Re: Help? Asciification of musical language

There exists at least one musical natlang. It's a
whistled one, and if I'm not mistaken, its is used on
Canarias Islands. It nearly died, but I heard that by
now, it's taught again in schools over there. The
initial purpose was for the shepherds to communicate
from hill to hill, I believe.

--- Ray Brown <ray.brown@...> wrote:
> On Thursday, June 10, 2004, at 09:53 , Rachel
> Klippenstein wrote:
>
> [snip]
> > Or, here's a briefer description:
> > -It's based on relative pitch, not absolute pitch
> > -There are 7 different notes (the equivalent of
> segments)
> > -Beats (the equivalent of syllables) contain 1 to
> 4 notes
> > -The relative lengths of the notes within the beat
> is not phonemic
>
> This is remarkably similar to the phonology of Jean
> François Sudre's
> auxlang SolreSol, which was published IIRC in 1817
> and had some following
> till the early years of the 20th cent.
>

=====
Philippe Caquant

"High thoughts must have high language." (Aristophanes, Frogs)

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