A Language Made Of Music

Published on January 25, 2018
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Solresol is a language, invented out of whole cloth by Jean-François Sudre in the 19th century, that used seven musical notes to create all the words that he thought you’d ever need. It did work: so why aren’t we all speaking in notes right now?

SOURCES:
http://web.archive.org/web/20060115061414/http://www.forteantimes.com/articles/145_solresol.shtml
https://i.sidosi.org/resources/la-telephonie/la-telephonie.html
http://www.ifost.org.au/~gregb/solresol/sorsoeng.htm
http://www.ifost.org.au/~gregb/solresol/sudre-book.pdf
http://web.archive.org/web/20060114084542/http://www.ptialaska.net:80/~srice/solresol/intro.htm
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-3lBxMURGN4AtGG846kuVGVNuEiHewCT88PiBahnODA/edit#gid=0
https://www.startasl.com/history-of-sign-language_html
http://www.yougowords.com/1-syllables
And thanks to the community at https://www.sidosi.org for collecting many these resources into one place!

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