Residents of the mountainous village of Antia in Evia, Greece "speak" a unique whistle language called Sfyria.

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An ancient whistling language "spoken" by about 10,000 people in the mountains of northeastern Turkey has a distinct advantage over the lumbering mouth-speech the rest of us use — it uses the entire ...

You could say they sent the first tweets. An ancient whistling language that sounds a little like birdsong has been found to use both sides of the brain – challenging the idea that the left side is ...

This ancient whistling language is in grave danger of dying out In the Greek island village of Antio, home to the world's most endangered language, aging residents communicate across hillsides through ...

Travel far enough and often enough, and you'll pick up some phrases and local expressions to help you through your day, but there is another world to language that even the most worldly travelers ...

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 ...

Whistle while you work, indeed. A language that uses a series of whistles to communicate has challenged the conventional wisdom that language is a left-brain activity. Whistled Turkish — which is ...

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, ...

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 ...