Kobaïan, Loxian, Simlish, Vonlenska and more: We get to the bottom of the languages invented for art.
What is actually sung there? Sometimes the already known languages are not enough – then it has to be a newly conceived. Here are seven examples of art languages in pop culture.
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1. Magma
The debut album of the French Prog rock band published in 1969 magma It’s the fictional planet Kobaïa, which is populated by people in the distant future. Singer Christian Vander developed the Kobaïan art language, in which his band was supposed to absorb nine other albums.
2. Ruins and Koenjihyakkei
Even if a large part of the Kobaïan vocabulary is of Slavic and Germanic origin, the language was particularly popular in the Far East: two Japanese bands, Ruins and Koenjihyakkeiinvented their own languages that were very similar to the Kobaïan.
3. Enya
As Enya In 2005 wanted to record the song “Water Shows The Hidden Heart”, she sang the lyrics in three languages: Gaelic, English and Latin. Since she did not promise her, her songwriter Roma Ryan invented the Loxian fantasy language. Ten years later she was used again on the album Dark Sky Island.
4. Sims
Both “Sims” Not only do the figures speak a fictional language called Simlish, the soundtrack of the computer game also uses this wild mix of Ukrainian, Navajo and Tagalog.
Many well -known musicians, including the black Eyed Peas,, Lily Allen,, Depeche fashion and Katy Perryhave sung new versions of their hits on Simlish – which sound just as absurd as you imagine.
5. Sigur Rós
Even if many listeners could hardly notice the difference: Sigur Rós Do not always sing in Icelandic. Singer uses on the album () Jónsi of a repertoire of sounds and melodic elements that he baptized Vonlenska: “Hoffnändisch”. However, this language follows its intuition rather than a concrete syntax.
6. Cocteau Twins
What Jónsi does today was already the specialty of Elizabeth Fraser: The singer of the Cocteau Twins It was often difficult to write lyrics, which is why she chose a different approach: Instead of looking for sensible content, she was more likely to be based on the mere sound of her texts. In search of beautiful words, she even read foreign -language cookbooks.
7. Dolachamar/ Jean-Marc Leclercq
The most spoken art language in the world, Esperanto, has been used in at least 3,000 songs.
The most prominent representatives are the Finnish pop band Dago and the French singer Jean-Marc Lecerq. And which one do you know?