Musical language

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Musical languages are constructed languages based on musical sounds, which tend to incorporate articulation. Whistled languages are dependent on an underlying spoken languages and are used in various cultures as a means for communication over distance, or as secret codes. The mystical concept of a language of the birds tries to connect the two categories, since some authors^[who?] of musical a priori languages have speculated about a mystical or primeval origin of the whistled languages.^{[citation needed]}