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Starfish Language

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206 feature instances
183 referencing feature instances

Starfish Language	type	FeatureClass
Starfish Language	label	Starfish Language
Starfish Language	page	StarfishLanguage
Starfish Language	comment	Oh, hey, the aliens wish to communicate with us. They're speaking into the communication apparatus now... â™ªâ™© â™ªâ™« â™¬ â™ª â™ª â™¬â™©â™«. Um... Yeah. Much as Starfish Aliens are the polar opposite of Human Aliens, Starfish Language is the diametric of Aliens Speaking English. Whether the Translator Microbes are on the fritz or the aliens in question are communicating with Minovsky Particles, it's unintelligible to the humans, especially to the viewers (unless there are subtitles, often only present when the trope is played for comedic effect). If it's a video game, expect there to be a few branches on the Tech Tree devoted to understanding the language and eventually the aliens' culture and intent, whether it be peace, cable, cattle, the opposite sex, or just to put a cosmic smear where your Insignificant Little Blue Planet used to be. May result in The Unpronounceable. If weird symbols are used to denote normal letters in otherwise understandable text, that's Wingdinglish. Contrast with Strange-Syntax Speaker, where the words are understood but the language rules are not. For when the language's grammar is very similar to Indo-European languages, see Indo-European Alien Language, or, if the language has basically a one-on-one correspondence with a real world language, Cypher Language. No matter how weird a language like Georgian may seem to an English speaker, or how weird Xhosa might seem to a speaker of Vietnamese, all natural human languages make sense to those that speak them, and are in principle learnable by other humans. Conlangs are fine in their own separate folder, as are animal means of communication. 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. noreallife Examples
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Starfish Language / int_10ddd3d5	type	Starfish Language
Starfish Language / int_10ddd3d5	comment	The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, 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 than a few isolated characters, but you do get to hear Shad say part of it out loud.
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Starfish Language / int_11307644	type	Starfish Language
Starfish Language / int_11307644	comment	The alien protagonists of "What Is This Thing Called Love?" communicate by changing their color. Translation Convention is in effect for the audience, but to communicate with the human test subjects, one alien demonstrates their ability to make "modulated sound waves".
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Starfish Language / int_135f7515	type	Starfish Language
Starfish Language / int_135f7515	comment	In Eden, the aliens communicate in frequency-modulated acoustic noises and write in static electric charges (which also allows them to animate their drawings). Crash-landed humans manage to jury-rig a "navigation calculator" to translate their speech. While they have no problems with mathematical concepts, linguistics, or other natural sciences (and use them to teach the calculator), when they start talking about the alien society, the calculator keeps saying "no term" for half the words. Humans set the calculator to create new words as needed (one character says "talk like a schizophrenic"), and it invents words like "selfpres" for self-preservation instinct or "procrustics" (from Procrustes) for science of controlling society with careful dosage of information, which forces citizens to form isolated groups and enforce strict conformism within groups. As it turned out, this all was a fairly recent invention, result of several decades of planet-wide dictatorial rule. Earlier in the same novel, humans at one point muse that if they were in an SF novel, they were in a perfect place to meet an alien with a universal translator, or better yet, a telepath.
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Starfish Language / int_14d341dc	type	Starfish Language
Starfish Language / int_14d341dc	comment	In Star Trek Online the Tholians speak using a language consisting of clicks, whines and shrieking noises that is subtitled in the user-chosen language. As of Season 11, they have introduced a translator that sounds like text-to-speech software.
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Starfish Language / int_16e2419a	type	Starfish Language
Starfish Language / int_16e2419a	comment	One of the games made by Platine Dispositif (the creator of the Gundemonium Series and Bunny Must Die) is a Shoot 'Em Up titled _____ (yes, that's the game's actual title), where everything, including the menus, dialogue and even its true name is written in an indecipherable alien language. Even the game's high score is presented with alien symbols instead of numbers.
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Starfish Language / int_192b1aba	type	Starfish Language
Starfish Language / int_192b1aba	comment	How Friendship Accidentally Saved Magical Britain: Tom meets the Weasleys' Ford Anglia on the Hogwarts grounds by pure chance, which has become fully sentient during its months spent living in the Forbidden Forest with the other creatures, and he winds up becoming fluent in "car", a language that consists of headlight blinks and horn honks, as it regales him about its life in the forest and assures Tom that he need not learn how to drive, because it knows how to drive and fly itself, thank you very much.
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Starfish Language / int_19bb174	type	Starfish Language
Starfish Language / int_19bb174	comment	Cerulean Seas: Some languages can only be spoken and understood by select species, due to limitations of either body or vocal range. Clickclack, the language of the karkanaks, is comprised entirely of clicking sounds. Cetaceans speak Ceti, a language whose range of tones extends into the subsonic and ultrasonic range, which cannot be heard by other races. Squid speak Cephalite, which uses multiple limbs, rapid skin flushes, colour patterns and posturing. Photok, the native language of the asteraks, is similar to Cephalite except that it uses a series of flashing lights. Sharks and rays' Pelagic language is based on scent and pheromones. Only pisceans and scream dragons are capable of learning it. The Medusian language of trueform jellyfish consists primarily of flashing bioluminescence.
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Starfish Language / int_1a044a10	type	Starfish Language
Starfish Language / int_1a044a10	comment	In Return to Oz, two of the Wheelers briefly communicate in what is presumably their native language, which sounds a bit like a bicycle horn.
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Starfish Language / int_1d4d5420	type	Starfish Language
Starfish Language / int_1d4d5420	comment	The three alien races in Obduction communicate in these. The Mofang at least have a language system fairly close to ours, enabling them to speak English, albeit haltingly (which is your first clue that the â€œJosefâ€� who contacts you at various points isnâ€™t what he appears to be). The Villein, however, speak in low frequencies that are extremely difficult for humans to hear (and human speech is similarly inaudible to them); translation between the two has been achieved, but largely through the use of mathematics (which is further complicated because the Villein use a base 4 number system). The insect-like Arai, meanwhile, are outright telepaths, and it took considerable time and effort before any humans were able to â€œhearâ€� them.
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Starfish Language / int_1f30cee7	type	Starfish Language
Starfish Language / int_1f30cee7	comment	My Teacher Is an Alien has fun with this — many aliens can speak audibly, but some communicate in weird ways like reflecting light off of their bodies. In addition, the stories point out that even vocal languages use gestures, which their universal translator is also able to work with. Other examples from the series include communicating with tinkling music, armpit farts, extremely loud screeching, waving or tugging on your nose, and rearranging (or popping) large boils.
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Starfish Language / int_1f76648	type	Starfish Language
Starfish Language / int_1f76648	comment	Angelic language in A Certain Magical Index. Since angels carry some concepts which can't be expressed in human language, angels and angel-like beings such as Aiwass, Archangel Gabriel, and Accelerator express these concepts through this language, which is seen as a bunch of gibberish letters surrounding the kanji of the word closest to what the being means (like this: ihqDIEvbt). Even when speaking in a human language, they default to the angelic form when trying to say something human language cannot express:
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Starfish Language / int_2212773a	type	Starfish Language
Starfish Language / int_2212773a	comment	An Angel episode had a demon species who had no lips or tongue, and communicated with teeth-chattering similar to Morse code.
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Starfish Language / int_2250e67e	type	Starfish Language
Starfish Language / int_2250e67e	comment	Star Trek: Enterprise had an episode where Hoshi Sato and friends tried to translate a tough alien language. She never succeeded. The Enterprise was about to just give up when it turned out that the spacefaring aliens had been spending that time learning English. Additionally, two of the Xindi races are Insectoids and Aquatics. Naturally, they speak in chitters and whale-like song, respectively.
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Starfish Language / int_225787ca	type	Starfish Language
Starfish Language / int_225787ca	comment	The Mother Thing from Have Spacesuit Will Travel sings when she speaks, and only the person she is speaking to can understand what she's saying.
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Starfish Language / int_22c338ea	type	Starfish Language
Starfish Language / int_22c338ea	comment	In The Lathe of Heaven some aliens believe that the nuclear missiles being directed at them from Earth are a form of communication, and respond appropriately. of course this changes once George Orr goes to sleep...
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Starfish Language / int_24a18ffe	type	Starfish Language
Starfish Language / int_24a18ffe	comment	The Ship Who... has a few examples. The Corviki in Dramatic Mission and Honeymoon live in a methane-ammonia atmosphere and communicate through what humans call 'beta particles' and 'energy-stoking'. The globe-frogs or Cridi in The Ship Who Won have a vocal language they call "the language of science" but normally use sign language. Humans can learn to sign with them and Cridi can learn a human tongue but their voices are shrill enough to be uncomfortable. The Beasts Blatisant mentioned in The Ship Who Won can speak vocally with great adeptness but they don't assign any particular meaning to mouth sounds. Instead they talk to each other with "sharp poots out the sphincter" and have to eat particular berries to keep that up.
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Starfish Language / int_2a4c791e	type	Starfish Language
Starfish Language / int_2a4c791e	comment	In the Ah! My Goddess fanfiction Haloes, Urd has a nasty bout with aphasia that, Truth in Television, prevents her to express verbally and in written words. While at first she has to resort to complex charades just to be (barely) understood, eventually she develops the ability to put her thoughts in music, essentially communicating by notes. In this way she manages to score with Keichi and heal, translating her Starfish Language in human words again. Even later, is noted that music has effectively become her first language.
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Starfish Language / int_2acb12c5	type	Starfish Language
Starfish Language / int_2acb12c5	comment	Done with at least four different species in the X-Universe series. The Boron, an aquatic species, communicate with a mixture of clicking and a pheromone cloud, while humans lack the vocal structures necessary to pronounce Paranid words properly. The Khaak, a vaguely insectoid species, communicate using gestures and pheromones. Downplayed with the Split: humans can learn the spoken language but not the sign language that complements it since that would require having an extra digit on each hand.
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Starfish Language / int_2ae406c1	type	Starfish Language
Starfish Language / int_2ae406c1	comment	The Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri Expansion Pack Alien Crossfire gives us Progenitors, who communicate primarily through the modification of electromagnetic fields and must research human psychology (or the other way around) before diplomatic relations can be opened. Even then their speech is rendered in a Strange-Syntax Speaker way. Also, recorded quotes of their leaders have some strange sounds in the background, implying it's part of their "Resonance".
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Starfish Language / int_2b8d6e40	type	Starfish Language
Starfish Language / int_2b8d6e40	comment	The giant insectoid Reavers from The Runelords books 'speak' by pheromone scents (and anti-scents, since they have to erase the previous 'word' before they can say anything else), and can 'see' energy and electricity. Their death cry, the scent they produce when killed, is said be be something like burned garlic. They have neither ears nor eyes that can see visible light wavelengths.
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Starfish Language / int_2cd94ef1	type	Starfish Language
Starfish Language / int_2cd94ef1	comment	In Battle Beyond the Stars, Caymin has two henchmen of the Kelvin race who communicate by radiating heat. Their excitement to greet Nanelia causes them to almost burn her, and they later weaponize it against a Malmori tank using sonic cannons (since the Kelvins also have no ears).
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Starfish Language / int_31b1c820	type	Starfish Language
Starfish Language / int_31b1c820	comment	The Mercurians in Dan Dare have mouths that can't form consonants, so their language consists of vowels being sung at different notes. Professor Peabody somehow manages to learn the entire language in about half an hour.
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Starfish Language / int_3220811a	type	Starfish Language
Starfish Language / int_3220811a	comment	The Clangers speak in whistles, but they're whistling in English since the script was written in English and the whistles followed that.
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Starfish Language / int_329cc0f9	type	Starfish Language
Starfish Language / int_329cc0f9	comment	Heterogenia Linguistico has the tagline "An Introduction to Interspecies Linguistics", and is all about exploring how different species of monster can cross the language barrier when none of them can make exactly the same sounds (if at all) and all of them use different senses to perceive the world, plus how that all interacts with cultural differences regarding how and when those languages are spoken. Lizardmen can speak werewolf pretty well, but not the other way around, and they physically can't do the olfactory parts. On the other hand, werewolves are illiterate in lizardman writing, since it's based on combinations of colors and they're colorblind. (Lizardmen incidentally have no concept of visual art — they just try to read it and get confused.) However, this means lizardmen get along well with kraken, who communicate by changing colors, and...
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Starfish Language / int_34e0e9fc	type	Starfish Language
Starfish Language / int_34e0e9fc	comment	In the second episode of Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People, the insane non-sequiturs of Homsar are implied to be a form of this. Apparently, "Pucker up, Dice Man! I'm as upholstered as I wanna be!" translates into "Why should my people risk open war for you and your considerable style?"
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Starfish Language / int_351d990e	type	Starfish Language
Starfish Language / int_351d990e	comment	In "The Shadow Out of Time", the Great Race of Yith click their claws together to produce their equivalent of speech.
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Starfish Language / int_3b34143f	type	Starfish Language
Starfish Language / int_3b34143f	comment	Harry Potter: Parseltongue is the language of snakes, and a few humans known as Parselmouths can understand and speak it too. This ability is usually hereditary but can also be transferred via magic — for example, Voldemort accidentally shared his Translator Microbes (via a fragment of his own soul) with infant Harry when trying to kill him. Some non-Parselmouths like Albus Dumbledore have also learned to understand the language, and Ron Weasley manages to mimic the Parseltongue password to the Chamber of Secrets at one point (though his imitation of the password just sounds like unintelligible hissing to Harry). Mermish normally sounds like painful screeching, but water functions as Translator Microbes and allows humans to understand it. As with Parseltongue, humans can also learn to understand Mermish without the use of Translator Microbes; one such human is — you guessed it — Albus Dumbledore.
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Starfish Language / int_3b7abee2	type	Starfish Language
Starfish Language / int_3b7abee2	comment	In the Half-Life series, the Vortigaunts speak a language that involves both the participants in a conversation speaking and listening to each other at the same time, implying that the language centre of their brains is much more highly developed than that of humans. Vortigese is totally incomprehensible to humans; something of the feel of it is conveyed in the Episodes, where groups of Vortigaunts speaking English tend to step on the ends of each other's lines. They're also implied to use extra dimensions (both in space and time) to communicate with each other over great distances; one apologises for using this method in front of humans, claiming "It is rude of us to commune by flux shifting in front of those whose vortal inputs are impaired." They're also seem to have a telepathic link across their entire species. The Nihilath used it to enslave them all, while La RÃ©sistance in Half-Life 2 uses it to gain vital intelligence on Combine installations whenever a Vortigaunt is captured. Furthermore, one even suggests that they can "reincarnate" into a new body after they die, using the link:
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Starfish Language / int_3b88d68c	type	Starfish Language
Starfish Language / int_3b88d68c	comment	In The Divine Comedy, Nimrod can only speak and understand gibberish that not even the other giants can understand. This is presumably his punishment for trying to build the Tower of Babel and confusing the world's languages.
