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Solresol

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From the name of the language in Solresol, based on the solfège notes so, re, and so.

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Solresol

  1. A minor constructed language whose phonemes are based upon the solfège.
    • 2000, McSweeney's, number 5, page 63:
      Solresol reached a high-water mark in 1902, when Society head Boleslas Gajewski published a brief Grammaire du Solresol, which represented a refinement and expansion of the grammar rules set down in Sudre's 1866 guide.
    • 2015, Paul Collins, Banvard's Folly: Thirteen Tales of Renowned Obscurity, page 106:
      Now his elderly widow, stringing telegraph wires around their Paris apartment and experimenting for five days solid, quickly developed a telegraphic version of Solresol in time to present it to the Minister of the Interior.

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