 (UTC)

== Safety on the Website ==

Dear Chrysophylax,
I have a quite important question about the website itself. Well, whenever I (it is also not only me) open the site from Discord, I get a warning saying that this website may steal personal or financial information and thus should be closed. Do you know why the warning appears?

Yours sincerely,
MansenBk [[User:MansenBk|MansenBk]] ([[User talk:MansenBk|talk]]) 15:40, 2 February 2021 (UTC)

::Nope, no idea. We use TLS 1.3 and don't take any personal and financial data beyond your email and username when you register. [[File:Admin.png|35px|link=Linguifex:Administrators]] '''[[User talk:Chrysophylax|Χρυσοφύλαξ]]''' 00:02, 29 April 2021 (UTC)

== New featured language ==

Wow, I'm quite honored to see that [[Avendonian]] [[Special:Diff/231620|has become]] a featured language. Many thanks! Cheers, [[User:Sware|'''swar''''''e''']] • [[User talk:Sware#top|🗣]] • [[Special:Contributions/Sware|🏲]] 16:16, 19 July 2021 (UTC)

== Tahano Hikamu font ==

Hi! I've been tinkering around lately with [[:Category:Ayeri lemmas|Ayeri entries]]. As you probably know, Ayeri is written in this quite-Brahmic script called ''Tahano Hikamu''. The creator of Ayeri, Carsten Becker, created a font for it and [https://github.com/carbeck/tagatibookg released it]. I've been wondering if it'd be possible for you or any administrator to add this font to Linguifex so I can use it. Since it's based on SIL Graphite engine, the font declaration must use the .ttf file, not .woff. Thanks! Cheers, [[User:Sware|'''swar''''''e''']] • [[User talk:Sware#top|🗣]] • [[Special:Contributions/Sware|🏲]] 15:17, 25 June 2022 (UTC)

: '''Edit:''' Wording and further details. 11:46, 27 June 2022 (UTC)
: '''Edit 2:''' I'll also need a script definition in Linguifex's common.css for <code>.Ayer</code>, much like [[wikt:MediaWiki:Common.css|Wiktionary's]]. Thanks! 17:12, 3 August 2022 (UTC)

== Change of Username ==

Dear Chrysophylax,

I would like to change my username from Aydbayk into Aydın Baykara. Would you arrange it please?

Yours sincerely,

~~Aydın Baykara~~

Aydın Baykara [[User:Aydbayk]] ([[User talk:Aydbayk|talk]]) 30 April 2023

== Making citations show up ==

Hello Chrysophylax,
I've made a few edits to the aUI page, but after hours of trying cannot make all the citations show up in the Reference list (also, there's no "Cite" menu item like in the main Wikipedia). I've compared them with the apparently original ones in Wikipedia and they seem exactly the same to me. As you can see, I'm getting these error messages:

Cite error: <ref> tag with name "Weilgart-LOS" defined in <references> has group attribute "" which does not appear in prior text.
and
Cite error: <ref> tag defined in <references> has no name attribute.

Could you please explain what I'm missing? (sorry to be a total novice at HTML!)
I really shouldn't keep wasting time trying to figure it out by myself.

Thanks so much!
Andrea Weilgart Patten[[User:Andiweil|Andiweil]] ([[User talk:Andiweil|talk]]) 16:54, 26 June 2024 (UTC)

User talk:Chrysophylax

2024-06-26T16:52:52Z

Andiweil: /* Making citations show up in the Reference list */ new section

And welcome to my talk page! I Welcome you, who has come to my talk page! Everything is possible at my talk page! The only limit is your imagination! {{archive}}
<div style="width: 350px; border: 2px solid white; background: white; padding: 1em; -moz-box-shadow: 0 0 5px 5px #; -webkit-box-shadow: 0 0 3px 3px #; box-shadow: 0 0 3px 3px #;">
* Please add a new topic when posting a comment.
* Forget not to sign with <nowiki>~~~~</nowiki> (yes, that's four tildes.)
* Keep it concise.
* And for the love of me, indent when replying or commenting on a post!
</div>

== Language infobox color ==

Hello. I seem to be unable to change the color of my conlang's [[Riagi|infobox]], is there a trick to it?

== Ooops! Misplaced Page==

Hi Chrysophylax,

Apologies, I goofed when I was making an IPA template for the vowels in Nankôre. Now when I go to the Templates page I see "Nankôre" but I don't see the name for the template, which is "Nankore_Vowels_IPA". Could you please help me and remove "Nankôre" from the Templates page and replace it with "Nankore_Vowels_IPA"? I know I successfully created the template, because it appears on my conlang's page when I call the template.

Thanks!!

~~Anyar~~

== Subcategory for Czecklish ==

Can you make a subcategory for my conlang Czecklish? I have three separate articles for it, and it's getting hard to manage them. There will likely be three or four more articles concerning Czecklish in the future. I believe it would be more convenient for Linguifex visitors and users to view Czecklish and its various articles if it had a subcategory, like Khaz or Valian.

== Tagchen ==
Can you delete my [[Netagin]] page and all its associated pages? Many thanks, [[User:IlL|IlL]] ([[User talk:IlL|talk]]) 21:50, 29 October 2014 (CET)

::- Sure! If you don't mind me asking, any particular reason why? --[[File:Admin.png|35px|link=Linguifex:Administrators]] '''[[User talk:Chrysophylax|Χρυσοφύλαξ]]''' 22:02, 29 October 2014 (CET)

:::I decided to discontinue Netagin... it struck me as too much an ad-hoc hodgepodge. Though features from it will be absorbed into my other languages. In passing, what do you think about partaking in Linguifex Relay the Fourth (prematurely)? [[User:IlL|IlL]] ([[User talk:IlL|talk]]) 01:17, 30 October 2014 (CET)

::::Ah, I know that feeling. I would be okay with that! --[[File:Admin.png|35px|link=Linguifex:Administrators]] '''[[User talk:Chrysophylax|Χρυσοφύλαξ]]''' 01:42, 30 October 2014 (CET)

== How does one even ==
... make an a priori conlang they feel confident about? [[User:Ceige|'''CEIGE''']][[User talk:Ceige|⟨TAWK⟩]] 14:01, 7 December 2014 (CET)

== <strike>Ixnay'ed on the Acebookfay Accountway? </strike> ==
<strike>It's coming up as a removed account for spam/abuse - you've got my email (somewhere maybe...? :P ) so feel free to email me mate [[User:Ceige|'''CEIGE''']][[User talk:Ceige|⟨TAWK⟩]] 13:12, 10 March 2015 (CET)</strike>

==Concerning the Fourth Linguifex Relay==

Since Dē Graut Bʉr hasn't shown any signs of activity, I'm passing the relay to you.

===Fo hoinga fatipu===

''Rótrest léhkodé [[Fourth_Linguifex_Relay/Sceptrian|khugu]], lateeprlest roi bapu!'' (You should go there quickly and dance above the words!)

[[User:Juhhmi|Juhhmi]] ([[User talk:Juhhmi|talk]]) 21:57, 12 July 2015 (CEST)

===Wååhlis===
It seems Waahlis has not completed his whisper in time. Will you pass the relay to the next person? [[User:IlL|IlL]] ([[User talk:IlL|talk]]) 15:59, 16 July 2015 (CEST)

One å is enough. I got sick while translating the relay. But please, do pass it on. [[File:Waahlis.png|35px|link=Linguifex:Administrators]] '''[[User talk:Waahlis|Waahlis]]''' 16:17, 16 July 2015 (CEST)

:Done --[[File:Admin.png|35px|link=Linguifex:Administrators]] '''[[User talk:Chrysophylax|Χρυσοφύλαξ]]''' 16:23, 16 July 2015 (CEST)

== Can you do me a favor? ==

Could you delete every subpage and their talks listed here: [[User:Ílchőfti Lēmáthīd]]? You can leave a redirect from [[User:Ílchőfti Lēmáthīd]] to my current username. I've moved beyond that ugly name. [[User:IlL|IlL]] ([[User talk:IlL|talk]]) 04:14, 13 July 2015 (CEST)

:Done --[[File:Admin.png|35px|link=Linguifex:Administrators]] '''[[User talk:Chrysophylax|Χρυσοφύλαξ]]''' 15:13, 13 July 2015 (CEST)

== How do I tag? ==
I want to get my conlang, [[Latirdo]], on the list of languages, but I can't add the category to the article. What do I do?
Thanks.

--[[User:Sihithe Avralte|Sihithe Avralte]] ([[User talk:Sihithe Avralte|talk]]) 17:49, 22 March 2016 (CET)
:You add the category by writing <nowiki>[[Category:blahblah]]</nowiki> anywhere in the document. I usually recommend at the end. I have added the relevant tags to your article for you for now. If you have any other questions, I'lll gladly answer them. --[[File:Admin.png|35px|link=Linguifex:Administrators]] '''[[User talk:Chrysophylax|Χρυσοφύλαξ]]''' 20:01, 22 March 2016 (CET)

== Dėkujå ==
Just wanted to say thank you for fixing the page. Didn't know, where to do it though, so I'm just leaving it here. (Raistas)

== Delete ==

If I make a mistake and create a page that is clearly stupid, how do I tag it for deletion? I don't have the power and it doesn't seem right to bug specific people to delete a specific page. Is there something <nowiki>[[:Category:Delete me]]</nowiki>? --[[User:Aquatiki|Aquatiki]] ([[User talk:Aquatiki|talk]]) 03:39, 1 December 2018 (CET)

::You should tag it with <nowiki>{{speedy|reason}}</nowiki>. Check [[Template:Speedy]] out. [[File:Admin.png|35px|link=Linguifex:Administrators]] '''[[User talk:Chrysophylax|Χρυσοφύλαξ]]''' 11:07, 2 December 2018 (CET)

== Infobox language ==

So, I recently noticed that I'm prevented from editing templates that're transcluded on the main page, specifically [[Template:Infobox language]] and its subpages, and I was wondering either 1. if there's a way to work around this, 2. if you could turn-off cascading for the main page, or 3. if I could be given permission to edit these pages? If you just don't want non-admins editing these pages, that's completely fine too, but please let me know. -[[User:Учхљёная]] ([[User_talk:Учхљёная|talk]],[[:Category:Conlangs by Elliott Wheeler|conlangs]],[[Special:Contributions/Учхљёная|edits]]). 18:20, 19 January 2019 (CET).
:: Hi, that sounds perfectly reasonable. I will investigate this weekend if there's something we can do technically to allow safe users to edit high-frequency templates --[[File:Admin.png|35px|link=Linguifex:Administrators]] '''[[User talk:Chrysophylax|Χρυσοφύλαξ]]''' 14:35, 22 January 2019 (CET)
:: I've disabled cascading protection for now. Hopefully it won't bite the wiki in its bum. --[[File:Admin.png|35px|link=Linguifex:Administrators]] '''[[User talk:Chrysophylax|Χρυσοφύλαξ]]''' 00:03, 24 February 2020 (UTC)

== Deletion of Template:LangAbb ==

<del>[[Template:LangAbb]] was deleted, breaking functionality of [[Template:Etym]], which is used in various Contionary entries. I do not ask it be reinstated, but I would like to have access to its history so that I can view its interface and update Etym to use [[Template:ISO]].</del> Nevermind, I figured it out, the template is back in working order

--[[User:MIGUELbM|MIGUELbM]] ([[User talk:MIGUELbM|talk]]) 09:10, 8 February 2020 (UTC)

== Deletion of an image and changing of a page title ==

Hello,

</del>I'm quite new here in Linguifex and I did a (or two) mistake(s).
1. At updating a image which shows ,,Zimâna Ħāwārî (translates to ,,Hawari language")" in my newly invented Ṭoňżeĝâyî script, it always shows the former version of the image where I set the direction so: top to bottom, right to left, even if it should be left to right. To fix that issue, I would like to let it be deleted, and I don't know how one does it.
2. This mistake is less important to fix: Instead of giving my article title the name ,,Hawari language" I just wrote ,,Hawari". If possible, would you be able to change it?</del>

Thank you and have a good day👋🏼

Update (01.05.2020, 17:29 UTC): Thank you for fixing these two issues.😀

Yours sincerely, [[User:MansenBk|MansenBk]] ([[User talk:MansenBk|talk]]) 16:27, 1 May 2020 (UTC).

