Language

Over time there have been several fictional languages designed for games, films and novels etc. Some are made based on the sound (Simlish - the language of the people in the game The Sims) without having set grammar or written alphabet whereas others are fully created such as 'Klingonese', the language devised for the movie Star Trek.

I am going to be making an advert, which is promoting a new display or collection at a post apocalyptic museum, and therefore you could ask, how do we even know that the alien species use written language; what if they use telepathy? If they did have a written language would it bare any resemblance to our language? Would symbols be gone because they have no meaning anymore? In short, just how much of our language and mindset will be gone and how similar will the new species be to us?

For my first attempt, I have used a font called Marlett which is made up of a lot of user interface icons off've windows. Whilst these would have no meaning to the species because they wouldn't even know what computers are it is possible that they could come across something from our past that may make them think these shapes were part of our language.