Solresol (Langue Musicale Universelle) - Conlang Profile	Advanced
Language Name Solresol Language Author Jean Francois Sudre Year Began 1830 Site Solresol Broken Link No Site Language English Site Author Stephen L. Rice Language Type international auxiliary language Editorial The cleverest philosophical language, the earliest constructed language to be successful and the most likely to be learned by Julie Andrews. Solresol is based on the musical scale and has just seven syllables: do, re, mi, fa, sol, la, si. Uniqueness Stephen Rice writes, "Solresol is important to the history of constructed languages (particularly interlanguages) on several grounds: it was the first artificial language to get beyond the project stage and to be taken seriously as an interlanguage, and it also pioneered certain ideas that have only recently been rediscovered. It is also the first and only musically-based interlanguage--or at least, the only one to make any headway... So what should we remember about Solresol? Not its complicated derivational system, not its dependence on French, not even its clever or fanciful variant forms, but that: It pioneered the field of practical artificial languages--not erudite philosophical constructs, but systems using ordinary vocabulary, and reserving the shortest forms for the most common ideas; It paved the way for the analytical approach to grammar; It attempted to be the most phonologically accessible system--its syllables could be mangled consid! erably and still be perfectly recognizable, and its sounds were generally accessible to anyone from a proper phonemic standpoint (for example, those who aren't comfortable with the L/R distinction could still differentiate between re and la, and sol could be pronounced so without much confusion); and It was the project most concerned with the needs of the handicapped, the first (and still about the only) system to make a selling point of mainstreaming the blind and deaf." Dictionary Yes Etymologies No Grammar Yes Sample Texts No Unique Script Yes Primer No Babel Text No Lexicon Size 583 Submitted By NA Updated By Jeffrey Henning Date Edited Friday, February 20, 2004 Description Of Update Fleshed out profile in more detail. Excerpted Stephen Rice's eloquent defense of the language. Date To Headline Sunday, January 25, 2004 < Sohlob  Solresol  Somerish >
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