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 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 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.
- Domila
- Eaiea
- Sarus
- Solresol
- Sdefa
- Amnenas
- Moss (language) is a pidgin built out of melodic shapes.
- The Nıbuzıgu family
Kobaïan is a language constructed by Christian Vander of the band Magma, which uses elements of Slavic and Germanic languages, but is based primarily on 'sonorities, not on applied meanings'.
Musically influenced languages
- Hymmnos
In fiction
- Voyage to Faremido
- Close Encounters of the Third Kind
- The Moon Moth
See also
- Tonal language
- Whistled language