It’s clear that their vocal tract is substantially different from a human vocal tract.
“Not really. They don’t sound like they’re made with the larynx. It’s just that establishing
communication would be very difficult to establish because of the differences in anatomy.
They were almost certainly using sounds that the human vocal tract could not reproduce, and
perhaps sounds that are indistinguishable to the human ear.”
The human auditory system is not an absolute acoustic
An acoustic instrument; it’s optimized to recognize the sounds made by the human larynx.
With the alien vocal system, all bets are off.
Its limbs have no obvious joints.
Anatomists speculate that they may have been supported by a vertebral column. Regardless of their
basic structure, the limbs of the seven-gill eel move in a disturbingly
flowing manner. Its “trunk” rides on corrugated limbs as smoothly as a hovercar.
Symbolization may carry a little phonetic information, which is actually more difficult than learning the alphabe.
mathematical equations, musical scores for music and dance. But these are specialized sciences; we can’t use them to record speech. But I suspect that if we knew well enough, we could use the seven-clawed monster writing system to record speech. I think this is a graphic language with a universal purpose, through training and experience.