You can never have too many languages to support, characters to add, of course emojis to use. That is why we are much thankful to the Unicode consortium because they keep expanding our digital language. They have now announced the new Unicode Standard version 9, and with it comes the addition of 7,500 characters, including support for six little-known languages and of course, most people’s favorite, 72 new emotions to up your communication skills as you talk through a non-letter language.

The six new lesser-used languages that have been added to the computing industry standard that all gadgets and devices use are:

– Osage, a Native American language
– Nepal Bhasa, a language of Nepal
– Fulani and other African languages
– The Bravanese dialect of Swahili, used in Somalia
– The Warsh orthography for Arabic, used in North and West Africa
– Tangut, a major historic script of China

The number of characters that have been added for each language varies from as low as 68 to 6,881 (for the Tangut script). There are also now 19 new symbols for the 4K TV standard, which apparently you need that many symbols for.

But of course, what will probably interest most of the people is the fact that there will be 72 new emojis once the digital platforms and OEMs have adapted this. We’ve already discussed in another article some of the emojis we’re excited about but just to reiterate, this is what you can expect: selfie, drooling face, shrug, face palm, ROFL, cross fingers, clinking glasses, Olympics-related glyphs, and probably most important of all: bacon!

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Now as to when you will be able to use these emojis of course depends on your platform and manufacturer. It will probably be part of the Android N update, which should come out later this year.

SOURCE: Unicode

1 COMMENT

  1. I would have at least expected you to use the Android version of these emojis, especially since Android had them before iOS even did, not to mention that this is an Android site.

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