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KIRCHER SOCIETY - On the small mountainous island of La Gomera, one of
the Canaries, the children speak to each other from miles apart using
one of the most unusual languages in the world. Known as Silbo, the
whistling language of Gomero Island has a vocabulary of over 4,000
words, and is used by "Silbadors" to send messages across the island's
deep valleys. Though Silbo was on the verge of extinction in the 1990s,
the Gomerans have made a concerted effort to revive their language by
adding it to the public school curriculum. Today 3,000 schoolchildren
are in the process of learning it.
http://www.kirchersociety.org/blog/2007/08/07/
the-whistling-language-of-gomero-island/
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KIRCHER SOCIETY - On the small mountainous island of La Gomera, one of
the Canaries, the children speak to each other from miles apart using
one of the most unusual languages in the world. Known as Silbo, the
whistling language of Gomero Island has a vocabulary of over 4,000
words, and is used by "Silbadors" to send messages across the island's
deep valleys. Though Silbo was on the verge of extinction in the 1990s,
the Gomerans have made a concerted effort to revive their language by
adding it to the public school curriculum. Today 3,000 schoolchildren
are in the process of learning it.
http://www.kirchersociety.org/blog/2007/08/07/
the-whistling-language-of-gomero-island/
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