== Lost Conlangs ==

Hi. A while ago a user on Frathwiki started a project to try and rescue info about conlangs that had been stored on Langmaker in the 2000s, gone down with it but was retrievable via the Web Archive copies of Langmaker. They got so far then drifted off. I'm volunteering to start it again, and I also want to make my own (privately run but publicly accessible) list of the world's conlangs (probably in spreadsheet and searchable database form). I want to combine the jobs to reduce work time; I also think it would be good to have the same info in different places (as what was so unfortunate about Langmaker going down was so much of its info was not stored elsewhere). So I was wondering, would you be interested in allowing similar records of such langs here? I'm guessing not on account of your "non-sufficient content/long inactivity" deletion rule plus high style standards etc. However even if not how about a single page (/multiple if running over) with a name and barest details? I'd be prepared to do all the work, although help would certainly be appreciated. :)
[[User:Matthew McVeagh|Matthew McVeagh]] ([[User talk:Matthew McVeagh|talk]]) 04:32, 22 July 2020 (UTC)
:: If you keep it on one page that'd be fine [[File:Admin.png|35px|link=Linguifex:Administrators]] '''[[User talk:Chrysophylax|Χρυσοφύλαξ]]''' 07:32, 22 July 2020 (UTC)

== Safety on the Website ==

Dear Chrysophylax,
I have a quite important question about the website itself. Well, whenever I (it is also not only me) open the site from Discord, I get a warning saying that this website may steal personal or financial information and thus should be closed. Do you know why the warning appears?

Yours sincerely,
MansenBk [[User:MansenBk|MansenBk]] ([[User talk:MansenBk|talk]]) 15:40, 2 February 2021 (UTC)

::Nope, no idea. We use TLS 1.3 and don't take any personal and financial data beyond your email and username when you register. [[File:Admin.png|35px|link=Linguifex:Administrators]] '''[[User talk:Chrysophylax|Χρυσοφύλαξ]]''' 00:02, 29 April 2021 (UTC)

== New featured language ==

Wow, I'm quite honored to see that [[Avendonian]] [[Special:Diff/231620|has become]] a featured language. Many thanks! Cheers, [[User:Sware|'''swar''''''e''']] • [[User talk:Sware#top|🗣]] • [[Special:Contributions/Sware|🏲]] 16:16, 19 July 2021 (UTC)

== Tahano Hikamu font ==

Hi! I've been tinkering around lately with [[:Category:Ayeri lemmas|Ayeri entries]]. As you probably know, Ayeri is written in this quite-Brahmic script called ''Tahano Hikamu''. The creator of Ayeri, Carsten Becker, created a font for it and [https://github.com/carbeck/tagatibookg released it]. I've been wondering if it'd be possible for you or any administrator to add this font to Linguifex so I can use it. Since it's based on SIL Graphite engine, the font declaration must use the .ttf file, not .woff. Thanks! Cheers, [[User:Sware|'''swar''''''e''']] • [[User talk:Sware#top|🗣]] • [[Special:Contributions/Sware|🏲]] 15:17, 25 June 2022 (UTC)

: '''Edit:''' Wording and further details. 11:46, 27 June 2022 (UTC)
: '''Edit 2:''' I'll also need a script definition in Linguifex's common.css for <code>.Ayer</code>, much like [[wikt:MediaWiki:Common.css|Wiktionary's]]. Thanks! 17:12, 3 August 2022 (UTC)

== Change of Username ==

Dear Chrysophylax,

I would like to change my username from Aydbayk into Aydın Baykara. Would you arrange it please?

Yours sincerely,

~~Aydın Baykara~~

Aydın Baykara [[User:Aydbayk]] ([[User talk:Aydbayk|talk]]) 30 April 2023

== Making citations show up in the Reference list ==

Hello Chrysophylax,
I've made a few edits to the aUI page, but after hours of trying cannot make all the citations show up in the Reference list (also, there's no "Cite" menu item like in the main Wikipedia). I've compared them with the apparently original ones in Wikipedia and they seem exactly the same to me. As you can see, I'm getting these error messages:

Cite error: <ref> tag with name "Weilgart-LOS" defined in <references> has group attribute "" which does not appear in prior text.
and
Cite error: <ref> tag defined in <references> has no name attribute.

Could you please explain what I'm missing? (sorry to be a total novice at HTML!)
I really shouldn't keep wasting time trying to figure it out by myself.

Thanks so much!
Andrea Weilgart Patten

AUI

2024-06-26T16:00:27Z

Andiweil: /* History */ citations ref name

{{DISPLAYTITLE:aUI}}
{{Infobox language
|name = aUI
|creator = W. John Weilgart, PhD
|created = 1962
|setting = Designed to dissolve the discrepancy between [[w:homonym|homonym]]ous and [[w:synonym|synonym]]ous words
|familycolor=conlang
|fam1 = [[auxiliary language|auxiliary language]]
|fam2 = [[logical language|logical]] or [[philosophical language]]
|fam3 = [[A priori|a priori]]
|fam4 = [[oligosynthetic]]
|iso3 = none
|glotto=none
|notice=IPA
}}

'''aUI''' ({{IPA-all|aui}}) is a [[Philosophical language|philosophical]], [[A priori language|a priori]] language created in the 1950s by W. John Weilgart, Ph.D. (March 9, 1913– January 26, 1981; born Johann Wolfgang Weixlgärtner,
<ref name="Dr. Weilgart's Story">{{cite web |title=Dr. Weilgart's Story |url=https://auilanguage.space/Dr-weilgart/story |website=aUI – the language of space |publisher=Cosmic Communication Foundation |access-date=25 June 2024}}</ref>
and also known as John W. Weilgart
<ref name="Weilgart-LOS">{{cite book|last=Weilgart|first=John W.|title=aUI, The Language of Space|4th ed.|year=1979|publisher=Cosmic Communication Co.|location=Decorah, Iowa|isbn=978-0-912038-08-7}}</ref>
a philosopher and psychoanalyst originally from Vienna, Austria. He described it as "the Language of Space", connoting universal communication, and published the fourth edition of the textbook in 1979;
<ref name="Weilgart-LOS" />
a philosophic description of each semantic element of the language was published in 1975.
<ref name="Weilgart-CEOM">{{cite book|title=Cosmic Elements of Meaning: Symbols of the Spirit's Life|last=Weilgart|first=John W.|publisher=Cosmic Communication Co.|year=1975|location=Decorah, Iowa}}</ref>

As an effort toward world 'peace through understanding', it was Weilgart's goal to clarify and simplify communication. Ultimately it was his experiment in facilitating conscious thinking in that it is built from a proposed set of primitive, possibly universal elements that are designed to reflect a motivated, mnemonic relationship between symbol, sound, and meaning. In his psychotherapy work, he sometimes used client created aUI formulations to reveal possible subconscious associations to problematic concepts.
<ref>{{cite web|url=http://reykr.livejournal.com/249204.html|title=Another Birthday Yesterday: Dr. John W. Weilgart|author=reykr|date=10 March 2006|work=LIVE JOURNAL|publisher=LiveJournal, Inc.|access-date=8 April 2012}}</ref>
aUI can also be considered an experiment in applied cognitive lexical semantics, and Weilgart envisioned it serving as an international language.

== Introduction ==
aUI is built upon a set of proposed universal [[semantic primes]] or elements of meaning that are combined to create miniature definitions. Weilgart found these fundamental concepts to be at such a basic level that they likely could not be defined by any simpler concepts. Linguistically speaking, aUI attempts '[[oligosynthetic|oligosynthesis]]' in which words are synthesized or composed from a minimal number of total morphemes or units of meaning. The motivated relationship between morphology, phonology, and semantics means that if words look and sound similar, they also have similar meanings; homophonous words become synonymous.

aUI has 31 morpheme-phonemes each with an associated meaning, i.e. each [[morpheme]] = a [[phoneme]] = a [[sememe]].

== History ==
Weilgart followed Gottfried Leibniz' proposal for an [[w:alphabet of human thought|alphabet of human thought]] that would provide a universal way to analyze ideas by breaking them down into their component pieces—to be represented by a unique "real" character. In the early 18th century, Leibniz outlined his ''[[characteristica universalis]]'', the basic elements of which would be pictographic characters representing a limited number of elementary concepts. René Descartes suggested that a lexicon of a universal language should consist of primitive elements. The history of this language philosophy is delineated in Umberto Eco's ''[[w:The Search for the Perfect Language|The Search for the Perfect Language]]''.
<ref name="Eco">{{Cite book|url=http://www.umbertoeco.com/en/|title=The Search for the Perfect Language|last=Eco|first=Umberto|publisher=Blackwell|year=1995|isbn=978-0631205104|access-date=2012-03-09|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150813225954/http://www.umbertoeco.com/en/|archive-date=2015-08-13|url-status=dead}}</ref>

As a young man, Weilgart observed the pervasive and insidious effects of state planned Nazi propaganda. In particular, he was struck by how double meanings, together with similar sounds in slogans often associated unrelated words into suggestive "stereotyped formulas", [that would] "arrest the attention and appeal to the hearts of the national masses"
<ref>Hitler, ''Mein Kampf,'' 1925</ref>.
For example, in one of the most repeated political slogans, ''Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Führer!'' ("One people, One empire, One leader!" the word Volk sounds similar to ''folgt'', meaning to follow or obey; ''Reich'' also means rich; so the phrase points to a subliminal association: that the populace obeys and follows their leader, who leads them to a wealthy empire. ''Blu-Bo'' from ''Blut und Boden'' (Blood and Soil) was also a key slogan of Nazi ideology, as well as of course ''Heil Hitler!'' (Hail Hitler! - ''heil'' also meaning salvation, safe, well).

Based on research in semantic conditioning
<ref name="Vinogradova">{{Cite journal|last=Luria|first=A. R.|last2=Vinogradova|first2=O. S.|date=1959-05-01|title=An Objective Investigation of the Dynamics of Semantic Systems|journal=British Journal of Psychology|language=en|volume=50|issue=2|pages=89–105|doi=10.1111/j.2044-8295.1959.tb00687.x|issn=2044-8295}}</ref>
<ref name="Gregory Razran">{{Cite journal|last=Razran|author-link=Gregory Razran|first=Gregory|date=1961|title=The observable unconscious|journal=Psychological Review|volume=68|issue=2|pages=81–147|doi=10.1037/h0039848|hdl=11858/00-001M-0000-002C-4D33-A|hdl-access=free}}</ref>
<ref name=Razran>{{Cite journal|last=Razran|first=Gregory|date=1939|title=A quantitative study of meaning by semantic conditioning|journal=Science|volume=90|issue=2326|pages=89–90|doi=10.1126/science.90.2326.89-a| pmid= 17798918|hdl=21.11116/0000-0001-913F-5|hdl-access=free}}</ref>
from the 1950s, Weilgart theorized that whereas the conscious mind links synonyms (similar meanings), the subconscious mind associates assonance (similar sounds). That is, while we ''think'' about and distinguish similar-sounding words by their different meanings, we nonetheless ''feel'' at some level that they are (or ought to be) also related in meaning. Alliterative slogans may suggest a link in words unrelated by meaning but related by common sounds. Weilgart posited that such slogans were one of the many significant factors that could lead to war under desperate and incendiary conditions. Further, he believed that the general discrepancy between homophonous and synonymous words in conventional language would add to the disconnect with the subconscious mind.

==Phonology==
===Orthography===
===Consonants===

===Vowels===
=== Morphophonology ===
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Meaning
!Letter
! IPA
|-
|SPACE || a||{{IPA|/a/}}
|-
|MOVEMENT||e||{{IPA|/e/}}
|-
|LIGHT||i||{{IPA|/ɪ/ or /i/}}
|-
|LIFE||o||{{IPA|/o/}}
|-
|HUMAN||u||{{IPA|/u/}}
|-
|TIME||A||{{IPA|/a:/}}
|-
|MATTER||E||{{IPA|/e:/}}
|-
|SOUND||I||{{IPA|/i:/}}
|-
|FEELING||O||{{IPA|/o:/}}
|-
|SPIRIT/MIND||U||{{IPA|/u:/}}
|-
|CONDITION||Q||{{IPA|/œ/ or /ø:/}}
|-
|NEGATION||Y||{{IPA|/y/ preceding consonants; /j/ preceding vowels}}
|-
|TOGETHER||b||{{IPA|/b/}}
|-
|EXISTENCE||c||{{IPA|/ʃ/}}
|-
|THROUGH||d||{{IPA|/d/}}
|-
|THIS||f||{{IPA|/f/}}
|-
|INSIDE||g||{{IPA|/ɡ/}}
|-
|QUESTION||h||{{IPA|/h/}}
|-
|EQUAL||j||{{IPA|/ʒ/}}
|-
|ABOVE||k||{{IPA|/k/}}

|-
|AROUND||L||{{IPA|/l/}}

|-
|QUALITY||m||{{IPA|/m/}}

|-

|QUANTITY||n||{{IPA|/n/}}

|-

|BEFORE||p||{{IPA|/p/}}

|-

|POSITIVE||r||{{IPA|/ʀ/ or /r/}}

|-

|THING||s||{{IPA|/s/}}

|-

|TOWARDS||t||{{IPA|/t/}}

|-

|ACTIVE||v||{{IPA|/v/}}

|-

|POWER||w||{{IPA|/w/}}

|-
|RELATION||x||{{IPA|/x/}}
|-
|PART||z||{{IPA|/z/}}
|}

Additionally, short nasal vowels (marked with an asterisk) are used for numerals:
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! 0 || 1 || 2 || 3 || 4 || 5 || 6 || 7 || 8 || 9 || 10
|-
|{{angbr|Ŷ}}||{{angbr|â}}||{{angbr|ê}}||{{angbr|î}}||{{angbr|û}}||{{angbr|ô}}||{{angbr|Â}}||{{angbr|Ê}}||{{angbr|Î}}||{{angbr|Û}}||{{angbr|Ô}}
|}

The phoneme {{IPA|/b/}}, for instance, meaning "Together", is a bilabial stop, pronounced with the lips pressed together. "Light" is pronounced with a short {{IPA|/ɪ/}}, as the brightest, highest-frequency sound, while "Sound", is pronounced with a longer {{IPA|/iː/}}, as sound travels more slowly than light.