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Starfish Language / int_3d22c14b	type	Starfish Language
Starfish Language / int_3d22c14b	comment	In Mobile Suit Gundam 00V, Setsuna manages to communicate with a group of Innovators by firing his beam rifle at them. Since the beam is made up of GN particles, it acts as a medium for quantum brainwaves, allowing him to communicate with them telepathically.
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Starfish Language / int_3fbd173e	type	Starfish Language
Starfish Language / int_3fbd173e	comment	Freefall occasionally implies Sam Starfall's true language is something like this. Him being a Cthulhumanoid is the start, but whenever he takes off his facemask the noises he makes are complete gibberish, and he has somehow found ways to pronounce symbols, including Android systems' "Share" symbol (in the process of describing he has no idea what it means)◊.
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Starfish Language / int_4063ece6	type	Starfish Language
Starfish Language / int_4063ece6	comment	In Date with an Angel, the angel's speech resembles birdsong, though she can understand human speech just fine. At the end of the movie, she takes on human form and speaks English.
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Starfish Language / int_468bebb0	comment	Discworld: The Etiquette section of Nanny Ogg's Cookbook includes some information on Discworld's version of the "language of flowers" tradition. Being written by Nanny Ogg, it not only explains that flowers could once be used, like navy signal flags, to say all sorts of things, but goes on to describe some NSFW gardens.
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Discworld	hasFeature	Starfish Language / int_468bebb0
Starfish Language / int_48e3070e	type	Starfish Language
Starfish Language / int_48e3070e	comment	In the film Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster, Mothra, Godzilla, and Rodan start communicating with one another... in roars, chirps, growls, and various other animalistic languages. Since the human characters don't understand what the monsters are saying, they rely on the Shobijin to translate for them.
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Starfish Language / int_49c5717a	type	Starfish Language
Starfish Language / int_49c5717a	comment	In Incandescence, the Splinterites are insectoid aliens who communicate by drumming their legs on their stomachs.
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Incandescence	hasFeature	Starfish Language / int_49c5717a
Starfish Language / int_4c095a1f	type	Starfish Language
Starfish Language / int_4c095a1f	comment	The Transformers: The Decepticon animal cassettes Ravage, Laserbeak, Buzzsaw, and Ratbat speak in animal noises (growls, squawks, etc.) and yet the Decepticons seem to have no trouble understanding them. The Autobot Animal cassettes mostly use animal noises too, though occasionally Ramhorm speaks.
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The Transformers	hasFeature	Starfish Language / int_4c095a1f
Starfish Language / int_4c949405	type	Starfish Language
Starfish Language / int_4c949405	comment	The strange dialect Bubi Bear has on The Hair Bear Bunch proves useful in "No Space Like Home" as he uses it to talk with the inhabitants of an alien planet.
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Starfish Language / int_4cce0d2	type	Starfish Language
Starfish Language / int_4cce0d2	comment	Razzberry Jazzberry Jam: In â€œMusic Is Universalâ€�, the Jazzberries meet a pair of alien castanets (for context, every character in this show is some sort of musical instrument) whose speech consists entirely of clicking noises.
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Starfish Language / int_4d9653ef	type	Starfish Language
Starfish Language / int_4d9653ef	comment	Planescape: The Dabus speak a language of rebus puzzles (presumably a visual representation of Common) projected over their heads. A possibly-related race, the Phirblas, instead project legible written script in the native language of whatever creature they're trying to speak to. 3rd edition's Planewalker's Handbook mentions that the language of the Modrons (the embodiments of order) is so alien it requires two skill points instead of the normal one to learn. It's not actually described. On the opposite side, an unofficial fan-created description of the language of the Slaadi (embodiments of chaos) described it as almost impossible to understand. There were no general nouns, and a study of the language ended up suggesting that Slaadi individuals exist in non-integer numbers when they're not interacting with other beings. Other outsider races have similarly odd languages. Demons communicate telepathically, but not with words — they use ideas or concepts which can burn into a listener's brain. They can also speak vocally, ranging from barks and yelps to something akin to ocean waves overlaid with an angry wasp nest. No two demons speak the same language, and the best they can hope to do is understand most of what another is saying. Devils, on the other hand, have a language divided into four castes and the highest form of it is explicitly stated to almost be beyond comprehension, capable of causing hatred or despair in listeners. Its written form is the lines and symbols used to create summoning circles — basically, the only thing standing between you and a conjured fiend is your argument written in their language. It's described as simultaneously sounding like "a barking hound, an eloquent verse, the squeal of slate and steel, and the subtle smell of hatred."
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Starfish Language / int_4e7016bd	type	Starfish Language
Starfish Language / int_4e7016bd	comment	The Croods: A New Age has Guy revealing he speaks the language of the Punch Monkeys, only he prefers not to because "it's an ugly one". And given it consists of hitting and getting hit, he has a reason for it.
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Starfish Language / int_4f6620a5	type	Starfish Language
Starfish Language / int_4f6620a5	comment	The Taelons in Earth: Final Conflict have a weird, three-dimensional written language that it's impossible for non-augmented humans to understand, and extremely difficult even for augmented ones to learn.
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Starfish Language / int_50bcf7a6	type	Starfish Language
Starfish Language / int_50bcf7a6	comment	Homestuck: The Kernelsprites are ridiculously incomprehensible. Note that those images are supposed to be sounds. Becsprite talks in this seizure-inducing fashion. When talking with Dave early on, Terezi pretends that the troll language is based on emitting clouds of fragrant gas. At one point, Karkat suggests (not entirely seriously) that stabbing people might be Jack Noir's way of greeting them. Later, another iteration of Jack Noir stabs Jane with the Unsound Effect "greet".
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Starfish Language / int_513f5832	type	Starfish Language
Starfish Language / int_513f5832	comment	In Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home Kirk and his crew must travel back in time to acquire live humpback whales (extinct In-Universe by the early 21st century) and transport them to the 23rd century because whales are the only beings capable of communicating with an alien ship that is unwittingly devastating the Earth. Originally, no one knew what the ear-piercing screeches that the probe was emitting were, until Spock had the bright idea of running them through a water environment filter, making them sound like whale song.
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Starfish Language / int_525c9c7a	type	Starfish Language
Starfish Language / int_525c9c7a	comment	Most of the saurians in Dinotopia have languages of various grunts, growls, squeaks, clicks, ect. Prosauropods have a form of musical language as well, often accompanied by a human partner on an instrument. Humans can learn them, and the translator protoceratops can speak many of them, but sometimes larger species' tongues are tough—carnivores, for example, have deep, gruff vocalizations that don't mix well with human throats. (Note that this didn't come up as much in the digest novels, probably to make it easier for young readers to comprehend.)
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Starfish Language / int_52dd4a4c	type	Starfish Language
Starfish Language / int_52dd4a4c	comment	Ultimate Marvel The Ultimates: The Chitauri can speak in English with no problem, but when they are among themselves they use their own language. Which is kind of a problem when the Ultimates get their Doomsday Device, but the instructions to turn it off are written in alien. The Ultimate Vision was built to warn alien cultures of Gah Lak Tus. In a case of Crazy-Prepared, she (yeah, Vision's a "she" in this continuity) can communicate with chemical enzymes, gravitational flux, microwaves, spacetime tears, and so on. All of which comes in handy when she fights one of Gah Lak Tus' components:
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Starfish Language / int_5371e984	type	Starfish Language
Starfish Language / int_5371e984	comment	Puella Magi Kazumi Magica has the witch-magical girl hybrid form of Airi speaking in runic letters in Chapter 6. Most of what Bebe says in Rebellion is nonsensical "mojumejuubacha" noises, conveniently translated by Japanese kana flying out of her face whenever she talks; the only comprehensible words she ever says are "cheese," which she pronounces "camembert," and "Kyubey."
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Starfish Language / int_5450d6cb	type	Starfish Language
Starfish Language / int_5450d6cb	comment	The Color of Distance has the froglike Tendu, who speak using colors and patterns in their skin. A human scientist can say 'yes' and 'no' by repeating the simple pattern on a leaf and holding it vertically or horizontally, and get further using a computer whose display monitor she can use to convey more complex symbols.
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The Color of Distance	hasFeature	Starfish Language / int_5450d6cb
Starfish Language / int_558b4c84	type	Starfish Language
Starfish Language / int_558b4c84	comment	Guardians of the Galaxy member Groot, a walking tree, can only say one thing: "I AM GROOT!" However, similar to the PokÃ©mon example, it turns out that he's actually brilliant and is often providing solutions in Techno Babble with that one phrase. The movie tones down Groot's intelligence, but he still can communicate a lot through the simple sentence "I am Groot" (and even more so with "We... are... Groot"). Initially, only Rocket is able to make out what he's saying but by the second film all the Guardians understand him without issue.
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Starfish Language / int_56cb92c3	type	Starfish Language
Starfish Language / int_56cb92c3	comment	The movie tones down Groot's intelligence, but he still can communicate a lot through the simple sentence "I am Groot" (and even more so with "We... are... Groot"). Initially, only Rocket is able to make out what he's saying but by the second film all the Guardians understand him without issue.
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Starfish Language / int_57b6a595	type	Starfish Language
Starfish Language / int_57b6a595	comment	The Natives of Copperhead speak in harsh runes that are never translated and don't even get speech bubbles; it's treated like a sound effect in an alien language.
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Starfish Language / int_59da62aa	type	Starfish Language
Starfish Language / int_59da62aa	comment	In Fallout: New Vegas, the tribe Ulysses originally belonged to was known as the Twisted Hairs. Being Dreadlock Warriors, they would wear their hair in specific patterns of braids and decorations to communicate various things like personality traits and badges of honour, to such an advanced degree that it was a language of sorts. To such a degree that when his new tribe, the White Legs, began copying Ulysses' hairstyle in honour of him, it not only greatly offended him but left him physically disoriented because their poor attempts to imitate him ended up looking like insane gibberish.
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Starfish Language / int_5bbf2c3b	type	Starfish Language
Starfish Language / int_5bbf2c3b	comment	In Pandora's Star and Judas Unchained, Ozzie meets a Starfish Alien that is thought to be mute by all the people caring for it. He discovers that it actually communicates by projecting UV shapes that form a pictographic language.
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Starfish Language / int_5c897f4a	type	Starfish Language
Starfish Language / int_5c897f4a	comment	Schlock Mercenary: In one comic Petey says he can't pronounce the native name of a planet, "my arms don't bend right and the clicks don't sound right above water." He needs a genetically modified squid to act as an interpreter. Later comics go into a little more detail with some of the trade languages that serve as a lingua franca for various specied. Galstandard Peroxide has a heavy visual component and is used primarily by tentacled species such as the Schuul and Terran Octopi, but also the floating, balloon like Oafa. Galstandard Brown is used by species that communicate using forms of chemical signalling.
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Starfish Language / int_5d354f8	type	Starfish Language
Starfish Language / int_5d354f8	comment	Red Dwarf gives us a writing system employed by The Cat's species based on scent. They speak English fine, though. The novels explain that the cat people learnt English through exposure to human pop culture and normally speak their own language, the nature of which is undisclosed. The only instance of two cats talking in the TV series seemed to suggest that in that continuity, English was preferred. The trope is also played with in "Thanks for the Memory", when Rimmer suggests an alien language consisting of breaking people's legs and completing jigsaw puzzles.
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Starfish Language / int_5d4724ee	type	Starfish Language
Starfish Language / int_5d4724ee	comment	In Harbourmaster, entomorph language isn't just auditory (not that humans could hope to imitate it, having vocal cords and tongues instead of mandibles), but also olfactory, relying on pheromones as well. As Wayward has pointed out, this lets entomorphs communicate more quickly than humans, but it definitely isn't something humans or Aquaans can take advantage of. The barrier is circumvented with PDAs, although the entomorphs like them for more than just communicating with humans (q.v. long-distance communication between even just entomorphs).
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Starfish Language / int_5e42de8e	type	Starfish Language
Starfish Language / int_5e42de8e	comment	In Stranger in a Strange Land, Martians speak in a "throat-scratching" language with many concepts that can only be expressed within it. A phonetic script devised for it has over eighty characters. Humans can, in fact, speak and learn it; it's the key to enlightenment.
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Starfish Language / int_5e695f9e	type	Starfish Language
Starfish Language / int_5e695f9e	comment	In Voyage Inspired By Jules Verne, the Selenites speak in a series of flute noises. They're capable of speaking English, they just prefer their own language.
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Starfish Language / int_5f2f53fa	type	Starfish Language
Starfish Language / int_5f2f53fa	comment	In The Dragon Below, the Daelkyr with no mouth communicates using telepathy, but it happens to be completely incomprehensible to people who are not stark raving mad (Dah'mir, Vennet, and Medala are the only ones who ever actually manage to understand what he is saying), and listening to it for too long is probably going to drive you stark raving mad anyway.
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Starfish Language / int_5f89c8b8	comment	Prospero in PS238. One of the other students is able to communicate with him; it's unclear whether she actually understands his language or just is a kindred spirit.
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Starfish Language / int_611c72dc	type	Starfish Language
Starfish Language / int_611c72dc	comment	Several from the Star Trek Novel 'Verse. The Vahni Vahltupali communicate visually, flashing patterns across their skin. They can even "sing". The Citoac, meanwhile, communicate by using sounds of a pitch that stimulates the brain of another being, directly influencing their neurology. Efrosian language is music-based, and they can describe complex equations, schematics and diagrams by humming. The languages of several aquatic races such as the Alonis are also musical.
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Starfish Language / int_62164fb7	type	Starfish Language
Starfish Language / int_62164fb7	comment	Shadows over Meridian: The Lurdens' and Mogriffs' respective natural languages are composed of growls, roars and shrieks that are unintelligible to the more humanoid races.
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Starfish Language / int_62a9e8b5	comment	The Ultimate Vision was built to warn alien cultures of Gah Lak Tus. In a case of Crazy-Prepared, she (yeah, Vision's a "she" in this continuity) can communicate with chemical enzymes, gravitational flux, microwaves, spacetime tears, and so on. All of which comes in handy when she fights one of Gah Lak Tus' components:
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Starfish Language / int_63230cb	type	Starfish Language
Starfish Language / int_63230cb	comment	Dragon Ball Z Abridged: In the adaption of Super Android 13, Android 14 can only communicate in a mechanical shrieking sound that only other Androids can understand. It's because the drivers for his sound card are corrupted, and Dr. Gero couldn't find them on the internet.
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Starfish Language / int_6572f71e	type	Starfish Language
Starfish Language / int_6572f71e	comment	In Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, two dead soldiers who are reanimated can communicate only in hideous screams, which are identified by their animator as the language of Hell.
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Starfish Language / int_6744d821	type	Starfish Language
Starfish Language / int_6744d821	comment	Bug-type demons in The Owl House are primarily defined by their ability to commmunicate through dance. King attempts it at one point while trying to figure out what type of demon he is, but he just ends up saying something highly offensive about Hooty's mother by accident.
