Musical languages are
constructed languages
A constructed language (shortened to conlang) is a language whose phonology, grammar, orthography, and vocabulary, instead of having developed natural language, naturally, are consciously devised for some purpose, which may include being devise ...
based on
music
Music is the arrangement of sound to create some combination of Musical form, form, harmony, melody, rhythm, or otherwise Musical expression, expressive content. Music is generally agreed to be a cultural universal that is present in all hum ...
al sounds, which tend to incorporate
articulation. Whistled languages are dependent on an underlying spoken languages and are used in various cultures as a means for communication over distance, or as secret codes. The mystical concept of a
language of the birds
In Abrahamic and European mythology, medieval literature and occultism, the language of the birds is postulated as a mystical, perfect divine language, Adamic language, Enochian, angelic language or a mythical or magical language used by ...
tries to connect the two categories, since some authors of musical
''a priori'' languages have speculated about a mystical or primeval origin of the whistled languages.
Constructed musical languages
There are only a few language families as of now such as the Solresol language family,
Moss
Mosses are small, non-vascular plant, non-vascular flowerless plants in the taxonomic phylum, division Bryophyta (, ) ''sensu stricto''. Bryophyta (''sensu lato'', Wilhelm Philippe Schimper, Schimp. 1879) may also refer to the parent group bryo ...
language family, and Nibuzigu language family.
The Solresol family is a family of
a posteriori
('from the earlier') and ('from the later') are Latin phrases used in philosophy to distinguish types of knowledge, justification, or argument by their reliance on experience. knowledge is independent from any experience. Examples include ...
languages (usually English) where a sequence of 7 notes of the western C-Major scale or the 12 tone chromatic scale are used as phonemes.
*Domila
*Eaiea
*Sarus
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Solresol
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Moss (language) is a
pidgin
A pidgin , or pidgin language, is a grammatically simplified form of contact language that develops between two or more groups of people that do not have a language in common: typically, its vocabulary and grammar are limited and often drawn f ...
built out of melodic shapes.
*The Nıbuzıgu family
Kobaïan is a language constructed by
Christian Vander of the band
Magma
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, which uses elements of Slavic and Germanic languages, but is based primarily on 'sonorities, not on applied meanings'.
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Musically influenced languages
*Hymmnos
In fiction
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Voyage to Faremido
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Close Encounters of the Third Kind
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See also
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Tonal language
Tone is the use of pitch in language to distinguish lexical or grammatical meaning—that is, to distinguish or to inflect words. All oral languages use pitch to express emotional and other para-linguistic information and to convey emphasi ...
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Whistled language
Whistled speech is a form of speech surrogacy in which whistling is used to mimic speech. Speakers of more than 80 languages have been found to practice various degrees of whistled speech, most of them in rugged topography or dense forests, whe ...
References
External links
"Domila"at ''forum.unilang.org/viewtopic.php?t=30169''
*Koestner Bruce
"Eaiea" ''eaiea.com'' BizHosting.
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