What would alien languages look like and why should we care?
Via Psychology Today:
“Long before Artemis II captured our attention by taking humans farther from Earth than ever before, humans have been fascinated by the possibility of exploring other worlds, finding life on other planets, and communicating with extraterrestrial beings. In fact, there’s even a subfield of linguistics, the study of human language, dedicated to the study of alien language: xenolinguistics.
“It may seem surprising that researchers could study a phenomenon for which we don’t yet have any data—after all, there are no verified accounts of conversations with aliens. But there are good reasons to consider what alien languages might look like.”
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