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Starfish Language / int_681d029c	type	Starfish Language
Starfish Language / int_681d029c	comment	The Marvels (2023): The people of Aladna can only communicate by singing and can't understand normal speech. Prince Yan is "bilingual" for being able to speak plainly to the heroines.
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Starfish Language / int_68c7e5cd	comment	In Macross Frontier, the Vajra are of the singing variety; communicating through Fold Waves via a special kind of bacteria in their digestive tracts. Being a swarm lifeform in constant mental contact with each other, they didn't even grasp the concept of verbal or visual language. Their solution? Create a human/vajra hybrid; really, a human-form vajra. It took her sixteen years to realize what she was, but it worked (and she helped make another one like her in the process too). Strangely, the song "Aimo" sung by Ranka is revealed at the very end of the series to be "composed" by the Vajra: it's the signal they send to greet extra-galactic Vajra colonies. How exactly the Vajra's communications were translated into verbal form is unexplained.
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Starfish Language / int_690edccd	comment	In the Doctor Dolittle books, it is explained that animals communicate not only by sound, but by movements of noses, ears, tails etc. The film adaptation sadly shied away from showing us the good doctor faithfully reproducing animal-speak in this fashion.
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Starfish Language / int_6abf16c2	comment	Big Finish Doctor Who': In "Bang Bang-a Boom!", one contestant in the Intergalactic Song Contest is part of a gestalt organism that communicates in a language only his aide can understand.
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Starfish Language / int_6ac55ec7	type	Starfish Language
Starfish Language / int_6ac55ec7	comment	Dungeons & Dragons: Back in the day, the game had alignment languages "wherein people of the same alignment could communicate through insinuations and intimations that only really make sense between those of like-minded affiliation with an aspect of a universal standard of ethic and morality" (making it a literal example of Evil Cannot Comprehend Good and Good Cannot Comprehend Evil). Thus, a lawful person could speak Lawful, a chaotic person could speak Chaotic, and so on. And if your alignment changed you forgot how to speak it, but could now speak the language of your new alignment. Planescape: The Dabus speak a language of rebus puzzles (presumably a visual representation of Common) projected over their heads. A possibly-related race, the Phirblas, instead project legible written script in the native language of whatever creature they're trying to speak to. 3rd edition's Planewalker's Handbook mentions that the language of the Modrons (the embodiments of order) is so alien it requires two skill points instead of the normal one to learn. It's not actually described. On the opposite side, an unofficial fan-created description of the language of the Slaadi (embodiments of chaos) described it as almost impossible to understand. There were no general nouns, and a study of the language ended up suggesting that Slaadi individuals exist in non-integer numbers when they're not interacting with other beings. Other outsider races have similarly odd languages. Demons communicate telepathically, but not with words — they use ideas or concepts which can burn into a listener's brain. They can also speak vocally, ranging from barks and yelps to something akin to ocean waves overlaid with an angry wasp nest. No two demons speak the same language, and the best they can hope to do is understand most of what another is saying. Devils, on the other hand, have a language divided into four castes and the highest form of it is explicitly stated to almost be beyond comprehension, capable of causing hatred or despair in listeners. Its written form is the lines and symbols used to create summoning circles — basically, the only thing standing between you and a conjured fiend is your argument written in their language. It's described as simultaneously sounding like "a barking hound, an eloquent verse, the squeal of slate and steel, and the subtle smell of hatred." A few monstrous races have been described as having a Starfish Language, as with Will-o'-Wisps' communicating by making their glowing bodies emit patterns of different-colored light flashes. Saurials are described as having a language that is outside the range of human hearing, so either subsonic or ultrasonic, and also having a component based on chemical scent emissions. Illithids communicate telepathically, which is automatically translated into the hearers' language. Their written language, however, consists of six parallel horizontal lines with breaks, and is nearly impossible to translate because it consists of multiple simultaneous trains of thought. The aboleth language is a complex tongue meant to be spoken from multiple mouths, as aboleths use the numerous orifices on their sides to produce sounds. An aboleth's oratory skill is directly tied to how many lateral orifices it has, as this determines how many words it can form — individual aboleths can have anywhere between two and twelve — and other beings who attempt to speak are usually either limited to a small set of simple words or have to use wind instruments such as flutes, bagpipes or tubas to imitate the complex harmonics of a speaking aboleth. The grell language makes minimal use of vocal components, instead consisting chiefly of delicate manipulations of the speaker's bioelectric field — non-electrosensitive creatures are fundamentally incapable of "speaking" or understanding it. Although never mentioned in an official game product, a Dragon article on the mechanics of AD&D infravision surmises that drow eyes must emit a small amount of heat to allow them to see in cool environments. Therefore, two drow could "speak" at a distance via silent Morse code simply by blinking their eyes. Which might explain the "Drow Sign Language" that shows up in later editions.
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Starfish Language / int_6d5d0e13	comment	A race in Treasure Planet communicated by making fart-like sounds through various orifices. Hilariously, Doctor Doppler actually studied "Flatula" for a couple of years, and was able to communicate with the alien by blowing raspberries and making fart noises with his armpits.
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Starfish Language / int_6e1d5f36	type	Starfish Language
Starfish Language / int_6e1d5f36	comment	Farscape uses the old Translator Microbes, so for the most part everyone speaks English. While sometimes Played for Laughs with unfamiliar concepts (a comment about ice cream prompts the outburst "What in blazes is izes green?") there're three notable exceptions. Moya (the Living Ship) and her kind are too huge and complex for the microbes to properly work, and can only communicate through strange, whale-like calls or their Pilots. The Pilot race and the Diagnosians have languages so complex that the microbes just give the hell up. In order to be understood by others, they have to speak "incredibly slow and simply, like speaking to a particularly ignorant child," though Grunchlk was fluent enough in Diagnosan to translate, and finally, Sikozu's species can't tolerate the translator microbes and must learn a language from scratch every time (although that may apply only to her and not the entire species because she's an android.)
Starfish Language / int_6e1d5f36	featureApplicability	1.0
Starfish Language / int_6e1d5f36	featureConfidence	1.0
Farscape	hasFeature	Starfish Language / int_6e1d5f36
Starfish Language / int_700279ec	type	Starfish Language
Starfish Language / int_700279ec	comment	Drive (Dave Kellett): The Fillipod language is an extremely complicated, musical tongue that most other species canâ€™t physically speak, since their mouths can't make the "wild undulations" that the Fillipod language relies on. The Nyx language is even worse. It appears to use future tenses that incorporate quantum uncertainty, meaning that normally binary states like on/off and alive/dead are understood as existing on gradients of possibility. Further, the exact meaning of a statement can change seemingly arbitrarily between sentences or even as it is being spoken. Finally, though their language is constantly changing, the Nyx understand everything they say as being the only thing that could possibly have been true at that moment — and if you ask the same question a moment later, they'll give a completely different answer that they'll see as self-evidently the only thing that could have been spoken in that moment. The Nyx find navigating this language as easy as breathing, but other species find it literally impossible to understand it. Even when they speak other languages, they have a strange way of using tenses, often using the future perfect tense at all times, which makes them difficult to understand. The Makers, on the other hand, seem to speak a language that should be pronouncable to most species, but has so many subtleties and context-specific nuances that most Imperial translator implants can only make out one word in ten at best. Even a Fillipod scientist who'd previously shown fluency in several different languages had a My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels result when he tried to speak it.
Starfish Language / int_700279ec	featureApplicability	1.0
Starfish Language / int_700279ec	featureConfidence	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Starfish Language / int_700279ec
Starfish Language / int_7013cf88	type	Starfish Language
Starfish Language / int_7013cf88	comment	Unicorns, in the Apprentice Adept series, understand human speech just fine, and can speak it when in human form (those that bother to learn, anyway). In their natural state, they use "hornspeak", communicating through musical notes blown through their horns. (In Phaze, unicorn horns are hollow and produce sounds similar to musical instruments.)
Starfish Language / int_7013cf88	featureApplicability	1.0
Starfish Language / int_7013cf88	featureConfidence	1.0
Apprentice Adept	hasFeature	Starfish Language / int_7013cf88
Starfish Language / int_7041cf12	type	Starfish Language
Starfish Language / int_7041cf12	comment	In chapter 20 of Kaguya-sama: Love Is War, to demonstrate the language barrier, all unfamiliar French from Shirogane's point of view is portrayed as various shapes in the speech bubbles.
Starfish Language / int_7041cf12	featureApplicability	1.0
Starfish Language / int_7041cf12	featureConfidence	1.0
Kaguya-sama: Love Is War (Manga)	hasFeature	Starfish Language / int_7041cf12
Starfish Language / int_7071f212	type	Starfish Language
Starfish Language / int_7071f212	comment	In Pegasus (2010), Pegasus' language consists of much whuffling, tilting of heads and/or ears, body language/limb placement and gesturing with 'alula-hands' (tiny vestigial "fingers" at the joint of the wing) as well as a modified form of telepathy with certain humans. Humans, leave us say, are not... terribly good at learning it, though it is required for certain ceremonial occasions involving royalty.
Starfish Language / int_7071f212	featureApplicability	1.0
Starfish Language / int_7071f212	featureConfidence	1.0
Pegasus (2010)	hasFeature	Starfish Language / int_7071f212
Starfish Language / int_70814599	type	Starfish Language
Starfish Language / int_70814599	comment	Stargate SG-1: The Unas from provided one of the few chances for Daniel to actually flex his translation muscles in a series otherwise filled with Aliens Speaking English. The Asgard language uses old Norse runes for its alphabet, but the spoken language is indecipherable even to Daniel. In Real Life, it's really just normal English speech sped up and played in reverse. The Goa'uld language is based on ancient Demotic, so is closer to Aliens Speaking English, even though it is a dialect that hasn't been heard on Earth for over two thousand years. While the spoken language of the Ancients is close to the Proto-Indo-European language, its writing system looks to be based on a tactile alphabet. In-universe the Ancient language evolved into Latin on Earth.
Starfish Language / int_70814599	featureApplicability	1.0
Starfish Language / int_70814599	featureConfidence	1.0
Stargate SG-1	hasFeature	Starfish Language / int_70814599
Starfish Language / int_710d2be0	type	Starfish Language
Starfish Language / int_710d2be0	comment	EXA_PICO: the Ar Ciela language is a borderline example: when written down, it's understandable. However, it incorporates pitch and frequency into its spoken grammar, and the range of sounds used in it is over thirty times greater than humans are capable of hearing (the language's actual speakers are the "Wills of the Planet", non-human spiritual beings). In-universe, languages like Carmena Foreluna and Hymmnos were developed partially to even allow humans to take advantage of the magic properties of Ar Ciela.
Starfish Language / int_710d2be0	featureApplicability	1.0
Starfish Language / int_710d2be0	featureConfidence	1.0
EXA_PICO (Video Game)	hasFeature	Starfish Language / int_710d2be0
Starfish Language / int_727bb60d	type	Starfish Language
Starfish Language / int_727bb60d	comment	Hepzibah of the Marvel Universe's Starjammers comes from a race that communicates using pheromones. The kicker? Humans can't detect them. However, her species does have vocal cords and can learn to speak in words, although she no take candle.
Starfish Language / int_727bb60d	featureApplicability	1.0
Starfish Language / int_727bb60d	featureConfidence	1.0
Cat Girl	hasFeature	Starfish Language / int_727bb60d
Starfish Language / int_7284235a	type	Starfish Language
Starfish Language / int_7284235a	comment	Played with in "Aftermath", a short story from Side Jobs told from Murphy's POV. In it, Murphy repeatedly points out her fluency in Martian... which is merely the "language" of grunts, mumbles, snorts, postures, and facial expressions used by human males to communicate unspoken, manly messages to one another. Without even realizing they're using a Starfish Language while doing so.
Starfish Language / int_7284235a	featureApplicability	1.0
Starfish Language / int_7284235a	featureConfidence	1.0
Side Jobs	hasFeature	Starfish Language / int_7284235a
Starfish Language / int_73d7930f	type	Starfish Language
Starfish Language / int_73d7930f	comment	Star Trek: Deep Space Nine had the Breen. Their speech sounded like digital nonsense and static but was easily understood by their Collective allies. They are a mysterious species who wear refrigeration suits despite living on a planet with a mild temperature.
Starfish Language / int_73d7930f	featureApplicability	1.0
Starfish Language / int_73d7930f	featureConfidence	1.0
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine	hasFeature	Starfish Language / int_73d7930f
Starfish Language / int_755b343f	type	Starfish Language
Starfish Language / int_755b343f	comment	Halo: The Kig'yar/Jackals/Skirmishers communicate among themselves and with the rest of the Covenant with screeching noises. Its implied that Translator Microbes are the only means that other Covenant races can understand them. Jiralhanae/Brutes have a very animalistic language consisting of howls, grunts, barks and roars. The Unggoy/Grunts also have a similar language of bark, yips and squeaks, but are also noted as somehow being capable of learning any language including Human languages. They are the only ones who are truly speaking English in the games, while the Sangheili/Elites and the Jiralhanae are using Translator Microbes, and in both Halo: Reach and Halo 4, they are speaking Sangheili (The language of the Elites) which is the Lingua Franca of the Covenant as a whole. The Yanme'e/Drones communicate through a mix of clicking/whining from rubbing their wings, various shrieks and screeches, and pheromones. They usually need a specialized Drone to act as a translator when working with other species, making them this trope even to the rest of the Covenant. The Biomechanical Huragok/Engineers speak a language that is a combination of whale song humming and bird chirps. They also have their own Sign Language that can be learned by other species. As revealed in Halo: Broken Circle, the San'Shyuum/Propehts have their own sign language in addition to a normal language (which in Halo 2 sounds like Gregorian chanting). Unlike real life sign language where one sign usually means one word, the signs in their version which only require a single hand, are an entire sentence or phrase usually of the poetic variety. Most San'shyuum tend to speak using both the sign language and their vocal language, allowing them to secretly communicate with one another since the other Covenant species are incapable of understanding their signing.
Starfish Language / int_755b343f	featureApplicability	1.0
Starfish Language / int_755b343f	featureConfidence	1.0
Halo (Franchise)	hasFeature	Starfish Language / int_755b343f
Starfish Language / int_755fadab	type	Starfish Language
Starfish Language / int_755fadab	comment	Haruhi Suzumiya: Starfish Non-Corporeal Thought Entity "Data Overmind" does not communicate through language. Since humans do, it created the interfaces who basically act as mediums for it. The Sky Canopy Domain is even worse. At least the Overmind figured out a pretty reliable method to talk to humans. This one? Its spokesman saying "You... have... pretty... eyes..." over a period of about 20 seconds is considered a remarkable advance for it. Their interface gets better at talking in the novel 10 teaser though. The reason they were unable to talk very well with humans initially is explained mostly due to the fact that they're Starfish Aliens to the Overmind itself. The respective interfaces of the two meeting briefly when the Canopy Domain tries to (kill?) Kyon. and talking for a few minutes is considered an amazing leap forward.
