“We know that dolphins have a complex communication system, but we don’t know what they are talking about yet,” he said. Dolphins in two separate research centers understood the words, presenting convincing evidence that dolphins employ a universal “sono-pictorial” language of communication. Bottlenose dolphins learn language the same way humans do: they begin by babbling.
“We hope to be able to understand dolphins with the help of artificial intelligence technology,” Jussi Karlgren, a KTH language adjunct professor, told Bloomberg. The team was able to teach the dolphins simple and complex sentences involving nouns and verbs, revealing that dolphins comprehend elements of human language, as well as having a complex visual language of their own.
Dolphin language also has a complex grammatical and complies with zip´s law.
While it … Dolphin signals have the capacity to encode at least 6 times more information than human language. Gradually, they learn the rules of their language and by 20 months, their communication patterns conform … Dolphins are capable of “highly developed spoken language” which closely resembles human communication, scientists have suggested.
Although a few dolphins have learned to use a simple artificial language consisting of hand gestures or computer-generated whistles, extensive research to date has failed to demonstrate a natural language in dolphins. For many years, researchers have looked for evidence of a dolphin language, a way to share complicated information such as stories, family histories, and philosophy in the way that humans do. Dolphins language is open and hierarchically organised like ours. Half a century ago, some researchers (like John Lilly) believed that dolphins had a communication system that was able to do these things– just like a human language, and that one day we would unravel the meaning of their language.
But, scientists have spent many decades trying to find a hint of truth in these predictions, and unfortunately have not found any positive evidence.
Some authors suggest that dolphin language encodes up to 100 times more information in the same time.
The fact that bottlenose dolphins language is open and hierarchically organized means that they can produce a virtually unlimited number of signals like in human language.