Aliens vocal tract is different from human vocal tracts, doesn’t sound like they are using a larynx to produce sound
Humans most likely cannot reproduce the same sound/ human ear cannot distinguish
To learn an unknown language, you have to interact with native speaker
Fluttering sounds, “puckered orifice at the top of its body vibrate”, how they talk/ communicate
Communicated by pointing/ gestures to understand each other since they couldn’t understand each other’s languages
Aliens had a language of their own but it seemed very complex
Repeated Flutter 1 but no response
First impression of heptapod’s written language: logographic
“Their script isn’t word-divided”(11) humans read left to right, the heptapod’s don’t, “they join the logograms by rotating/ notifying them.” (also may connect to the way they are physically built. the aliens can read the word no matter how its rotated which might be due to their bodies’ racial symmetry.
Form of writing was similar to primitive sign systems
Heptapods’ formation of physics is similar to humans but not easily understood
Learning Heptapod B had changed the way the narrator viewed her life/ memories
Heptapod’s follow Fermat’s Law “light travels between two points along the path that requires the least time, as compared to the nearby paths”
Louise’s memory with her daughter is written in future tense, might be related to how she is studying the language of Heptapods.