curious how it’s always humans saying that they’re the only ones who have language…
Comment on Interspecies linguistics
yesman@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Only humans have language. Inter-species communication is nothing special. Rattlesnakes are named for their ability to communicate cross species.
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 4 months ago
Droechai@lemm.ee 4 months ago
it’s only humans capable of the sub communication protocol called English that says that
Passerby6497@lemmy.world 4 months ago
No other languages have evolved to say that.
Droechai@lemm.ee 4 months ago
Exactly, other languages would use something like “Det är bara människan som utvecklat tal” or “Es ist nur der Mensch, der die Sprache entwickelt hat” depending on language
TSG_Asmodeus@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Only humans have language.
Semjaza@lemmynsfw.com 4 months ago
They identified nouns and adjectives in prairie dog communication, that also seems to vary with regional dialects. I’ll try to remember to dig up a source when I’m not out and about later.
tamal3@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Weren’t science communicators talking about parts of speech in whale communication last year, too? They’re using AI to identify patterns and variations in speech.
Here’s a general (though older) overview of whale language: www.britannica.com/…/the-language-of-whales
Here’s a more recent article taking about using AI to identify patterns in speech: scitechdaily.com/ai-decodes-sperm-whale-language-…
Murdeth@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I appreciate your disclaimers and context of your sources.
SSJMarx@lemm.ee 4 months ago
That’s cool as hell and animals definitely have all kinds of methods of communication that I’m sure we haven’t figured out yet - but it’s not language.
overcast5348@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Okay, I’ll bite.
Why isn’t it language? And how do you define that a method of communication qualifies to be called a language?
Also, what would you call a method of communication that lies somewhere in between “follow the pheromones” and “modern human comms”?
candybrie@lemmy.world 4 months ago
What’s your definition of language?
oxideseven@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
What is this strange group on Lenny that is so anti animal intelligence?
na_th_an@lemmy.world 4 months ago
A rattlesnake can certainly communicate using sound, but is that language? Bright colors can communicate ideas of “do not eat this” across species as well, but they wouldn’t fit my mental model of a language.
shneancy@lemmy.world 4 months ago
what is language than making sounds to convey meaning and then decoding said sounds to understand their meaning
human language is incredibly complex but a bee just buzzing a particular buzz that means “bear nearby” counts as a valid form of linguistic communication imo
pete_the_cat@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Bees actually dance to communicate and it’s considered a language 😄
MindTraveller@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
Koko the gorilla would beg to differ
Droechai@lemm.ee 4 months ago
Just gonna drop this, I haven’t done a deep dive in sources thoufh
MindTraveller@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
Don’t leave your SI lying around like that
blackluster117@possumpat.io 4 months ago
“Either back it up or get fucked up.”