D-limba
...and then they started to answer me...D-Limba is a recently developed interspecies language, created by the Study Group for Primate - Cetacean Comunication.
It comprises a simplified alphabet of 12 clicks and whistles produced by a syntethizer that can mimic the sounds of dolphins language and transfer it cleared from the water interference to the ear of the human user.
The instrument and language have been developed following many decades of study to try to find a way to comunicate with these cetacean, that since ancient times have been recognized to possess intellectual and abstraction capabilities similar to those of humans.
The first attempts of this kind were focused into trying to teach the dolphins a language that both species could understand, but in the last 20 years the SGPCC, thanks in particular to the work of Andria Pinna and the dolphin Rubia, realized that the animals were trying to do the same with us for the same amount of time, if not for longer.
Through the collaboration with the Monti d'Accoddi University and the , the Study Group created the machinery to analize and reproduce the sounds that the dolphins where producing in their attempts to comunicate with us, and codified them. They realized quickly that they were mere series of 4 types of clicks alternated to 8 types of whistles, all in a frequency perceptible by humans.
The reduced amount of sounds doesn't preclude a deep conversation and in the following years, the researchers compiled a dictionary of over 700 words that can be understood by both species.
Despite the construction of the instrument being of public knowledge, the language developed is currently known by only a restricted number of researchers of the centre and the dolphins that work with them and kept secreted.
We can't be sure if said dolphins, who live a semiwild life, taught the language to others of their specie, but attempts to confine them to prevent this evenience, led to an unpleasant encounter with the Mere' Janas Myrtha. To date there are 13 known fluent speaker of D-limba among humans and around 30 speaker among dolphins, but this certainly underestimated as the cetaceans have been working on it for a longer time. All the human speakers live and work in the facilities of the Study Group in St. Stefano island.
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