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	'''Alien languages''', i.e., languages of [[extraterrestrial being]]s, are a hypothetical subject since none have been encountered so far. The research in these hypothetical languages is variously called '''exolinguistics''', '''xenolinguistics'''<ref>An early use of the term "xenolinguistics" in [[science fiction]] occurred in 1986, in the novel "Triad" by [[Sheila Finch]] ({{Cite book\|title = Triad\|last = Finch\|first = Sheila\|publisher = Spectra\|year = 1986\|isbn = 9780553257922 \|location = New York}} New edition: {{Cite book\|title = Triad \|last = Finch\|first = Sheila\|publisher = [[Wildside Press]]\|year = 2012\|isbn = 9781434447913 \|location = Rockville, Maryland}}.</ref> or '''astrolinguistics'''.<ref>Daniels, Peter T. "Aliens And Linguists (Book Review)." Library Journal 105.13 (1980): 1516. Academic Search Premier. Web. 7 June 2012.</ref><ref>Schirber, Michael. "Use Grammar To Decipher Alien Tongues." New Scientist 199.2678 (2008): 12. Academic Search Premier. Web. 7 June 2012.</ref>		'''Alien languages''', i.e., languages of [[extraterrestrial being]]s, are a hypothetical subject since none have been encountered so far. The research in these hypothetical languages is variously called '''exolinguistics''', '''xenolinguistics'''<ref>An early use of the term "xenolinguistics" in [[science fiction]] occurred in 1986, in the novel "Triad" by [[Sheila Finch]] ({{Cite book\|title = Triad\|last = Finch\|first = Sheila\|publisher = Spectra\|year = 1986\|isbn = 9780553257922 \|location = New York}} New edition: {{Cite book\|title = Triad \|last = Finch\|first = Sheila\|publisher = [[Wildside Press]]\|year = 2012\|isbn = 9781434447913 \|location = Rockville, Maryland}}.</ref> or '''astrolinguistics'''.<ref>Daniels, Peter T. "Aliens And Linguists (Book Review)." Library Journal 105.13 (1980): 1516. Academic Search Premier. Web. 7 June 2012.</ref><ref>Schirber, Michael. "Use Grammar To Decipher Alien Tongues." New Scientist 199.2678 (2008): 12. Academic Search Premier. Web. 7 June 2012.</ref>

	The question of what form alien languages might take and the possibility for humans to recognize and translate them has been part of the linguistics and language studies courses, e.g., at the [[Bowling Green State University]] (2001).<ref name=wells1>[http://personal.bgsu.edu/~swellsj/xenolinguistics/ Course notes] {{Webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190726062353/http://personal.bgsu.edu/~swellsj/xenolinguistics/ \|date=2019-07-26 }} by assistant professor [http://personal.bgsu.edu/~swellsj/ Sheri Wells-Jensen] {{Webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180108010703/http://personal.bgsu.edu/~swellsj/xenolinguistics/ \|date=2018-01-08 }}, [[Bowling Green State University]] (retrieved June 19, 2017)</ref>		The question of what form alien languages might take and the possibility for humans to recognize and translate them has been part of the linguistics and language studies courses, e.g., at the [[Bowling Green State University]] (2001).<ref name=wells1>[http://personal.bgsu.edu/~swellsj/xenolinguistics/ Course notes] {{Webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190726062353/http://personal.bgsu.edu/~swellsj/xenolinguistics/ \|date=2019-07-26 }} by assistant professor [http://personal.bgsu.edu/~swellsj/ Sheri Wells-Jensen] {{Webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180108010703/http://personal.bgsu.edu/~swellsj/xenolinguistics/ \|date=2018-01-08 }}, Bowling Green State University (retrieved June 19, 2017)</ref>