Each phoneme also has an ideographic glyph or symbol that represents its meaning. The symbol for "Human", {{IPA|/u/}} is depicted by the two legs or arms of the human being, also suggesting our dichotomous nature. The "human" may be fulfilled by the whole triangular trinity of "Spirit", a 'deep, mysterious' {{IPA|/uː/}}, (there are many possible trinities found in philosophy and religion). "Life", {{IPA|/o/}}, represented by the shape of a leaf, is photosynthesis forming the basis of life on Earth. "Feeling", {{IPA|/oː/}} is a heart shape, blood pressure and pulse reflecting various feelings, and "action", a 'vibrant' {{IPA|/v/}}, is represented by a lightning bolt, the most active phenomenon in nature.

;Example
{| class="wikitable"
|+
!Compound
!Morphology
!IPA
!Meaning
|-
|io
|Light-Life
|{{IPA|/ɪo/}}
|plant
|-
|iO
|Light-Feeling/Sensation
|{{IPA|/ɪo:/}}
|sight
|-
|iOv
|sight-Action/Verb
|{{IPA|/ɪo:v/}}
|to see
|-
|fu
|This-Human
|{{IPA|/fu/}}
|I, me
|-
|bu
|Together-Human
|{{IPA|/bu/}}
|you
|-
|bru
|Together-Good-Human
|{{IPA|/bʀu/}}
|friend
|-
|brU
|Together-Good-Spirit
|{{IPA|/bʀu:/}}
|peace
|}

== Encoding and Fonts ==

aUI is currently included in the unofficial [[w:ConScript Unicode Registry|ConScript Unicode Registry]] (CSUR), which assigns code points in the [[w:Private Use Area|Private Use Area]]. aUI code points are mapped to the range U+E270 to U+E28F.

The eight “Aux” variant fonts of [https://Kurinto.com/ Kurinto] (Kurinto Text Aux, Book Aux, Sans Aux, etc.) support aUI.

==See also==
* [[w:Victor Klemperer|Victor Klemperer]] and his book ''[[w:LTI – Lingua Tertii Imperii|LTI – Lingua Tertii Imperii]]''

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* [https://auilanguage.space/ Official aUI website]
* Libert, Alan (2000), ''A Priori Artificial Languages'', Lincom Europa, Munich. {{ISBN|3-89586-667-9}}
* [http://www.anomalist.com/reports/language.html The "Language of Space" — critical commentary] (however, not fully factual, per Andrea Weilgart)

[[Category:Engineered languages]]
[[Category:Philosophical languages]]
[[Category:Languages]]
[[Category:A priori]]

AUI

2024-06-26T14:51:13Z

Andiweil: added source to external link

{{DISPLAYTITLE:aUI}}
{{Infobox language
|name = aUI
|creator = W. John Weilgart, PhD
|created = 1962
|setting = Designed to dissolve the discrepancy between [[w:homonym|homonym]]ous and [[w:synonym|synonym]]ous words
|familycolor=conlang
|fam1 = [[auxiliary language|auxiliary language]]
|fam2 = [[logical language|logical]] or [[philosophical language]]
|fam3 = [[A priori|a priori]]
|fam4 = [[oligosynthetic]]
|iso3 = none
|glotto=none
|notice=IPA
}}

'''aUI''' ({{IPA-all|aui}}) is a [[Philosophical language|philosophical]], [[A priori language|a priori]] language created in the 1950s by W. John Weilgart, Ph.D. (March 9, 1913– January 26, 1981; born Johann Wolfgang Weixlgärtner,
<ref name="Dr. Weilgart's Story">{{cite web |title=Dr. Weilgart's Story |url=https://auilanguage.space/Dr-weilgart/story |website=aUI – the language of space |publisher=Cosmic Communication Foundation |access-date=25 June 2024}}</ref>
and also known as John W. Weilgart
<ref name="Weilgart-LOS">{{cite book|last=Weilgart|first=John W.|title=aUI, The Language of Space|4th ed.|year=1979|publisher=Cosmic Communication Co.|location=Decorah, Iowa|isbn=978-0-912038-08-7}}</ref>
a philosopher and psychoanalyst originally from Vienna, Austria. He described it as "the Language of Space", connoting universal communication, and published the fourth edition of the textbook in 1979;
<ref name="Weilgart-LOS" />
a philosophic description of each semantic element of the language was published in 1975.
<ref name="Weilgart-CEOM">{{cite book|title=Cosmic Elements of Meaning: Symbols of the Spirit's Life|last=Weilgart|first=John W.|publisher=Cosmic Communication Co.|year=1975|location=Decorah, Iowa}}</ref>

As an effort toward world 'peace through understanding', it was Weilgart's goal to clarify and simplify communication. Ultimately it was his experiment in facilitating conscious thinking in that it is built from a proposed set of primitive, possibly universal elements that are designed to reflect a motivated, mnemonic relationship between symbol, sound, and meaning. In his psychotherapy work, he sometimes used client created aUI formulations to reveal possible subconscious associations to problematic concepts.
<ref>{{cite web|url=http://reykr.livejournal.com/249204.html|title=Another Birthday Yesterday: Dr. John W. Weilgart|author=reykr|date=10 March 2006|work=LIVE JOURNAL|publisher=LiveJournal, Inc.|access-date=8 April 2012}}</ref>
aUI can also be considered an experiment in applied cognitive lexical semantics, and Weilgart envisioned it serving as an international language.

== Introduction ==
aUI is built upon a set of proposed universal [[semantic primes]] or elements of meaning that are combined to create miniature definitions. Weilgart found these fundamental concepts to be at such a basic level that they likely could not be defined by any simpler concepts. Linguistically speaking, aUI attempts '[[oligosynthetic|oligosynthesis]]' in which words are synthesized or composed from a minimal number of total morphemes or units of meaning. The motivated relationship between morphology, phonology, and semantics means that if words look and sound similar, they also have similar meanings; homophonous words become synonymous.

aUI has 31 morpheme-phonemes each with an associated meaning, i.e. each [[morpheme]] = a [[phoneme]] = a [[sememe]].

== History ==
Weilgart followed Gottfried Leibniz' proposal for an [[w:alphabet of human thought|alphabet of human thought]] that would provide a universal way to analyze ideas by breaking them down into their component pieces—to be represented by a unique "real" character. In the early 18th century, Leibniz outlined his ''[[characteristica universalis]]'', the basic elements of which would be pictographic characters representing a limited number of elementary concepts. René Descartes suggested that a lexicon of a universal language should consist of primitive elements. The history of this language philosophy is delineated in Umberto Eco's ''[[w:The Search for the Perfect Language|The Search for the Perfect Language]]''.
<ref name="Eco">{{Cite book|url=http://www.umbertoeco.com/en/|title=The Search for the Perfect Language|last=Eco|first=Umberto|publisher=Blackwell|year=1995|isbn=978-0631205104|access-date=2012-03-09|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150813225954/http://www.umbertoeco.com/en/|archive-date=2015-08-13|url-status=dead}}</ref>

As a young man, Weilgart observed the pervasive and insidious effects of state planned Nazi propaganda. In particular, he was struck by how double meanings, together with similar sounds in slogans often associated unrelated words into suggestive "stereotyped formulas", [that would] "arrest the attention and appeal to the hearts of the national masses"
<ref>Hitler, ''Mein Kampf,'' 1925</ref>.
For example, in one of the most repeated political slogans, ''Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Führer!'' ("One people, One empire, One leader!" the word Volk sounds similar to ''folgt'', meaning to follow or obey; ''Reich'' also means rich; so the phrase points to a subliminal association: that the populace obeys and follows their leader, who leads them to a wealthy empire. ''Blu-Bo'' from ''Blut und Boden'' (Blood and Soil) was also a key slogan of Nazi ideology, as well as of course ''Heil Hitler!'' (Hail Hitler! - ''heil'' also meaning salvation, safe, well).

Based on research in semantic conditioning
<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Luria|first=A. R.|last2=Vinogradova|first2=O. S.|date=1959-05-01|title=An Objective Investigation of the Dynamics of Semantic Systems|journal=British Journal of Psychology|language=en|volume=50|issue=2|pages=89–105|doi=10.1111/j.2044-8295.1959.tb00687.x|issn=2044-8295}}</ref>
<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Razran|author-link=Gregory Razran|first=Gregory|date=1961|title=The observable unconscious|journal=Psychological Review|volume=68|issue=2|pages=81–147|doi=10.1037/h0039848|hdl=11858/00-001M-0000-002C-4D33-A|hdl-access=free}}</ref>
<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Razran|first=Gregory|date=1939|title=A quantitative study of meaning by semantic conditioning|journal=Science|volume=90|issue=2326|pages=89–90|doi=10.1126/science.90.2326.89-a| pmid= 17798918|hdl=21.11116/0000-0001-913F-5|hdl-access=free}}</ref>
from the 1950s, Weilgart theorized that whereas the conscious mind links synonyms (similar meanings), the subconscious mind associates assonance (similar sounds). That is, while we ''think'' about and distinguish similar-sounding words by their different meanings, we nonetheless ''feel'' at some level that they are (or ought to be) also related in meaning. Alliterative slogans may suggest a link in words unrelated by meaning but related by common sounds. Weilgart posited that such slogans were one of the many significant factors that could lead to war under desperate and incendiary conditions. Further, he believed that the general discrepancy between homophonous and synonymous words in conventional language would add to the disconnect with the subconscious mind.

==Phonology==
===Orthography===
===Consonants===

===Vowels===
=== Morphophonology ===
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Meaning
!Letter
! IPA
|-
|SPACE || a||{{IPA|/a/}}
|-
|MOVEMENT||e||{{IPA|/e/}}
|-
|LIGHT||i||{{IPA|/ɪ/ or /i/}}
|-
|LIFE||o||{{IPA|/o/}}
|-
|HUMAN||u||{{IPA|/u/}}
|-
|TIME||A||{{IPA|/a:/}}
|-
|MATTER||E||{{IPA|/e:/}}
|-
|SOUND||I||{{IPA|/i:/}}
|-
|FEELING||O||{{IPA|/o:/}}
|-
|SPIRIT/MIND||U||{{IPA|/u:/}}
|-
|CONDITION||Q||{{IPA|/œ/ or /ø:/}}
|-
|NEGATION||Y||{{IPA|/y/ preceding consonants; /j/ preceding vowels}}
|-
|TOGETHER||b||{{IPA|/b/}}
|-
|EXISTENCE||c||{{IPA|/ʃ/}}
|-
|THROUGH||d||{{IPA|/d/}}
|-
|THIS||f||{{IPA|/f/}}
|-
|INSIDE||g||{{IPA|/ɡ/}}
|-
|QUESTION||h||{{IPA|/h/}}
|-
|EQUAL||j||{{IPA|/ʒ/}}
|-
|ABOVE||k||{{IPA|/k/}}

|-
|AROUND||L||{{IPA|/l/}}

|-
|QUALITY||m||{{IPA|/m/}}

|-

|QUANTITY||n||{{IPA|/n/}}

|-

|BEFORE||p||{{IPA|/p/}}

|-

|POSITIVE||r||{{IPA|/ʀ/ or /r/}}

|-

|THING||s||{{IPA|/s/}}

|-

|TOWARDS||t||{{IPA|/t/}}

|-

|ACTIVE||v||{{IPA|/v/}}

|-

|POWER||w||{{IPA|/w/}}

|-
|RELATION||x||{{IPA|/x/}}
|-
|PART||z||{{IPA|/z/}}
|}

Additionally, short nasal vowels (marked with an asterisk) are used for numerals:
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! 0 || 1 || 2 || 3 || 4 || 5 || 6 || 7 || 8 || 9 || 10
|-
|{{angbr|Ŷ}}||{{angbr|â}}||{{angbr|ê}}||{{angbr|î}}||{{angbr|û}}||{{angbr|ô}}||{{angbr|Â}}||{{angbr|Ê}}||{{angbr|Î}}||{{angbr|Û}}||{{angbr|Ô}}
|}

The phoneme {{IPA|/b/}}, for instance, meaning "Together", is a bilabial stop, pronounced with the lips pressed together. "Light" is pronounced with a short {{IPA|/ɪ/}}, as the brightest, highest-frequency sound, while "Sound", is pronounced with a longer {{IPA|/iː/}}, as sound travels more slowly than light.

