In the 2016 science fiction movie Arrival, a linguist is faced with the daunting task of deciphering an alien language consisting of palindromic phrases, which read the same backwards as they do ...

Denis Villeneuve's Arrival is a puzzle box of a movie that introduces an alien species and uses their language as a narrative device to present intriguing questions surrounding existence and the ...

In the 2016 science fiction movie Arrival, a linguist is faced with the daunting task of deciphering an alien language consisting of palindromic phrases, which read the same backwards as they do ...

The languages used by extraterrestrials might be very different from our own, as was explored in the film Arrival (Credit: Alamy) Alien lifeforms are likely to have evolved their own unique ways of ...