	==Inherent difficulties==		==Inherent difficulties==

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	'''Alien languages''', i.e., languages of [[extraterrestrial being]]s, are a hypothetical subject since none have been encountered so far. The research in these hypothetical languages is variously called '''exolinguistics''', '''xenolinguistics'''<ref>An early use of the term "xenolinguistics" in [[science fiction]] occurred in 1986, in the novel "Triad" by [[Sheila Finch]] ({{Cite book\|title = Triad\|last = Finch\|first = Sheila\|publisher = Spectra\|year = 1986\|isbn = 9780553257922 \|location = New York}} New edition: {{Cite book\|title = Triad \|last = Finch\|first = Sheila\|publisher = [[Wildside Press]]\|year = 2012\|isbn = 9781434447913 \|location = Rockville, Maryland}}.</ref> or '''astrolinguistics'''.<ref>Daniels, Peter T. "Aliens And Linguists (Book Review)." Library Journal 105.13 (1980): 1516. Academic Search Premier. Web. 7 June 2012.</ref><ref>Schirber, Michael. "Use Grammar To Decipher Alien Tongues." New Scientist 199.2678 (2008): 12. Academic Search Premier. Web. 7 June 2012.</ref>		'''Alien languages''', i.e., languages of [[extraterrestrial being]]s, are a hypothetical subject since none have been encountered so far. The research in these hypothetical languages is variously called '''exolinguistics''', '''xenolinguistics'''<ref>An early use of the term "xenolinguistics" in [[science fiction]] occurred in 1986, in the novel "Triad" by [[Sheila Finch]] ({{Cite book\|title = Triad\|last = Finch\|first = Sheila\|publisher = Spectra\|year = 1986\|isbn = 9780553257922 \|location = New York}} New edition: {{Cite book\|title = Triad \|last = Finch\|first = Sheila\|publisher = [[Wildside Press]]\|year = 2012\|isbn = 9781434447913 \|location = Rockville, Maryland}}.</ref> or '''astrolinguistics'''.<ref>Daniels, Peter T. "Aliens And Linguists (Book Review)." Library Journal 105.13 (1980): 1516. Academic Search Premier. Web. 7 June 2012.</ref><ref>Schirber, Michael. "Use Grammar To Decipher Alien Tongues." New Scientist 199.2678 (2008): 12. Academic Search Premier. Web. 7 June 2012.</ref>

	The question of what form alien languages might take and the possibility for humans to recognize and translate them has been part of the linguistics and language studies courses, e.g., at the [[Bowling Green State University]] (2001).<ref name=wells1>[http://personal.bgsu.edu/~swellsj/xenolinguistics/ Course notes] by assistant professor [http://personal.bgsu.edu/~swellsj/ Sheri Wells-Jensen], [[Bowling Green State University]] (retrieved June 19, 2017)</ref>		The question of what form alien languages might take and the possibility for humans to recognize and translate them has been part of the linguistics and language studies courses, e.g., at the [[Bowling Green State University]] (2001).<ref name=wells1>[http://personal.bgsu.edu/~swellsj/xenolinguistics/ Course notes] {{Webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190726062353/http://personal.bgsu.edu/~swellsj/xenolinguistics/ \|date=2019-07-26 }} by assistant professor [http://personal.bgsu.edu/~swellsj/ Sheri Wells-Jensen] {{Webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180108010703/http://personal.bgsu.edu/~swellsj/xenolinguistics/ \|date=2018-01-08 }}, [[Bowling Green State University]] (retrieved June 19, 2017)</ref>

	==Inherent difficulties==		==Inherent difficulties==

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			'''Alien languages''', i.e., languages of [[extraterrestrial being]]s, are a hypothetical subject since none have been encountered so far. The research in these hypothetical languages is variously called '''exolinguistics''', '''xenolinguistics'''<ref>An early use of the term "xenolinguistics" in [[science fiction]] occurred in 1986, in the novel "Triad" by [[Sheila Finch]] ({{Cite book\|title = Triad\|last = Finch\|first = Sheila\|publisher = Spectra\|year = 1986\|isbn = 9780553257922 \|location = New York}} New edition: {{Cite book\|title = Triad \|last = Finch\|first = Sheila\|publisher = [[Wildside Press]]\|year = 2012\|isbn = 9781434447913 \|location = Rockville, Maryland}}.</ref> or '''astrolinguistics'''.<ref>Daniels, Peter T. "Aliens And Linguists (Book Review)." Library Journal 105.13 (1980): 1516. Academic Search Premier. Web. 7 June 2012.</ref><ref>Schirber, Michael. "Use Grammar To Decipher Alien Tongues." New Scientist 199.2678 (2008): 12. Academic Search Premier. Web. 7 June 2012.</ref>

