AML Senior Member United States Joined 6825 days ago 323 posts - 426 votes 2 sounds Speaks: English* Studies: Modern Hebrew, German, Spanish
| Message 1 of 3 10 January 2014 at 12:04am | IP Logged |
Today I learned about the whistling language, Silbo Gomero, which comes from the Canary Islands. How
fascinating! Do any of you know it? Any Canary Island folk on this forum?
Here are two short videos about these means of communication:
Silbo video #1
Silbo video #2
It likely came from Africa ages ago and nearly died out a few decades ago. Now it is a compulsory subject for all school children.
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daristani Senior Member United States Joined 7144 days ago 752 posts - 1661 votes Studies: Uzbek
| Message 2 of 3 10 January 2014 at 1:19am | IP Logged |
Turkey also has a village, named "Kuskoy" (Bird Village) where people use a whistling language to talk at distances. Here's an article about it, with a video clip:
http://www.eurasianet.org/node/65658
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ScottScheule Diglot Senior Member United States scheule.blogspot.com Joined 5228 days ago 645 posts - 1176 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Latin, Hungarian, Biblical Hebrew, Old English, Russian, Swedish, German, Italian, French
| Message 3 of 3 10 January 2014 at 7:57pm | IP Logged |
Yiou might be interested in Solresol, too.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solresol
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