Life on Earth employs a variety of non-verbal methods of communication, and these might provide clues to hypothetical alien language.

Consideration of such questions form part of the linguistics and language studies programs at some universities. The question of what form an alien language might take, and whether humans would recognize it as a language if they encountered it, has been approached from several perspectives. Main article: Communication with extraterrestrial intelligence Some have created fictional languages for their characters to use others have circumvented the problem by proposing translation devices like the universal translator, or by creating universal languages that all involved species can speak. In addition to creating academic debate, the potential nature of an alien language has also been tackled by science-fiction writers. The possibility of future contact with intelligent extraterrestrial life has made the question of the structure and form of potential alien language a topic of scientific and philosophical discussion. The nature and form of such languages remains purely speculative because so far no search for extraterrestrial intelligence projects have detected signs of intelligent life beyond Earth. The study of such a hypothetical language or of communication with extraterrestrial intelligence in general has been termed xenolinguistics, exolinguistics, or astrolinguistics. Alien language is a generic term used to describe a possible language originating from a hypothetical alien species.

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