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'''aUI''' ({{IPA-all|aui}}) is a [[Philosophical language|philosophical]], [[A priori language|a priori]] language created in the 1950s by W. John Weilgart, Ph.D. (March 9, 1913– January 26, 1981; born Johann Wolfgang Weixlgärtner,<ref name="Dr. Weilgart's Story">{{cite web |title=Dr. Weilgart's Story |url=https://auilanguage.org/dr-weilgart/ |website=aUI - the language of space |publisher=Cosmic Communication Foundation |access-date=31 August 2019}}</ref> and also known as John W. Weilgart<ref name="Weilgart-LOS">{{cite book|last=Weilgart|first=John W.|title=aUI, The Language of Space|year=1979|publisher=Cosmic Communication Co.|location=Decorah, Iowa|isbn=978-0-912038-08-7}}</ref>) a philosopher and psychoanalyst originally from Vienna, Austria.  He described it as "the Language of Space", connoting universal communication, and published the fourth edition of the textbook in 1979;<ref name="Weilgart-LOS" /> a philosophic description of each semantic element of the language was published in 1975.<ref name="Weilgart-CEOM">{{cite book|title=Cosmic Elements of Meaning: Symbols of the Spirit's Life|last=Weilgart|first=John W.|publisher=Cosmic Communication Co.|year=1975|location=Decorah, Iowa}}</ref>

|Space || a||{{IPA|/a/}}

|Movement||e||{{IPA|/ɛ/}}

|Light||i||{{IPA|/ɪ/}}

|Life||o||{{IPA|/ɔ/}}

|Human||u||{{IPA|/ʊ/}}

|Time||A||{{IPA|/ä/}}

|Matter||E||{{IPA|/e/}}

|Sound||I||{{IPA|/i/}}

|Feeling||O||{{IPA|/o/}}

|Spirit/Mind||U||{{IPA|/u/}}

|Condition||Q||{{IPA|/œ/}}

|Negation||Y||{{IPA|/y/}}

|Together||b||{{IPA|/b/}}

|Existence||c||{{IPA|/ʃ/}}

|Through||d||{{IPA|/d/}}

|This||f||{{IPA|/f/}}

|Inside||g||{{IPA|/ɡ/}}

|Question||h||{{IPA|/h/}}

|Equal||j||{{IPA|/ʒ/}}

|Above||k||{{IPA|/k/}}

|Around||l||{{IPA|/l/}}

|Quality||m||{{IPA|/m/}}

|Quantity||n||{{IPA|/n/}}

|Before||p||{{IPA|/p/}}

|Positive||r||{{IPA|/ʀ/}}

|Thing||s||{{IPA|/s/}}

|Towards||t||{{IPA|/t/}}

|Active||v||{{IPA|/v/}}

|Power||w||{{IPA|/w/}}

|Relation||x||{{IPA|/x/}}

|Part||z||{{IPA|/z/}}

|{{angbr|y*}}||{{angbr|a*}}||{{angbr|e*}}||{{angbr|i*}}||{{angbr|u*}}||{{angbr|o*}}||{{angbr|A*}}||{{angbr|E*}}||{{angbr|I*}}||{{angbr|U*}}||{{angbr|O*}}

The phoneme {{IPA|/b/}}, for instance, meaning "together", is a bilabial stop, pronounced with the lips pressed together. "Light" is pronounced with a short {{IPA|/ɪ/}}, as the brightest, highest-frequency sound, while "sound", is pronounced with a longer {{IPA|/iː/}}, as sound travels slower than light.

Each phoneme also has an ideographic glyph or symbol that represents its meaning. The symbol for "human", {{IPA|/u/}} is depicted by the two legs or arms of the human being, also suggesting his dichotomous nature. The "human" may be fulfilled by the whole triangular trinity of "spirit", a 'deep, mysterious' {{IPA|/uː/}}, (there are many possible trinities found in philosophy and religion). "Life", {{IPA|/o/}}, represented by the shape of a leaf, is photosynthesis forming the basis of life on Earth. "Feeling", {{IPA|/oː/}} is a heart shape, blood pressure and pulse reflecting various feelings, and "action", a 'vibrant' {{IPA|/v/}}, is represented by a lightning bolt, the most active phenomenon in nature.

|{{IPA|/ɪɔ/}}

|{{IPA|/ɪo/}}

|{{IPA|/ɪov/}}

|{{IPA|/fʊ/}}

|{{IPA|/bʊ/}}

|{{IPA|/bʀʊ/}}

|{{IPA|/bʀu/}}

* [https://auilanguage.org/ Official aUI website]