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Canaries ag feadal

luckat · 2003-11-30 09:31:28

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3241128.stm Canary Island whistles again La Gomera Silbo developed as a means to talk across La Gomera's great ravines A means of communication using whistling is being revived after nearly vanishing from the one island on which it is used. The language is called Silbo Gomero, and is only…

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Canary Island whistles again
La Gomera
Silbo developed as a means to talk across La Gomera's great ravines
A means of communication using whistling is being revived after nearly vanishing from the one island on which it is used.

The language is called Silbo Gomero, and is only heard on the Canary Island of La Gomera, off the coast of Morocco.

Until recently those who communicated in Silbo were dying out - but the government of the island made it compulsory for all schoolchildren on the island to study it, and now it is making a comeback.

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