Logograms are circular glyphs used by the alien race to communicate with humans in the film Arrival. The main character is a linguist, who is tasked with the understanding of the language. She uses techniques that are normally used on words, such as segmentation and finding repetitive patterns to determine the meaning of certain parts of a glyph.

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