Cirquish
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Cirquish is a language invented by the Cirque du Soleil traveling troupe and used in most of their performance soundtracks. The dialogue may sound like a Romance language to some people — but the performers are actually speaking a form of nonsense that they call Cirquish.
Performers often practice their gibberish before each show, and the "flavor" of Cirquish may change from act to act. In the pseudo-ballad "Kumbalawé," the first song in "Saltimbanco," the audience expects to hear a real foreign language, so that's what it sounds like. "Kaze," another "Saltimbanco" song, is based on a scale associated with Chinese music, so its Cirquish lyrics sound Chinese.