Starfish Language / int_755fadab	featureApplicability	1.0
Starfish Language / int_755fadab	featureConfidence	1.0
Haruhi Suzumiya	hasFeature	Starfish Language / int_755fadab
Starfish Language / int_774aac31	type	Starfish Language
Starfish Language / int_774aac31	comment	The aliens of District 9, due to having mandibles and tentacles in place of teeth and lips, speak with insect-like clicks and chirrs, which means they can't even pronounce the human names that are foisted upon them by the MegaCorp. By the time the movie takes place, however, the humans who regularly work with the aliens have apparently managed to learn their language, and vice versa, so the film is full of Bilingual Dialogue.
Starfish Language / int_774aac31	featureApplicability	1.0
Starfish Language / int_774aac31	featureConfidence	1.0
District 9	hasFeature	Starfish Language / int_774aac31
Starfish Language / int_78f6a3f	type	Starfish Language
Starfish Language / int_78f6a3f	comment	Close Encounters of the Third Kind featured a musical motif throughout the film, which turned out to be a variant of Arc Words. Specifically, the aliens communicate through musical notes. However, it is not clear whether it represented their own language so much as the idea that music is a universal language and can thus be the first step in interspecies communication.
Starfish Language / int_78f6a3f	featureApplicability	1.0
Starfish Language / int_78f6a3f	featureConfidence	1.0
Close Encounters of the Third Kind	hasFeature	Starfish Language / int_78f6a3f
Starfish Language / int_7988cb68	type	Starfish Language
Starfish Language / int_7988cb68	comment	The Geth in Mass Effect communicate by transmitting data at the speed of light, which comes out as a "stuttering" sound. They are capable of speaking English and other galactic languages, but they rarely see any reason to do so. The Overlord DLC provides a bit more information: the geth vocalize a highly complex math-based language for verbal communication when downloaded into mobile platforms. A human mathematical savant is actually able to understand and reproduce these vocalizations, allowing him to communicate with the geth in their native language. The Rachni communicate telepathically and refer to it as "singing", and colors also appear to be part of their language. The only way they can communicate with other species is by possessing recently dead. On another track, the Elcor are perfectly capable of speaking English with the aid of Translator Microbes. However, the intent of what they say to one another is expressed through miniscule body language and pheromones, which the translator apparently can't interpret. As a result, elcor sound like they speak in a mumbling monotone and have to state the emotion that precedes a statement whenever they speak to someone who's not elcor. Such as, "Nostalgic delight: Ah, good to see you, old friend.". Naturally, an insane/genius human producer decided to make a production of Hamlet using an all-elcor cast. Hilarity Ensues. "Insincere endorsement: You have not seen Hamlet until you have seen it performed by Elcor." Another elcor hacks its translator so it can control the intent of what it says, which normal translators display automatically. The Hanar normally communicate through bio-luminescence, and have to have a device that translates their light-flickering into speech in order for people to understand them. Even then, their voices come out with a very noticeable echo. Thane claims that he can understand hanar light-speech without a translator, as he's lived among them all his life; even then, his eyes had to be altered so that he could see the full range of colors the hanar use, including a few in the ultraviolet spectrum.
Starfish Language / int_7988cb68	featureApplicability	1.0
Starfish Language / int_7988cb68	featureConfidence	1.0
Mass Effect (Franchise)	hasFeature	Starfish Language / int_7988cb68
Starfish Language / int_7c48915b	type	Starfish Language
Starfish Language / int_7c48915b	comment	Gunnerkrigg Court: Arbiter Saslamel's dialogue doesn't appear to comport with any sounds that could be made by a human. It's represented by inky lines forming shapes unlike any human alphabet.
Starfish Language / int_7c48915b	featureApplicability	1.0
Starfish Language / int_7c48915b	featureConfidence	1.0
Gunnerkrigg Court (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Starfish Language / int_7c48915b
Starfish Language / int_7dad8347	type	Starfish Language
Starfish Language / int_7dad8347	comment	FreeSpace has the Vasudan race, whose language sounds mainly like a bunch of very deep grunts (a mechanical translator provides a spoken English translation about a second after the Vasudans speak, so Terrans can understand). The game's files say that the Vasudan language is incredibly complex, containing multiple alphabets and dialects, with syntax, grammar, and vocabulary depending on a wide variety of factors including but not limited to: one's age, relative social status, continent of origin, and spatial distance from the Vasudan Emperor. The Shivans, on the other hand, don't seem to communicate through any kind of means even detectable by humans. A "rudimentary and crude" Shivan communications device (Project ETAK) is unveiled in the end of the second game, though we do not ever get to hear what comes out of it, and humanity doesn't get much chance to use it anyway before we are cut off from the Shivans.
Starfish Language / int_7dad8347	featureApplicability	1.0
Starfish Language / int_7dad8347	featureConfidence	1.0
FreeSpace (Video Game)	hasFeature	Starfish Language / int_7dad8347
Starfish Language / int_7de8951a	type	Starfish Language
Starfish Language / int_7de8951a	comment	Traveller: The Hivers have extensive body language. Since their bodies are so different from ours, this makes it nearly impossible to understand or make known the full nuances of either species' intended meaning.
Starfish Language / int_7de8951a	featureApplicability	1.0
Starfish Language / int_7de8951a	featureConfidence	1.0
Traveller (Tabletop Game)	hasFeature	Starfish Language / int_7de8951a
Starfish Language / int_7f2f5e71	type	Starfish Language
Starfish Language / int_7f2f5e71	comment	In The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (2016), the Oocca's Sky Language is rendered as cursive scribbles, although the words are written phonetically when Shad speaks to Ooccoo.
Starfish Language / int_7f2f5e71	featureApplicability	1.0
Starfish Language / int_7f2f5e71	featureConfidence	1.0
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (2016) (Manga)	hasFeature	Starfish Language / int_7f2f5e71
Starfish Language / int_7fc78282	type	Starfish Language
Starfish Language / int_7fc78282	comment	In The Lord of the Rings, the Ents speak an incredibly complex language that is entirely incomprehensible to all other creatures (with even the Wizards and the wisest Elves being unable to make any headway with it). This is partly due to the tonal nature of the language (it appears to consist not of words, but of extended fluctuating sound), partly because of cultural conventions (there is no such thing as a simple statement; even something as simple as a negative answer includes the entire reasoning and thought process behind the Ent's position) and partly because the language possesses no common nouns (every individual thing is given a unique name that consists of a description of its entire history). Ents acknowledge that their language is impractical for casual conversation, typically adopting a variation using the syntax and grammar of Elvish languages (while still using their own vocabulary, meaning the language is still incomprehensible). They are also reasonably fluent in most other languages.
Starfish Language / int_7fc78282	featureApplicability	1.0
Starfish Language / int_7fc78282	featureConfidence	1.0
The Lord of the Rings	hasFeature	Starfish Language / int_7fc78282
Starfish Language / int_7fd403f8	type	Starfish Language
Starfish Language / int_7fd403f8	comment	The virtually indescribable language spoken by Thermians among themselves in Galaxy Quest. It's sort of screechy. The DVD, in typical Galaxy Quest fashion, offers the option of watching the movie dubbed into Thermian. Someone at Dreamworks was having a lot of fun.
Starfish Language / int_7fd403f8	featureApplicability	1.0
Starfish Language / int_7fd403f8	featureConfidence	1.0
Galaxy Quest	hasFeature	Starfish Language / int_7fd403f8
Starfish Language / int_8001652d	type	Starfish Language
Starfish Language / int_8001652d	comment	Commonwealth Saga: In Pandora's Star and Judas Unchained, Ozzie meets a Starfish Alien that is thought to be mute by all the people caring for it. He discovers that it actually communicates by projecting UV shapes that form a pictographic language. Also, the Primes, being a hive-mind, are linked directly brain-to-brain. To the humans, their radio signals appeared to be just unintelligible garbage.
Starfish Language / int_8001652d	featureApplicability	1.0
Starfish Language / int_8001652d	featureConfidence	1.0
Commonwealth Saga	hasFeature	Starfish Language / int_8001652d
Starfish Language / int_81692f99	type	Starfish Language
Starfish Language / int_81692f99	comment	A number of Star Trek episodes have overlapped this trope, with languages so alien that the translators took some time to figure out, usually just as long as drama required.
Starfish Language / int_81692f99	featureApplicability	1.0
Starfish Language / int_81692f99	featureConfidence	1.0
Star Trek (Franchise)	hasFeature	Starfish Language / int_81692f99
Starfish Language / int_82a6f3fe	type	Starfish Language
Starfish Language / int_82a6f3fe	comment	From Peter Pan and most adaptations, one particularly iconic example of this trope is Tinker Bell's fairy language, which sounds like... well... a tinkling bell.
Starfish Language / int_82a6f3fe	featureApplicability	1.0
Starfish Language / int_82a6f3fe	featureConfidence	1.0
Peter Pan	hasFeature	Starfish Language / int_82a6f3fe
Starfish Language / int_862a71c5	type	Starfish Language
Starfish Language / int_862a71c5	comment	In Breakfast of Champions, one of Kilgore Trout's stories uses these to reinforce An Aesop about miscommunication. "The Dancing Fool" concerns a member of a hyperintelligent alien race which communicates through farting and tap-dancing. His first attempt at communicating a vital message to humans ends disastrously.
Starfish Language / int_862a71c5	featureApplicability	1.0
Starfish Language / int_862a71c5	featureConfidence	1.0
Breakfast of Champions	hasFeature	Starfish Language / int_862a71c5
Starfish Language / int_86f433bb	type	Starfish Language
Starfish Language / int_86f433bb	comment	The Rambosians from Nursery Crime speak in Binary. While they helpfully render it as 0s and 1s for humans, full-speed binary sounds like cloth tearing, and humanity's foremost expert converses as well as a programmable toaster.
Starfish Language / int_86f433bb	featureApplicability	1.0
Starfish Language / int_86f433bb	featureConfidence	1.0
Nursery Crime	hasFeature	Starfish Language / int_86f433bb
Starfish Language / int_872cf890	type	Starfish Language
Starfish Language / int_872cf890	comment	Curiosity Shop has the Onomatopoeia, who, befitting his name, speaks in sound effects such as shatters, crashes, and foghorns.
Starfish Language / int_872cf890	featureApplicability	1.0
Starfish Language / int_872cf890	featureConfidence	1.0
Curiosity Shop	hasFeature	Starfish Language / int_872cf890
Starfish Language / int_881fc8ff	type	Starfish Language
Starfish Language / int_881fc8ff	comment	In A Hat in Time, the only times you see Hat Kid's actual name is when she writes her signature on The Snatcher's contracts, but it's in her indecipherable alien language.
Starfish Language / int_881fc8ff	featureApplicability	1.0
Starfish Language / int_881fc8ff	featureConfidence	1.0
A Hat in Time (Video Game)	hasFeature	Starfish Language / int_881fc8ff
Starfish Language / int_897271d7	type	Starfish Language
Starfish Language / int_897271d7	comment	The Jan in Alien in a Small Town have a natural sonar sense, and communicate by projecting a rough approximation of the echoes that different objects would give off. The author acknowledges that the idea first appeared in the novel A Deeper Sea by Alexander Jablokov — a novel in which this is how whales and dolphins communicate.
Starfish Language / int_897271d7	featureApplicability	1.0
Starfish Language / int_897271d7	featureConfidence	1.0
Alien in a Small Town	hasFeature	Starfish Language / int_897271d7
Starfish Language / int_8d318bad	type	Starfish Language
Starfish Language / int_8d318bad	comment	The character Geno from Super Mario RPG is a star being possessing a doll called Geno. He uses the name Geno because his real name, â™¥â™ª!?, is "hard to pronounce".
Starfish Language / int_8d318bad	featureApplicability	1.0
Starfish Language / int_8d318bad	featureConfidence	1.0
Super Mario RPG (Video Game)	hasFeature	Starfish Language / int_8d318bad
Starfish Language / int_8dd0bbcc	type	Starfish Language
Starfish Language / int_8dd0bbcc	comment	A Series of Unfortunate Events: The weird noises that baby Sunny makes are treated like this, with her siblings understanding her perfectly.
Starfish Language / int_8dd0bbcc	featureApplicability	1.0
Starfish Language / int_8dd0bbcc	featureConfidence	1.0
A Series of Unfortunate Events	hasFeature	Starfish Language / int_8dd0bbcc
Starfish Language / int_8f75bc80	type	Starfish Language
Starfish Language / int_8f75bc80	comment	Blood is Mine: Nil talks by blanking out thoughts. You have to figure out what it took to understand the messsage, then it will give your thoughts back. Mother's red can speak verbally, but its natural language is a resonance that moves blood.
Starfish Language / int_8f75bc80	featureApplicability	1.0
Starfish Language / int_8f75bc80	featureConfidence	1.0
Blood Is Mine (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Starfish Language / int_8f75bc80
Starfish Language / int_8fda7950	type	Starfish Language
Starfish Language / int_8fda7950	comment	Known Space setting contains several examples. The Kzinti's Hero's Tongue is a fairly sedate example, in that it's got a fairly regular structure despite consisting of a series of hisses, screams and snarls — a heated argument between four Kzinti is described as sounding like "a major cat war, with atomics". The Outsiders communicate with colored light. Pierson's Puppeteers have a highly complex musical language note Note that musical does not necessarily mean pleasant to listen to, as it has been described as sounding like "an exploding steam calliope" or "a church choir being burnt alive" meant to be spoken/sung with two throats at the same time.
Starfish Language / int_8fda7950	featureApplicability	1.0
Starfish Language / int_8fda7950	featureConfidence	1.0
Known Space	hasFeature	Starfish Language / int_8fda7950
Starfish Language / int_90304058	type	Starfish Language
Starfish Language / int_90304058	comment	The Director from That Hideous Strength talks to the eldils using a language that causes a primordial, heart-felt longing in Jane for a day long past the she doesn't remember. She can't recall the sound of it, but a reader of the rest of the The Space Trilogy should be able to figure out the language is Old Solar, the lingua franca of the Solar System that humanity corrupted and forgot millennia ago.
Starfish Language / int_90304058	featureApplicability	1.0
Starfish Language / int_90304058	featureConfidence	1.0
That Hideous Strength	hasFeature	Starfish Language / int_90304058
Starfish Language / int_90aed62b	type	Starfish Language
Starfish Language / int_90aed62b	comment	Venus Among the Fishes: The dolphins have a handful of nouns, verbs, adjectives, and interjections, but they communicate mostly through sound pictures, in which a dolphin uses sonar to recreate an image. They rarely speak in sentences and don't seem to have much of a grammar.
Starfish Language / int_90aed62b	featureApplicability	1.0
Starfish Language / int_90aed62b	featureConfidence	1.0
Venus Among the Fishes	hasFeature	Starfish Language / int_90aed62b
Starfish Language / int_90f42a9b	type	Starfish Language
Starfish Language / int_90f42a9b	comment	In The Wheel of Time, wolves communicate in howls and telepathy and primarily deal with smells and images. According to Perrin, human tongues just can't compare. For instance, his name to them is given as "Young Bull", but it's actually an image of a huge bull with the blade of the axe that he uses for much of the series in place of its horns, as well as a series of smells, and the wolf "Hopper"'s actual name is a memory of a wolf pup jumping and snapping at birds, trying to learn to fly.