Each phoneme also has an ideographic glyph or symbol that represents its meaning. The symbol for "Human", {{IPA|/u/}} is depicted by the two legs or arms of the human being, also suggesting our dichotomous nature. The "human" may be fulfilled by the whole triangular trinity of "Spirit", a 'deep, mysterious' {{IPA|/uː/}}, (there are many possible trinities found in philosophy and religion). "Life", {{IPA|/o/}}, represented by the shape of a leaf, is photosynthesis forming the basis of life on Earth. "Feeling", {{IPA|/oː/}} is a heart shape, blood pressure and pulse reflecting various feelings, and "action", a 'vibrant' {{IPA|/v/}}, is represented by a lightning bolt, the most active phenomenon in nature.

;Example
{| class="wikitable"
|+
!Compound
!Morphology
!IPA
!Meaning
|-
|io
|Light-Life
|{{IPA|/ɪo/}}
|plant
|-
|iO
|Light-Feeling/Sensation
|{{IPA|/ɪo:/}}
|sight
|-
|iOv
|sight-Action/Verb
|{{IPA|/ɪo:v/}}
|to see
|-
|fu
|This-Human
|{{IPA|/fu/}}
|I, me
|-
|bu
|Together-Human
|{{IPA|/bu/}}
|you
|-
|bru
|Together-Good-Human
|{{IPA|/bʀu/}}
|friend
|-
|brU
|Together-Good-Spirit
|{{IPA|/bʀu:/}}
|peace
|}

== Encoding and Fonts ==

aUI is currently included in the unofficial [[w:ConScript Unicode Registry|ConScript Unicode Registry]] (CSUR), which assigns code points in the [[w:Private Use Area|Private Use Area]]. aUI code points are mapped to the range U+E270 to U+E28F.

The eight “Aux” variant fonts of [https://Kurinto.com/ Kurinto] (Kurinto Text Aux, Book Aux, Sans Aux, etc.) support aUI.

==See also==
* [[w:Victor Klemperer|Victor Klemperer]] and his book ''[[w:LTI – Lingua Tertii Imperii|LTI – Lingua Tertii Imperii]]''

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* [https://auilanguage.space/ Official aUI website]
* Libert, Alan (2000), ''A Priori Artificial Languages'', Lincom Europa, Munich. {{ISBN|3-89586-667-9}}
* [http://www.anomalist.com/reports/language.html The "Language of Space" — critical commentary] (however, not fully factual, per Andrea Weilgart)

[[Category:Engineered languages]]
[[Category:Philosophical languages]]
[[Category:Languages]]
[[Category:A priori]]

Template:Cite journal

2024-06-26T14:01:13Z

Andiweil: citation

<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Luria|first=A. R.|last2=Vinogradova|first2=O. S.|date=1959-05-01|title=An Objective Investigation of the Dynamics of Semantic Systems|journal=British Journal of Psychology|language=en|volume=50|issue=2|pages=89–105|doi=10.1111/j.2044-8295.1959.tb00687.x|issn=2044-8295}}</ref>

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2024-06-26T06:36:15Z

Andiweil: added reference

<ref name="Weilgart-LOS">{{cite book |last=Weilgart |first=John W. |title=aUI, The Language of Space |publisher=Cosmic Communication Co. |year=1979 |isbn=978-0-912038-08-7 |edition=4th |location=Decorah, Iowa}}</ref>

AUI

2024-06-26T05:37:26Z

Andiweil: updated to current website in reference

{{DISPLAYTITLE:aUI}}
{{Infobox language
|name = aUI
|creator = W. John Weilgart, PhD
|created = 1962
|setting = Designed to dissolve the discrepancy between [[w:homonym|homonym]]ous and [[w:synonym|synonym]]ous words
|familycolor=conlang
|fam1 = [[auxiliary language|auxiliary language]]
|fam2 = [[logical language|logical]] or [[philosophical language]]
|fam3 = [[A priori|a priori]]
|fam4 = [[oligosynthetic]]
|iso3 = none
|glotto=none
|notice=IPA
}}

'''aUI''' ({{IPA-all|aui}}) is a [[Philosophical language|philosophical]], [[A priori language|a priori]] language created in the 1950s by W. John Weilgart, Ph.D. (March 9, 1913– January 26, 1981; born Johann Wolfgang Weixlgärtner,<ref name="Dr. Weilgart's Story">{{cite web |title=Dr. Weilgart's Story |url=https://auilanguage.space/Dr-weilgart/story |website=aUI – the language of space |publisher=Cosmic Communication Foundation |access-date=25 June 2024}}</ref> and also known as John W. Weilgart<ref name="Weilgart-LOS">{{cite book|last=Weilgart|first=John W.|title=aUI, The Language of Space|4th ed.|year=1979|publisher=Cosmic Communication Co.|location=Decorah, Iowa|isbn=978-0-912038-08-7}}</ref> a philosopher and psychoanalyst originally from Vienna, Austria. He described it as "the Language of Space", connoting universal communication, and published the fourth edition of the textbook in 1979;<ref name="Weilgart-LOS" /> a philosophic description of each semantic element of the language was published in 1975.<ref name="Weilgart-CEOM">{{cite book|title=Cosmic Elements of Meaning: Symbols of the Spirit's Life|last=Weilgart|first=John W.|publisher=Cosmic Communication Co.|year=1975|location=Decorah, Iowa}}</ref>

As an effort toward world 'peace through understanding', it was Weilgart's goal to clarify and simplify communication. Ultimately it was his experiment in facilitating conscious thinking in that it is built from a proposed set of primitive, possibly universal elements that are designed to reflect a motivated, mnemonic relationship between symbol, sound, and meaning. In his psychotherapy work, he sometimes used client created aUI formulations to reveal possible subconscious associations to problematic concepts.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://reykr.livejournal.com/249204.html|title=Another Birthday Yesterday: Dr. John W. Weilgart|author=reykr|date=10 March 2006|work=LIVE JOURNAL|publisher=LiveJournal, Inc.|access-date=8 April 2012}}</ref> aUI can also be considered an experiment in applied cognitive lexical semantics, and Weilgart envisioned it serving as an international language.

== Introduction ==
aUI is built upon a set of proposed universal [[semantic primes]] or elements of meaning that are combined to create miniature definitions. Weilgart found these fundamental concepts to be at such a basic level that they likely could not be defined by any simpler concepts. Linguistically speaking, aUI attempts '[[oligosynthetic|oligosynthesis]]' in which words are synthesized or composed from a minimal number of total morphemes or units of meaning. The motivated relationship between morphology, phonology, and semantics means that if words look and sound similar, they also have similar meanings; homophonous words become synonymous.

aUI has 31 morpheme-phonemes each with an associated meaning, i.e. each [[morpheme]] = a [[phoneme]] = a [[sememe]].

== History ==
Weilgart followed Gottfried Leibniz' proposal for an [[w:alphabet of human thought|alphabet of human thought]] that would provide a universal way to analyze ideas by breaking them down into their component pieces—to be represented by a unique "real" character. In the early 18th century, Leibniz outlined his ''[[characteristica universalis]]'', the basic elements of which would be pictographic characters representing a limited number of elementary concepts. René Descartes suggested that a lexicon of a universal language should consist of primitive elements. The history of this language philosophy is delineated in Umberto Eco's ''[[w:The Search for the Perfect Language|The Search for the Perfect Language]]''.<ref name="Eco">{{Cite book|url=http://www.umbertoeco.com/en/|title=The Search for the Perfect Language|last=Eco|first=Umberto|publisher=Blackwell|year=1995|isbn=978-0631205104|access-date=2012-03-09|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150813225954/http://www.umbertoeco.com/en/|archive-date=2015-08-13|url-status=dead}}</ref>

As a young man, Weilgart observed the pervasive and insidious effects of state planned Nazi propaganda. In particular, he was struck by how double meanings, together with similar sounds in slogans often associated unrelated words into suggestive "stereotyped formulas", [that would] "arrest the attention and appeal to the hearts of the national masses"<ref>Hitler, ''Mein Kampf,'' 1925</ref>. For example, in one of the most repeated political slogans, ''Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Führer!'' ("One people, One empire, One leader!" the word Volk sounds similar to ''folgt'', meaning to follow or obey; ''Reich'' also means rich; so the phrase points to a subliminal association: that the populace obeys and follows their leader, who leads them to a wealthy empire. ''Blu-Bo'' from ''Blut und Boden'' (Blood and Soil) was also a key slogan of Nazi ideology, as well as of course ''Heil Hitler!'' (Hail Hitler! - ''heil'' also meaning salvation, safe, well).

Based on research in semantic conditioning<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Luria|first=A. R.|last2=Vinogradova|first2=O. S.|date=1959-05-01|title=An Objective Investigation of the Dynamics of Semantic Systems|journal=British Journal of Psychology|language=en|volume=50|issue=2|pages=89–105|doi=10.1111/j.2044-8295.1959.tb00687.x|issn=2044-8295}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Razran|author-link=Gregory Razran|first=Gregory|date=1961|title=The observable unconscious|journal=Psychological Review|volume=68|issue=2|pages=81–147|doi=10.1037/h0039848|hdl=11858/00-001M-0000-002C-4D33-A|hdl-access=free}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Razran|first=Gregory|date=1939|title=A quantitative study of meaning by semantic conditioning|journal=Science|volume=90|issue=2326|pages=89–90|doi=10.1126/science.90.2326.89-a| pmid= 17798918|hdl=21.11116/0000-0001-913F-5|hdl-access=free}}</ref> from the 1950s, Weilgart theorized that whereas the conscious mind links synonyms (similar meanings), the subconscious mind associates assonance (similar sounds). That is, while we ''think'' about and distinguish similar-sounding words by their different meanings, we nonetheless ''feel'' at some level that they are (or ought to be) also related in meaning. Alliterative slogans may suggest a link in words unrelated by meaning but related by common sounds. Weilgart posited that such slogans were one of the many significant factors that could lead to war under desperate and incendiary conditions. Further, he believed that the general discrepancy between homophonous and synonymous words in conventional language would add to the disconnect with the subconscious mind.

==Phonology==
===Orthography===
===Consonants===

===Vowels===
=== Morphophonology ===
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Meaning
!Letter
! IPA
|-
|SPACE || a||{{IPA|/a/}}
|-
|MOVEMENT||e||{{IPA|/e/}}
|-
|LIGHT||i||{{IPA|/ɪ/ or /i/}}
|-
|LIFE||o||{{IPA|/o/}}
|-
|HUMAN||u||{{IPA|/u/}}
|-
|TIME||A||{{IPA|/a:/}}
|-
|MATTER||E||{{IPA|/e:/}}
|-
|SOUND||I||{{IPA|/i:/}}
|-
|FEELING||O||{{IPA|/o:/}}
|-
|SPIRIT/MIND||U||{{IPA|/u:/}}
|-
|CONDITION||Q||{{IPA|/œ/ or /ø:/}}
|-
|NEGATION||Y||{{IPA|/y/ preceding consonants; /j/ preceding vowels}}
|-
|TOGETHER||b||{{IPA|/b/}}
|-
|EXISTENCE||c||{{IPA|/ʃ/}}
|-
|THROUGH||d||{{IPA|/d/}}
|-
|THIS||f||{{IPA|/f/}}
|-
|INSIDE||g||{{IPA|/ɡ/}}
|-
|QUESTION||h||{{IPA|/h/}}
|-
|EQUAL||j||{{IPA|/ʒ/}}
|-
|ABOVE||k||{{IPA|/k/}}

|-
|AROUND||L||{{IPA|/l/}}

|-
|QUALITY||m||{{IPA|/m/}}

|-

|QUANTITY||n||{{IPA|/n/}}

|-

|BEFORE||p||{{IPA|/p/}}

|-

|POSITIVE||r||{{IPA|/ʀ/ or /r/}}

|-

|THING||s||{{IPA|/s/}}

|-

|TOWARDS||t||{{IPA|/t/}}

|-

|ACTIVE||v||{{IPA|/v/}}

|-

|POWER||w||{{IPA|/w/}}

|-
|RELATION||x||{{IPA|/x/}}
|-
|PART||z||{{IPA|/z/}}
|}

Additionally, short nasal vowels (marked with an asterisk) are used for numerals:
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! 0 || 1 || 2 || 3 || 4 || 5 || 6 || 7 || 8 || 9 || 10
|-
|{{angbr|Ŷ}}||{{angbr|â}}||{{angbr|ê}}||{{angbr|î}}||{{angbr|û}}||{{angbr|ô}}||{{angbr|Â}}||{{angbr|Ê}}||{{angbr|Î}}||{{angbr|Û}}||{{angbr|Ô}}
|}

The phoneme {{IPA|/b/}}, for instance, meaning "Together", is a bilabial stop, pronounced with the lips pressed together. "Light" is pronounced with a short {{IPA|/ɪ/}}, as the brightest, highest-frequency sound, while "Sound", is pronounced with a longer {{IPA|/iː/}}, as sound travels more slowly than light.

