The illustrated array of cutaneous actuators may allow for a combination of 36 haptic phonemes, which includes all combinations of single haptic outputs (6) and two point haptic outputs (30). The two point haptic outputs are limited to those that 1) do not involve activation of a second cutaneous actuator which is diagonal from the first activated cutaneous actuator; and 2) which are short distance motions, i.e., the first and second activated cutaneous actuators are situated adjacent to each other. However, this may not represent the total number of phonemes in a language. In such a case, the number of cutaneous actuators may be increased to accommodate for the total number of phonemes. An example of such a combination of cutaneous actuators is shown and described with reference to