Starfish Language / int_90f42a9b	featureApplicability	1.0
Starfish Language / int_90f42a9b	featureConfidence	1.0
The Wheel of Time	hasFeature	Starfish Language / int_90f42a9b
Starfish Language / int_919ec8e0	type	Starfish Language
Starfish Language / int_919ec8e0	comment	In Children of the Mind, the protagonists encounter an alien species that communicates at least partially via neurotransmitters: the first radio message they get from the aliens are instructions for an opiate. Nobody's sure whether it's meant to be debilitating or pacifying.
Starfish Language / int_919ec8e0	featureApplicability	1.0
Starfish Language / int_919ec8e0	featureConfidence	1.0
Children of the Mind	hasFeature	Starfish Language / int_919ec8e0
Starfish Language / int_91c00be5	type	Starfish Language
Starfish Language / int_91c00be5	comment	The undead inhabitants of High Cromlech in 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, though at least one form does include spoken elements that sound like coughing something up from the back of your throat.
Starfish Language / int_91c00be5	featureApplicability	1.0
Starfish Language / int_91c00be5	featureConfidence	1.0
The Scar	hasFeature	Starfish Language / int_91c00be5
Starfish Language / int_925296da	type	Starfish Language
Starfish Language / int_925296da	comment	The Boov in The True Meaning of Smekday. Their written language is bubbles and their spoken language, apparently, would require sheep and some bubblewrap if a human wanted to do it. One of their major cultural figures is called "Sound-of-a-crying-baby-riding-on-a-duck-which-is-talking-with-its-mouth-full".
Starfish Language / int_925296da	featureApplicability	1.0
Starfish Language / int_925296da	featureConfidence	1.0
The True Meaning of Smekday	hasFeature	Starfish Language / int_925296da
Starfish Language / int_996b0261	type	Starfish Language
Starfish Language / int_996b0261	comment	Splash: Madison's ultrasonic native tongue can shatter glass.
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Starfish Language / int_99c7e45b	comment	The YilanÃ© in West of Eden have such a complex language, incorporating sounds, body language, and skin color, that even many YilanÃ© never manage to learn it. Mastery of the language is a factor in social status. The one human who has learned the language is only able to speak a pidgin version of it, lacking a tail which is required to get certain ideas across.
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Starfish Language / int_99e32a93	comment	Inverted in the Nomes Trilogy, in which the tiny nomes can't understand humans because our speech is too slow and deep for these fast-living creatures' miniscule inner ears to make out. They refer to the sounds made by humans as "mooing".
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Starfish Language / int_9b412c87	comment	Little Fuzzy hinges on whether the title species possesses language. As it turns out, they do, but it's at a frequency level out of the range of human hearing.
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Starfish Language / int_9cc59f9c	comment	This in Buck Godot: Zap Gun for Hire:
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Starfish Language / int_9f2c5485	comment	Also in PokÃ©mon 2000, Pikachu was able to communicate with the legendary lightning bird, Zapdos, through electric shocks. Strangely enough, Meowth was able to decipher what they were saying.
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Starfish Language / int_9fb9bec4	comment	Outsider: The insectoid Umiak's natural language is described as "a barrage of clicks and ticks". Moreover, it uses an infamous "stack" structure where a statement ended with a specialized "posit" clause is placed onto a metaphorical "stack" for later reference, with later use of a "pop" clause being equivalent to speaking the entire statement again, either leaving the statement on the stack or removing it depending on which variant is used; a "pop" followed by a number signifies a reference to a statement that number of items further down the stack. Umiak conversations often begin with the speaker rattling off a tremendous number of disjointed thoughts and sentences and referring to them continuously throughout the conversation, adding and removing items as they go, and understanding what's being said requires extremely good memory and the ability to perform flawless arithmetic in one's head. Even the Translator Microbes can barely translate it into something understandable, and the end result is depicted as a Wall of Text that is similar to a bad Babelfish translation.
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Starfish Language / int_a030d429	comment	Land Games: The Woken communicate by vibrating the air with electromagnetic waves, and clicking bits of their shells together.
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Starfish Language / int_a08d24d2	comment	You Suck: The succubus language consists of triangles.
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Starfish Language / int_a183d57f	comment	In a anime parody segment in Futurama, there's a race of hostile aliens who can only comunicate by dancing. And when the humans try to convey a peace message by dancing their way, it all gets worse. In the episode Zapp Dingbat, Captain Zapp Brannigan is signing a peace treaty with a diplomat whose species speaks in groans and throaty belch-like noises. Rather than "Congratulations", he tells the ambassador...
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Starfish Language / int_a2e0546b	comment	Aliens in Axiom's End have three kinds of language: a "vocal" one made of clicking sounds spoken through the vents in the sides of their neck, a sort of telepathy that they usually prefer, and the incredibly intimate High Language, a more evolved form of telepathy that Ampersand (the main alien in the book) canâ€™t even begin to explain to Cora. When Cora similarly fails to explain what a piece of music she plays expresses, Ampersand takes that as the closest point of comparison.
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Starfish Language / int_a3b59b4d	comment	In Seaquest DSV the dolphin Darwin has his communication translated by a computer, which works fine for simple concepts like physical objects and transitive verbs most of the time, but the difficulty in translating abstractions is a frequent plot point. At the end of one episode, the computer gives a mystifying translation "Darkness fills" for something Darwin said. Captain Bridger muses that this might be an attempt to communicate a complex concept like an emotional state which the computer is unable to interpret sufficiently. In another episode, an illness temporarily makes Darwin able to communicate telepathically; the communications officer mentions that he's fluent in several languages and can get by in several more, but Darwin's thoughts "feel like it's coming at right angles."
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Starfish Language / int_a3fcd166	comment	The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Trilogy: To Arthur Dent, the Vogons' spoken language initially sounds like somebody trying to gargle with mouthwash while fending off a pack of howling wolves. Then Arthur has a Babel fish put into his ear, and it suddenly becomes intelligible. Dolphins' warnings of the earth's impending destruction were mistaken for their trying to perform tricks.
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Starfish Language / int_a481d45e	comment	Luke Skywalker and the Shadows of Mindor features energy beings that inhabit and control a weird kind of mineral. Humans call them Melters, and they don't have any senses in common with humans. It's actually arguable whether they're even sentient. They perceive the biolectrical signals caused by organic nerves and muscles as being similar to themselves. Luke Skywalker, known for being able to use the Force to communicate with anything and anyone, has a lot of trouble connecting with Melters. He has to change his perceptions to be similar to theirs, and interprets their senses in a weird way — as if they are all floating in space and all living things are stars. Even in this state he can't clearly communicate with them, interpreting their communication as "exchanging exotic particles".
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Starfish Language / int_a726bd5e	type	Starfish Language
Starfish Language / int_a726bd5e	comment	Grim Tales from Down Below: The language used seems to be that of the demonic Nergal symbiotes that both Junior and Minnie possess.
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Starfish Language / int_a918fb4b	type	Starfish Language
Starfish Language / int_a918fb4b	comment	The Graycaps in Ambergris speak mostly in rapid clicks and whistles that sound vaguely insectoid to human listeners, who have mostly concluded that their language must be too degenerate to properly deserve the title; as it turns out, it's in fact far more complex than any human language and utterly impossible to translate accurately. They understand human speech perfectly, but only begin to use themselves it in the third book, Finch. They are also implied to communicate by breathing spores of their symbiotic fungi on each other.
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Starfish Language / int_a9804feb	comment	Alliance/Union: The language of the Knnn race in the Chanur Novels, which consists of whale song-like vocalizations. Their language is so alien as to be completely incomprehensible to oxygen breathers, and even the methane-breathing T'ca and Chi have trouble with it. The T'ca and Chi are themselves only half comprehensible in turn — the T'ca, most comprehensible and friendly of them and unofficial go-betweens for Oxy and Methane, speak in "matrix sentences" of words arranged two-dimensionally with no particular reading order or discernable grammar. In Forty Thousand in Gehenna, the native inhabitants of the world humans call Gehenna communicate using patterns made by arranging the ground itself, both small stacked pebbles and massive earthworks.
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Starfish Language / int_a993be1f	type	Starfish Language
Starfish Language / int_a993be1f	comment	In Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords, Darth Nihilus is shown to speak a bizarre language (suggested by some fans to be Ancient Sith) which the PC is incapable of understanding, even though they can understand all other languages they come across in the galaxy.
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Starfish Language / int_a9e19ff0	comment	Book of the New Sun: The Ascians are humans who speak English (that is, whatever language is analogous to English a million years into the future), but they communicate exclusively by quoting excerpts from political literature approved by their totalitarian government. Only young children still speak normally. This is because the Ascian government believes that Language Equals Thought, and therefore that turning regurgitated propaganda into a language makes dissent psychologically impossible. It also means that Ascian is a highly contextual language that's generally only intelligible to people who spend a lot of time with Ascians.
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Starfish Language / int_ad97534	comment	The native language of the Tenctonese in the first Alien Nation movie resembles the popping of bubble wrap run through a synthesizer; technically, they're all sounds humans can make, but few human languages use them.
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Starfish Language / int_aedc983a	comment	In Wing Commander Prophecy, the invading Insectoid Race initially communicates with unintelligible buzzing sounds until around the third mission, when their Translator Microbes kick in and they begin to speak English. (A wingman's response: "I think I liked it better when I couldn't understand them.")
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Starfish Language / int_afc86b0a	comment	Ender's Game: The entire reason for the war with the Buggers was (1) our radically different conceptions of individual personhood and (2) our inability to communicate that prevented the Buggers from apologizing and trying to make peace once they realized the mistake they had made — a rather dark take on this trope. To be sure, the higher-ups in the International Fleet suspected that the Buggers may be trying to communicate, but without an ability to understand them, they have to proceed as if they're not. In Children of the Mind, the protagonists encounter an alien species that communicates at least partially via neurotransmitters: the first radio message they get from the aliens are instructions for an opiate. Nobody's sure whether it's meant to be debilitating or pacifying.
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Starfish Language / int_b31b332f	type	Starfish Language
Starfish Language / int_b31b332f	comment	Transformers Film Series An adaptation depicts the language of the Cybertronians as sounding like a cross between a howling velociraptor and a burst of computer noise. This is reasonable, given that they're robots. The movie proper gives them deep muttering noises. Frenzy, for some reason, has a much higher and more frenetic series of noises, though it certainly fit him. One of the myriad manuals explains that spoken Cybertronian is extremely efficient — a few sounds can contain lots of information — and the prequel comics show that they are also capable of "texting" each other soundlessly (this is how Bumblebee communicated with the other Autobots after having his throat destroyed), but this is highly impersonal and typically only used for battlefield orders and such like. The Mini-Cons talk in bleeps and whistles similar to the droids in the Star Wars universe. Each major Minicon has a distinct "voice," his or her range of noises being unique. Humans and large Transformers who are partnered with Mini-Cons learn to understand their partners (although the English dub didn't really make this clear). The Mini-Cons eventually learn to speak English as well.
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Starfish Language / int_b3708359	type	Starfish Language
Starfish Language / int_b3708359	comment	Solo has Han actually use Shiriwook to convince Chewbacca (whom he has just met) to not kill him. The subtitles indicate that Han's grammar is at You No Take Candle levels; he just barely gets his point across to Chewie using metaphor. It is hard to say if Han's grasp of the language was just that elementary or if Han's could not pronounce it right, but the noises Han would have to make to speak the language regularly would surely begin hurting his throat.
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Starfish Language / int_b41a5264	type	Starfish Language
Starfish Language / int_b41a5264	comment	In "A !Tangled Web (1981)", the alien !tang (who look like "ambulatory haystacks") speak in a language that consists mostly of glottal clicks, and their native tongue is a thicket of convoluted metaphors and nonhuman concepts. Their equivalent of "I'm sorry" is especially amusing.
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Starfish Language / int_b50b1fdb	comment	Ookla the Mok from Thundarr the Barbarian communicates largely in growling noises.
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Starfish Language / int_b615f74e	type	Starfish Language
Starfish Language / int_b615f74e	comment	As revealed in Halo: Broken Circle, the San'Shyuum/Propehts have their own sign language in addition to a normal language (which in Halo 2 sounds like Gregorian chanting). Unlike real life sign language where one sign usually means one word, the signs in their version which only require a single hand, are an entire sentence or phrase usually of the poetic variety. Most San'shyuum tend to speak using both the sign language and their vocal language, allowing them to secretly communicate with one another since the other Covenant species are incapable of understanding their signing.
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Starfish Language / int_b63df301	type	Starfish Language
Starfish Language / int_b63df301	comment	Pay Me, Bug!: "Bugtalk" is "a binary language that starts with the total sum of all knowledge and drills down through it until it isolates the specific thought or concept the bug is trying to say." This is emphasized in the story by the fact that Ktk, the eponymous bug, is never quoted directly.
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Starfish Language / int_b7eb8596	type	Starfish Language
Starfish Language / int_b7eb8596	comment	In Janitors Of The Post Apocalypse, the squidlike Krakau communicate through color-changing skin and clicks and whistles that they call "song". Humans can approximate song a bit but those Krakau who have much to do with them like to choose "human names", the titles of human songs, to be known by instead. Glasidae languages include a lot of sharp buzzing exhalations that humans compare to flatulence, though these might be exclamations rather than part of every word.
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Starfish Language / int_b7f04ccc	type	Starfish Language
Starfish Language / int_b7f04ccc	comment	The Patrick Star Show: In "Dad's Stache Stash", Patrick asks how to pronounce a plaque that's written in an incomprehensible language. Cecil simply answers, "Cousin Fred!"
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Starfish Language / int_b8c3cc30	comment	Young Justice (2010): Season 2 introduces two examples in the form of the Kroloteans and the Reach. The Krolotean language consists of various screeching noises, while the language of the Reach consists of insect-like clicking noises. Miss Martian notes that the Kroloteans are "too alien" for her to have an easy time reading their minds without effort. She uses this as an excuse to justify Mind Raping Kroloteans to get information out of them more easily.
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Starfish Language / int_b90fd99b	comment	In The Android's Dream, the race of aliens who have benignly colonized Earth can speak English, but their primary form of communication is through pheremonal mixtures far too subtle for humans to pick up. In an interesting take on this, at the start of the novel, a politician who has been gravely insulted by the primary alien diplomat figures out how to speak this language himself so he can insult the alien in an important meeting without being detected. He does this with a device that alters the chemical composition of his farts. It helps that the alien diplomat in question is known for frequently attacking humans, whose scents he misinterprets as insults, refusing to believe that humans can't modulate their smells (all human diplomats are instructed to shower and scrub themselves before meeting these aliens and to avoid using deodorant).
