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Musical language

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Musical languages are constructed languages based on musical 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 tries to connect the two categories, since some authors[who?] of musical a priori languages have speculated about a mystical or primeval origin of the whistled languages.[citation needed]

Constructed musical languages

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There are only a few language families as of now such as the Solresol language family, Moss language family, and Nibuzigu language family.

The Solresol family is a family of a posteriori 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.

  • The Nıbuzıgu family[2]

Kobaïan is a language constructed by Christian Vander of the band Magma, which uses elements of Slavic and Germanic languages,[3] but is based primarily on 'sonorities, not on applied meanings'.[4]

Musically influenced languages

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  • Hymmnos

In fiction

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ Koestner, Bruce. "Eaiea". eaiea.com. BizHosting. Retrieved 9 January 2018.
  2. ^ "Nıbuzıgu: A Musical Conlang". 8 April 2007.
  3. ^ Stump, Paul (July 1995). "Different Drummer: Magma - interview with Christian Vander, page 2". The Wire. Archived from the original on 4 June 2011. Retrieved 16 October 2009.
  4. ^ MacDonald, Ian (1975). "An Irresistible Life Force". Ork Alarm!. Archived from the original on 27 February 2012. Retrieved 16 October 2009
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  • "Domila" at forum.unilang.org/viewtopic.php?t=30169
  • Koestner Bruce. "Eaiea". eaiea.com BizHosting.