Each phoneme also has an ideographic glyph or symbol that represents its meaning. The symbol for "Human", {{IPA|/u/}} is depicted by the two legs or arms of the human being, also suggesting our dichotomous nature. The "human" may be fulfilled by the whole triangular trinity of "Spirit", a 'deep, mysterious' {{IPA|/uː/}}, (there are many possible trinities found in philosophy and religion). "Life", {{IPA|/o/}}, represented by the shape of a leaf, is photosynthesis forming the basis of life on Earth. "Feeling", {{IPA|/oː/}} is a heart shape, blood pressure and pulse reflecting various feelings, and "action", a 'vibrant' {{IPA|/v/}}, is represented by a lightning bolt, the most active phenomenon in nature.

;Example
{| class="wikitable"
|+
!Compound
!Morphology
!IPA
!Meaning
|-
|io
|Light-Life
|{{IPA|/ɪo/}}
|plant
|-
|iO
|Light-Feeling/Sensation
|{{IPA|/ɪo:/}}
|sight
|-
|iOv
|sight-Action/Verb
|{{IPA|/ɪo:v/}}
|to see
|-
|fu
|This-Human
|{{IPA|/fu/}}
|I, me
|-
|bu
|Together-Human
|{{IPA|/bu/}}
|you
|-
|bru
|Together-Good-Human
|{{IPA|/bʀu/}}
|friend
|-
|brU
|Together-Good-Spirit
|{{IPA|/bʀu:/}}
|peace
|}

== Encoding and Fonts ==

aUI is currently included in the unofficial [[w:ConScript Unicode Registry|ConScript Unicode Registry]] (CSUR), which assigns code points in the [[w:Private Use Area|Private Use Area]]. aUI code points are mapped to the range U+E270 to U+E28F.

The eight “Aux” variant fonts of [https://Kurinto.com/ Kurinto] (Kurinto Text Aux, Book Aux, Sans Aux, etc.) support aUI.

==See also==
* [[w:Victor Klemperer|Victor Klemperer]] and his book ''[[w:LTI – Lingua Tertii Imperii|LTI – Lingua Tertii Imperii]]''

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* [https://auilanguage.space/ Official aUI website]
* Libert, Alan (2000), ''A Priori Artificial Languages'', Lincom Europa, Munich. {{ISBN|3-89586-667-9}}
* [http://www.anomalist.com/reports/language.html The "Language of Space" — critical commentary] (however, not fully factual)

[[Category:Engineered languages]]
[[Category:Philosophical languages]]
[[Category:Languages]]
[[Category:A priori]]

AUI

2024-06-25T04:21:06Z

Andiweil: Edited IPA, numeral transcriptions, updated website...

{{DISPLAYTITLE:aUI}}
{{Infobox language
|name = aUI
|creator = W. John Weilgart, PhD
|created = 1962
|setting = Designed to dissolve the discrepancy between [[w:homonym|homonym]]ous and [[w:synonym|synonym]]ous words
|familycolor=conlang
|fam1 = [[auxiliary language|auxiliary language]]
|fam2 = [[logical language|logical]] or [[philosophical language]]
|fam3 = [[A priori|a priori]]
|fam4 = [[oligosynthetic]]
|iso3 = none
|glotto=none
|notice=IPA
}}

'''aUI''' ({{IPA-all|aui}}) is a [[Philosophical language|philosophical]], [[A priori language|a priori]] language created in the 1950s by W. John Weilgart, Ph.D. (March 9, 1913– January 26, 1981; born Johann Wolfgang Weixlgärtner,<ref name="Dr. Weilgart's Story">{{cite web |title=Dr. Weilgart's Story |url=https://auilanguage.org/dr-weilgart/ |website=aUI - the language of space |publisher=Cosmic Communication Foundation |access-date=31 August 2019}}</ref> and also known as W. John Weilgart<ref name="Weilgart-LOS">{{cite book|last=Weilgart|first=John W.|title=aUI, The Language of Space|year=1979|publisher=Cosmic Communication Co.|location=Decorah, Iowa|isbn=978-0-912038-08-7}}</ref>) a philosopher and psychoanalyst originally from Vienna, Austria. He described it as "the Language of Space", connoting universal communication, and published the fourth edition of the textbook in 1979;<ref name="Weilgart-LOS" /> a philosophic description of each semantic element of the language was published in 1975.<ref name="Weilgart-CEOM">{{cite book|title=Cosmic Elements of Meaning: Symbols of the Spirit's Life|last=Weilgart|first=John W.|publisher=Cosmic Communication Co.|year=1975|location=Decorah, Iowa}}</ref>

As an effort toward world 'peace through understanding', it was Weilgart's goal to clarify and simplify communication. Ultimately it was his experiment in facilitating conscious thinking in that it is built from a proposed set of primitive, possibly universal elements that are designed to reflect a motivated, mnemonic relationship between symbol, sound, and meaning. In his psychotherapy work, he sometimes used client created aUI formulations to reveal possible subconscious associations to problematic concepts.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://reykr.livejournal.com/249204.html|title=Another Birthday Yesterday: Dr. John W. Weilgart|author=reykr|date=10 March 2006|work=LIVE JOURNAL|publisher=LiveJournal, Inc.|access-date=8 April 2012}}</ref> aUI can also be considered an experiment in applied cognitive lexical semantics, and Weilgart claimed it could serve as an [[auxiliary language|auxiliary language]].

== Introduction ==
aUI is built upon a set of proposed universal [[semantic primes]] or elements of meaning that are combined to create miniature definitions. Weilgart found these fundamental concepts to be at such a basic level that they likely could not be defined by any simpler concepts. Linguistically speaking, aUI attempts '[[oligosynthetic|oligosynthesis]]' in which words are synthesized or composed from a minimal number of total morphemes or units of meaning. The motivated relationship between morphology, phonology, and semantics means that if words look and sound similar, they also have similar meanings; homophonous words become synonymous.

aUI has 31 morpheme-phonemes each with an associated meaning, i.e. each [[morpheme]] = a [[phoneme]] = a [[sememe]].

== History ==
Weilgart followed Gottfried Leibniz' proposal for an [[w:alphabet of human thought|alphabet of human thought]] that would provide a universal way to analyze ideas by breaking them down into their component pieces—to be represented by a unique "real" character. In the early 18th century, Leibniz outlined his ''[[characteristica universalis]]'', the basic elements of which would be pictographic characters representing a limited number of elementary concepts. René Descartes suggested that a lexicon of a universal language should consist of primitive elements. The history of this language philosophy is delineated in Umberto Eco's ''[[w:The Search for the Perfect Language|The Search for the Perfect Language]]''.<ref name="Eco">{{Cite book|url=http://www.umbertoeco.com/en/|title=The Search for the Perfect Language|last=Eco|first=Umberto|publisher=Blackwell|year=1995|isbn=978-0631205104|access-date=2012-03-09|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150813225954/http://www.umbertoeco.com/en/|archive-date=2015-08-13|url-status=dead}}</ref>

As a young man, Weilgart observed the pervasive and insidious effects of state planned Nazi propaganda. In particular, he was struck by how double meanings, together with similar sounds in slogans often associated unrelated words into suggestive "stereotyped formulas", [that would] "arrest the attention and appeal to the hearts of the national masses"<ref>Hitler, ''Mein Kampf,'' 1925</ref>. For example, in one of the most repeated political slogans, ''Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Führer!'' ("One people, One empire, One leader!" the word Volk sounds similar to ''folgt'', meaning to follow or obey; ''Reich'' also means rich; so the phrase points to a subliminal association: that the populace obeys and follows their leader, who leads them to a wealthy empire. ''Blu-Bo'' from ''Blut und Boden'' (Blood and Soil) was also a key slogan of Nazi ideology, as well as of course ''Heil Hitler!'' (Hail Hitler! - ''heil'' also meaning salvation, safe, well).

Based on research in semantic conditioning<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Luria|first=A. R.|last2=Vinogradova|first2=O. S.|date=1959-05-01|title=An Objective Investigation of the Dynamics of Semantic Systems|journal=British Journal of Psychology|language=en|volume=50|issue=2|pages=89–105|doi=10.1111/j.2044-8295.1959.tb00687.x|issn=2044-8295}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Razran|author-link=Gregory Razran|first=Gregory|date=1961|title=The observable unconscious|journal=Psychological Review|volume=68|issue=2|pages=81–147|doi=10.1037/h0039848|hdl=11858/00-001M-0000-002C-4D33-A|hdl-access=free}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Razran|first=Gregory|date=1939|title=A quantitative study of meaning by semantic conditioning|journal=Science|volume=90|issue=2326|pages=89–90|doi=10.1126/science.90.2326.89-a| pmid= 17798918|hdl=21.11116/0000-0001-913F-5|hdl-access=free}}</ref> from the 1950s, Weilgart theorized that whereas the conscious mind links synonyms (similar meanings), the subconscious mind associates assonance (similar sounds). That is, while we ''think'' about and distinguish similar-sounding words by their different meanings, we nonetheless ''feel'' at some level that they are (or ought to be) also related in meaning. Alliterative slogans may suggest a link in words unrelated by meaning but related by common sounds. Weilgart posited that such slogans were one of the many significant factors that could lead to war under desperate and incendiary conditions. Further, he believed that the general discrepancy between homophonous and synonymous words in conventional language would add to the disconnect with the subconscious mind.

==Phonology==
===Orthography===
===Consonants===

===Vowels===
=== Morphophonology ===
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Meaning
!Letter
! IPA
|-
|SPACE || a||{{IPA|/a/}}
|-
|MOVEMENT||e||{{IPA|/e/}}
|-
|LIGHT||i||{{IPA|/ɪ/ or /i/}}
|-
|LIFE||o||{{IPA|/o/}}
|-
|HUMAN||u||{{IPA|/u/}}
|-
|TIME||A||{{IPA|/a:/}}
|-
|MATTER||E||{{IPA|/e:/}}
|-
|SOUND||I||{{IPA|/i:/}}
|-
|FEELING||O||{{IPA|/o:/}}
|-
|SPIRIT/MIND||U||{{IPA|/u:/}}
|-
|CONDITION||Q||{{IPA|/œ/ or /ø:/}}
|-
|NEGATION||Y||{{IPA|/y/ preceding consonants; /j/ preceding vowels}}
|-
|TOGETHER||b||{{IPA|/b/}}
|-
|EXISTENCE||c||{{IPA|/ʃ/}}
|-
|THROUGH||d||{{IPA|/d/}}
|-
|THIS||f||{{IPA|/f/}}
|-
|INSIDE||g||{{IPA|/ɡ/}}
|-
|QUESTION||h||{{IPA|/h/}}
|-
|EQUAL||j||{{IPA|/ʒ/}}
|-
|ABOVE||k||{{IPA|/k/}}

|-
|AROUND||L||{{IPA|/l/}}

|-
|QUALITY||m||{{IPA|/m/}}

|-

|QUANTITY||n||{{IPA|/n/}}

|-

|BEFORE||p||{{IPA|/p/}}

|-

|POSITIVE||r||{{IPA|/ʀ/ or /r/}}

|-

|THING||s||{{IPA|/s/}}

|-

|TOWARDS||t||{{IPA|/t/}}

|-

|ACTIVE||v||{{IPA|/v/}}

|-

|POWER||w||{{IPA|/w/}}

|-
|RELATION||x||{{IPA|/x/}}
|-
|PART||z||{{IPA|/z/}}
|}

Additionally, short nasal vowels (marked with an asterisk) are used for numerals:
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! 0 || 1 || 2 || 3 || 4 || 5 || 6 || 7 || 8 || 9 || 10
|-
|{{angbr|Ŷ}}||{{angbr|â}}||{{angbr|ê}}||{{angbr|î}}||{{angbr|û}}||{{angbr|ô}}||{{angbr|Â}}||{{angbr|Ê}}||{{angbr|Î}}||{{angbr|Û}}||{{angbr|Ô}}
|}

The phoneme {{IPA|/b/}}, for instance, meaning "Together", is a bilabial stop, pronounced with the lips pressed together. "Light" is pronounced with a short {{IPA|/ɪ/}}, as the brightest, highest-frequency sound, while "Sound", is pronounced with a longer {{IPA|/iː/}}, as sound travels more slowly than light.

