Emoji could be seen as introducing a common set of ideographs into the world&#x27;s writing systems. They supplement existing languages, but seem unlikely to develop into their own language due to the conflicts in word order (SVO etc.) in the native languages of those using the emoji.<p>Nicaraguan sign language arose essentially in the absence of another language, i.e. deaf people couldn&#x27;t speak Spanish. But the vast majority of emoji users already have a language and so there seems little impetus for them to develop a new one.