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257: Alien Languages
What would an alien language be like? The new trailer for the film Arrival has got us pretty excited, and there's even a whole field of study called xenolinguistics. How will we know what to say when we make contact? Linguist Daniel Midgley explores the final frontier on this episode of Talk the Talk.
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By Daniel Midgley, Ben Ainslie, and Hedvig Skirgård
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What would an alien language be like? The new trailer for the film Arrival has got us pretty excited, and there's even a whole field of study called xenolinguistics. How will we know what to say when we make contact? Linguist Daniel Midgley explores the final frontier on this episode of Talk the Talk.
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