How to translate alien language when the aliens are dead?
Aug 2, 2025 · The alien ship could have a literal "teach humans our alien language"-tablet with easy to use buttons in storage. Or a tablet used to teach alien children to read, with images/videos and …
language - Are there techniques for creating alien or foreign sounding ...
Nov 3, 2014 · It should be assumed I do not have in mind what any particular culture’s language sounds like. What I would like is a technique for developing consistent-sounding, alien-sounding (or foreign …
Biological human-alien language barrier - Worldbuilding Stack Exchange
Jul 29, 2023 · Something I've been pondering- spacefaring humanity makes contact with alien species who, while being intelligent enough to learn to understand human languages, their throats or vocal …
Could an Alien decipher human languages using only comms traffic?
Jun 19, 2024 · Could a hiding alien ship decipher all of our languages only using the comms traffic of our civilization without our cooperation (assuming our civilization has expanded across the solar system, …
How alien can a language be - Worldbuilding Stack Exchange
Nov 25, 2015 · So my question is - is there such a thing as a truly alien grammar? Is it even possible to come up with a language structure completely different to that used by humans? Ideally something …
How long would it take for a brilliant person to decipher/crack an ...
So this would be the minimum length of time to learn fluent alien-language, given a sophisticated and cooperative teaching system. If we were trying to analyse recordings the aliens had made for …
Possibility of two-way sign language communication between humans …
Feb 28, 2018 · Either someone has to learn the alien language, or some intermediate "Esperanto" has to be developed - perhaps involving a written language, then semaphore. Tedious and slow, but practical.
How can I make my languages structurally less like English?
Aug 31, 2015 · To make your language the most alien-like, lets try to get its syntax as the most unheard, strange and unnatural for humans. Natural human languages have things like nouns, adjectives, …
language - How can explorers determine whether strings of alien text is ...
Jun 4, 2023 · It's very easy to imagine alien physiology with more options for producing and perceiving sounds leading to a language with far more phonemes, and thus an alphabetic or syllabic script with …
aliens - Is mathematics a truly universal language? - Worldbuilding ...
Aug 19, 2015 · The quote has many forms, but is basically "mathematics is a universal language." My question is if this is true? If we met aliens could we use mathematics to talk to them? The fact that …