			The question of what form alien languages might take and the possibility for humans to recognize and translate them has been part of the linguistics and language studies courses, e.g., at the [[Bowling Green State University]] (2001).<ref name=wells1>[http://personal.bgsu.edu/~swellsj/xenolinguistics/ Course notes] by assistant professor [http://personal.bgsu.edu/~swellsj/ Sheri Wells-Jensen], [[Bowling Green State University]] (retrieved June 19, 2017)</ref>

			==Inherent difficulties==
			[[Noam Chomsky]] (1983), basing on his theory of the existence of a [[genetics\|genetically-predetermined]] [[universal grammar]] of human languages, holds that it would be impossible for a human to naturally learn an alien language because it would most probably violate the universal grammar inborn in humans. Humans would have to study an alien language by the slow way of discovery, the same way as scientists do research in, say, physics.<ref>[https://chomsky.info/198311__/ "Things No Amount of Learning Can Teach"], Noam Chomsky interviewed by John Gliedman, ''Omni'', 6:11, November 1983 (retrieved June 19, 2017)</ref>

			==Alien language use in film==
			In 2016, [[McGill University]] Linguistics Professor, [[Jessica Coon]], spoke with Business Insider about how 2016 sci-fi blockbuster, [[Arrival (film)\| Arrival]], properly portrayed how humans might actually communicate with aliens<ref>{{Cite web\|title = 'Arrival' nails how humans might actually talk to aliens, a linguist says\|url = http://www.businessinsider.com/alien-language-in-arrival-linguist-2016-11\|website = Buisiness Insider\|accessdate = 2018-01-19}}</ref>. To achieve this, movie creators consulted with [[Wolfram Research]] Founder and CEO, [[Stephen Wolfram]] - creator of [[Mathematica]] and the computer programming language known as the [[Wolfram Language]] - and his son, Christopher Wolfram. Together, they helped analyze approximately 100 symbols known as logograms that served as the basis for the alien language utilized throughout the film. This work, along with many other thoughts with regard to Artificial Intelligence communication has been documented in an interview published by Space.com.<ref>{{Cite web\|title = 'Arrival', AI and Alien Math: Q&A with Stephen Wolfram\|url = https://www.space.com/34783-stephen-wolfram-arrival-interview.html\|website = Space.com\|accessdate = 2018-01-19}}</ref>

			==See also==
			*[[Alien language in science fiction]]
			*[[Animal communication]]
			*[[Communication with extraterrestrial intelligence]]
			* [[Martian language]] (Chinese)
			* [[Hélène Smith]], who fabricated a "Martian language"

			==References==
			{{Reflist\|30em}}

			==Further reading==
			* [[Walter E. Meyers\|Meyers, Walter E.]], 1980. ''Aliens and Linguists: Language Study and Science Fiction'' {{ISBN\|0-8203-0487-5}}

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	'''Alien languages''', i.e., languages of [[extraterrestrial being]]s, are a hypothetical subject since none have been encountered so far. The research in these hypothetical languages is variously called '''exolinguistics''', '''xenolinguistics'''<ref>An early use of the term "xenolinguistics" in [[science fiction]] occurred in 1986, in the novel "Triad" by [[Sheila Finch]] ({{Cite book\|title = Triad\|last = Finch\|first = Sheila\|publisher = Spectra\|year = 1986\|isbn = 9780553257922 \|location = New York}} New edition: {{Cite book\|title = Triad \|last = Finch\|first = Sheila\|publisher = [[Wildside Press]]\|year = 2012\|isbn = 9781434447913 \|location = Rockville, Maryland}}.</ref> or '''astrolinguistics'''.<ref>Daniels, Peter T. "Aliens And Linguists (Book Review)." Library Journal 105.13 (1980): 1516. Academic Search Premier. Web. 7 June 2012.</ref><ref>Schirber, Michael. "Use Grammar To Decipher Alien Tongues." New Scientist 199.2678 (2008): 12. Academic Search Premier. Web. 7 June 2012.</ref> The question of what form alien languages might take and the possibility for humans to recognize and translate them has been part of the linguistics and language studies courses, e.g., at the [[Bowling Green State University]] (2001).<ref name=wells1>[http://personal.bgsu.edu/~swellsj/xenolinguistics/ Course notes] by assistant professor [http://personal.bgsu.edu/~swellsj/ Sheri Wells-Jensen], [[Bowling Green State University]] (retrieved June 19, 2017)</ref>

