Can We Figure Out Alien Languages? | Mach | NBC News

The movie Arrival posits that, once aliens arrive, finding a way to understand their language will be possible. In reality, we’ve already spent decades trying to interpret messages that may have come from the cosmos and send back our own in return.

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Can We Figure Out Alien Languages? | Mach | NBC News

[mdb]

No one has been able to decode any language on Earth without a "Rosetta Stone" or remnant of people who still speak the language. No one. Pretty astonishing considering our brains are pre-wired with language. We all have the same pre-wiring in our human brains - but still no one has been able to decode another's language.

[arifcso]

Use subtitle to alien
Works perfectly in area 51

[quentintaylor]

That's real the thing with the long arms

[ToMentionAChannel]

I Am *_Aaí'Kēęlťh'điöñßion'ď_*

[christinasurani]

Sinhala alphabet is similar to the alien alphabat.