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Starfish Language / int_bb9e8e93	comment	The language of the Knnn race in the Chanur Novels, which consists of whale song-like vocalizations. Their language is so alien as to be completely incomprehensible to oxygen breathers, and even the methane-breathing T'ca and Chi have trouble with it. The T'ca and Chi are themselves only half comprehensible in turn — the T'ca, most comprehensible and friendly of them and unofficial go-betweens for Oxy and Methane, speak in "matrix sentences" of words arranged two-dimensionally with no particular reading order or discernable grammar.
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Starfish Language / int_bc274933	comment	3-2-1 Penguins!: The light bulb aliens from "Runaway Pride at Lightstation Kilowatt" communicate through beeping and clicking sounds. Kevin was able to understand and translate their language. The Lobes' (basically walking and talking human ears) language from "Compassion Crashin'" consists entirely of the word "Buddha".
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Starfish Language / int_bcadd7cb	type	Starfish Language
Starfish Language / int_bcadd7cb	comment	Warhammer 40,000: The Vespids apparently use a language like this. When the Tau first made contact with them, all attempts at communication between the two species failed. The Tau were able to solve the problem by developing translation devices, though how they developed translation devices without understanding their language and psychology is unexplained. Although the Eldar speak a vocal language that can ostensibly be learned by humans and others, it's described as incredibly complex and difficult; since every single word and phrase can embody multiple complex concepts, which are context-dependent on several levels — not only on the specific context of a statement, but the usage and positional context as well. The same word can have dramatically different meanings in colloquial speech, formal speech, political speech, trade banter, mytho-historical ballads, psychic spell-casting, etc.; as well as a particular word or phrase's position relative to others in the overall body of discourse. Their native language also has a heavy reliance on allusions to Eldar mythology. They also rely heavily on non-verbal communication (especially psychic, since psychic ability is a universal trait among Eldar), to the point where they can hold conversations without speaking a single word. Exaggerated with their writing system, which is composed of runes, scripts and hierograms that represent concepts rather than letters. The Adeptus Mechanicus have a secret language called Binary, completely unspeakable and untranslatable by anyone outside the priesthood, (much to the Inquisition's irritation). It's described in different books as high-pitched twittering or grating static, which leaves dial-up noise as a potential interpretation of what it sounds like. Reportedly, even the most primitive forms of binary are vastly more efficient and precise than regular speech. Galgs do not possess mouths and thus can't speak the languages of most other species. Instead, they communicate through noises made through the motions of their tentacles. Other aliens are generally likewise unable to speak the galgs' language, although kroot can produce a passable imitation by shaking the spines on their heads.
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Starfish Language / int_bd3f6ba4	type	Starfish Language
Starfish Language / int_bd3f6ba4	comment	Renko from the Gensokyo 20XX series partially communicates in chirps and warbles, like a wren does, despite the fact that she can use real words (to which she does). It was noted that she lived with Maribel and what she calls "tweety birds".
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Starfish Language / int_bdc321e2	type	Starfish Language
Starfish Language / int_bdc321e2	comment	The Mor-tax in War of the Worlds (1988) speak a mixture of English ("speak as the body would speak") and Mor-taxian. Although a thorough lexicon wasn't developed, the Mor-taxian version of their catchphrase, "To Life Immortal" was consistently presented as "tu doe nok tay".
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Starfish Language / int_be492827	type	Starfish Language
Starfish Language / int_be492827	comment	The Luminoth of Metroid Prime 2: Echoes use dots and lines on a 3-D grid to form the "letters" of their written language. A single word forms one cluster of these lines and dots, letters being connected to each other by a bright dot that is part of both. You can see it in holograms, stone carvings and plants if you look carefully enough. Driving home how alien this language is is that Samus requires Translator Modules from the Luminoth themselves in order to operate some of their devices, something which the Scan Visor compensates for in literally every other instance.
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Starfish Language / int_bf281aa9	type	Starfish Language
Starfish Language / int_bf281aa9	comment	The Manji tribe from Jumanji: The Animated Series speak a language consisting of clicks, hoots, raspberries and apparently full arm gestures. Humans can learn it, and Alan and Peter do, but to Judy it remains utterly incomprehensible. It also includes five hundred words for pain.
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Starfish Language / int_bf471bbe	comment	Men in Black II: J communicates with an alien through beatboxing. The alien is played by beatboxer extraordinaire Biz Markie. There's also "The Twins" who have monitor duty in both movies. One of them has a name that is a barely pronounceable nonsense sound. His brother is called Bob.
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Starfish Language / int_c41f1bad	comment	In "In the Walls of Eryx", the native Venusians communicate by waving the tentacles that hang from their chests and can even "laugh" with them, for lack of a better term.
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Starfish Language / int_c43df4d8	comment	Doctor Who: The Zarbi communication in "The Web Planet" is a mixture of a shrill, pulsing chirping noise created by rubbing their legs together, and dancing. Unlike every other alien language in the series it is not translated, as they have intelligence roughly equivalent to that of cows. "The Ambassadors of Death" featured an alien species who communicated by directly transmitting and receiving electromagnetic radiation. This was made worse by the fact that they used hard ionising radiation, at intensities such that a friendly greeting fired directly at a human would instantly kill them. The Third Doctor shows off at one point by "speaking" in the Delphon language, which uses only eyebrow twitches. Parodied in the Comic Relief special The Curse of Fatal Death: The Doctor and the Master are primarily fluent in a fart-based language (see above). The Judoon, the anthropomorphic rhino goons for the Shadow Proclamation, speak in staccato strings of syllables that rhyme with "go". The Hath in "The Doctor's Daughter" communicate by blowing bubbles. "Flatline": The Twelfth Doctor and Clara encountered the two-dimensional Boneless, who communicated with numbers and used their number language to gloat about the humans they'd killed â€” or were about to.
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Starfish Language / int_c49d7337	type	Starfish Language
Starfish Language / int_c49d7337	comment	A major plot point in Embassytown. The resident Ariekei have two mouths, and speak different streams of language out of both at once — every word consists of two sounds overlapping. On top of this, if the words do not have a conscious intent behind them, the Ariekei perceive them as meaningless noise, so they are unable to understand computer-generated speech or recordings. The only way humans can successfully communicate with them is via pairs of psychically linked clones, each speaking one of the two layers of dialogue at the same time.
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Starfish Language / int_c4a9bbdb	type	Starfish Language
Starfish Language / int_c4a9bbdb	comment	Terra Invicta plays with this in the Hydra language, particularly in regards to their mind controlling pherocytes. Because pherocyte production is involuntary and relays the Hydra's emotional state to other Hydra, the verbal portion of their language is simpler than any Earth language. A purely verbal communication, without pherocytes to lend emotion, will inevitably be simply, dry, and factual, but it suffices for those who wish to communicate with the Hydra instead of simply fill them with lead.
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Starfish Language / int_c4ef9b73	type	Starfish Language
Starfish Language / int_c4ef9b73	comment	"Fancy" in Code: Pony Evolution is one, according to Word of God. However, for the readers benefit, it all gets translated into Gratuitous French. Which is a little strange when you realizes that the "English" dialog is translated French.
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Starfish Language / int_c708dd91	type	Starfish Language
Starfish Language / int_c708dd91	comment	de Blob has two: the Raydians have a written language resembling Kanji-Japanese, and the Inkies write in barcodes. The spoken language is complete gibberish, with some English words (mostly names) still recognizable.
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Starfish Language / int_cbfe14ff	type	Starfish Language
Starfish Language / int_cbfe14ff	comment	In Intelligence Factor, Ludicolo communicate through dancing, while Roserade convey simple messages through scent. Porygon2 communicate with each other through encryption that even the Universal Translator has trouble understanding. Malamar communicate by flashing lights on their bodies.
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Starfish Language / int_cc5d21d5	type	Starfish Language
Starfish Language / int_cc5d21d5	comment	Men in Black 3 also has O giving an alien-language eulogy that's a bunch of shrill cries something like a cross between howler monkeys and various tropical birds.
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Starfish Language / int_cd7bf8e3	type	Starfish Language
Starfish Language / int_cd7bf8e3	comment	Babel-17 is built around the idea how language affects thoughts and perception. The eponymous Babel-17 is a language without 1st person pronouns ("I", "me", "my"...) and turns out to be used for programming humans. It has a side effect of improving mental capabilities of people using the language. But despite its oddities it isn't truly alien; it was probably created by humans. The alien languages are mentioned in passing and described as very hard to comprehend. For example: an alien saw a power plant, liked the idea (they never had anything like them) and described it to another alien in 5 words. The other alien built a working power plant. On the other hand, they need tens of words to translate the English word "home" (temperature is mentioned several times). And that is the easiest to understand species.
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Starfish Language / int_cd95b8df	type	Starfish Language
Starfish Language / int_cd95b8df	comment	The Markers from the Dead Space series communicate with humans by showing them visions of their departed loved ones. It is implied that whatever lifeform designed them was radically different, and that this is the best they can come up with to bridge the language gap. It doesn't help that humans almost invariably go insane in their presence. Dead Space 2 reveals that it's more a matter of intelligence and education. Stupid people go insane from the signal, while smart ones see diagrams and symbol patterns, and are consumed by an irrepressible urge to recreate the Marker for "Convergence" or otherwise do the artifact's bidding. It's speculated that the whole EarthGov project dedicated to the Markers is actually under this influence. Aaaand in Dead Space 3 it's revealed that nope, there is no miscommunication. The Markers' sole purpose is to trigger Convergence, and kill everyone. Everything they do is a trap that serves to ensnare sentient life and aid in the creation of more Markers: some people are smart enough to replicate the Markers (thus spreading their signals and plague) while most fall in reverent awe and kill themselves. Meanwhile, the actual aliens found on Tau Volantis are theorized to have created a form of communication based on the gills in their necks that sounds like a series of horn blows. However, it is also theorized that this is not their native language, but a second language created so they could communicate with other life forms.
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Starfish Language / int_cf5eb8b0	type	Starfish Language
Starfish Language / int_cf5eb8b0	comment	The Octospiders from the sequels to Rendezvous with Rama. Not only are they actual starfish (well, starfish-like) but they speak with colors that come out of their 'heads' in a little fountain, and working out a way to translate them into speech is a major plot point — and turns out to be both very difficult and remarkably ineffective, due to the fact that they not only use a number of colors that people cannot see but also have a number of terminologies that simply do not translate at all. Also seen in Rama, though only used as a puzzle element.
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Starfish Language / int_cf6ae01b	type	Starfish Language
Starfish Language / int_cf6ae01b	comment	In At the Mountains of Madness, the Elder Things communicate by making piping sounds with their multiple breathing tubes.
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Starfish Language / int_d04257b1	type	Starfish Language
Starfish Language / int_d04257b1	comment	The Nna Mmoy of Changing Planes have a totally nonlinear language. One character actually uses the metaphor of a starfish to describe it (for comparison, English is a snake). Also, it shorts out a "translatomat". The same character hypothesizes that their language evolved this way to counter the severe homogenization of their plane by Precursors — the Nna Mmoy's home plane is incredibly boring, with only a small number of species, all of which are useful and harmless to humanoids.
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Starfish Language / int_d5505073	type	Starfish Language
Starfish Language / int_d5505073	comment	The Uplift series has twelve different Galactic languages to accommodate the wide variety in vocal apparati; humans can only speak Gal 7. Then there's Trinary, which is spoken by uplifted dolphins and translated as haiku, though many of the human characters understand the clicks and whistles. On the other hand, aliens tend to see Anglic as either a horrifically messy primitive language or charmingly ambiguous.
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Starfish Language / int_d5870da3	type	Starfish Language
Starfish Language / int_d5870da3	comment	The characters in Qbert speak a Starfish Language that's supplied (in the arcade version, at least) by a voice synthesis chip programmed to output random noise.*
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Starfish Language / int_d5e9a8ed	type	Starfish Language
Starfish Language / int_d5e9a8ed	comment	The Ultimates: The Chitauri can speak in English with no problem, but when they are among themselves they use their own language. Which is kind of a problem when the Ultimates get their Doomsday Device, but the instructions to turn it off are written in alien.
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Starfish Language / int_d67b1b80	type	Starfish Language
Starfish Language / int_d67b1b80	comment	The aliens that live on Lastar/Candelor in Meteos use a strange language that consists of rapidly twirling around and reflecting light off their bodies to communicate with each other.
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Starfish Language / int_d9c602eb	type	Starfish Language
Starfish Language / int_d9c602eb	comment	South Park : Welcome to Marklar, home of the Marklar.
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Starfish Language / int_da82c908	type	Starfish Language
Starfish Language / int_da82c908	comment	Ugly Americans feature the Man-Birds, a race which learned to speak by imitating New Yorkers...meaning their entire language is based on the words "Suck my balls!" shouted over and over again. However, the Man-Birds developed subtle nuances that make those three words mean all sorts of things, which humans can imitate with some effort.
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Starfish Language / int_db665f6f	type	Starfish Language
Starfish Language / int_db665f6f	comment	In PokÃ©mon: Destiny Deoxys, Deoxys spoke to each other through aurorae, which one of the characters could translate with her laptop. They also made strange airplane engine-esque noises as well. The PokÃ©mon themselves would count as well, since they're somehow able to communicate fluently with each other despite their dialogue consisting only of the names of their given species — combined with lots of animal noises for Pokemon species this is appropriate for in the original Japanese. (Even in the English version they sometimes make animal sounds-for example, Tepig "oinks"-but it's much rarer.) In one episode where Ash became separated from their PokÃ©mon, the PokÃ©mon spoke to each other without any trouble (complete with subtitles in the dub). Also in PokÃ©mon 2000, Pikachu was able to communicate with the legendary lightning bird, Zapdos, through electric shocks. Strangely enough, Meowth was able to decipher what they were saying.
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Starfish Language / int_dc72c82f	type	Starfish Language
Starfish Language / int_dc72c82f	comment	Fallen London has the Correspondence, some sort of reality-warping language used by the Masters and the other Eldritch Abominations lurking the neath. Hearing it can drive people insane (some creatures even weaponize it for this purpose), and while it can be written down and understood by humans thanks to a Rosetta Stone-esque artifact found early in the game, minor syntax errors can make you burst into flames. It's the language of the stars, and as such is probably meant to be communicated via light. In Sunless Skies, humans use it to allow hyperspace travel. There's also the Discordance, which is some sort of counterpart to the Correspondence. All that's known so far is that it has something to do with the void between stars, and that reading it too much can make your eyeballs freeze over. And then you reach Hurlers Station during the endgame, and things get immensely confusing once you start doing proper studies on it. For if the Correspondence is the language of what Exists, then the Discordance, being its opposite, doesn't even exist in the way we understand things to exist. You need to navigate your way across data that is Not So, and events that Do Not Happen.