	[[Noam Chomsky]] (1983), basing on his theory of the existence of a [[genetics\|genetically-predetermined]] [[universal grammar]] of human languages, holds that it would be impossible for a human to naturally learn an alien language because it would most probably violate the universal grammar inborn in humans. Humans would have to study an alien language by the slow way of discovery, the same way as scientists do research in, say, physics.<ref>[https://chomsky.info/198311__/ "Things No Amount of Learning Can Teach"], Noam Chomsky interviewed by John Gliedman, ''Omni'', 6:11, November 1983 (retrieved June 19, 2017)</ref>

	~~Some linguists believe that dialogue between aliens and humans might not even be possible, pointing towards the fact that humans are unable to communicate with any other species~~ on earth. Linguist Keren Rice posits that basic communication between humans and aliens should be possible, unless "the things that we think are common to languages—situating in time [and] space, talking about participants, etc.—are so radically different that the human language provides no starting point for it." <ref>{{Cite web\|title = Alien Interpreters: How Linguists Would Talk to Extraterrestrials\|url = https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/alien-interpreters-how-linguists-would-talk-to-extraterrestrials/\|website = Scientific American \|accessdate = 2018-04-09}}</ref>

	[[McGill University]] Linguistics Professor, [[Jessica Coon]] was consulted for the linguistic aspect of film ''[[Arrival (film)\| Arrival]]''. While acknowledging that the language used in the film was art, he states that film is a fairly accurate portrayal of the approach human linguists would use in trying to understand an alien language.<ref>{{Cite web\|title = 'Arrival' nails how humans might actually talk to aliens, a linguist says\|url = http://www.businessinsider.com/alien-language-in-arrival-linguist-2016-11\|website = Buisiness Insider\|accessdate = 2018-01-19}}</ref>

	~~==See also==~~
	*[[Alien language in science fiction]]
	*[[Communication with extraterrestrial intelligence]]

	~~==References==~~
	~~{{Reflist\|30em}}~~


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	'''Alien languages''', i.e., languages of [[extraterrestrial being]]s, are a hypothetical subject since none have been encountered so far. The research in these hypothetical languages is variously called '''exolinguistics''', '''xenolinguistics'''<ref>An early use of the term "xenolinguistics" in [[science fiction]] occurred in 1986, in the novel "Triad" by [[Sheila Finch]] ({{Cite book\|title = Triad\|last = Finch\|first = Sheila\|publisher = Spectra\|year = 1986\|isbn = 9780553257922 \|location = New York}} New edition: {{Cite book\|title = Triad \|last = Finch\|first = Sheila\|publisher = [[Wildside Press]]\|year = 2012\|isbn = 9781434447913 \|location = Rockville, Maryland}}.</ref> or '''astrolinguistics'''.<ref>Daniels, Peter T. "Aliens And Linguists (Book Review)." Library Journal 105.13 (1980): 1516. Academic Search Premier. Web. 7 June 2012.</ref><ref>Schirber, Michael. "Use Grammar To Decipher Alien Tongues." New Scientist 199.2678 (2008): 12. Academic Search Premier. Web. 7 June 2012.</ref>		'''Alien languages''', i.e., languages of [[extraterrestrial being]]s, are a hypothetical subject since none have been encountered so far. The research in these hypothetical languages is variously called '''exolinguistics''', '''xenolinguistics'''<ref>An early use of the term "xenolinguistics" in [[science fiction]] occurred in 1986, in the novel "Triad" by [[Sheila Finch]] ({{Cite book\|title = Triad\|last = Finch\|first = Sheila\|publisher = Spectra\|year = 1986\|isbn = 9780553257922 \|location = New York}} New edition: {{Cite book\|title = Triad \|last = Finch\|first = Sheila\|publisher = [[Wildside Press]]\|year = 2012\|isbn = 9781434447913 \|location = Rockville, Maryland}}.</ref> or '''astrolinguistics'''.<ref>Daniels, Peter T. "Aliens And Linguists (Book Review)." Library Journal 105.13 (1980): 1516. Academic Search Premier. Web. 7 June 2012.</ref><ref>Schirber, Michael. "Use Grammar To Decipher Alien Tongues." New Scientist 199.2678 (2008): 12. Academic Search Premier. Web. 7 June 2012.</ref> The question of what form alien languages might take and the possibility for humans to recognize and translate them has been part of the linguistics and language studies courses, e.g., at the [[Bowling Green State University]] (2001).<ref name=wells1>[http://personal.bgsu.edu/~swellsj/xenolinguistics/ Course notes] by assistant professor [http://personal.bgsu.edu/~swellsj/ Sheri Wells-Jensen], [[Bowling Green State University]] (retrieved June 19, 2017)</ref>

