At which point it would just be NIH to not just use Chinese. As I understand it, the Americas had vastly more linguistic diversity prior to European contact th

At which point it would just be NIH to not just use Chinese. As I understand it, the Americas had vastly more linguistic diversity prior to European contact than the rest of the world combined. I don't know about further south but in at least much of North America sign language was used as a common language. I'd guess if you want to create what could be a universal language you would want to try to align written, spoken, tactile, and signed forms as much as possible, which would suggest directly aligning the signed and written forms as much as possible since both are (at least mostly) visual. And if possible keep the tactile version as close as possible as well. The spoken aspect seems like the hardest and maybe better to not bother with that at all. Also, IMO emojis are too small. I've been wanting a 4x size for emoji (double width and height). With more compact writing systems you can make everything bigger.