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The language of Emojis uses pictures instead of words. From social media to text messages, from blogs to T-shirts, these little pictures are everywhere! Young people use them a lot. In fact a survey showed that 72% of 18- to 25-year-olds think it’s easier to talk about their feelings with emojis than words. Emojis have made it easier to communicate with people in different countries because we don’t have to speak the same language. A report found that the emoji that is used most often around the world is the happy face. It said that 70% of emojis were positive and 15% were negative. So most people use happy emojis rather than miserable emojis. |
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But emojis aren’t the first time we’ve used pictures to communicate. The Ancient Egyptians used hieroglyphics. This is one of the oldest written languages, but the meaning of the pictures wasn’t understood for many years. Archaeologists found the Rosetta Stone in 1799 and this helped us to understand what they mean. |
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Sign language is another way of communicating without saying a word. You use your hands and other parts of the body to make the language. It’s useful for people with hearing disabilities; that is, people who can’t hear. More than 70 million people around the world use sign language and 23rd September is the International Day of Sign Languages. Each culture has made its own form of sign language that works with the language that is spoken in that country. |
