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A language written in seven syllables.
Also known as: Sol-Re-Sol, Musical language
The script devised in the nineteenth century as a language built from the seven note names, writable as music, colour or gesture.
Encodes a constructed language in seven elements that can be written, sung, coloured or signed.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
Deliberately medium-independent: the same word can be sung, painted, signalled or spelled, which makes it the only system in this batch designed to be transmissible through any channel at all.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
Words built from the seven solfège syllables, written as note names, as notes on a stave, as coloured bands, as numerals or as hand signs.