More than eighty cultures still speak in whistles
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More than eighty cultures still speak in whistles
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#2> "still speak in whistles"
"still"?
Why is having more degrees of expressiveness in a vocal language considered an anachronism?
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#3If you find the notion of whistled languages fascinating, as do I, there is an app on the Play Store for Whistled Turkish: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ec.self.whistl... . Last time whistled languages came up, someone else here dropped a link to this app.
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#4There's an episode of one of my favorite anthropological tv series (In the Americas with David Yetman) on the Chinantecan people in Oaxaca, Mexico.
All of the episodes in this series are freely available online and on Amazon Prime.
https://intheamericas.org/works/210-whistles-in-the-mist-whi...
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#5> "still speak in whistles" "still"? Why is having more degrees of expressiveness in a vocal language considered an anachronism?
Soon we will learn how to eradicate these so-called "whistlers".
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#6> "still speak in whistles" "still"? Why is having more degrees of expressiveness in a vocal language considered an anachronism?
Your interpretation of the title is not supported by the article’s content. In fact, you’re agreeing with it.
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#7> "still speak in whistles" "still"? Why is having more degrees of expressiveness in a vocal language considered an anachronism?
Probably they worded it this way (assuming good intentions, of course) because whistle-based language forms were created as a tool to combat communication hurdles in a challenging terrain. With the development of long-range communication, I would dare to say it is amazing that there are still practitioners of whistled speech.
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#8Maybe an app that changes any spoken recording into a whistled one?
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#9I love the lilt of that whistled buenoooo.
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#10> "still speak in whistles" "still"? Why is having more degrees of expressiveness in a vocal language considered an anachronism?
Read the article and you’ll have a better idea how to preserve this form of communication.