	The question of what form alien languages might take and the possibility for humans to recognize and translate them has been part of the linguistics and language studies courses, e.g., at the [[Bowling Green State University]] (2001).<ref name=wells1>[http://personal.bgsu.edu/~swellsj/xenolinguistics/ Course notes] by assistant professor [http://personal.bgsu.edu/~swellsj/ Sheri Wells-Jensen], [[Bowling Green State University]] (retrieved June 19, 2017)</ref>

	~~==Inherent difficulties==~~
	[[Noam Chomsky]] (1983), basing on his theory of the existence of a [[genetics\|genetically-predetermined]] [[universal grammar]] of human languages, holds that it would be impossible for a human to naturally learn an alien language because it would most probably violate the universal grammar inborn in humans. Humans would have to study an alien language by the slow way of discovery, the same way as scientists do research in, say, physics.<ref>[https://chomsky.info/198311__/ "Things No Amount of Learning Can Teach"], Noam Chomsky interviewed by John Gliedman, ''Omni'', 6:11, November 1983 (retrieved June 19, 2017)</ref>		[[Noam Chomsky]] (1983), basing on his theory of the existence of a [[genetics\|genetically-predetermined]] [[universal grammar]] of human languages, holds that it would be impossible for a human to naturally learn an alien language because it would most probably violate the universal grammar inborn in humans. Humans would have to study an alien language by the slow way of discovery, the same way as scientists do research in, say, physics.<ref>[https://chomsky.info/198311__/ "Things No Amount of Learning Can Teach"], Noam Chomsky interviewed by John Gliedman, ''Omni'', 6:11, November 1983 (retrieved June 19, 2017)</ref>

	Some linguists believe that dialogue between aliens and humans might not even be possible, pointing towards the fact that humans are unable to communicate with any other species on earth. Linguist Keren Rice posits that basic communication between humans and aliens should be possible, unless "the things that we think are common to languages—situating in time [and] space, talking about participants, etc.—are so radically different that the human language provides no starting point for it." <ref>{{Cite web\|title = Alien Interpreters: How Linguists Would Talk to Extraterrestrials\|url = https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/alien-interpreters-how-linguists-would-talk-to-extraterrestrials/\|website = Scientific American \|accessdate = 2018-04-09}}</ref>		Some linguists believe that dialogue between aliens and humans might not even be possible, pointing towards the fact that humans are unable to communicate with any other species on earth. Linguist Keren Rice posits that basic communication between humans and aliens should be possible, unless "the things that we think are common to languages—situating in time [and] space, talking about participants, etc.—are so radically different that the human language provides no starting point for it." <ref>{{Cite web\|title = Alien Interpreters: How Linguists Would Talk to Extraterrestrials\|url = https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/alien-interpreters-how-linguists-would-talk-to-extraterrestrials/\|website = Scientific American \|accessdate = 2018-04-09}}</ref>

	~~==Process of ommunication==~~		[[McGill University]] Linguistics Professor, [[Jessica Coon]] was consulted for the linguistic aspect of film ''[[Arrival (film)\| Arrival]]''. While acknowledging that the language used in the film was art, he states that film is a fairly accurate portrayal of the approach human linguists would use in trying to understand an alien language.<ref>{{Cite web\|title = 'Arrival' nails how humans might actually talk to aliens, a linguist says\|url = http://www.businessinsider.com/alien-language-in-arrival-linguist-2016-11\|website = Buisiness Insider\|accessdate = 2018-01-19}}</ref>

