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Solresol is an artificial language, devised by a Frenchman, François Sudre, beginning in 1817. He published his major book on it, Langue musicale universelle, in 1866, though he had already been publicizing it for some years. Solresol enjoyed a brief spell of popularity, reaching its pinnacle with Boleslas Gajewski's 1902 publication of Grammaire du Solresol. An artificial or constructed language (known colloquially as a conlang among aficionados), is a language whose vocabulary and grammar were specifically devised by an individual or small group, rather than having naturally evolved as part of a culture as with natural languages. ... One of the many landscapes of France: Cantal département, in the mountainous Massif Central. ... 1817 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... 1866 is a common year starting on Monday. ... 1902 (MCMII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ...

Solresol words are made up of only seven different syllables. These syllables can be represented in a number of different ways -- as musical notes of different pitch, as spoken syllables (based on solfege, a way of identifying musical notes), with colours, symbols, hand gestures etc. Thus, theoretically Solresol communication can be done through speaking, singing, flags of different colour, etc. -- even painting and is the only one ideal for mixed categories of handicapped (or not handicapped) people making it the unique Langue universelle (universal language) as declared by Sudre: absolutely no supplementar learning is necessary for the communication between non handicapped and handicapped people (the hand gestures are only the normal representation of the notes with the one hand on the music lines showing with the other hand). Sudre explains in his book: "...elle fournit une langue commune à des êtres privés jusqu'ici de la possibilité de s'entendre, c'est à dire, les aveugles et les sourds-muets; et qu'étant basée sur un principe universel, la musique, exprimant les idées qui sont universelles..." ("...it gives a common language to people who could not hitherto communicate, that is, the blind and deaf-and-dumb; as it is based on a universal principle, music, it expresses universal ideas..."). See page XX in the edition of 1866 of the book of Sudre. This article discusses the unit of speech. ... Solfege table in an Irish classroom In music and sight singing solfege or solmization is a way of assigning syllables to degrees or steps of the diatonic scale. ... This article is about music. ...

As in Ro, the longer words are divided into categories of meaning, based on their first syllable, or note. Words beginning with 'sol' have meanings related to arts and sciences, or, if they begin with 'solsol', sickness and medicine (e.g., solresol, "language"; solsolredo, "migraine"). (Like other constructed languages with a priori vocabulary, Solresol faces considerable problems in categorizing the real world around it sensibly. For example, it's difficult to discriminate in an a priori manner between "apple" and "pear", or between "Monday" and "Tuesday.") Ro is an a priori constructed language created by Rev. ... This article discusses the unit of speech. ... Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: Art Resources ArtLex. ... For the scientific journal named Science, see Science (journal). ... A disease is any abnormal condition of the body or mind that causes discomfort, dysfunction, or distress to the person affected or those in contact with the person. ... See also Medical doctor (BE), Physician (AE), and Medical school. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into a priori. ...

A unique feature of Solresol is that meanings are negated by reversing the syllables in words. For instance fala means good or tasty, and lafa means bad. It is unclear how this interacts with the way words are categorized by their first note.

Additional features of Solresol include:

• highly impartial (equally easy or difficult for everyone, like other a priori constructed languages)
• integrated systems (signs, colors, etc.) for most different handicapped people, immediately operative without special learning)
• gives fast learning success to illiterate people (only 7 syllables or signs or 10 letters to know and to recognise)
• it presents no pronunciation difficulties
• very simple but effective system to differentiate the function of the words in the sentences

Solresol did have to face the difficulty that in France, sign languages for deaf people were not allowed until over a century later (congress of Milan 1880 - law Fabius 1991). This is an important reason of the difficult expansion of Solresol. A sign language (also signed language) is a language which uses manual communication instead of sound to convey meaning - simultaneously combining handshapes, orientation and movement of the hands, arms or body, and facial expressions to fluidly express a speakers thoughts. ... The term disability, as it is applied to humans, refers to any condition that impedes the completion of daily tasks using traditional methods. ... 1880 was a leap year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... 1991 (MCMXCI) is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

After a few years of popularity, it faded into obscurity in the face of more successful languages such as Volapük and Esperanto. Despite this, there is still a small community of Solresol enthusiasts scattered across the world, better able to communicate with one another through the electronic medium of the Internet than they might have in days past. Volapük - Wikipedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... As a recently created language, Esperantos history is short and well-known. ...

A more recent constructed language based on musical tones is Eaiea, created by Bruce Koestner, which uses the entire 12-step western chromatic scale. Eaiea is an artificial language, devised by Bruce Koestner. ... The chromatic scale is any musical scale that contains more than one consecutive half-step (in other words two adjacent pairs of scale degrees or members which are separated by a semitone). ...

References

• Umberto Eco. The Search for the Perfect Language. 1993. ISBN 0631205101

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External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to:

Solresol

• Langmaker.com about Solresol
• Wikisource version of the original Grammaire du Solresol
• Gajewski's Grammar of Solresol, a translation from the original French
• html-version of the text of the book of François Sudre edition from 1866, Gajewski's Grammar of Solresol, edition 1902, translated in different languages, dictionary of Solresol with more than 13.000 French equivalents in an MySQL data base, and different other texts on artificial languages (Esperanto from 1897, Ido from 1908, Occidental from 1930, and soon, Universalglot, Jean Pirro, from 1868)
• Omniglot on the various ways of writing Solresol