alien language
Otherworldly speech system
A language originating from or attributed to extraterrestrial beings.
In science fiction, alien languages range from guttural growls to complex tonal systems: The linguist spent years decoding the alien language.
The term also describes any communication so foreign or incomprehensible it might as well come from another world: Legal contracts read like an alien language to most people.
- extraterrestrialBeing from outer space
- close encountersBrief proximity with something
- cipherHidden writing system
- binary codeTwo-symbol numeral system
- codeSymbolic communication system
hieroglyphs · ancient astronauts · symbols · unintelligible · gibberish · communication · translation · decode · transmission · signal · otherworldly · strange · incomprehensible · lost in translation · glyphs · script · syntax · telepathy
- Alien Lifeextraterrestrial life, extraterrestrial intelligence, first contact, biosignatures, exobiology
- sci-fi communicationcommunicator, comlink, universal translator, viewscreen, subspace
- Constructed Languagesconlang, Esperanto, Valyrian, interlinguistics, Klingon
- xenoculture
alien languagenative tongue
Language acquired from infancy
mother tongue · natural language · vernacular · indigenous language · native speech
alien languagenative language
First-acquired mode of speech
mother tongue · plain speech · lingua franca · plain English · first language
alien languagenative speech
One's original language
home language · heritage language · ancestral language · mother tongue · first language
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