Definitions

1. Silbo, the peculiar whistling language used on La Gomera, was a Guanche invention.
2. Silbo is a rare language that linguists say is in danger of dying out.
3. Silbo is believed to have been brought to the island by Berbers from North Africa and today is a surrogate language for Spanish.
4. Silbo was once used throughout the hilly terrain of La Gomera as an ingenious way of communicating over long distances.
5. Silbo is believed to have come to the island from the Berber people of Morocco, Dr Rivero added.

Silbo Gomero Language

1. Silbo Gomero language, a whistled language, is an indigenous language, whose existence was known since Roman times.

Four Consonants

1. Silbo has only four vowels and four consonants.

Famous

1. You should not leave without first witnessing a live demonstration of the particularly famous ""silbo gomero", a peculiar local method of communication.

Developed

1. Silbo-like whistling has been found in pockets of Greece, Turkey, China and Mexico, but none is as developed as Silbo Gomero, Plasencia said.

Spanish Words

1. In the second task, the subjects listened to blocks of Spanish words for colors or animals and the equivalent "words" in Silbo.

Valleys

1. Famous for Silbo - whistling language which was used to communicate across the deep valleys.

Vowels

1. This language, called Silbo, has two vowels and four consonants.
2. This work containing almost a hundred spectrograms concludes in a theory that there are only two vowels and four consonants in the Silbo Gomero language.

People

1. In fact, he makes a living off Silbo, performing daily exhibitions at a restaurant on this island of 147 square miles and 19,000 people.

Aboriginal People

1. Some of these, like the typical pottery, the peculiar "Silbo" a whistling language or the drum dance, originated with the aboriginal people.

Canary Islands

1. As the Guanche language became extinct, a Spanish version of Silbo was adopted by some inhabitants of the Canary Islands.

Whistled

1. French is whistled in some areas of western Africa, and Silbo is a whistled dialect of Spanish spoken in one of the Canary Islands.

Whistles

1. Listen out for the language of whistles, silbo, developed many centuries ago to communicate over mountainous distances.
2. Silbo Gomero is a substitute for Spanish, with individual words recoded into whistles.

Whistling

1. The local inhabitants developed their own means of hilltop communication by means of whistling, known as silbo.
2. But almost as important as speaking -- sorry, whistling -- Silbo is studying where it came from, and little is known.
3. Silbo Gomero is a language consisting of four vowels, four consonants and over 4000 words all articulated through whistling.

Gomerans

1. The Gomerans have a unique way of communicating across the barrancos (valleys) by an amazing kind of whistled speech called Silbo.
2. One study is looking for vestiges of Silbo in Venezuela, Cuba and Texas, all places to which Gomerans have historically emigrated during hard economic times.

Gomera

1. One example is the Silbo on the island of La Gomera; others exist in Africa, Turkey, South America and Asia.
2. However, Silbo on La Gomera is unique as it has adopted Spanish speech patterns.
3. The language is called Silbo Gomero, and is only heard on the Canary Island of La Gomera, off the coast of Morocco.

Silbo

1. Silbo, originally a whistled form of Guanche speech used for communicating over long distances, was used on La Gomera, El Hierro, Tenerife, and Gran Canaria.
2. The Silbo, which is thought to have been brought to the island by Berbers from North Africa, condenses Spanish into two vowels and four consonants.
3. French is whistled in some areas of western Africa, and Silbo is a whistled dialect of Spanish.

Categories

1. Gomera
2. Culture > Arts > Music > Whistling
3. Unique Way
4. Whistled
5. Liquids > Water > Islands > Canary Islands
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