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Re: Some ideas for a completely tonal conlang

From:Garth Wallace <gwalla@...>
Date:Monday, February 17, 2003, 22:36
Fredrik Ekman wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Feb 2003, Jan van Steenbergen wrote: > > >>Well, the most obvious question here: does this language use some kind >>of scales (like our twelve chromatic tones, or perhaps 31 or 54 or >>1200...)? > > > Most definitely, yes. Although at this point I am not in a position to be > more specific than that. I doubt if it would be a normal seven-tone major > or minor scale, though. Possibly a chromatic scale, possibly a pentatonic > scale, possibly something completely alien.
If you want to go "alien", there's always the Bohlen-Pierce scale, which has 13 tones and treats an interval of a perfect 12th rather than the octave as "identity". It would also fit your idea of having a pitch range of about an octave and a half. Here's a site about it: http://members.aol.com/bpsite/