Solresol

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Solresol (or la Langue Musicale Universelle ) is a constructed language that was developed by a Frenchman (Jean) François Sudre in 1817. Became popular language by publishing the Grammaire du Solresol by Boleslas Gajewski in 1902. Sudre wanted to create a world language on a musical basis. After forty years of preparation, he introduced his invention to the public.

But Solresol had a complicated grammar, and his arbitrary vocabulary demanded an enormous memory. But it was fifty years quite popular (although it was never put to practical use ). A disadvantage is the vocabulary formed a priori, which offers the learner hardly reference points to other, already known languages ​​. 1977 used Steven Spielberg Solresol in his film Close Encounters of the Third Kind based on the teaching of Hungarian composer Zoltán Kodály.

Examples

The vocabulary is based on the musical notes: do, re, mi, fa, sol, la, si. Frequently used words consist of one, two or three syllables / notes, for example: si - " yes ", do - " no," doredo - "Time", Dorela - "Year", doresi - " Century". More specific terms are formed from four or five syllables.

The special feature of Solresol is that you can not only speaking, but also singing, whistling, with flutes or other instruments communicate. Writing can be in letter or in musical notation. You can also replace the individual syllables by numbers (do - 1, re - 2 ..) that represent different colors or hand signals, or - particularly useful for communication with the same visually and hearing impaired - by applying pressure to certain points of the hand of the convey the interlocutor.

Similar to Ro, there are groups of words according to the meaning dependent upon the first syllables or musical notes. Words starting with sol relate to art or science, and it goes so in depth on; for example solsol for disease and medicine, etc.

To express the opposite, the syllables of the word are simply reversed: fala - "good", lafa - "bad."

• Misol - "good"
• Solmi - "bad"
• DOMISOL - "God"
• Solmido - " Devils"

Ordinary words used combinations of three notes:

• Doredo - "Time"
• Doremi - "Day"
• Dorefa - " week "
• Doresol - " month "
• Dorela - "Year"
• Doresi - " Century"

By combining more than 11,700 words were possible.

• Example: Dore Milasi dominant. - "I love you. "

Words can be changed by the accent:

• Redomido - " slander "
• REdomido - " Slander "
• ReDOmido - " slanderer "
• RedoMIdo - " libelous" ( adjective)
• RedomiDO - " libelous" ( adverb )

In Esperanto Museum and the Department of Planned Languages ​​in Vienna there are Solresol -word and sentence examples to hear through headphones.

Advantages and Disadvantages

A randomly constructed system has the advantage that it is internationally neutral. However, the concepts are therefore difficult to learn by heart. The grammatical function of words in a sentence is easy to identify, and you just need to learn a few different characters. They are flexible and can, for example, for the blind based on sounds, for the deaf to characters. However, the small number of characters makes great accuracy is necessary and no redundancy.

At the end of the 19th century emerged new plan languages ​​(for example Volapük and Esperanto ), who had more success, so Solresol almost forgotten in the 20th century. Nevertheless, there is still a small group of speakers who lives spread across the globe and can live mainly on the Internet language.