Tamarian language

• Tonal language with heavy reliance on body language and gesture, similar to many sign languages (TNG Short Story: "Friends With the Sparrows")
  • Numerical information communicated via pitch (TNG Short Story: "Friends With the Sparrows")
• Written language much more integrated with spoken than in most societies (TNG Short Story: "Friends With the Sparrows")
  • Outgrowth of the importance of symbols, imagery, and abstraction (TNG Short Story: "Friends With the Sparrows")
  • Mathematical and musical notation heavily related (TNG Short Story: "Friends With the Sparrows")
• Referents
  • Greetings
    • Menos and Uzani at Kyjo (TNG Short Story: "Friends with the Sparrows")
      • Guarded, wary meeting
  • Noted contact tales
    • Rai and Jiri (TNG Short Story: "Friends With the Sparrows")
    • Zima and Bakor (TNG Short Story: "Friends With the Sparrows")
    • Darmok and Jalad (TNG: "Darmok"; TNG Short Story: "Friends With the Sparrows")
      • Considered a final desperation tactic when previous attempts at contact have failed (TNG Short Story: "Friends With the Sparrows")