Starting with his hypothesis of a genetically predetermined universal grammar of human languages, Noam Chomsky held that it would be impossible for a human to naturally learn an alien language …

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Jan 9, 2024 · A few linguists have gone as far as creating constructed languages (a.k.a. conlangs) that imagine what alien languages, or exolangs, could sound and look like.

Apr 3, 2025 · Investigating why aliens might communicate can also help scientists consider why humans, and the other animals on Earth, keep speaking to one another. But that’s a difficult line of...

Jun 18, 2025 · I’ve ranked 10 of the most inventive alien languages based on their creativity, depth, and immersion. Crafted by linguists or clever creators, these languages make you believe in the aliens …

For his 2009 blockbuster film Avatar, director James Cameron wanted his alien race, the Na’vi, to be a fully developed concept, complete with their own working language.

May 7, 2024 · He considers media used in attempts at extraterrestrial communication, from microwave systems to plaques on spacecrafts to formal logic, and discusses attempts to formulate a language …

Nov 7, 2024 · In the 2016 science fiction movie Arrival, a linguist is faced with the daunting task of deciphering an alien language consisting of palindromic phrases, which read the same backwards as …

Jan 30, 2026 · UC Berkeley linguist Gašper Beguš frames sperm whales as an “alien intelligence” in the ocean and argues that decoding their communication could reshape human ideas about culture, …

Would we even recognize alien language as language? There are theories that aliens might use a nonverbal communication system involving gestures, or a system based on chemicals, like insects or …