Each phoneme also has an ideographic glyph or symbol that represents its meaning. The symbol for "Human", {{IPA|/u/}} is depicted by the two legs or arms of the human being, also suggesting our dichotomous nature. The "human" may be fulfilled by the whole triangular trinity of "Spirit", a 'deep, mysterious' {{IPA|/uː/}}, (there are many possible trinities found in philosophy and religion). "Life", {{IPA|/o/}}, represented by the shape of a leaf, is photosynthesis forming the basis of life on Earth. "Feeling", {{IPA|/oː/}} is a heart shape, blood pressure and pulse reflecting various feelings, and "action", a 'vibrant' {{IPA|/v/}}, is represented by a lightning bolt, the most active phenomenon in nature.

;Example
{| class="wikitable"
|+
!Compound
!Morphology
!IPA
!Meaning
|-
|io
|Light-Life
|{{IPA|/ɪo/}}
|plant
|-
|iO
|Light-Feeling/Sensation
|{{IPA|/ɪo:/}}
|sight
|-
|iOv
|sight-Action/Verb
|{{IPA|/ɪo:v/}}
|to see
|-
|fu
|This-Human
|{{IPA|/fu/}}
|I, me
|-
|bu
|Together-Human
|{{IPA|/bu/}}
|you
|-
|bru
|Together-Good-Human
|{{IPA|/bʀu/}}
|friend
|-
|brU
|Together-Good-Spirit
|{{IPA|/bʀu:/}}
|peace
|}

== Encoding and Fonts ==

aUI is currently included in the unofficial [[w:ConScript Unicode Registry|ConScript Unicode Registry]] (CSUR), which assigns code points in the [[w:Private Use Area|Private Use Area]]. aUI code points are mapped to the range U+E270 to U+E28F.

The eight “Aux” variant fonts of [https://Kurinto.com/ Kurinto] (Kurinto Text Aux, Book Aux, Sans Aux, etc.) support aUI.

==See also==
* [[w:Victor Klemperer|Victor Klemperer]] and his book ''[[w:LTI – Lingua Tertii Imperii|LTI – Lingua Tertii Imperii]]''

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* [https://auilanguage.space/ Official aUI website]
* Libert, Alan (2000), ''A Priori Artificial Languages'', Lincom Europa, Munich. {{ISBN|3-89586-667-9}}
* [http://www.anomalist.com/reports/language.html The "Language of Space" — critical commentary] (however, not fully factual)

[[Category:Engineered languages]]
[[Category:Philosophical languages]]
[[Category:Languages]]
[[Category:A priori]]

AUI

2024-06-25T03:24:53Z

Andiweil:

{{DISPLAYTITLE:aUI}}
{{Infobox language
|name = aUI
|creator = W. John Weilgart, PhD
|created = 1962
|setting = Designed to dissolve the discrepancy between [[w:homonym|homonym]]ous and [[w:synonym|synonym]]ous words
|familycolor=conlang
|fam1 = [[auxiliary language|auxiliary language]]
|fam2 = [[logical language|logical]] or [[philosophical language]]
|fam3 = [[A priori|a priori]]
|fam4 = [[oligosynthetic]]
|iso3 = none
|glotto=none
|notice=IPA
}}

'''aUI''' ({{IPA-all|aui}}) is a [[Philosophical language|philosophical]], [[A priori language|a priori]] language created in the 1950s by W. John Weilgart, Ph.D. (March 9, 1913– January 26, 1981; born Johann Wolfgang Weixlgärtner,<ref name="Dr. Weilgart's Story">{{cite web |title=Dr. Weilgart's Story |url=https://auilanguage.org/dr-weilgart/ |website=aUI - the language of space |publisher=Cosmic Communication Foundation |access-date=31 August 2019}}</ref> and also known as W. John Weilgart<ref name="Weilgart-LOS">{{cite book|last=Weilgart|first=John W.|title=aUI, The Language of Space|year=1979|publisher=Cosmic Communication Co.|location=Decorah, Iowa|isbn=978-0-912038-08-7}}</ref>) a philosopher and psychoanalyst originally from Vienna, Austria. He described it as "the Language of Space", connoting universal communication, and published the fourth edition of the textbook in 1979;<ref name="Weilgart-LOS" /> a philosophic description of each semantic element of the language was published in 1975.<ref name="Weilgart-CEOM">{{cite book|title=Cosmic Elements of Meaning: Symbols of the Spirit's Life|last=Weilgart|first=John W.|publisher=Cosmic Communication Co.|year=1975|location=Decorah, Iowa}}</ref>

As an effort toward world 'peace through understanding', it was Weilgart's goal to clarify and simplify communication. Ultimately it was his experiment in facilitating conscious thinking in that it is built from a proposed set of primitive, possibly universal elements that are designed to reflect a motivated, mnemonic relationship between symbol, sound, and meaning. In his psychotherapy work, he sometimes used client created aUI formulations to reveal possible subconscious associations to problematic concepts.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://reykr.livejournal.com/249204.html|title=Another Birthday Yesterday: Dr. John W. Weilgart|author=reykr|date=10 March 2006|work=LIVE JOURNAL|publisher=LiveJournal, Inc.|access-date=8 April 2012}}</ref> aUI can also be considered an experiment in applied cognitive lexical semantics, and Weilgart claimed it could serve as an [[auxiliary language|auxiliary language]].

== Introduction ==
aUI is built upon a set of proposed universal [[semantic primes]] or elements of meaning that are combined to create miniature definitions. Weilgart found these fundamental concepts to be at such a basic level that they likely could not be defined by any simpler concepts. Linguistically speaking, aUI attempts '[[oligosynthetic|oligosynthesis]]' in which words are synthesized or composed from a minimal number of total morphemes or units of meaning. The motivated relationship between morphology, phonology, and semantics means that if words look and sound similar, they also have similar meanings; homophonous words become synonymous.

aUI has 31 morpheme-phonemes each with an associated meaning, i.e. each [[morpheme]] = a [[phoneme]] = a [[sememe]].

== History ==
Weilgart followed Gottfried Leibniz' proposal for an [[w:alphabet of human thought|alphabet of human thought]] that would provide a universal way to analyze ideas by breaking them down into their component pieces—to be represented by a unique "real" character. In the early 18th century, Leibniz outlined his ''[[characteristica universalis]]'', the basic elements of which would be pictographic characters representing a limited number of elementary concepts. René Descartes suggested that a lexicon of a universal language should consist of primitive elements. The history of this language philosophy is delineated in Umberto Eco's ''[[w:The Search for the Perfect Language|The Search for the Perfect Language]]''.<ref name="Eco">{{Cite book|url=http://www.umbertoeco.com/en/|title=The Search for the Perfect Language|last=Eco|first=Umberto|publisher=Blackwell|year=1995|isbn=978-0631205104|access-date=2012-03-09|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150813225954/http://www.umbertoeco.com/en/|archive-date=2015-08-13|url-status=dead}}</ref>

As a young man, Weilgart observed the pervasive and insidious effects of state planned Nazi propaganda. In particular, he was struck by how double meanings, together with similar sounds in slogans often associated unrelated words into suggestive "stereotyped formulas", [that would] "arrest the attention and appeal to the hearts of the national masses"<ref>Hitler, ''Mein Kampf,'' 1925</ref>. For example, in one of the most repeated political slogans, ''Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Führer!'' ("One people, One empire, One leader!" the word Volk sounds similar to ''folgt'', meaning to follow or obey; ''Reich'' also means rich; so the phrase points to a subliminal association: that the populace obeys and follows their leader, who leads them to a wealthy empire. ''Blu-Bo'' from ''Blut und Boden'' (Blood and Soil) was also a key slogan of Nazi ideology, as well as of course ''Heil Hitler!'' (Hail Hitler! - ''heil'' also meaning salvation, safe, well).

Based on research in semantic conditioning<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Luria|first=A. R.|last2=Vinogradova|first2=O. S.|date=1959-05-01|title=An Objective Investigation of the Dynamics of Semantic Systems|journal=British Journal of Psychology|language=en|volume=50|issue=2|pages=89–105|doi=10.1111/j.2044-8295.1959.tb00687.x|issn=2044-8295}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Razran|author-link=Gregory Razran|first=Gregory|date=1961|title=The observable unconscious|journal=Psychological Review|volume=68|issue=2|pages=81–147|doi=10.1037/h0039848|hdl=11858/00-001M-0000-002C-4D33-A|hdl-access=free}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Razran|first=Gregory|date=1939|title=A quantitative study of meaning by semantic conditioning|journal=Science|volume=90|issue=2326|pages=89–90|doi=10.1126/science.90.2326.89-a| pmid= 17798918|hdl=21.11116/0000-0001-913F-5|hdl-access=free}}</ref> from the 1950s, Weilgart theorized that whereas the conscious mind links synonyms (similar meanings), the subconscious mind associates assonance (similar sounds). That is, while we ''think'' about and distinguish similar-sounding words by their different meanings, we nonetheless ''feel'' at some level that they are (or ought to be) also related in meaning. Alliterative slogans may suggest a link in words unrelated by meaning but related by common sounds. Weilgart posited that such slogans were one of the many significant factors that could lead to war under desperate and incendiary conditions. Further, he believed that the general discrepancy between homophonous and synonymous words in conventional language would add to the disconnect with the subconscious mind.

==Phonology==
===Orthography===
===Consonants===

===Vowels===
=== Morphophonology ===
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Meaning
!Letter
! IPA
|-
|Space || a||{{IPA|/a/}}
|-
|Movement||e||{{IPA|/e/}}
|-
|Light||i||{{IPA|/ɪ/ or /i/}}
|-
|Life||o||{{IPA|/o/}}
|-
|Human||u||{{IPA|/u/}}
|-
|Time||A||{{IPA|/a:/}}
|-
|Matter||E||{{IPA|/e:/}}
|-
|Sound||I||{{IPA|/i:/}}
|-
|Feeling||O||{{IPA|/o:/}}
|-
|Spirit/Mind||U||{{IPA|/u:/}}
|-
|Condition||Q||{{IPA|/œ/ or /ø:/}}
|-
|Negation||Y||{{IPA|/y/ preceding consonants; /j/ preceding vowels}}
|-
|Together||b||{{IPA|/b/}}
|-
|Existence||c||{{IPA|/ʃ/}}
|-
|Through||d||{{IPA|/d/}}
|-
|This||f||{{IPA|/f/}}
|-
|Inside||g||{{IPA|/ɡ/}}
|-
|Question||h||{{IPA|/h/}}
|-
|Equal||j||{{IPA|/ʒ/}}
|-
|Above||k||{{IPA|/k/}}

|-
|Around||L||{{IPA|/l/}}

|-
|Quality||m||{{IPA|/m/}}

|-

|Quantity||n||{{IPA|/n/}}

|-

|Before||p||{{IPA|/p/}}

|-

|Positive||r||{{IPA|/ʀ/ or /r/}}

|-

|Thing||s||{{IPA|/s/}}

|-

|Towards||t||{{IPA|/t/}}

|-

|Active||v||{{IPA|/v/}}

|-

|Power||w||{{IPA|/w/}}

|-
|Relation||x||{{IPA|/x/}}
|-
|Part||z||{{IPA|/z/}}
|}

Additionally, short nasal vowels (marked with an asterisk) are used for numerals:
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! 0 || 1 || 2 || 3 || 4 || 5 || 6 || 7 || 8 || 9 || 10
|-
|{{angbr|Ŷ}}||{{angbr|â}}||{{angbr|ê}}||{{angbr|î}}||{{angbr|û}}||{{angbr|ô}}||{{angbr|Â}}||{{angbr|Ê}}||{{angbr|Î}}||{{angbr|Û}}||{{angbr|Ô}}
|}

The phoneme {{IPA|/b/}}, for instance, meaning "Together", is a bilabial stop, pronounced with the lips pressed together. "Light" is pronounced with a short {{IPA|/ɪ/}}, as the brightest, highest-frequency sound, while "Sound", is pronounced with a longer {{IPA|/iː/}}, as sound travels more slowly than light.

Each phoneme also has an ideographic glyph or symbol that represents its meaning. The symbol for "Human", {{IPA|/u/}} is depicted by the two legs or arms of the human being, also suggesting our dichotomous nature. The "human" may be fulfilled by the whole triangular trinity of "Spirit", a 'deep, mysterious' {{IPA|/uː/}}, (there are many possible trinities found in philosophy and religion). "Life", {{IPA|/o/}}, represented by the shape of a leaf, is photosynthesis forming the basis of life on Earth. "Feeling", {{IPA|/oː/}} is a heart shape, blood pressure and pulse reflecting various feelings, and "action", a 'vibrant' {{IPA|/v/}}, is represented by a lightning bolt, the most active phenomenon in nature.