	[[McGill University]] Linguistics Professor, [[Jessica Coon]] was consulted for the linguistic aspect of film ''[[Arrival (film)\| Arrival]]''. While acknowledging that the language used in the film was art, he states that film ~~was "exactly right" in the portraying~~ the ~~process of how aliens and humans~~ would ~~try~~ to ~~communicate~~.<ref>{{Cite web\|title = 'Arrival' nails how humans might actually talk to aliens, a linguist says\|url = http://www.businessinsider.com/alien-language-in-arrival-linguist-2016-11\|website = Buisiness Insider\|accessdate = 2018-01-19}}</ref>

	==See also==		==See also==

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	Some linguists believe that dialogue between aliens and humans might not even be possible, pointing towards the fact that humans are unable to communicate with any other species on earth. Linguist Keren Rice posits that basic communication between humans and aliens should be possible, unless "the things that we think are common to languages—situating in time [and] space, talking about participants, etc.—are so radically different that the human language provides no starting point for it." <ref>{{Cite web\|title = Alien Interpreters: How Linguists Would Talk to Extraterrestrials\|url = https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/alien-interpreters-how-linguists-would-talk-to-extraterrestrials/\|website = Scientific American \|accessdate = 2018-04-09}}</ref>		Some linguists believe that dialogue between aliens and humans might not even be possible, pointing towards the fact that humans are unable to communicate with any other species on earth. Linguist Keren Rice posits that basic communication between humans and aliens should be possible, unless "the things that we think are common to languages—situating in time [and] space, talking about participants, etc.—are so radically different that the human language provides no starting point for it." <ref>{{Cite web\|title = Alien Interpreters: How Linguists Would Talk to Extraterrestrials\|url = https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/alien-interpreters-how-linguists-would-talk-to-extraterrestrials/\|website = Scientific American \|accessdate = 2018-04-09}}</ref>

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	[[McGill University]] Linguistics Professor, [[Jessica Coon]] was consulted for the linguistic aspect of film [[Arrival (film)\| Arrival]]. While acknowledging that the language used in the film was art, he states that film was "exactly right" in the portraying the process of how aliens and humans would try to communicate. <ref>{{Cite web\|title = 'Arrival' nails how humans might actually talk to aliens, a linguist says\|url = http://www.businessinsider.com/alien-language-in-arrival-linguist-2016-11\|website = Buisiness Insider\|accessdate = 2018-01-19}}</ref>		[[McGill University]] Linguistics Professor, [[Jessica Coon]] was consulted for the linguistic aspect of film ''[[Arrival (film)\| Arrival]]''. While acknowledging that the language used in the film was art, he states that film was "exactly right" in the portraying the process of how aliens and humans would try to communicate.<ref>{{Cite web\|title = 'Arrival' nails how humans might actually talk to aliens, a linguist says\|url = http://www.businessinsider.com/alien-language-in-arrival-linguist-2016-11\|website = Buisiness Insider\|accessdate = 2018-01-19}}</ref>

	==See also==		==See also==

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	[[Noam Chomsky]] (1983), basing on his theory of the existence of a [[genetics\|genetically-predetermined]] [[universal grammar]] of human languages, holds that it would be impossible for a human to naturally learn an alien language because it would most probably violate the universal grammar inborn in humans. Humans would have to study an alien language by the slow way of discovery, the same way as scientists do research in, say, physics.<ref>[https://chomsky.info/198311__/ "Things No Amount of Learning Can Teach"], Noam Chomsky interviewed by John Gliedman, ''Omni'', 6:11, November 1983 (retrieved June 19, 2017)</ref>		[[Noam Chomsky]] (1983), basing on his theory of the existence of a [[genetics\|genetically-predetermined]] [[universal grammar]] of human languages, holds that it would be impossible for a human to naturally learn an alien language because it would most probably violate the universal grammar inborn in humans. Humans would have to study an alien language by the slow way of discovery, the same way as scientists do research in, say, physics.<ref>[https://chomsky.info/198311__/ "Things No Amount of Learning Can Teach"], Noam Chomsky interviewed by John Gliedman, ''Omni'', 6:11, November 1983 (retrieved June 19, 2017)</ref>

