Cirquish

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Cirquish is a language invented by the Cirque du Soleil, a traveling troupe, and is used in most of their performance soundtracks. The dialogue may sound similar to a Romance language but it is actually gibberish.

Performers often practice before each show and the sound 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 to them that is how it sounds. "Kaze," another "Saltimbanco" song, is based on a scale associated with Chinese music, so its Cirquish lyrics sound Chinese.