;Example
{| class="wikitable"
|+
!Compound
!Morphology
!IPA
!Meaning
|-
|io
|Light-Life
|{{IPA|/ɪo/}}
|plant
|-
|iO
|Light-Feeling/Sensation
|{{IPA|/ɪo:/}}
|sight
|-
|iOv
|sight-Action/Verb
|{{IPA|/ɪo:v/}}
|to see
|-
|fu
|This-Human
|{{IPA|/fu/}}
|I, me
|-
|bu
|Together-Human
|{{IPA|/bu/}}
|you
|-
|bru
|Together-Good-Human
|{{IPA|/bʀu/}}
|friend
|-
|brU
|Together-Good-Spirit
|{{IPA|/bʀu:/}}
|peace
|}

== Encoding and Fonts ==

aUI is currently included in the unofficial [[w:ConScript Unicode Registry|ConScript Unicode Registry]] (CSUR), which assigns code points in the [[w:Private Use Area|Private Use Area]]. aUI code points are mapped to the range U+E270 to U+E28F.

The eight “Aux” variant fonts of [https://Kurinto.com/ Kurinto] (Kurinto Text Aux, Book Aux, Sans Aux, etc.) support aUI.

==See also==
* [[w:Victor Klemperer|Victor Klemperer]] and his book ''[[w:LTI – Lingua Tertii Imperii|LTI – Lingua Tertii Imperii]]''

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* [https://auilanguage.org/ Official aUI website]
* Libert, Alan (2000), ''A Priori Artificial Languages'', Lincom Europa, Munich. {{ISBN|3-89586-667-9}}
* [http://www.anomalist.com/reports/language.html The "Language of Space" — critical commentary] (however, not fully factual)

[[Category:Engineered languages]]
[[Category:Philosophical languages]]
[[Category:Languages]]
[[Category:A priori]]

AUI

2024-06-25T03:17:13Z

Andiweil:

{{DISPLAYTITLE:aUI}}
{{Infobox language
|name = aUI
|creator = W. John Weilgart, PhD
|created = 1962
|setting = Designed to dissolve the discrepancy between [[w:homonym|homonym]]ous and [[w:synonym|synonym]]ous words
|familycolor=conlang
|fam1 = [[auxiliary language|auxiliary language]]
|fam2 = [[logical language|logical]] or [[philosophical language]]
|fam3 = [[A priori|a priori]]
|fam4 = [[oligosynthetic]]
|iso3 = none
|glotto=none
|notice=IPA
}}

'''aUI''' ({{IPA-all|aui}}) is a [[Philosophical language|philosophical]], [[A priori language|a priori]] language created in the 1950s by W. John Weilgart, Ph.D. (March 9, 1913– January 26, 1981; born Johann Wolfgang Weixlgärtner,<ref name="Dr. Weilgart's Story">{{cite web |title=Dr. Weilgart's Story |url=https://auilanguage.org/dr-weilgart/ |website=aUI - the language of space |publisher=Cosmic Communication Foundation |access-date=31 August 2019}}</ref> and also known as W. John Weilgart<ref name="Weilgart-LOS">{{cite book|last=Weilgart|first=John W.|title=aUI, The Language of Space|year=1979|publisher=Cosmic Communication Co.|location=Decorah, Iowa|isbn=978-0-912038-08-7}}</ref>) a philosopher and psychoanalyst originally from Vienna, Austria. He described it as "the Language of Space", connoting universal communication, and published the fourth edition of the textbook in 1979;<ref name="Weilgart-LOS" /> a philosophic description of each semantic element of the language was published in 1975.<ref name="Weilgart-CEOM">{{cite book|title=Cosmic Elements of Meaning: Symbols of the Spirit's Life|last=Weilgart|first=John W.|publisher=Cosmic Communication Co.|year=1975|location=Decorah, Iowa}}</ref>

As an effort toward world 'peace through understanding', it was Weilgart's goal to clarify and simplify communication. Ultimately it was his experiment in facilitating conscious thinking in that it is built from a proposed set of primitive, possibly universal elements that are designed to reflect a motivated, mnemonic relationship between symbol, sound, and meaning. In his psychotherapy work, he sometimes used client created aUI formulations to reveal possible subconscious associations to problematic concepts.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://reykr.livejournal.com/249204.html|title=Another Birthday Yesterday: Dr. John W. Weilgart|author=reykr|date=10 March 2006|work=LIVE JOURNAL|publisher=LiveJournal, Inc.|access-date=8 April 2012}}</ref> aUI can also be considered an experiment in applied cognitive lexical semantics, and Weilgart claimed it could serve as an [[auxiliary language|auxiliary language]].

== Introduction ==
aUI is built upon a set of proposed universal [[semantic primes]] or elements of meaning that are combined to create miniature definitions. Weilgart found these fundamental concepts to be at such a basic level that they likely could not be defined by any simpler concepts. Linguistically speaking, aUI attempts '[[oligosynthetic|oligosynthesis]]' in which words are synthesized or composed from a minimal number of total morphemes or units of meaning. The motivated relationship between morphology, phonology, and semantics means that if words look and sound similar, they also have similar meanings; homophonous words become synonymous.

aUI has 31 morpheme-phonemes each with an associated meaning, i.e. each [[morpheme]] = a [[phoneme]] = a [[sememe]].

== History ==
Weilgart followed Gottfried Leibniz' proposal for an [[w:alphabet of human thought|alphabet of human thought]] that would provide a universal way to analyze ideas by breaking them down into their component pieces—to be represented by a unique "real" character. In the early 18th century, Leibniz outlined his ''[[characteristica universalis]]'', the basic elements of which would be pictographic characters representing a limited number of elementary concepts. René Descartes suggested that a lexicon of a universal language should consist of primitive elements. The history of this language philosophy is delineated in Umberto Eco's ''[[w:The Search for the Perfect Language|The Search for the Perfect Language]]''.<ref name="Eco">{{Cite book|url=http://www.umbertoeco.com/en/|title=The Search for the Perfect Language|last=Eco|first=Umberto|publisher=Blackwell|year=1995|isbn=978-0631205104|access-date=2012-03-09|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150813225954/http://www.umbertoeco.com/en/|archive-date=2015-08-13|url-status=dead}}</ref>

As a young man, Weilgart observed the pervasive and insidious effects of state planned Nazi propaganda. In particular, he was struck by how double meanings, together with similar sounds in slogans often associated unrelated words into suggestive "stereotyped formulas", [that would] "arrest the attention and appeal to the hearts of the national masses"<ref>Hitler, ''Mein Kampf,'' 1925</ref>. For example, in one of the most repeated political slogans, ''Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Führer!'' ("One people, One empire, One leader!" the word Volk sounds similar to ''folgt'', meaning to follow or obey; ''Reich'' also means rich; so the phrase points to a subliminal association: that the populace obeys and follows their leader, who leads them to a wealthy empire. ''Blu-Bo'' from ''Blut und Boden'' (Blood and Soil) was also a key slogan of Nazi ideology, as well as of course ''Heil Hitler!'' (Hail Hitler! - ''heil'' also meaning salvation, safe, well).

Based on research in semantic conditioning<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Luria|first=A. R.|last2=Vinogradova|first2=O. S.|date=1959-05-01|title=An Objective Investigation of the Dynamics of Semantic Systems|journal=British Journal of Psychology|language=en|volume=50|issue=2|pages=89–105|doi=10.1111/j.2044-8295.1959.tb00687.x|issn=2044-8295}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Razran|author-link=Gregory Razran|first=Gregory|date=1961|title=The observable unconscious|journal=Psychological Review|volume=68|issue=2|pages=81–147|doi=10.1037/h0039848|hdl=11858/00-001M-0000-002C-4D33-A|hdl-access=free}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Razran|first=Gregory|date=1939|title=A quantitative study of meaning by semantic conditioning|journal=Science|volume=90|issue=2326|pages=89–90|doi=10.1126/science.90.2326.89-a| pmid= 17798918|hdl=21.11116/0000-0001-913F-5|hdl-access=free}}</ref> from the 1950s, Weilgart theorized that whereas the conscious mind links synonyms (similar meanings), the subconscious mind associates assonance (similar sounds). That is, while we ''think'' about and distinguish similar-sounding words by their different meanings, we nonetheless ''feel'' at some level that they are (or ought to be) also related in meaning. Alliterative slogans may suggest a link in words unrelated by meaning but related by common sounds. Weilgart posited that such slogans were one of the many significant factors that could lead to war under desperate and incendiary conditions. Further, he believed that the general discrepancy between homophonous and synonymous words in conventional language would add to the disconnect with the subconscious mind.

==Phonology==
===Orthography===
===Consonants===

===Vowels===
=== Morphophonology ===
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Meaning
!Letter
! IPA
|-
|Space || a||{{IPA|/a/}}
|-
|Movement||e||{{IPA|/e/}}
|-
|Light||i||{{IPA|/ɪ/ or /i/}}
|-
|Life||o||{{IPA|/o/}}
|-
|Human||u||{{IPA|/u/}}
|-
|Time||A||{{IPA|/a:/}}
|-
|Matter||E||{{IPA|/e:/}}
|-
|Sound||I||{{IPA|/i:/}}
|-
|Feeling||O||{{IPA|/o:/}}
|-
|Spirit/Mind||U||{{IPA|/u:/}}
|-
|Condition||Q||{{IPA|/œ/ or /ø:/}}
|-
|Negation||Y||{{IPA|/y/ preceding consonants; /j/ preceding vowels}}
|-
|Together||b||{{IPA|/b/}}
|-
|Existence||c||{{IPA|/ʃ/}}
|-
|Through||d||{{IPA|/d/}}
|-
|This||f||{{IPA|/f/}}
|-
|Inside||g||{{IPA|/ɡ/}}
|-
|Question||h||{{IPA|/h/}}
|-
|Equal||j||{{IPA|/ʒ/}}
|-
|Above||k||{{IPA|/k/}}

|-
|Around||L||{{IPA|/l/}}

|-
|Quality||m||{{IPA|/m/}}

|-

|Quantity||n||{{IPA|/n/}}

|-

|Before||p||{{IPA|/p/}}

|-

|Positive||r||{{IPA|/ʀ/ or /r/}}

|-

|Thing||s||{{IPA|/s/}}

|-

|Towards||t||{{IPA|/t/}}

|-

|Active||v||{{IPA|/v/}}

|-

|Power||w||{{IPA|/w/}}

|-
|Relation||x||{{IPA|/x/}}
|-
|Part||z||{{IPA|/z/}}
|}

Additionally, short nasal vowels (marked with an asterisk) are used for numerals:
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! 0 || 1 || 2 || 3 || 4 || 5 || 6 || 7 || 8 || 9 || 10
|-
|{{angbr|Ŷ}}||{{angbr|â}}||{{angbr|ê}}||{{angbr|i*}}||{{angbr|u*}}||{{angbr|o*}}||{{angbr|A*}}||{{angbr|E*}}||{{angbr|I*}}||{{angbr|U*}}||{{angbr|O*}}
|}

The phoneme {{IPA|/b/}}, for instance, meaning "together", is a bilabial stop, pronounced with the lips pressed together. "Light" is pronounced with a short {{IPA|/ɪ/}}, as the brightest, highest-frequency sound, while "sound", is pronounced with a longer {{IPA|/iː/}}, as sound travels slower than light.

Each phoneme also has an ideographic glyph or symbol that represents its meaning. The symbol for "human", {{IPA|/u/}} is depicted by the two legs or arms of the human being, also suggesting his dichotomous nature. The "human" may be fulfilled by the whole triangular trinity of "spirit", a 'deep, mysterious' {{IPA|/uː/}}, (there are many possible trinities found in philosophy and religion). "Life", {{IPA|/o/}}, represented by the shape of a leaf, is photosynthesis forming the basis of life on Earth. "Feeling", {{IPA|/oː/}} is a heart shape, blood pressure and pulse reflecting various feelings, and "action", a 'vibrant' {{IPA|/v/}}, is represented by a lightning bolt, the most active phenomenon in nature.

;Example
{| class="wikitable"
|+
!Compound
!Morphology
!IPA
!Meaning
|-
|io
|Light-Life
|{{IPA|/ɪɔ/}}
|plant
|-
|iO
|Light-Feeling/Sensation
|{{IPA|/ɪo/}}
|sight
|-
|iOv
|sight-Action/Verb
|{{IPA|/ɪov/}}
|to see
|-
|fu
|This-Human
|{{IPA|/fʊ/}}
|I, me
|-
|bu
|Together-Human
|{{IPA|/bʊ/}}
|you
|-
|bru
|Together-Good-Human
|{{IPA|/bʀʊ/}}
|friend
|-
|brU
|Together-Good-Spirit
|{{IPA|/bʀu/}}
|peace
|}

== Encoding and Fonts ==

aUI is currently included in the unofficial [[w:ConScript Unicode Registry|ConScript Unicode Registry]] (CSUR), which assigns code points in the [[w:Private Use Area|Private Use Area]]. aUI code points are mapped to the range U+E270 to U+E28F.

