Edit: see /r/emojilang and the discord server.

To be honest I started making this yesterday, but made a ton of progress immediately so I thought it was safe to use.

Basically it's a written language that uses only emoji and nothing else. I encourage people to ask questions and try to learn it since it's very simple to start learning. There used to be at least one other emoji language around here a year ago but I think it died, so it's safe to romanize 😶💬 as Emojilang.

Yes, you can use common emoji as attitudinals.

How does this work? (kind of like Mandarin 🇨🇳⚜💬 I guess)

It's ergative-absolutive SOV and generally head-final.

Most emoji function as "units", which can be chained together. Most of them refer to something slightly more abstract than what they actually look like / normally mean, for instance 😶 means emoji (since it's a blank face, and the most common are faces). You can add a unit to a chain to get a modified version of that chain, for instance 🇨🇦💬 is a/the Canadian language/dialect. Some emoji end the chain, functioning postpositionally, and others have special functions, like digits. I try to derive meanings appropriate for the original intent of a character, for instance 🔰 means beginner, 💠 means cute, 🙏 means please.

If you think there aren't enough abstract emoji to handle all the requirements of a full language, I encourage you to dig around the "symbols" section for a while.

Examples

• 👇 this, 👇👤 me

• 👆 that, 👆👤 you

• 👈 that, 👈👤 them

• 👉 literally (indicates that the next emoji should be interpreted in a more literal way; lexical), 👉👤 silhouette

• ❗️ sentence terminator (can be omitted)

• ❓ topic/question marker (❓❗️ to end a question)

• 😶💬🔰 an 😶💬 beginner

• ✊ ergative case (since accusative case sort of blends in with the verb, we can get away with just marking this)

• 👇👤✊😶💬📐 I made 😶💬.

• 👇👤✊😶💬📐❗️ I made 😶💬. ("Formal")

• 😂 lol

• Other cases so far are 📥 (dative), 📤 (ablative), and 🔑 (causative)

• 📋🍝 copypasta (a calque, yes)

👆👤✊😶💬🙏❓👇👤📥🙏‼️

If you want to be an early "speaker", please let me know. (So I can know it's worth spending time on this.)