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* The Deltharians from the Basalt City Chronicles have two. One is their own language, which is a sign languaged due to nearly all of them being born without a sense of hearing. The other is a dialect of the only sound-based language those few who ''can'' hear ever experience: whalesong.
* The Deltharians from the Basalt City Chronicles have two. One is their own language, which is a sign languaged due to nearly all of them being born without a sense of hearing. The other is a dialect of the only sound-based language those few who ''can'' hear ever experience: whalesong.
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* From {{DMFA}}, you get [[http://www.missmab.com/Demo/HG10.php the Insectis language]].
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* Speaking of nonhuman sounds, let's not forget Madison's ''ultrasonic'' native tongue in ''Splash''.
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* Speaking of nonhuman sounds, let's not forget Madison's ''ultrasonic'' native tongue in ''Splash''.''{{Splash}}''.
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** Piraha(mentioned below) has only three vowels and eight consonants.
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*** The Amazonian languages also have unorthodox word order such as OVS or OSV.
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** The followers of Great Cthulhu have their own language, barely pronouncable by human voiceboxes and singularly awkward to transliterate. Generally though, communictaion with the Great Old Ones generally involves the human party going incurably mad, one way or another.
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* The undead inhabitants of High Cromlech in China Mieville's ''[[PerdidoStreetStation The Scar]]'' "speak" a language called Quiesy. As many of the residents lack vocal equipment due to the mechanisms of their reanimation, or simply had their lips sewn together as part of a mummification process the language makes use of carefully timed periods of silence, eye rolling and presumably other facial body language.
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* Form of communication used by [[LordOfTheRings Nazguli]]. Doubles as a sonic weapon that kicks you right over the {{Despair Event Horizon}}.
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* Form of communication used by [[LordOfTheRings Nazguli]]. Nazgul]]. Doubles as a sonic weapon that kicks you right over the {{Despair Event Horizon}}.Horizon}}.
** No more a form of communication than a warcry or yell might be. They speak a language of Sauron's devising, plus the common tongue that the humans and hobbits use, at the very least.
** No more a form of communication than a warcry or yell might be. They speak a language of Sauron's devising, plus the common tongue that the humans and hobbits use, at the very least.
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** And the granddaddy of them all, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumerian_language Sumerian]]. Yep, it is the most ancient written language on Earth, and we still do not know for sure what other languages it is related to.
* The "click languages" spoken by the Bushmen and the Khoikhoi of Africa. One of these click languages is featured in ''TheGodsMustBeCrazy''.
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*[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumerian_language Sumerian]].
* The "click languages" spoken by the Bushmen and the Khoikhoi of Africa. One of these click languages is featured in ''TheGodsMustBeCrazy''.
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** And the granddaddy of them all, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumerian_language Sumerian]]. Yep, it is the most ancient written language on Earth, and we still do not know for sure what other languages it is related to.
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** Georgian and other Caucasian languages, however, have nothing on Nuxálk: xłp̓x̣ʷłtłpłłskʷc̓.
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** Georgian and other Caucasian languages, however, have nothing on Nuxálk: xłp̓x̣ʷłtłpłłskʷc̓.[[BeyondTheImpossible There's nothing in there that could be considered a]] ''[[BeyondTheImpossible sonorant]]'', let alone a vowel. Several Salishan languages can do this.
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* Languages of the Caucusus tend to have loads of consonants and few vowels:
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* Languages of the Caucusus Caucasus tend to have loads of consonants and few vowels:
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*** Almost none of those features are unique, with the possible exception of non-recursion. There are a limited set of quantity words in Pirahã as documented, but they seem to basically amount to "more" "fewer" and "much". By all accounts, the Pirahã people are perfectly capable of spotting things that their language lacks, but don't actually have terms which describe them for cultural reasons. Its other unusual features are all uncommon, but by no means unheard of, it's just their combination which is unique.
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*** As Wikipedia helpfully notes about the 'th' in thing, "Among the more than 60 languages with over 10 million speakers, only English, Standard Arabic, Castilian Spanish (i.e., as spoken in Spain only), Burmese, and Greek have [it]."
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** Georgian and other Caucasian languages, however, have nothing on Nuxálk: xłp̓x̣ʷłtłpłłskʷc̓.
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** Georgian and other Caucasian languages, however, have nothing on Nuxálk: xłp̓x̣ʷłtłpłłskʷc̓. xłp̓x̣ʷłtłpłłskʷc̓.
*** Just to hammer in, the strangeness comes from the lack of vowel-like sounds. xłp̓x̣ʷłtłpłłskʷc is relatively harmless when you understand that the first x is just the ch in loch and the ł is just the l in peel etc. Not that I could actually PRONOUNCE it.
*** Just to hammer in, the strangeness comes from the lack of vowel-like sounds. xłp̓x̣ʷłtłpłłskʷc is relatively harmless when you understand that the first x is just the ch in loch and the ł is just the l in peel etc. Not that I could actually PRONOUNCE it.