			Some linguists believe that dialogue between aliens and humans might not even be possible, pointing towards the fact that humans are unable to communicate with any other species on earth. Linguist Keren Rice posits that basic communication between humans and aliens should be possible, unless "the things that we think are common to languages—situating in time [and] space, talking about participants, etc.—are so radically different that the human language provides no starting point for it." <ref>{{Cite web\|title = Alien Interpreters: How Linguists Would Talk to Extraterrestrials\|url = https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/alien-interpreters-how-linguists-would-talk-to-extraterrestrials/\|website = Scientific American \|accessdate = 2018-04-09}}</ref>

			==Process of Communication==

			[[McGill University]] Linguistics Professor, [[Jessica Coon]] was consulted for the linguistic aspect of film [[Arrival (film)\| Arrival]]. While acknowledging that the language used in the film was art, he states that film was "exactly right" in the portraying the process of how aliens and humans would try to communicate. <ref>{{Cite web\|title = 'Arrival' nails how humans might actually talk to aliens, a linguist says\|url = http://www.businessinsider.com/alien-language-in-arrival-linguist-2016-11\|website = Buisiness Insider\|accessdate = 2018-01-19}}</ref>

	==See also==		==See also==

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	'''Alien languages''', i.e., languages of [[extraterrestrial being]]s, are a hypothetical subject since none have been encountered so far. The research in these hypothetical languages is variously called '''exolinguistics''', '''xenolinguistics'''<ref>An early use of the term "xenolinguistics" in [[science fiction]] occurred in 1986, in the novel "Triad" by [[Sheila Finch]] ({{Cite book\|title = Triad\|last = Finch\|first = Sheila\|publisher = Spectra\|year = 1986\|isbn = 9780553257922 \|location = New York}} New edition: {{Cite book\|title = Triad \|last = Finch\|first = Sheila\|publisher = [[Wildside Press]]\|year = 2012\|isbn = 9781434447913 \|location = Rockville, Maryland}}.</ref> or '''astrolinguistics'''.<ref>Daniels, Peter T. "Aliens And Linguists (Book Review)." Library Journal 105.13 (1980): 1516. Academic Search Premier. Web. 7 June 2012.</ref><ref>Schirber, Michael. "Use Grammar To Decipher Alien Tongues." New Scientist 199.2678 (2008): 12. Academic Search Premier. Web. 7 June 2012.</ref>		'''Alien languages''', i.e., languages of [[extraterrestrial being]]s, are a hypothetical subject since none have been encountered so far. The research in these hypothetical languages is variously called '''exolinguistics''', '''xenolinguistics'''<ref>An early use of the term "xenolinguistics" in [[science fiction]] occurred in 1986, in the novel "Triad" by [[Sheila Finch]] ({{Cite book\|title = Triad\|last = Finch\|first = Sheila\|publisher = Spectra\|year = 1986\|isbn = 9780553257922 \|location = New York}} New edition: {{Cite book\|title = Triad \|last = Finch\|first = Sheila\|publisher = [[Wildside Press]]\|year = 2012\|isbn = 9781434447913 \|location = Rockville, Maryland}}.</ref> or '''astrolinguistics'''.<ref>Daniels, Peter T. "Aliens And Linguists (Book Review)." Library Journal 105.13 (1980): 1516. Academic Search Premier. Web. 7 June 2012.</ref><ref>Schirber, Michael. "Use Grammar To Decipher Alien Tongues." New Scientist 199.2678 (2008): 12. Academic Search Premier. Web. 7 June 2012.</ref> The question of what form alien languages might take and the possibility for humans to recognize and translate them has been part of the linguistics and language studies courses, e.g., at the [[Bowling Green State University]] (2001).<ref name=wells1>[http://personal.bgsu.edu/~swellsj/xenolinguistics/ Course notes] by assistant professor [http://personal.bgsu.edu/~swellsj/ Sheri Wells-Jensen], [[Bowling Green State University]] (retrieved June 19, 2017)</ref>

