When asked how much of the alien language used by the franchise’s central hunter species he is able to speak, “Predator: Badlands” director Dan Trachtenberg quickly answers, “Zero.” “My mouth will not ...

For Na’vi, Frommer borrowed sounds from languages such as Amharic, spoken in Ethiopia, and Maori. While Na’vi might sound alien to English speakers, in fact, it’s far from being unearthly—it draws on ...

In the 2016 movie Arrival, water-dwelling extraterrestrials make an appearance on Earth. The main human character’s job is to learn how to communicate with the seven-tentacled extraterrestrials before ...