What is "Solresol" that uses the scale in a similar way to the artificial language that appeared in the movie "Unknown encounter"?

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It developed naturally with cultural background and is still used by nation and ethnic groupsNatural languageUnlike the languages ​​created by specific vocabulary and grammar established by specific individuals and organizationsArtificial languageI call it. It was announced in 1887 as famous as an artificial language and it is recognized worldwideEsperantoAndJ · R · R · TolkienBut"Adventure of the hobbit"The ring story"And made them appear in the worksLanguage of Arda, AndSteven SpielbergDirector's movie "Encounter of unknown"Sorresol" has a mechanism similar to the artificial language that appeared in "

Solresol language and stenographic script
http://www.omniglot.com/writing/solresol.htm

You can see what kind of "Sorresol"-like language that appeared in "Unknown encounter" is seen in the following movie.

Close Encounters of the Third Kind - "Tones"


"In the process of" Unknown encounter ", human beings used" sound "and" color "when first contacting with an alien.


A lot of scientists and government officials are watching ... ...


Musical scale can be played by synthesizer.


Colored light is displayed on the background panel at the same time as the sound, trying to communicate in both sound and color.


Then, there is also a response by light from the alien side ... ...


The Earth side has five sounds that play an important role in this movie, "Les Mido doIt sends out.


These five sounds are from American composersJohn WilliamsSaid that he wanted to use at least seven sounds, according to Mr. Spielberg's request, Coach Spielberg stuck to the sound of "five" and never yielded a step Thing. Director Spielberg picked out among the tremendous candidates Mr. Williams produced, because it was used as one of the best scenes among "unknown encounters" in the scale of "Les Midos de So" For those who saw it is a very impressive phrase.


Under the work, it is not made clear what kind of significance the "scale of Le Mido do de" has, but as with the communication method used for "encounter of unknown", sound "Solresol" exists in artificial languages ​​expressed in combination of colors and colors. Solresol is a FrenchmanJean Francois SudorIs an artificial language that was proposed in 1817 and is said to be the world's oldest as an artificial language officially announced and supported by the masses. "Solresol" is the three notes "So · Les · So", and when applied to the vocabulary of Solresol, it means "language". Solresol is characterized by the use of the pitch (pitch) instead of letters, not having the sound correspond to existing letters such as the alphabet, but has its own vocabulary and grammar.

In Solresol, colors such as red, orange, yellow, green, light blue, blue and purple correspond to the seventh note of De Le Mi Fahso Raj, respectively,Deaf peopleIt also supports figures that can be represented by hand gestures so that even people of the same type can use it. Although Solresol expresses words and sentences by combining multiple sounds, it indicates that the word represents what the prefix for each word represents. Do, for example, people, functions, foods, etc., clothes, houses, families, etc. Mi acts · scratches, etc. Fa is country, agriculture · war etc, SO is movies · literature · science, etc. · La is industrial · commercial · Are used as prefixes for words that represent towns, governments, police, and so on.


Although Solresol hid in the shadow of Esperanto and others emerging later, although it is not so prominent artificial language, there are people still understanding Solresol and communicating even now. YouTube has developed software to translate Solresol into natural languageSolresol's learning pageThere are also things like, so if you are interested it might be a good idea to investigate.

SolReSol words played on the piano (live) - SolReSol: The Project