With the help of ChatGPT, two fourth-year students and I imagined an alien language that is vastly different from our own. We first considered how to communicate without using speech, exploring our five senses. Touch quickly emerged as an intriguing mode of communication. We envisioned an extraterrestrial species that lacks both speech and sight, relying solely on touch, which makes them deeply connected to their environment.

Their language would consist of words related to nature, transmitted through an object similar to a phone. When an alien presses this object, the one held by their interlocutor changes shape (morphs) to indicate more or less. Each transformation corresponds to a word, allowing them to form sentences through touch, facilitating long-distance communication.