The eight “Aux” variant fonts of [https://Kurinto.com/ Kurinto] (Kurinto Text Aux, Book Aux, Sans Aux, etc.) support aUI.

==See also==
* [[w:Victor Klemperer|Victor Klemperer]] and his book ''[[w:LTI – Lingua Tertii Imperii|LTI – Lingua Tertii Imperii]]''

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* [https://auilanguage.org/ Official aUI website]
* Libert, Alan (2000), ''A Priori Artificial Languages'', Lincom Europa, Munich. {{ISBN|3-89586-667-9}}
* [http://www.anomalist.com/reports/language.html The "Language of Space" — critical commentary] (however, not fully factual)

[[Category:Engineered languages]]
[[Category:Philosophical languages]]
[[Category:Languages]]
[[Category:A priori]]

AUI

2024-06-25T03:07:56Z

Andiweil:

{{DISPLAYTITLE:aUI}}
{{Infobox language
|name = aUI
|creator = W. John Weilgart, PhD
|created = 1962
|setting = Designed to dissolve the discrepancy between [[w:homonym|homonym]]ous and [[w:synonym|synonym]]ous words
|familycolor=conlang
|fam1 = [[auxiliary language|auxiliary language]]
|fam2 = [[logical language|logical]] or [[philosophical language]]
|fam3 = [[A priori|a priori]]
|fam4 = [[oligosynthetic]]
|iso3 = none
|glotto=none
|notice=IPA
}}

'''aUI''' ({{IPA-all|aui}}) is a [[Philosophical language|philosophical]], [[A priori language|a priori]] language created in the 1950s by W. John Weilgart, Ph.D. (March 9, 1913– January 26, 1981; born Johann Wolfgang Weixlgärtner,<ref name="Dr. Weilgart's Story">{{cite web |title=Dr. Weilgart's Story |url=https://auilanguage.org/dr-weilgart/ |website=aUI - the language of space |publisher=Cosmic Communication Foundation |access-date=31 August 2019}}</ref> and also known as W. John Weilgart<ref name="Weilgart-LOS">{{cite book|last=Weilgart|first=John W.|title=aUI, The Language of Space|year=1979|publisher=Cosmic Communication Co.|location=Decorah, Iowa|isbn=978-0-912038-08-7}}</ref>) a philosopher and psychoanalyst originally from Vienna, Austria. He described it as "the Language of Space", connoting universal communication, and published the fourth edition of the textbook in 1979;<ref name="Weilgart-LOS" /> a philosophic description of each semantic element of the language was published in 1975.<ref name="Weilgart-CEOM">{{cite book|title=Cosmic Elements of Meaning: Symbols of the Spirit's Life|last=Weilgart|first=John W.|publisher=Cosmic Communication Co.|year=1975|location=Decorah, Iowa}}</ref>

As an effort toward world 'peace through understanding', it was Weilgart's goal to clarify and simplify communication. Ultimately it was his experiment in facilitating conscious thinking in that it is built from a proposed set of primitive, possibly universal elements that are designed to reflect a motivated, mnemonic relationship between symbol, sound, and meaning. In his psychotherapy work, he sometimes used client created aUI formulations to reveal possible subconscious associations to problematic concepts.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://reykr.livejournal.com/249204.html|title=Another Birthday Yesterday: Dr. John W. Weilgart|author=reykr|date=10 March 2006|work=LIVE JOURNAL|publisher=LiveJournal, Inc.|access-date=8 April 2012}}</ref> aUI can also be considered an experiment in applied cognitive lexical semantics, and Weilgart claimed it could serve as an [[auxiliary language|auxiliary language]].

== Introduction ==
aUI is built upon a set of proposed universal [[semantic primes]] or elements of meaning that are combined to create miniature definitions. Weilgart found these fundamental concepts to be at such a basic level that they likely could not be defined by any simpler concepts. Linguistically speaking, aUI attempts '[[oligosynthetic|oligosynthesis]]' in which words are synthesized or composed from a minimal number of total morphemes or units of meaning. The motivated relationship between morphology, phonology, and semantics means that if words look and sound similar, they also have similar meanings; homophonous words become synonymous.

aUI has 31 morpheme-phonemes each with an associated meaning, i.e. each [[morpheme]] = a [[phoneme]] = a [[sememe]].

== History ==
Weilgart followed Gottfried Leibniz' proposal for an [[w:alphabet of human thought|alphabet of human thought]] that would provide a universal way to analyze ideas by breaking them down into their component pieces—to be represented by a unique "real" character. In the early 18th century, Leibniz outlined his ''[[characteristica universalis]]'', the basic elements of which would be pictographic characters representing a limited number of elementary concepts. René Descartes suggested that a lexicon of a universal language should consist of primitive elements. The history of this language philosophy is delineated in Umberto Eco's ''[[w:The Search for the Perfect Language|The Search for the Perfect Language]]''.<ref name="Eco">{{Cite book|url=http://www.umbertoeco.com/en/|title=The Search for the Perfect Language|last=Eco|first=Umberto|publisher=Blackwell|year=1995|isbn=978-0631205104|access-date=2012-03-09|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150813225954/http://www.umbertoeco.com/en/|archive-date=2015-08-13|url-status=dead}}</ref>

As a young man, Weilgart observed the pervasive and insidious effects of state planned Nazi propaganda. In particular, he was struck by how double meanings, together with similar sounds in slogans often associated unrelated words into suggestive "stereotyped formulas", [that would] "arrest the attention and appeal to the hearts of the national masses"<ref>Hitler, ''Mein Kampf,'' 1925</ref>. For example, in one of the most repeated political slogans, ''Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Führer!'' ("One people, One empire, One leader!" the word Volk sounds similar to ''folgt'', meaning to follow or obey; ''Reich'' also means rich; so the phrase points to a subliminal association: that the populace obeys and follows their leader, who leads them to a wealthy empire. ''Blu-Bo'' from ''Blut und Boden'' (Blood and Soil) was also a key slogan of Nazi ideology, as well as of course ''Heil Hitler!'' (Hail Hitler! - ''heil'' also meaning salvation, safe, well).

Based on research in semantic conditioning<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Luria|first=A. R.|last2=Vinogradova|first2=O. S.|date=1959-05-01|title=An Objective Investigation of the Dynamics of Semantic Systems|journal=British Journal of Psychology|language=en|volume=50|issue=2|pages=89–105|doi=10.1111/j.2044-8295.1959.tb00687.x|issn=2044-8295}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Razran|author-link=Gregory Razran|first=Gregory|date=1961|title=The observable unconscious|journal=Psychological Review|volume=68|issue=2|pages=81–147|doi=10.1037/h0039848|hdl=11858/00-001M-0000-002C-4D33-A|hdl-access=free}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Razran|first=Gregory|date=1939|title=A quantitative study of meaning by semantic conditioning|journal=Science|volume=90|issue=2326|pages=89–90|doi=10.1126/science.90.2326.89-a| pmid= 17798918|hdl=21.11116/0000-0001-913F-5|hdl-access=free}}</ref> from the 1950s, Weilgart theorized that whereas the conscious mind links synonyms (similar meanings), the subconscious mind associates assonance (similar sounds). That is, while we ''think'' about and distinguish similar-sounding words by their different meanings, we nonetheless ''feel'' at some level that they are (or ought to be) also related in meaning. Alliterative slogans may suggest a link in words unrelated by meaning but related by common sounds. Weilgart posited that such slogans were one of the many significant factors that could lead to war under desperate and incendiary conditions. Further, he believed that the general discrepancy between homophonous and synonymous words in conventional language would add to the disconnect with the subconscious mind.

==Phonology==
===Orthography===
===Consonants===

===Vowels===
=== Morphophonology ===
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Meaning
!Letter
! IPA
|-
|Space || a||{{IPA|/a/}}
|-
|Movement||e||{{IPA|/e/}}
|-
|Light||i||{{IPA|/ɪ/ or /i/}}
|-
|Life||o||{{IPA|/o/}}
|-
|Human||u||{{IPA|/u/}}
|-
|Time||A||{{IPA|/a:/}}
|-
|Matter||E||{{IPA|/e:/}}
|-
|Sound||I||{{IPA|/i:/}}
|-
|Feeling||O||{{IPA|/o:/}}
|-
|Spirit/Mind||U||{{IPA|/u:/}}
|-
|Condition||Q||{{IPA|/œ/ or /ø:/}}
|-
|Negation||Y||{{IPA|/y/ preceding consonants; /j/ preceding vowels}}
|-
|Together||b||{{IPA|/b/}}
|-
|Existence||c||{{IPA|/ʃ/}}
|-
|Through||d||{{IPA|/d/}}
|-
|This||f||{{IPA|/f/}}
|-
|Inside||g||{{IPA|/ɡ/}}
|-
|Question||h||{{IPA|/h/}}
|-
|Equal||j||{{IPA|/ʒ/}}
|-
|Above||k||{{IPA|/k/}}

|-
|Around||L||{{IPA|/l/}}

|-
|Quality||m||{{IPA|/m/}}

|-

|Quantity||n||{{IPA|/n/}}

|-

|Before||p||{{IPA|/p/}}

|-

|Positive||r||{{IPA|/ʀ/ or /r/}}

|-

|Thing||s||{{IPA|/s/}}

|-

|Towards||t||{{IPA|/t/}}

|-

|Active||v||{{IPA|/v/}}

|-

|Power||w||{{IPA|/w/}}

|-
|Relation||x||{{IPA|/x/}}
|-
|Part||z||{{IPA|/z/}}
|}

Additionally, short nasal vowels (marked with an asterisk) are used for numerals:
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! 0 || 1 || 2 || 3 || 4 || 5 || 6 || 7 || 8 || 9 || 10
|-
|{{angbr|y*}}||{{angbr|a*}}||{{angbr|e*}}||{{angbr|i*}}||{{angbr|u*}}||{{angbr|o*}}||{{angbr|A*}}||{{angbr|E*}}||{{angbr|I*}}||{{angbr|U*}}||{{angbr|O*}}
|}

The phoneme {{IPA|/b/}}, for instance, meaning "together", is a bilabial stop, pronounced with the lips pressed together. "Light" is pronounced with a short {{IPA|/ɪ/}}, as the brightest, highest-frequency sound, while "sound", is pronounced with a longer {{IPA|/iː/}}, as sound travels slower than light.

Each phoneme also has an ideographic glyph or symbol that represents its meaning. The symbol for "human", {{IPA|/u/}} is depicted by the two legs or arms of the human being, also suggesting his dichotomous nature. The "human" may be fulfilled by the whole triangular trinity of "spirit", a 'deep, mysterious' {{IPA|/uː/}}, (there are many possible trinities found in philosophy and religion). "Life", {{IPA|/o/}}, represented by the shape of a leaf, is photosynthesis forming the basis of life on Earth. "Feeling", {{IPA|/oː/}} is a heart shape, blood pressure and pulse reflecting various feelings, and "action", a 'vibrant' {{IPA|/v/}}, is represented by a lightning bolt, the most active phenomenon in nature.

;Example
{| class="wikitable"
|+
!Compound
!Morphology
!IPA
!Meaning
|-
|io
|Light-Life
|{{IPA|/ɪɔ/}}
|plant
|-
|iO
|Light-Feeling/Sensation
|{{IPA|/ɪo/}}
|sight
|-
|iOv
|sight-Action/Verb
|{{IPA|/ɪov/}}
|to see
|-
|fu
|This-Human
|{{IPA|/fʊ/}}
|I, me
|-
|bu
|Together-Human
|{{IPA|/bʊ/}}
|you
|-
|bru
|Together-Good-Human
|{{IPA|/bʀʊ/}}
|friend
|-
|brU
|Together-Good-Spirit
|{{IPA|/bʀu/}}
|peace
|}

== Encoding and Fonts ==

aUI is currently included in the unofficial [[w:ConScript Unicode Registry|ConScript Unicode Registry]] (CSUR), which assigns code points in the [[w:Private Use Area|Private Use Area]]. aUI code points are mapped to the range U+E270 to U+E28F.

The eight “Aux” variant fonts of [https://Kurinto.com/ Kurinto] (Kurinto Text Aux, Book Aux, Sans Aux, etc.) support aUI.

==See also==
* [[w:Victor Klemperer|Victor Klemperer]] and his book ''[[w:LTI – Lingua Tertii Imperii|LTI – Lingua Tertii Imperii]]''

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* [https://auilanguage.org/ Official aUI website]
* Libert, Alan (2000), ''A Priori Artificial Languages'', Lincom Europa, Munich. {{ISBN|3-89586-667-9}}
* [http://www.anomalist.com/reports/language.html The "Language of Space" — critical commentary] (however, not fully factual)

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