Breakthrough in understanding whale language

US Berkeley researchers used artificial intelligence to determine that some of the clicks used by whales to communicate are 'on many levels analogous to human vowels and dipthongs,' the sound of two vowels in a single syllable as in 'loud.'

'If our findings are correct, it means that the communication of sperm whales is much more complex and can carry more information than previously thought,' writes linguist Gasper Begus. — Read the rest