I’m speaking very hypothetically here, but if we happened to recieve a voyager disc style message from another planet, which contained numbers and writing in their language, how does the process of translation begin?
It still blows my mind that at some point, two people from the same planet that spoke very different languages (chinese and engish for example), started the process of learning each others languages and worked out what each other were saying. So how would this work for a completely new, unknown language with completely new characters, digits and language features?
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Some concepts should be universal like counting so we’d probably start by working out what they mean by their numbers.
Next I’d guess we would try and work out the words they use to describe objects we can both see or commonly identify such as stars, planets, etc.
Lastly, I guess we look to any clues we might get from the object if there was a physical object like the Voyager Golden Record.
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