Language of Space aUI
aUI, also known as "the Language of Space" is a philosophical auxlang created in the 1950s by John W. Weilgart, PhD, an Austrian-born philosopher, psychoanalyst, and professor of psychology. The idea for aUI originated from boyhood vision but grew into a serious, idealistic pursuit when as a young man, Weilgart experienced the power of the alliterative propaganda under the rise of the Hitler regime.
Classification: aUI is a prime example of an oligosynthetic conlang. The language is an engelang and loglang due to its complex internal structure (a hint of which can be given by examining just a few words from the vocabulary list):
- "animal" is os "life-thing"
- "domestic animal" is bos "together-life-thing"
- "dog" is waubos "power-space-human-together-life-thing
- "cat" is bo*zvos "together-five-part-active-life-thing" (1)
aUI is documented in a hardcopy book: aUI, The Language of Space, ISBN 978-0-912038-08-7, and a newsletter was published sporadically during the 1980s and 1990s. Although Weilgart died in 1981, his daughter continues to use and promote the language.
References
(2) - article by Weilgart, "A Psycho-Symbolic Language of Semantic Therapy" in International Language Review, vol. 4 no.11
External links
- aUI discussion forum on Reddit
- part of an article by Weilgart describing the use of aUI in psychotherapy
- some pages from a 1986 aUI newsletter
- Wikipedia article
- aUI at LangMaker (archived)
- An article which examines the language (archived)
- aUI's home page on the web (archived)
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