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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.

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tamal3@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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-…

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Murdeth@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
I appreciate your disclaimers and context of your sources.

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SSJMarx@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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- overcast5348@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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”?
  
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- candybrie@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  What’s your definition of language?
  
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