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Sperm whale calls are found to pattern like human vowels

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Project CETI found sperm whale codas resemble human vowels acoustically and pattern like them linguistically, one of the closest parallels to human phonology in any animal system.

Reporting date: 2026-04-17 (not necessarily the event date)

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Sperm whale calls are found to pattern like human vowels
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Reporting date: 2026-04-17
KB permalink: https://nicholsn.github.io/innermost-loop-kb/developments/2026-04-17-whale-codas-resemble-human-vowels
Claim: Project CETI found sperm whale codas resemble human vowels acoustically and pattern like them linguistically, one of the closest parallels to human phonology in any animal system.
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- Welcome to April 17, 2026 — https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/welcome-to-april-17-2026
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