the first identified word was jerks.

Researchers in the United States and Great Britain have made a significant breakthrough in deciphering dolphin language in which a series of 8 objects have been sonically identified by dolphins. Team leader, Jack Kassewitz of SpeakDolphin.com, ‘spoke’ to dolphins with the dolphin’s own sound picture words. Dolphins in 2 separate research centers understood the words, presenting convincing evidence that dolphins employ a universal “sono-pictorial” language of communication.

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Marine biologists have connected 2 dolphin research habitats with underwater microphones and speakers. They hope the chat line will enable a dolphin calf to learn to “talk” by communicating with dolphins in the other facility.

Uplift Universe is required context for this talk. in particular: Neo-Dolphins

If the dolphins engaged in meaningful communication with near-human complexity, the frequency of these sounds would yield a logarithmic slope of -1—just like most human languages. Dolphin recordings had a gradient of -.95. This suggests that “dolphinese” may exhibit syntax. In comparison, the squirrel monkeys’ Zipf slope was never lower than -0.6, meaning the signals were too random to exhibit syntax. The cotton plant, which communicates through chemical emissions, had a signal distribution slope closer to -1.6, meaning the signals were too redundant.