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Starfish Language / int_dcbfeeee	type	Starfish Language
Starfish Language / int_dcbfeeee	comment	Little Witch Academia (2017): One of the magic school professors, Professor Pisces, is actually a fish, and only speaks in bubbles. Her class is by far the hardest on campus, since the language is so difficult. Akko had been taking the class the entire semester, but only finds this out the lecture before the final exam. She had been treating it as a slack-off class. Her ridiculous attempts to butter up Professor Pisces for a better grade result in Professor Pisces getting lost, almost killed, and finally rescued by Akko half-shapeshifted into a fish. Somehow this results in Akko learning the language.
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Starfish Language / int_dcd4ffd1	type	Starfish Language
Starfish Language / int_dcd4ffd1	comment	In Perdido Street Station, the khepri (humanoid people with giant scarab beetles for heads) communicate with each other by emitting scents. To communicate with humans, they have to use sign language. Even more strangely, the mute Puppeteer Parasite handlingers' language consists entirely of touch. Ten of the creatures, which look like disembodied hands with snakes' tails, crawl all over one another when they confer.
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Starfish Language / int_ddad77ae	type	Starfish Language
Starfish Language / int_ddad77ae	comment	The Enelsians from Astro City. Their speech amongst themselves is represented by alien glyphs... which are actually part of a cypher in English. Translating what they are really saying is a fun little puzzle, if you have the time.
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Starfish Language / int_de8ae019	type	Starfish Language
Starfish Language / int_de8ae019	comment	The Turusch in the Star Carrier series exist as pairs of organisms. When they speak, each member of the pair speaks a different line of dialogue simultaneously, and the harmonics between the two conveys another line altogether. The translator device the humans develop to communicate with Turusch prisoners of war renders the three lines sequentially.
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Starfish Language / int_df073316	type	Starfish Language
Starfish Language / int_df073316	comment	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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Starfish Language / int_df870b3f	type	Starfish Language
Starfish Language / int_df870b3f	comment	The Heptapods in Arrival communicate using circular characters with subtle and complex variations in their patterns. By learning their language one can begin to experience time in a circular, rather than strictly linear, fashion. Unlike the original short story, the linguists never manage to decipher their spoken language, as this would likely take away from the suspense and the uncertainty about the aliens' intentions. It turns out their written language is their gift to us in order to allow us to perceive the future. They already know that, in 3000 years, they will need our help in return, making this a Stable Time Loop.
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Starfish Language / int_e15a3879	type	Starfish Language
Starfish Language / int_e15a3879	comment	The Shroobs in Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time. Their speech bubbles are filled with a strange alien text, although one word in particular is repeated; it translates to "Destroy". Only the Elder Shroob Princess is able to speak English, albeit with a Caps Lock.
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Starfish Language / int_e199d649	type	Starfish Language
Starfish Language / int_e199d649	comment	The Ra'zac from the Inheritance Cycle talk to each other in clicks and whistles, but are also fluent in human languages and can pronounce them, with an noticeable hissing accent. Brom mentions that he has no idea how they even manage to speak the human language.
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Starfish Language / int_e235270c	type	Starfish Language
Starfish Language / int_e235270c	comment	In Stellaris, the language of the Prethoryn Scourge proves impossible to translate. Although their memetic "HAK HAK HAK!" needs no translation. In the Utopia expansion, however, it becomes possible to actually communicate with them if you have access to psionics. They're just as genocidally violent toward a psychic civilization, but they indicate that they're on the run from something even worse than they are.
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Starfish Language / int_e5fd2cef	comment	Lensman: Played with. The Lens is the perfect translator, especially when dealing with those races which are exclusively telepathic and have no spoken language at all, but sometimes it comes across a concept that simply doesn't translate between two species and then it will form a neologism which is forever after associated with that concept. Played more straight in Triplanetary, in which the Nevians finally realize why their attempts to communicate with their human prisoners are getting nowhere and build a frequency changer to make each side's speech audible to the other. For his part, Costigan dips out on trying to teach the Nevians "the senseless intricacies of English", settling for the common constructed Triplanetarian language already agreed between humans, Venusians and Martians.
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Starfish Language / int_e6267766	type	Starfish Language
Starfish Language / int_e6267766	comment	Star Wars Legends: Twi'leks — the humanlike aliens with twin braintails on their heads in place of hair — use their braintails in conversation much the same way humans use our hands, though they have a vocal language and can speak Basic (English) quite well. In X-Wing: The Krytos Trap, Wedge is taught to use his hands to make specific gestures while trying to bargain with a Proud Warrior Race Twi'lek. There is actually a language of braintail signals which apparently makes a running commentary, which comes up rarely. Oola was surprised to find that C-3PO understood it, and during the Clone Wars, Aayla Secura tried to conceal her attraction to Kit Fisto by claiming it was just that he was one of the few people who bothered to learn braintail — and since he had his own sensory tentacles on his head, he could even speak it. Luke Skywalker and the Shadows of Mindor features energy beings that inhabit and control a weird kind of mineral. Humans call them Melters, and they don't have any senses in common with humans. It's actually arguable whether they're even sentient. They perceive the biolectrical signals caused by organic nerves and muscles as being similar to themselves. Luke Skywalker, known for being able to use the Force to communicate with anything and anyone, has a lot of trouble connecting with Melters. He has to change his perceptions to be similar to theirs, and interprets their senses in a weird way — as if they are all floating in space and all living things are stars. Even in this state he can't clearly communicate with them, interpreting their communication as "exchanging exotic particles". There's also the Ithorians, who have two mouths, each stretching along one side of their head and neck, and four throats. Their native language is in stereo. The Ssi-Ruuk language mostly consists of whistles, clicks and hisses, but is extremely tonal, to the point that the same sound at different pitches or modulated in different ways can represent completely different phonemes. One human character wears himself to the bone trying to combine music notation and text to create an alphabet which can be used to write Ssi-Ruuk for human consumption. Muun supposedly consists entirely of two sounds, "um" and "eh", said at various pitches to create compound words. It's similar to droid Binary and Muuns consider it to be "mathematically perfect." It didn't evolve naturally even In-Universe, though, and most Muuns are also fluent in Basic.
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Starfish Language / int_e68decb8	type	Starfish Language
Starfish Language / int_e68decb8	comment	Star Control's Orz are just too different to think in compatible categories. Here is a sample sentence after being run through the universal translator, the segments in asterisks being "best-fits": "I am expanding! It is so squishy to smell you! Campers are the best! I have anticipation and then what? Better parties in the middle to be sure!" However, they understand you enough that asking too many questions about the Androsynth may make Orz frumple ... This goes both ways: the Orz several times seem very confused by what the Captain is saying. They say they don't understand why people always greet them when they meet (but they've observed that people greeting each other makes people happy, so they'll play along), sometimes they realize that the Captain doesn't share their senses ("Maybe you cannot smell? That is sad."), and they also seem confused when the Captain asks them about who and what they are ("You are a silly camper. I am always Orz. If I were not Orz, then I would not be, but of course I am Orz.") The Orz are the physical component in this world of an extradimensional entity calling itself Orz. Much of their confusion makes more sense when you realize, no matter which of the Orz you're talking to, you're always speaking to the same person.
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Starfish Language / int_e7a4bd1	comment	In Educomix, Venusians communicate by generating magnetic fields. Even Peggy's dad, who has the power to speak and understand any language, needs a magnet to communicate with them.
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Starfish Language / int_e9e2b5e9	comment	Starslip: The Anthelerix Polygmeon, whose spoken language looks like this.
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Starfish Language / int_ea400fb3	comment	Cakes in Space: Astra notes that the Poglites' language, when she turns her translator off, sounds like belching.
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Starfish Language / int_eb6c65a7	comment	Zegapain has the antagonistic Gards-Orm, Artificial Humans who speak using a variety of synthetic tones no human is capable of vocalising. The only time they are seen to "speak" is when they start to receive some characterisation. The only time they actually do speak as humans do, and is not just translated for viewer convenience, is when they speak directly to the humans.
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Starfish Language / int_ebffc81f	type	Starfish Language
Starfish Language / int_ebffc81f	comment	Mage: The Awakening has the High Speech, which may or may not be the same as Atlantean. It is, as far as most mages can determine, a language which accurately describes the fabric of reality itself and is used to empower spells by more precisely defining their parameters. Sleepers cannot perceive it at all in either its written or spoken forms, and other supernatural creatures can perceive it for what it is but not understand it. Even most Mages only know enough to empower their spells — only a select few obsessives even know enough of it to hold a basic conversation. Mages theorise the language may be "broken", missing some essential component.
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Starfish Language / int_ed05196	type	Starfish Language
Starfish Language / int_ed05196	comment	In the second installment of Keys to the Kingdom (Grim Tuesday), the Mariner, Captain Tom Shelvocke, refers to the starship Helios as having probably been copied from "à¹‘à¹‘à¹‘à¹‘à¹‘à¹‘à¹‘à¹‘ or Ã†Î©âˆ‚âˆžÆ’â€¡." The human (for now) hero, Arthur, is unsure whether these are the names of worlds, countries, or beings.
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Starfish Language / int_ed86d97	type	Starfish Language
Starfish Language / int_ed86d97	comment	Blue Planet: Cetacean (and Beluga, which evolved independently) is based on sound-composition describing things by their underwater acoustic properties, supplemented loosely with words. Composition is an art that varies by species, regional dialect, individual skill, the position of the listener, and how fast the speaker is swimming, amongst other things; humans can't understand it at all, and even cetacean-designed translation software is prone to output errors.
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Starfish Language / int_ef076a36	type	Starfish Language
Starfish Language / int_ef076a36	comment	A sub-plot in the Star Trek: Voyager episode "The Void" involves a race of these. They do not speak, but can hear, so Seven teaches them a language based on various tones. Later, when a group of them is conversing, Captain Janeway mistakes the conversation for music.
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Starfish Language / int_ef5dc701	type	Starfish Language
Starfish Language / int_ef5dc701	comment	In Transpecial, all ky'iin languages rely on movements as well as sounds, making them impossible to decipher with audio recordings alone. Unfortunately, most humans instinctively respond with fear and aggression to the ky'iin's body language. It's hoped that Suza, who doesn't respond to the ky'iin the same way as other humans because she's autistic, can help develop a pidgin that consists entirely of sound so all humans can communicate with the ky'iin without wanting to attack them.
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Starfish Language / int_f01be35d	type	Starfish Language
Starfish Language / int_f01be35d	comment	The Priest-Kings of Gor communicate exclusively via scent. They also have a 411 letter alphabet (yes, letters not ideograms).
Starfish Language / int_f01be35d	featureApplicability	1.0
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Starfish Language / int_f197ea60	type	Starfish Language
Starfish Language / int_f197ea60	comment	Dinosaur Comics: Ants talk by releasing pheromones into the air. I will leap to say it's like if we farted to each other to speak!
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Starfish Language / int_f2041376	type	Starfish Language
Starfish Language / int_f2041376	comment	One episode of Charmed reveals that Whitelighters have their own clicking language, although apparently "Piper" doesn't get translated. This is never referenced again, and another episode shows them as fluent in whatever language(s) their charges speak.
Starfish Language / int_f2041376	featureApplicability	1.0
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Starfish Language / int_f38b71c3	type	Starfish Language
Starfish Language / int_f38b71c3	comment	Dead Space 2 reveals that it's more a matter of intelligence and education. Stupid people go insane from the signal, while smart ones see diagrams and symbol patterns, and are consumed by an irrepressible urge to recreate the Marker for "Convergence" or otherwise do the artifact's bidding. It's speculated that the whole EarthGov project dedicated to the Markers is actually under this influence.
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Starfish Language / int_f38b71c4	type	Starfish Language
Starfish Language / int_f38b71c4	comment	Aaaand in Dead Space 3 it's revealed that nope, there is no miscommunication. The Markers' sole purpose is to trigger Convergence, and kill everyone. Everything they do is a trap that serves to ensnare sentient life and aid in the creation of more Markers: some people are smart enough to replicate the Markers (thus spreading their signals and plague) while most fall in reverent awe and kill themselves. Meanwhile, the actual aliens found on Tau Volantis are theorized to have created a form of communication based on the gills in their necks that sounds like a series of horn blows. However, it is also theorized that this is not their native language, but a second language created so they could communicate with other life forms.
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Starfish Language / int_f73f989a	type	Starfish Language
Starfish Language / int_f73f989a	comment	Parts of Kyon: Big Damn Hero are narrated by Kuyou, one of the Sky Canopy's interfaces mentioned above. At first, her narration is barely English, peppered with astronomical references/analogies and a few words standing in for some apparently untranslatable concepts ("spin", "string", "song", "chorus", etc.) and plain confusion with humanity's culture (for example, she considers the simple act of cooking a magnificent, awe-inspiring process). Over chapters, her inner dialogue becomes more understandable as she learns more about humanity and her character develops.
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Starfish Language / int_f74b5f80	type	Starfish Language
Starfish Language / int_f74b5f80	comment	Several examples from Babylon 5: The Vorlon language sounds like nothing spoken by humans; it consists of a series of musical chords. It's translated into English via machines built into the Vorlons' encounter suits. It doesn't help that Kosh is deliberately obscure and metaphorical when he does bother to speak, either just to be vague and cryptic, to intimidate, or just because it's part of his sense of humor. The second Vorlon on the station is very clear when he speaks, and has nothing nice to say. The Shadow language is appropriately insectlike, with inclusions of otherworldy whistling, whispering and rustling. The species' true name supposedly has 10.000 sounds in it. The one onscreen appearance of the Vree (in the first-season episode "Grail") establishes that they speak a language that involves both visible symbols and very difficult-to-interpret (for humans, anyway) speech. The Vree language requires a specially trained translator; as humans are still suing over their ancestors' supposed kidnapping and experimentation by the Vree, they are presumably in high demand. The pak'ma'ra and the Gaim seem unable to speak any other language and they communicate using electronic translators. Probably because their mouths are very different to most humanoid species (the Gaim's head looks like that of an ant and the pak'ma'ra like a squid, the sounds they make are coherent with their look). This becomes a problem when a pak'ma'ra joins the Anla-Shok (esentially Knights IN SPACE!) as they are expected to be fluent in at least three languages, not including their native tongue.
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Starfish Language / int_f88e66d6	type	Starfish Language
Starfish Language / int_f88e66d6	comment	In Mighty Max, there was a race of small alien insects who send a giant robot to wipe out all life on Earth because they deemed that there's no intelligent life on it. One of the aliens was able to communicate with Max in some sort of dancing, Max does the same thing to communicate with the robot to convince it that the life forms on Earth are intelligent, which causes it to abort its mission.
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Starfish Language / int_f8acc9ea	type	Starfish Language
Starfish Language / int_f8acc9ea	comment	The Board in Control speaks completely unintelligible murmuring, but fortunately, the Hotline will allow you to translate it as subtitles. Unfortunately, it's an inexact translation, usually resulting in the same word having multiple, conflicting meanings. Jesse is referred to as the Director/Pawn/Tool/Asset, for example. The Former is even harder to understand, only managing to make one word out of every two understood, and failing to communicate with those understood words even so.
