![]() Louise concluded that, because their speech and writing are unrelated, the heptapods have two languages, which she called Heptapod A (speech) and Heptapod B (writing). She found their writing to be chains of semagrams on a two-dimensional surface in no linear sequence, and semasiographic, having no reference to speech. In an attempt to learn their language, Louise began by associating objects and gestures with sounds the aliens made, which revealed a language with free word order and many levels of center-embedded clauses. They made contact with two heptapods they nicknamed Flapper and Raspberry. ![]() Army to communicate with the aliens, and were assigned to one of nine looking glass sites in the US. Dubbed 'looking glasses', they were audiovisual links to the aliens in orbit, who were called heptapods for their seven-limbed radially symmetrical appearance. 112 devices resembling large semi-circular mirrors appeared at sites across the globe. The aliens arrived in spaceships and entered Earth's orbit. ![]()
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