We also note a desire for rhyming, sincevocables similar in sound frequently occur at the end of each musical phrase.
Footnote 1: In the Indian words and vocables the vowels have the continental sound.
In this determinate use of vocables we happen upon what seems to represent the most primitive attempt yet discovered to give intellectual definition in verbal form to an emotion voiced in rhythm and melody.
In songs where words are employed, we also findvocables which are in accord with the spirit of the song, used to make the words conform to the musical phrase.
These vocables are either appended to the word or else inserted between its syllables, to give length or added euphony.
On classifying these wordless songs, we discover that those which are expressive of the gentle emotions have flowing, breathing vocables, but, where warlike feelings dominate the song, the vocables are aspirate and explosive.
Like the swelling buds on the bare branch, which hint the approach of summer's wealth, so these little vocables and rhythmic devices whisper the coming of the poets.
Many Indian songs have no words at all, vocables only being used to float the voice.
It will be seen that some of the composite vocables can be pulled to pieces into their component parts, e.
Further, it does not profess to be complete, for there are some vocables not included, the meaning of which is not yet clear to me.
I have a feeling that the vocables used in so many Gaelic songs are distantly related to canntaireachd, and research into this might conceivably throw light on the larger question of the origin of canntaireachd.
Innumerable dead Vocables (no dead Language, for they themselves knew no Language) they crammed into us, and called it fostering the growth of mind.
The influence of the Mongolian population, assisted by the progress of time, has slowly but surely diminished the number of vocablesin Pekingese.
Owing to the scarcity of vocables noted above, there might be as many as ten different words in common use, each pronounced fang.
An immediate consequence of this paucity of vocables is that one and the same sound has to do duty for different words.
The same results are achieved by placing the (16 particle mai before vocables which come from the Chinese language; i.
This form is used after vocables which are proper to the Japanese language; i.
The second way of counting is with the coie vocables which are borrowed from Chinese.
Two or three recorded vocables seem to resemble those of the Yuman languages, while the numerals and all other known terms are distinct.
A critical census brings out six vocables presenting phonetic correspondences with those of one or more Yuman dialects, viz.
The vocables have been subjected to a discriminating analysis which fails to show any trustworthy evidence of genetic relationship between the Seri and the Yuman languages.
On the other hand, the vocables of the Yuman group of dialects invariably end in a vowel or a double vowel, and, in 24 out of 31 given forms, they are dissyllabic, several being trisyllabic.
An analytic investigation of the comparative list of vocables purporting to signify “tooth” in the Serian and the Yuman languages discloses no evidence of genetic relationship between them.
The aggregate number of vocables in the several records is some seven hundred.
Such singlevocables did not belong to any particular part of speech.
The phonetic system, therefore, becomes in use subordinated to the expression of the acts by which are produced these radical vocables which constitute the essentials of rational Discourse.
The vocables given are those used with these songs when the Indians sing them as they hide the balls.
In a number of instances the original vocables are retained, where the music is merely a rhythmical accompaniment to a simple, easily understood movement.
The prayer in the original has no words, vocables only are used, for the music is what carries the appeal to Wakon'da (God).
In either language there is a sufficiency ofvocables to justify either notion.
Certain Hindu languages are said to have nine-tenths of the vocables common with a language called the Sanskrit--but none of their inflexions; the latter being chiefly Tamul.
Sidenote: Adjectives ending in al} Another way in which languages increase their stock of vocablesis by the forming of new words according to the analogy of formations, which in seemingly parallel cases have been already allowed.
Both grammar and vocables were probably in the main communicated by oral teaching, by the living voice of the master, and were handed down by oral tradition from generation to generation.
Each of his vocables thus became like each of the seven thousand constituents of a locomotive, which fits the one niche it was ordained to fill, but everywhere else is out of place, and even dislocated.
There are many vocables known to be meaningless and recited merely to fill out the rhythm or to give a dignified length to the song.
I have heard; yàne and other vocables are meaningless.
An intimate acquaintance with itsvocables and structure, both ancient and modern, would have been of considerable use.
The tendency to attenuate the articulations shows itself in a progressive state, in a few vocables which are pronounced with an aspiration in some districts, but not universally.
Blank has since made a name for himself, but I remember looking at him at the time, innocently wondering whether he was a genius, and, if so, what vocables were.
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Non-Sanskritic in respect to its grammar, but so full of Sanskrit vocables as to appear to be Sanskritic in origin.
So full of Sanskrit vocables as to be classed with the Indo-Gangetic rather than with the Tamul tongues.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "vocables" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
