Language of Space aUI

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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 congruent internal structure. A hint of this can be given by examining just a few words from the vocabulary list: just as there is an intrinsic relationship between sound, symbol, and meaning, so word formulations sharing similar phonemes and morphemes also share some aspect of their meaning.

• "plant" is io "Light-Life"
• "animal" is eo "Moving-Life"; as a simple ending it is os "Living-Thing"
• "domestic animal" is ubos "Human-Together-Living-Thing"
• "dog" is waubos "Power-Space--domestic animal" (protective of its territory)
• "cat" is bôzvos "Together-Five-Part-Make-animal" (from 5 clawed 'parts make parts' as in split or scratch)

aUI is documented in a hardcopy book: aUI, The Language of Space, ISBN 978-0-912038-08-7, and a newsletter that was published sporadically during the 1980s and '90s. Although Weilgart died in 1981, his daughter continues to use and promote the language on the website https://auilanguage.space/ .

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)