	The question of what form alien languages might take and the possibility for humans to recognize and translate them has been part of the linguistics and language studies courses, e.g., at the [[Bowling Green State University]] (2001).<ref name=wells1>[http://personal.bgsu.edu/~swellsj/xenolinguistics/ Course notes] by assistant professor [http://personal.bgsu.edu/~swellsj/ Sheri Wells-Jensen], [[Bowling Green State University]] (retrieved June 19, 2017)</ref>

	~~==Inherent difficulties==~~
	[[Noam Chomsky]] (1983), basing on his theory of the existence of a [[genetics\|genetically-predetermined]] [[universal grammar]] of human languages, holds that it would be impossible for a human to naturally learn an alien language because it would most probably violate the universal grammar inborn in humans. Humans would have to study an alien language by the slow way of discovery, the same way as scientists do research in, say, physics.<ref>[https://chomsky.info/198311__/ "Things No Amount of Learning Can Teach"], Noam Chomsky interviewed by John Gliedman, ''Omni'', 6:11, November 1983 (retrieved June 19, 2017)</ref>		[[Noam Chomsky]] (1983), basing on his theory of the existence of a [[genetics\|genetically-predetermined]] [[universal grammar]] of human languages, holds that it would be impossible for a human to naturally learn an alien language because it would most probably violate the universal grammar inborn in humans. Humans would have to study an alien language by the slow way of discovery, the same way as scientists do research in, say, physics.<ref>[https://chomsky.info/198311__/ "Things No Amount of Learning Can Teach"], Noam Chomsky interviewed by John Gliedman, ''Omni'', 6:11, November 1983 (retrieved June 19, 2017)</ref>

	Some linguists believe that dialogue between aliens and humans might not even be possible, pointing towards the fact that humans are unable to communicate with any other species on earth. Linguist Keren Rice posits that basic communication between humans and aliens should be possible, unless "the things that we think are common to languages—situating in time [and] space, talking about participants, etc.—are so radically different that the human language provides no starting point for it." <ref>{{Cite web\|title = Alien Interpreters: How Linguists Would Talk to Extraterrestrials\|url = https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/alien-interpreters-how-linguists-would-talk-to-extraterrestrials/\|website = Scientific American \|accessdate = 2018-04-09}}</ref>		Some linguists believe that dialogue between aliens and humans might not even be possible, pointing towards the fact that humans are unable to communicate with any other species on earth. Linguist Keren Rice posits that basic communication between humans and aliens should be possible, unless "the things that we think are common to languages—situating in time [and] space, talking about participants, etc.—are so radically different that the human language provides no starting point for it." <ref>{{Cite web\|title = Alien Interpreters: How Linguists Would Talk to Extraterrestrials\|url = https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/alien-interpreters-how-linguists-would-talk-to-extraterrestrials/\|website = Scientific American \|accessdate = 2018-04-09}}</ref>

	~~==Process of ommunication==~~		[[McGill University]] Linguistics Professor, [[Jessica Coon]] was consulted for the linguistic aspect of film ''[[Arrival (film)\| Arrival]]''. While acknowledging that the language used in the film was art, he states that film is a fairly accurate portrayal of the approach human linguists would use in trying to understand an alien language.<ref>{{Cite web\|title = 'Arrival' nails how humans might actually talk to aliens, a linguist says\|url = http://www.businessinsider.com/alien-language-in-arrival-linguist-2016-11\|website = Buisiness Insider\|accessdate = 2018-01-19}}</ref>

	[[McGill University]] Linguistics Professor, [[Jessica Coon]] was consulted for the linguistic aspect of film ''[[Arrival (film)\| Arrival]]''. While acknowledging that the language used in the film was art, he states that film ~~was "exactly right" in the portraying~~ the ~~process of how aliens and humans~~ would ~~try~~ to ~~communicate~~.<ref>{{Cite web\|title = 'Arrival' nails how humans might actually talk to aliens, a linguist says\|url = http://www.businessinsider.com/alien-language-in-arrival-linguist-2016-11\|website = Buisiness Insider\|accessdate = 2018-01-19}}</ref>

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