Insights for SETI from linguistics studies in the Peruvian Amazon

Abstract

In two previous papers presented at the IAC 2019 and 2020 we have illustrated the experience of intercultural dialogue at the Amazonian University UCSS-Nopoki of Atalaya, explaining why it could provide interesting insights for SETI, especially for interstellar message composition. In 2023, for the first time, a wide team of Amazonian professors, with the support of some members of the InCosmiCon Research Center at the University of Insubria, has done an in-depth analysis of the most important activity currently ongoing in Nopoki, i.e., the translation process of some textbooks from Spanish to 7 different Amazonian languages, also writing 8 articles to be published in a special issue of the international journal of linguistics “Expressio”. In this paper the Amazonian professors and the InCosmiCon investigators present a synthesis of the main outcomes of their work and the most relevant implications for SETI and interstellar messages. Finally, we briefly sketch the main research projects already scheduled for the next future and the expected outcomes relevant for SETI.