#emojiglyphics

a = 🦉 (as in the indefinite article. Just to be clear, the owl is not the letter A, it just signifies vowel onset)

ability = 🦉🦇💡👕💪

able = 🦉🦇💡💪

about = 🦉🦇👕🔄

above = 🦉🦇🌋⬆️

accept = 🦉🦘🐍🥞👕📭

according = 🦉🦘🐰🐶☯️🤝,  🦉🦘🐰🐶☯️📚

account =  🦉🦘📰👕🗣️, (as in to account for oneself)

                 🦉🦘📰👕📚, (as in an account of events)

                 🦉🦘📰👕🏦, (as in bank account)

                 🦉🦘📰👕🪪  (as in account in database, identity)

across = 🦉🦘🐰🐍➡️

act = 🦉🦘👕🏃

action = 🦉🦘🚢📰🏃

activity = 🦉🦘👕🌋👕🏃

actually = 🦉🦘🚢💡↩️

add = 🦉🐶➕

These are the emojis used as consonants. You will notice that it’s not a perfect match for the existing English Alphabet. This is because this ‘alphabet’ is based around English sounds, not English spelling. So even though in English, “cat” starts with a C, there is no direct replacement for the Latin letter C in Emojiglyphics. Instead, cat begins with 🦘.

Most of these glyphs represent only one sound at a time (monoliteral), some represent more (biliteral and triliteral). But they always only represent consonants. Almost all of them represent the sound that the name of the emoji begins with. The Kangaroo stands for the ‘k’ sound, the dog for the ‘d’ sound and so on. English has a couple of sounds that don’t almost never appear at the beginning of words, like Ng, and Zh. For those I’ve had to make do with emojis that merely contain the sound somewhere.

Monoliteral signs (signs representing one sound)

🦉= "owl" = indicates that the word begins with a vowel 🦘 = kangaroo= “k” 📰 = "newspaper" = "n"  💡 = "Light bulb" = "l"  🐶 = "Dog" = "d" 🎭 = "theater" = "th" (specifically th sound)  🐍 = "snake" = "s"  🎵= “Musical note” = “m” 👖 = “Jeans” = “j” (soft j sound as in “jump”)  🧶 = “Yarn” = “y” (velar approximant) 🐰 = “Rabbit” = “r” 🦓 = “Zebra” = “z” 👻 = “ghost” = “g” (hard g sound as in ‘egg’) 👕 = “T-shirt = “t” 🌋 = “Volcano” = “v” 🚢= “Ship” = “sh” (specifically sh sound, post-alveolar fricative) 🌊 = “Water” = “w” 🦊  = “Fox” = “f” 🥞  = “Pandcakes” = “p” 🧀  = “Cheese” = “ch” 🦇  = “Bat” = “b” 🐴  = “horse” = “h” 💥 = “collision” = (the ‘zh’ sound in ‘vision, measure, genre) ☯️ = “yin yang” = “ng” (velar nasal)

Biliteral signs (signs representing two sounds)

🐻  = “Bear” = “br” 🎾= "Tennis" = "tn" 🚦 = "Traffic light" = "tr" 🍐 = “Pear” = “pr” 🍒 = “Cherries” = “chr” (’ch’ sound + ‘r’) 🐋 = “Whale” = “wh” (to be used for wh- words. Included because many dialects continue to pronounce ‘wh’ differently from ‘w’) 

Triliteral sings (signs representing three sounds) 👠 = "pump" = "pmp"

Pumpkin = ⛽🎵🥞🦘📰🎃 ⛽ = "pump" = "pmp" 🦘 = "kangaroo" = "k" 📰 = "newspaper" = "n" 🎃  = ideogram for pumpkin

🐴📰🦘🔯📅

🐴📰🦘🕎📅

🦊🐰🐰🍫🏢 🐰🚢🍫🍬

F-R-R chocolate, company

R-Sh chocolate, candy

It must be Christmas because all the words are getting double-determinatives today! The office building is an established determinative for company names, and doubling up to give detail about the company is established as well. Using both chocolate and the wrapped candy as deteminatives for the Rocher felt like an appropriate representation of the iconic bon bons.

🐍 👀

Chair =  🍒💺