Recent research on the pattern of using text messaging by various age groups indicated that there is a wide gap between the usage by youngster and older subscribers. It has been proved that the subscribers falling in the age group between 12 and 30 years account for more than 80 percent of the usage of the text message.

Due to the restriction on the length of text messages and miniature screens and keypads of the cell phones, a brand new language has been developed especially for text messaging. This is an abbreviated language to make things quicker and simpler. Actually, it is a phonetic language where single alphabets stand for an entire word. For instance, ‘Y’ would stand for ‘why’ and ‘8’ for ‘ate’. Also, the vowels are removed from the words to reduce the keystrokes, such as ‘btwn’ is used in place of ‘between’.

The emoticons and smileys which can also be used with text messaging software successfully denote the tone of voice and expression of mood, which is usually not possible with written matter. Text messaging also has a number of other advantages such as being less expensive as well as more efficient in communication important messages, even if the recipient is not available. Though understanding SMS lingual may appear quite challenging to the people who are unaccustomed to it, but learning it can open doors to a much larger audience just like any second language does.