If the aliens happen to come to Earth, the challenge they will pose will be communication. Klingon is unlike any other language in existence today and is designed for fictional purposes only. Although this language was devised by an actor and a producer, it went on to become the most complete constructed language on Earth. Maybe the alien languages which aliens bring into the world might be simple as this language.Īnother language that deserves a mention in the alien languages is Klingon, the language of the alien race in Star Trek. It was also spoken by individuals with limited understanding. The reason for this simplistic grammar of this Malay dialect lies in the fact that it was used as a lingua franca between different regions. In this language, Ayam Makan (meaning “chicken eat”) can mean anything from “the chicken is eating” to “we ate some chicken”, “the chicken is eating” and “when we were eating chicken”. The Malay dialect spoken in Riau province of Indonesia is one such language. If you think bot being able to recognize a question is strange, you have obviously missed a language where you cannot decipher between subject and object, and even singular or plural. It is entirely up to the audience to decide whether it is a phrase or a question, based on context and intuition. For example, “the mice are running” and “are the mice running?” are similar in this language.
This is an indigenous language of Mexico and contains with which the speaker can indicate a question. One of the languages which are cited as the strangest language on planet Earth is Chalcatongo Mixtec.
These languages might be strange ones, with no root connections to other languages, making it difficult for linguists to decode and decipher. In the quest to search for alien languages in the skies, one might miss the languages already existing on Earth which are “alien” to other languages. But are there languages of the Earth that can be termed “alien”? The alien language is likely to be unique, distinct, and different from all the languages of the Earth. As the language would not be a product of culture and historical evolution, it would be quite difficult to classify them according to some decipherable pattern. This will pose a big challenge for the linguists who would have a hard time recognizing the meaning of this alien language as they cannot even assume that it will have nouns, adjectives, verbs, and adverbs. They are unlikely to follow the same linguistic rules as human languages and might not share any similarity to Earth languages. This makes the variation among these languages easy to predict and decipher.Īlien languages, on the other hand, might not follow a set pattern or style. Nevertheless, most languages of the Earthfall in one of these patterns. In other languages such as Japanese, these patterns are reversed.
This is why in English we say “ate the apple”, or “in the bush”. In those languages where verbs come before objects, prepositions such as “on” precede nouns. According to famous linguists, a language only needs two things-a symbolic system that can represent meaning and the method of conveying those symbols.Īlthough the languages spoken on Earth may sound very different from each other, they tend to fall in certain patterns which are decoded by linguists. The best place to start here is by considering what a commonly spoken language has and what features of these languages may be missing in an alien language. Let us start by asking the question-what would an alien language not have? The question here is-in the absence of any common language, how will you decipher the alien language? This alien language can be in the form of signs, symbols, pictures, or even tones and music. In doing so, the film touches upon a very real challenge-how to communicate with individuals with whom you don’t share any intermediate language?Īlthough the notion that aliens do not exist is still debated, the fact that they have a distinct language of their own is clear. The film contains a plot where a team of linguists gathers to solve the challenge that lay ahead-how to communicate with the extraterrestrial beings who have just stepped on planet Earth. As humans are faced with the challenge to communicate with extraterrestrial visitors, the vast world of translation gets the brief limelight. In the upcoming sci-fi thriller “Arrival”, a number of mysterious aircraft reach the Earth.
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