The search for aliens, carried out by earthlings over the past several decades, has not yet been crowned with success, but scientists say that signals from aliens can be recorded by humanity in the next ten to twenty years. The only problem is whether we can understand these signals.
And whether, accordingly, the aliens will be able to understand us. The best linguists are working tirelessly to resolve these issues right now, united in an ambitious project to create a "language of humanity".
“The linguist Noam Chomsky once said that if the Martians arrive on Earth, then all the languages of mankind will seem to them to be different dialects of one common language. Indeed, most of the languages have a common structure. However, since the time of Chomsky's statement, we have not been able to find a specific 'general' idea of all languages, which would be suitable for the role of the main one for creating a single language of mankind,”linguists say.
It is assumed that it is in the common language of people that messages should be compiled, which mankind continually sends into space, in the hope of finding brothers in reason. Now such messages are made using some kind of abstract symbols based on geometry and mathematics, and everything would be fine, but there is a problem - even the majority of people cannot understand such a language. And aliens, who probably think in a slightly different way from us, can perceive such signals as some kind of natural background of the Universe. But everything will change when scientists develop a single language for humanity.
Kolesnikov Andrey
