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Sperm Whales Speak with a Complex Alphabet and Even Have 'Vowels,' Study Finds (gizmodo.com)
lioeters 1 days ago [-]
The article is based on this study:

The phonology of sperm whale coda vowels - https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2025.2994

> In the present paper, we demonstrate that sperm whale codas not only resemble human vowels acoustically but also pattern like them along several linguistic dimensions.

dlcarrier 23 hours ago [-]
Do they have consonants?
metalman 1 days ago [-]
"sqeeeeeeeeeek, hurrronk, hrrrrroinkk, skeeeeedrbllblubbbbb, sqeeeeejjjjjeeekkke, blllllluuubbbbnnn"

translation

"mother ship arriving soon, ape animal neutralisation procedure to begin imediatly"

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