text: what are indian vocables? please define what the vocables in the indian languages mean or how or why they are used hey susan,   i had bever heard of vocable before.  this might help:  "a vocable is a word used without meaning. they are used in blackfoot music and other american indian music and other music such as pygmy music and the music of the maldives.  the blackfoot, like other plains indians, use consonants h, y, w, and vowels. they avoid n, c (ts) and other consonants. i and e tend slightly to be higher pitches, a, o, and u lower ones."  more here: http://72.14.209.104/search?q=cache:euzfm8hpzlij:en.wikipedia.org/wiki/blackfoot_music+indian+vocables+wikipedia&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=1