Whistling: How some traditional cultures use whistled language for long-distance communication
Tourists visiting La Gomera and El Hierro in the Canary Islands can often hear locals communicating over long distances by whistling – not a tune, but the Spanish language. “Good whistlers can understand all the messages,” says David Díaz Reyes, an independent ethnomusicologist and whistled-language researcher and teacher who lives...
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