Is it time to consider emojis a language?
© Getty Images According to Emojipedia, July 17 is “World Emoji Day,” and given the phenomenal growth and enormous use of emojis today, one has to wonder whether it’s time to consider emojis “a language” … or eventually recognize them as “an official language.” Experts estimate that around 1.3 billion people speak English, 1.1 billion Mandarin Chinese, 543 million Spanish, 274 million Arabic, 267 million French and 258 million Russian (those are the UN’s six official languages; about 600 million also speak Hindi and 268 million Bengali) … and yet on any given day over 3 b...
Source: thehill.com