though I’d guess if they are smarter than humans there’s probably going to be something like words and sentences
the highest form of language might be “neuralese”, directly sharing your latent pre-verbal cognition. (idk how much intelligence that requires though. actually, i’d guess it more requires a particular structure which is ready to receive it, and not intelligence per se. e.g. the brain already receives neuralese from other parts of the brain. so the real question is how hard it is to evolve neuralese-emitting/-receiving structures.) also, in this framing, human language is a discrete-ized form of neuralese (standardized into words before emitting); maybe orca language would be ‘less discrete’ (less ‘word’-based) or discrete-ized at smaller intervals (more specific ‘words’).
the highest form of language might be “neuralese”, directly sharing your latent pre-verbal cognition. (idk how much intelligence that requires though. actually, i’d guess it more requires a particular structure which is ready to receive it, and not intelligence per se. e.g. the brain already receives neuralese from other parts of the brain. so the real question is how hard it is to evolve neuralese-emitting/-receiving structures.) also, in this framing, human language is a discrete-ized form of neuralese (standardized into words before emitting); maybe orca language would be ‘less discrete’ (less ‘word’-based) or discrete-ized at smaller intervals (more specific ‘words’).