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always wanted to name a band with just a sound like that
Ah, yes, naming in general and band-naming specifically. Here are some of the IPA symbols for clicks: /ǀ/ 'tsk', /ʘ/ (lip-smacking good), /ǁ/ (giddyup).
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Another one in this category might be the tiny whistling sound made to call someone's attention.( I don't mean whistling your dog or the crowd whistling away a false move of a player or arbiter/umpire ) Any sign for that?
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Any sign for that?I'd guess that you can use musical notation for the pitch. There is a famous language called Silbo Gomero ( link) used by folks on the Canary Islands. In the first article click on the link for whistled languages to see a short paragraph on the physics of whistles. There seems to be some minor amount of vocalization going on by changing the vocal tract. A whistle is similar in the manner of articulation to a fricative, with the place of articulation at the lips, though a little bit different from /ɸ/ and /β/. I've seen whistlers who also use their cupped hands in front of their mouths to change some aspect of the whistle. There's also a PhD dissertation (in French) on whistled languages from a linguistic and bio-acoustic POV, link. There was also a musical artificial language called Solresol ( link).
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Going through those links I came across the yoruba (tonal) language. It reminded me of a bad moment when once in the middle of the night I got a ring from Lagos, Nigeria and had to write down the adress of a mrs. O-la-ray-wa-djoo (phonetical). Transmitted by a French speaking Congolese and with a very bad phone connection. It took long.
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I came across the yoruba (tonal) language.
Yes, many people think of Chinese or Vietnamese when tonal languages are mentioned, but there are many more, and not all of them in Asia. In North America, Navajo (aka Diné bizaad) is tonal. Lithuanian and Swedish have some uses of tone in their phonological systems.
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Swedish is a very charming, singing kind of language, very gentle sound. Your mentioning Swedish made me take out the old video of Ingmar Bergman's 'Fanny och Alexander'. Subtitled original version. Wonderful film for the season.
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panjabi also has tonal elements unlike its neighbouring indic languages.
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Fanny och Alexander
Haven't see it since it came out originally. It was a fun movie.
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Often parts of speech come close or equal to Dutch, but we don't have the melodious part of it. They say f.i. 'komm nu', pronounced exactly like we do, while the Germans have this sharp sounding "jetzt" , a word that makes you jump immediately. Very authoritative.
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