Across peaks, they whistle at each other in a centuries-old language, now jeopardised by rural flight. "The whistle language is our telephone," joked Hammou, 59, the elder of a family known for the ...

A man in Laruns, southwestern France, whistling as a form of speech. Like others in the Canary Islands and elsewhere, local people have learned to whistle their language to communicate across long ...

High above the Black Sea, villagers communicate across deep valleys using a whistled language. Elders are working to keep alive this tradition,... In A Turkish Village, A Conversation With Whistles, ...

Sitting atop a cliff in the Canary Islands, Antonio Márquez Navarro issued an invitation — “Come over here, we’re going to slaughter the pig”— without speaking a word: He whistled it. In the distance, ...

The human brain's remarkable flexibility to understand a variety of signals as language extends to an unusual whistle language used by shepherds on one of the Canary Islands off the northwest coast of ...

In Morocco's High Atlas mountains, shepherds Hammou Amraoui and his son hardly need words to speak. Across peaks, they whistle at each other in a centuries-old language, now jeopardised by rural ...