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Starfish Language / int_f8df4747	type	Starfish Language
Starfish Language / int_f8df4747	comment	The Transformers: More than Meets the Eye: Chirolinguistics is an obscure Cybertronian language "spoken" by holding hands and stimulating the nerve-circuits in each other's fingers, palms, and wrists through tiny movements of the same. There's an earlier example, too, appearing in Wheelie's Spotlight issue. Stranded on a planet whose natives' language seems untranslatable for a time, it turns out they can only understand people who talk in rhyme.
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Starfish Language / int_fa1d1ce3	type	Starfish Language
Starfish Language / int_fa1d1ce3	comment	In The First Men in the Moon, the lunar-dwelling, insectoid Selenites communicate through piping whistles and cricket-like chirps, along with hints of telepathy. Their language is impossible for their human prisoner Cavor to understand or even mimic, but the Selenites themselves quickly decipher English and devote two specialized members to speaking to and understanding Cavor, respectively.
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Starfish Language / int_fa72ba3d	type	Starfish Language
Starfish Language / int_fa72ba3d	comment	In "The Whisperer in Darkness", the Mi-Go use a buzzing sound emitted from their wings as well as rapid color changes of their ciliate heads.
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Starfish Language / int_ff07c169	type	Starfish Language
Starfish Language / int_ff07c169	comment	In Flight Rising, the dragons have a common speech to communicate between species. However, there are two outliers: Fae dragons tend to speak in monotone, using their expressive crests to convey further meaning and emotions and lacking common body language with other species (a difficulty that goes both ways). Meanwhile, Coatl dragons are snake-based, and don't perceive sound the same way other dragons do. They are accordingly the only species that has their own language, which involves humming a series of different pitches at varying intervals, though they can speak a limited amount of Common with great difficulty. The lore notes that while both these species can communicate more-or-less effectively with other species, a Fae and a Coatl trying to communicate with each other are pretty much mutually unintelligible.
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Starfish Language / int_ff9ab17f	type	Starfish Language
Starfish Language / int_ff9ab17f	comment	Star Trek: The Next Generation had "Darmok," which involved a race whose language translated incompletely: they appeared to speak entirely in metaphors whose significance was unknown to Starfleet. The automatic translator could translate the phrases literally, but without the historical or mythological context the meaning was lost. (Yes, yes, an entire race of tropers.) Another had a race of highly advanced Starfish Aliens that had a completely untranslatable language. Fortunately they were able to learn a number of alien languages and just spoke to the crew in English.
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Starfish Language	processingCategory2	Alien Tropes
Starfish Language	processingCategory2	Fantastic Sapient Species Tropes
Starfish Language	processingCategory2	Language Tropes
Starfish Language	processingCategory2	Speculative Fiction Tropes
Starfish Language	processingCategory2	This Index Is Not an Example
PokÃ©mon: Destiny Deoxys / int_115b9907	type	Starfish Language
Yu-Gi-Oh! GO RUSH!! / int_115b9907	type	Starfish Language
Astro City (Comic Book) / int_115b9907	type	Starfish Language
Blue Beetle (Comic Book) / int_115b9907	type	Starfish Language
Camelot 3000 (Comic Book) / int_115b9907	type	Starfish Language
My Little Pony Micro Series (Comic Book) / int_115b9907	type	Starfish Language
Sleepwalker (Comic Book) / int_115b9907	type	Starfish Language
Starman (DC Comics) (Comic Book) / int_115b9907	type	Starfish Language
Superman Smashes the Klan (Comic Book) / int_115b9907	type	Starfish Language
Fear Itself / Comicbook / int_115b9907	type	Starfish Language
A Mad Glimmer (Fanfic) / int_115b9907	type	Starfish Language
For a Diamond Is a Marveled Thing (Fanfic) / int_115b9907	type	Starfish Language
Hogwarts Exposed Timeline (Fanfic) / int_115b9907	type	Starfish Language
How Friendship Accidentally Saved Magical Britain (Fanfic) / int_115b9907	type	Starfish Language
Intelligence Factor (Fanfic) / int_115b9907	type	Starfish Language
Jaune Arc, Lord of Hunger (Fanfic) / int_115b9907	type	Starfish Language
Shadows over Meridian (Fanfic) / int_115b9907	type	Starfish Language
The Heart Bind Saga (Fanfic) / int_115b9907	type	Starfish Language
Alien Nation / int_115b9907	type	Starfish Language
Arrival / int_115b9907	type	Starfish Language
Battle Beyond the Stars / int_115b9907	type	Starfish Language
Close Encounters of the Third Kind / int_115b9907	type	Starfish Language
Date with an Angel / int_115b9907	type	Starfish Language
Flight of the Navigator / int_115b9907	type	Starfish Language
La Soupe aux choux / int_115b9907	type	Starfish Language
Mars Attacks! / int_115b9907	type	Starfish Language
Men in Black II / int_115b9907	type	Starfish Language
Moscow — Cassiopeia / int_115b9907	type	Starfish Language
Pet Shop / int_115b9907	type	Starfish Language
The Arrival / int_115b9907	type	Starfish Language
Vivarium / int_115b9907	type	Starfish Language
Dead Space (Franchise) / int_115b9907	type	Starfish Language
Little Witch Academia (Franchise) / int_115b9907	type	Starfish Language
Masters of the Universe (Franchise) / int_115b9907	type	Starfish Language
Metro (Franchise) / int_115b9907	type	Starfish Language
A Scotsman in Egypt (Lets Play) / int_115b9907	type	Starfish Language
The Death Mage Who Doesn't Want a Fourth Time / int_115b9907	type	Starfish Language
A Certain Magical Index / int_115b9907	type	Starfish Language
A Pickle for the Knowing Ones / int_115b9907	type	Starfish Language
Agent to the Stars / int_115b9907	type	Starfish Language
All Tomorrows / int_115b9907	type	Starfish Language
Ars Goetia / int_115b9907	type	Starfish Language
At the Mountains of Madness / int_115b9907	type	Starfish Language
Bas-LagCycle	seeAlso	Starfish Language
Cakes in Space / int_115b9907	type	Starfish Language
Changing Planes / int_115b9907	type	Starfish Language
Chanur Novels / int_115b9907	type	Starfish Language
Children of Time / int_115b9907	type	Starfish Language
Children of Time (2015) / int_115b9907	type	Starfish Language
Codex Seraphinianus / int_115b9907	type	Starfish Language
Dark Wing	seeAlso	Starfish Language
Deathscent	seeAlso	Starfish Language
Feline Wizards / int_115b9907	type	Starfish Language
Have Space Suit â€“ Will Travel / int_115b9907	type	Starfish Language
HogwartsExposedTimeline	seeAlso	Starfish Language
Humanx Commonwealth / int_115b9907	type	Starfish Language
In the Walls of Eryx / int_115b9907	type	Starfish Language
Incandescence / int_115b9907	type	Starfish Language
Johannes Cabal the Necromancer / int_115b9907	type	Starfish Language
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_115b9907	type	Starfish Language
Known Space / int_115b9907	type	Starfish Language
Les Xipéhuz / int_115b9907	type	Starfish Language
Life Unlimited	seeAlso	Starfish Language
My Teacher Is an Alien / int_115b9907	type	Starfish Language
Nowhere Stars / int_115b9907	type	Starfish Language
Overlord (2012) / int_115b9907	type	Starfish Language
Pay Me, Bug! / int_115b9907	type	Starfish Language
Pegasus (2010) / int_115b9907	type	Starfish Language
Perdido Street Station / int_115b9907	type	Starfish Language
Pit Dragon Chronicles / int_115b9907	type	Starfish Language
Project Hail Mary / int_115b9907	type	Starfish Language
Rama II / int_115b9907	type	Starfish Language
Rendezvous with Rama / int_115b9907	type	Starfish Language
Star Carrier / int_115b9907	type	Starfish Language
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Relaunch / int_115b9907	type	Starfish Language
Star Trek Novel Verse / int_115b9907	type	Starfish Language
Stielauge Der Urkrebs / int_115b9907	type	Starfish Language
That Hideous Strength / int_115b9907	type	Starfish Language
The Death Mage Who Doesn't Want a Fourth Time / int_115b9907	type	Starfish Language
The Elder Scrolls / int_115b9907	type	Starfish Language
The First Men in the Moon / int_115b9907	type	Starfish Language
The Lovers / int_115b9907	type	Starfish Language
The Mountain in the Sea / int_115b9907	type	Starfish Language
The True Meaning of Smekday / int_115b9907	type	Starfish Language
Transpecial / int_115b9907	type	Starfish Language
Venus Among the Fishes / int_115b9907	type	Starfish Language
Venus Prime / int_115b9907	type	Starfish Language
AndyWaltfeld	seeAlso	Starfish Language
ChickenInvaders	seeAlso	Starfish Language
Beastars (Manga) / int_115b9907	type	Starfish Language
Heterogenia Linguistico (Manga) / int_115b9907	type	Starfish Language
Kaguya-sama: Love Is War (Manga) / int_115b9907	type	Starfish Language
TerraforMARS (Manga) / int_115b9907	type	Starfish Language
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (2016) (Manga) / int_115b9907	type	Starfish Language
Odd Squadcast (Podcast) / int_115b9907	type	Starfish Language
Replay Value Universe / Role Play / int_115b9907	type	Starfish Language
CDT Dream II (Roleplay) / int_115b9907	type	Starfish Language
CDT Space Liner (Roleplay) / int_115b9907	type	Starfish Language
City of Lost Characters (Roleplay) / int_115b9907	type	Starfish Language
The First Hero (Roleplay) / int_115b9907	type	Starfish Language
Baggage / int_115b9907	type	Starfish Language
Cosmos / int_115b9907	type	Starfish Language
Curiosity Shop / int_115b9907	type	Starfish Language
Earth 2 / int_115b9907	type	Starfish Language
Fringe / int_115b9907	type	Starfish Language
Space: Above and Beyond / int_115b9907	type	Starfish Language
Star-Crossed / int_115b9907	type	Starfish Language
Stargate Universe / int_115b9907	type	Starfish Language
Eberron (Tabletop Game) / int_115b9907	type	Starfish Language
Hulks And Horrors (Tabletop Game)	seeAlso	Starfish Language
Nephilim (Tabletop Game) / int_115b9907	type	Starfish Language
Nibiru (Tabletop Game) / int_115b9907	type	Starfish Language
Numenera (Tabletop Game) / int_115b9907	type	Starfish Language
The Strange (Tabletop Game) / int_115b9907	type	Starfish Language
Traveller (Tabletop Game) / int_115b9907	type	Starfish Language
A Hat in Time (Video Game) / int_115b9907	type	Starfish Language
AdventureQuest (Video Game) / int_115b9907	type	Starfish Language
Annalynn (Video Game) / int_115b9907	type	Starfish Language
de Blob (Video Game) / int_115b9907	type	Starfish Language
FreeSpace (Video Game) / int_115b9907	type	Starfish Language
Galaxy on Fire (Video Game) / int_115b9907	type	Starfish Language
Heartbound (Video Game) / int_115b9907	type	Starfish Language
High on Life (Video Game) / int_115b9907	type	Starfish Language
I=MGCM (Video Game) / int_115b9907	type	Starfish Language
Lemegeton (Video Game) / int_115b9907	type	Starfish Language
Mass Effect (Video Game) / int_115b9907	type	Starfish Language
Meteos (Video Game) / int_115b9907	type	Starfish Language
Metroid Prime 2: Echoes (Video Game) / int_115b9907	type	Starfish Language
Napple Tale: Arsia in Daydream (Video Game) / int_115b9907	type	Starfish Language
No Man's Sky (Video Game) / int_115b9907	type	Starfish Language
Obduction (Video Game) / int_115b9907	type	Starfish Language
Observation (Video Game) / int_115b9907	type	Starfish Language
Patapon (Video Game) / int_115b9907	type	Starfish Language
Radiant Silvergun (Video Game) / int_115b9907	type	Starfish Language
Rama (Video Game) / int_115b9907	type	Starfish Language
Rhythm Heaven (Video Game) / int_115b9907	type	Starfish Language
SPV3 (Video Game) / int_115b9907	type	Starfish Language
Septerra Core (Video Game) / int_115b9907	type	Starfish Language
Spore (Video Game) / int_115b9907	type	Starfish Language
Star Control (Video Game) / int_115b9907	type	Starfish Language
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_115b9907	type	Starfish Language
The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel (Video Game) / int_115b9907	type	Starfish Language
UFO: After Blank (Video Game) / int_115b9907	type	Starfish Language
WarioWare (Video Game) / int_115b9907	type	Starfish Language
Wing Commander (Video Game) / int_115b9907	type	Starfish Language
XCOM 2 (Video Game) / int_115b9907	type	Starfish Language
Zombidle (Video Game) / int_115b9907	type	Starfish Language
Muv-Luv Alternative (Visual Novel) / int_115b9907	type	Starfish Language
To Heart 2 (Visual Novel) / int_115b9907	type	Starfish Language
Banana-nana-Ninja! (Web Animation) / int_115b9907	type	Starfish Language
Half-Life: Zero Viscosity (Web Animation) / int_115b9907	type	Starfish Language
Society of Virtue (Web Animation) / int_115b9907	type	Starfish Language
Grim Tales from Down Below (Webcomic) / int_115b9907	type	Starfish Language
White Dark Life / Web Comic / int_115b9907	type	Starfish Language
Blood Is Mine (Webcomic) / int_115b9907	type	Starfish Language
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_115b9907	type	Starfish Language
Educomix (Webcomic) / int_115b9907	type	Starfish Language
Harbourmaster (Webcomic) / int_115b9907	type	Starfish Language
Leaving the Cradle (Webcomic) / int_115b9907	type	Starfish Language
Niklas and Friends (Webcomic) / int_115b9907	type	Starfish Language
Not So Distant (Webcomic) / int_115b9907	type	Starfish Language
Omens (Webcomic) / int_115b9907	type	Starfish Language
Out-of-Placers (Webcomic) / int_115b9907	type	Starfish Language
Outsider (Webcomic) / int_115b9907	type	Starfish Language
Rice Boy (Webcomic) / int_115b9907	type	Starfish Language
Sequential Art (Webcomic) / int_115b9907	type	Starfish Language
Star Power (Webcomic) / int_115b9907	type	Starfish Language
You Suck (Webcomic) / int_115b9907	type	Starfish Language
Multiverses Wiki (Website) / int_115b9907	type	Starfish Language
Orion's Arm (Website) / int_115b9907	type	Starfish Language
Serina (Website) / int_115b9907	type	Starfish Language
Tlf Travel Alerts (Website) / int_115b9907	type	Starfish Language
Elemental (2023) / int_115b9907	type	Starfish Language
ReBoot / int_115b9907	type	Starfish Language
The Clangers / int_115b9907	type	Starfish Language
The Croods: A New Age / int_115b9907	type	Starfish Language
3-2-1 Penguins! / int_115b9907	type	Starfish Language
Tigtone / int_115b9907	type	Starfish Language

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