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*** Although the one thing you usually don't get confused on is the subject of sentence, given that the subject is defined by how the verb is conjugated. Also, all verbs are regular.
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* ReBoot: The Web Riders speak in dial-up noise.
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* All-Star {{Superman}} briefly features a species of tungsten gas-based life forms with glass exoskeletons that communicate with light-emitting gestures. Some sentences in their language can cause instant blindness in humans.
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** Most of the aliens were physically capable of learning human languages, most simply don't bother. It should also be noted that the place where alien languages were used the most was Tatooine, a backwater planet.
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** Most of the aliens were physically capable of learning human languages, most simply don't bother. It should also be noted that the place where alien languages were used the most was Tatooine, a backwater planet. planet.
*** Tatooine natives who don't speak English usually speak Huttnese, which is portrayed as the second most common language in the Galaxy. The change between seems to be used much the same way as Mandarin is used in {{Firefly}}.
*** Tatooine natives who don't speak English usually speak Huttnese, which is portrayed as the second most common language in the Galaxy. The change between seems to be used much the same way as Mandarin is used in {{Firefly}}.
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** And then there's ''TwilightPrincess'', which has Sky Writing -- the language of the ancient race called the Oocca. Only ''one guy in the entire country'' understands it. The player never sees the writing, but you do get to hear Shad [[SpeakingSimlish say part of it out loud]].
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** And then there's ''TwilightPrincess'', which has Sky Writing -- the language of the ancient race called the Oocca. Only ''one guy in the entire country'' understands it. The player never sees more of the writing, writing than a few isolated characters, but you do get to hear Shad [[SpeakingSimlish say part of it out loud]].
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** The Violet Lanterns also speak a language that said TranslatorMicrobes also can't grok. Their [[BadassCreed oath]] follows the same rhyme and meter as the others though.
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** And then there's ''TwilightPrincess'', which has Sky Writing -- the language of the ancient race called the Oocca. Only ''one guy in the entire country'' understands it. The player never sees the writing, but you do get to hear Shad [[SpeakingSimlish say part of it out loud]].
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** Georgian and other Caucasian languages, however, have nothing on Nuxálk: xłp̓x̣ʷłtłpłłskʷc̓. [[BeyondTheImpossible There's nothing in there that could be considered a]] ''[[BeyondTheImpossible sonorant]]'', let alone a vowel. Several Salishan languages can do this.
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** Georgian and other Caucasian languages, however, have nothing on Nuxálk: xłp̓x̣ʷłtłpłłskʷc̓.
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*** Spokane Salish's word for "horse" is "snčłc'aˀsqaxeˀ... at least that has vowels.
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*** Spokane Salish's word for "horse" is "snčłc'aˀsqaxeˀ... at least that has vowels.
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* Navajo is about as close to [[StarfishLanguage Starfish Bizaad]] as a human language can get. It combines some of the "hard" elements of Chinese (tone), Zulu (more than a dozen categories that affect inflections), and Basque (ergative grammar), while also having the same phonics as Tlingit... which was chosen as the basis for Klingon because most human languages don't have those sounds. Oh, and it's also got politeness-elements, like some East Asian languages, and a very complicated tense/aspect system. SoYeah.
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* Navajo is about as close to [[StarfishLanguage Starfish Bizaad]] as a human language can get. It combines some of the "hard" elements of Chinese (tone), Zulu (more than a dozen categories that affect inflections), and Basque (ergative grammar), while also having the same phonics as Tlingit... which was chosen as the basis for Klingon because most human languages don't have those sounds. Oh, and it's also got politeness-elements, like some East Asian languages, and a very complicated tense/aspect system. SoYeah.
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* The Rambosians from Jasper Fforde's Nursery Crime books speak in Binary. While they helpfully render it as 0's and 1's for humans, full-speed binary sounds like cloth tearing, and humanity's foremost expert converses as well as a programmable toaster.
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* In the second episode of [[HomestarRunner Strong Bad's Cool Game For Attractive People]], the insane non-sequetirs of Homsar are implied to be a form of this.
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Doesn't fit the trope. This isn't true in general at all. That's why the examples below are so interesting/important.
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* ''Any'' language will seem like this to a native speaker of an unrelated language family, and often even to those who speak a related language.
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* In [[{{Rayman}} Rayman 2]], the player may select one of several langages for the characters to speak during dialogue events... including their world's [[{{Fictionary}} native language]], termed "[[ShapedLikeItself Raymanian]]". Mortal characters of course speak Ramanian with actual voices, but [[PalsWithJesus Ly the Great Fairy]] instead uses mystical sounds. See [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYGqMiCfswA this vid]] at 5:48 for an example.
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* In the [[PokemonDestinyDeoxys eighth Pokemon movie]], the titular Deoxys spoke to each other through aurorae, which one of the characters could translate with her [[MagicalComputer laptop]]. They also made strange airplane engine-esque noises as well.
