How do you think extraterrestrial languages are?

OVNI   Wed Sep 09, 2009 11:48 pm GMT
Are they inflected or analytic?. May they have tones? Will human beings be able to learn them?.
www   Thu Sep 10, 2009 12:23 am GMT
woooo, like the wind.
Loxahatchee Luke   Thu Sep 10, 2009 1:34 am GMT
I guess you need to look at the currently known extraterrestrial languages, like Klingon.
38   Thu Sep 10, 2009 2:58 am GMT
Languages are only used by intermediate life forms such as human beings. Higher life forms such as some extraterrestrial beings and future humans no longer communicate in languages. They use telesthesia (telaesthesia) to communicate with one another.
my guess   Thu Sep 10, 2009 8:49 am GMT
I wonder if it is easier for an extraterrestrial to learn a romance language or a germanic one? I tend to think that aliens speak a sort of spanish.
Harman   Thu Sep 10, 2009 9:15 am GMT
I think we should talk about code and way instead of language and sounds.
Xetra   Thu Sep 10, 2009 2:33 pm GMT
Doesn't it all depend on what extraterrestrials look like ? Their language can't be the same at all if they look like giant bees or like big clouds, for example.
/*-   Thu Sep 10, 2009 2:48 pm GMT
According to the movies they can speak English. :))
PARISIEN   Thu Sep 10, 2009 3:14 pm GMT
<< How do you think extraterrestrial languages are? >>

-- Comme les nôtres. Avec des concepts exprimés par des substantifs, des verbes pour exprimer actions, interactions et états, et des averbes/adjectifs pour modifier ces éléments.

Impossible d'imaginer une langue sans ces catégories.
@PARISIEN   Thu Sep 10, 2009 3:20 pm GMT
Ce n'est pas parce qu'un cerveau humain est incapable d'imaginer un concept que celui-ci est forcément inexistant.
--   Thu Sep 10, 2009 3:23 pm GMT
PARISIEN, there are conlangs where the inventers tried to avoid some of that categories, check http://www.conlanger.com/ or http://www.spinnoff.com/zbb/