As a linguist (just a graduate but still), I'm fascinated. If humans made whistling a language, it's easy to imagine that dolphin whistling could be a language too.
@joseanl2 жыл бұрын
I wonder if you could teach them Silbo instead of learning their language that will be in a higher pitch and more complex
@NoBaconForYou Жыл бұрын
José that is actually a really good idea. I wonder if anyone else has had it too?
@jochem420 Жыл бұрын
@@joseanli wonder if that would work, it would be really cool
@joiesamaniego3056 Жыл бұрын
@@NoBaconForYouactually Mariah Carey did and the dolphin went nuts 😂😂😂 kidding aside that could be possible since they are really smart
@standard-carrier-wo-chan Жыл бұрын
Considering they say dolphins are comparably smart as a human child, it very well might. Perhaps it's rudimentary, and only has like several tens or hundreds of total words, but if it's still a language, there might be an argument to be made that dolphins are borderline sapient.
@AlexanderYamada Жыл бұрын
I'm so glad this has been made a required part of their school curriculum. Languages are a human treasure that can only be truly and fully preserved by ensuring the next generation can speak them fluently. Too many have died or are in the process of dying out.
@laura20892 жыл бұрын
It blows my mind that this is not only possible, but that it's a legitimate language
@meesegomoo1836 Жыл бұрын
In mexico they have one that doesn't require fingers.... Take that! Also same statement to the Turkish whistle language. The mexican one seems more day to day than specialized, hence the lack of fingers. Kind of like normal English vs morse code
@pedrosegundo8109 Жыл бұрын
Why it would blow your mind? A word is just articulated sound. A whistle is sound too.
@AlejandroPRGH Жыл бұрын
Technically it's not a language but a code. It could be done with Morse code.
@sjuns51594 ай бұрын
@@AlejandroPRGH Yeah, the language is Spanish, it's a way to transmit Spanish through tone. (Specifically, it's the second vowel formant frequency that's whistled.) Originally the Spanish invaders learned the whistling from the native (now all dead) Guanche, who whistled their own language. And I saw a guy who could do it also easily whistle his native Basque as well.
@bramblebush27072 жыл бұрын
My dad used to whistle to get our attention in loud place or from far away. It was super useful during the Christchurch earthquakes. Only downside it that some dog owners use the same whistles... I've gone looking for my dad and ended up at a dog park a few times
@AlejandroPRGH2 жыл бұрын
My father was an officer in the Spanish Army and he had a whistled call for each of us 4 brothers, much like bugle calls.
@Michael-st9ky Жыл бұрын
@@AlejandroPRGHmy father does the same. It is like my second name
@jorgehacevedo-mendez35339 ай бұрын
Mi padre ,Juan H. Acevedo Arce,nos llamaba con un tremendo silbido a casa de Don.Antonio Forte,a un kilómetro de distancia!Se escuchaba claro!JHACV2
@b.philly6926 Жыл бұрын
We have this way of communication in the atlas mountains of morocco. The original Amazigh (berber) shepherds has been using it for hundreds of years according to them . It is absolutely fascinating
@ImranChaudhry9 ай бұрын
The original inhabitants of the Canaries were related to the Amazighs so there is a link there.
@overclashtsk45125 ай бұрын
@@ImranChaudhry not really it’s moreso a fact of the geography and it’s a way shepherds talked even in the Romanian mountains.
@overclashtsk45125 ай бұрын
It’s even cooler as it’s most likely they spoke this way for thousands not hundreds of years.
@bennemann3 жыл бұрын
It would be interesting to see a study of whether people who speak Silbo since childhood have a higher-than-average incidence of perfect pitch.
@jeffreyboyd27583 жыл бұрын
The sounds as they appear to you are not only different from those that are really present, but they sometimes behave so strangely as to seem quite impossible. Sometimes behave so strangely. Sometimes behave so strangely.
@macster14573 жыл бұрын
I'm guessing people who suffer from Amusia won't be able to ever speak this language.
@ikhaatjullieallemaalpersoo57152 жыл бұрын
People who speak tonal languages like Mandarin tend to be closer to Perfect Pitch than stressed languages like English or Dutch
@josiahjray Жыл бұрын
@@macster1457 Speech processing is able to compensate amusia in tonal languages well enough to communicate (albeit with a potential, additional struggle), so I figure it’d be similar in this language.
@macster1457 Жыл бұрын
@@josiahjray I don't think you're understanding what Amusia is.
@faydulaksono3 жыл бұрын
recently read on wikipedia ..whistle sound could be heard at 5kms! amazing 👍🏻
@minmax68682 жыл бұрын
What a fun, smart, unique, natural way to communicate among such beautiful place.
@lopazio2 жыл бұрын
Been searching youtube. So many places around the world where people comunicate through whistling it proves this was a big part of human evolution. people would comunicate like this in the past.
@nitinkale5602 жыл бұрын
Human civilization is full of such wonders. Thanks for the great video.
@marikaserasini23153 жыл бұрын
I lived in Tenerife Island for some months, years ago, and I heard about "El Silbo" but never visited La Gomera. I'll do❤ Love Spain 🇪🇸
@ettenaejodeveca67072 жыл бұрын
Amazing! Reminds me of the special whistle I had for when my son was in a crowded playground. I'd whistle and he'd pop up and wave. Lol, I love it!
@jimmy83773 жыл бұрын
En 4:17 es muy interesante escuchar el silbo, ver la traducción "Buenos días. Soy Kiko Correa y estamos en la gomera" y después volver a escuchar el silbo. Suena exactamente como el español pero en silbo. Muy interesante!
@flamah10n3 жыл бұрын
hahaha prefiro ouvir a fala mesmo
@brina50643 жыл бұрын
En realidad creo que la primera vez cuando lo silba el dice "Buenos días. Yo soy- Kiko Correa - y estamos - en La Gomera". Sucede que cuando Kiko repite la traducción, omitió el "Yo" por olvido
@Tsmithleather3 жыл бұрын
@@brina5064 We got a proper uni linguist in the chat here bois
@ShiruSama12 жыл бұрын
Estoy flipando tienes razón
@ShiruSama12 жыл бұрын
@@brina5064 opino que incluir el "yo" en el silbo ayuda a dar contexto
@buboniccraig89611 ай бұрын
The line cooks at my job speak this. I didn't know it was a language and started whistling back and they were really amused. I repeated some of their whistles back so I think they probably pranked me by saying stupid stuff
@Michellez55 ай бұрын
I can whistle pretty loud but not through my fingers. I'd love to learn, knowing that my great-grandmother Louisa came from the Canary Islands. She passed away in America from tuberculosis & my grandma was adopted by italian, so I feel I have to keep tradition alive. Thanks for posting. I first learned about whistling from Guanches first inhabitants of Tenerife one of many Islands or Canaria.
@Pssst.ByTheWay3 жыл бұрын
i can whistle. not just the O lipped kind, but also that loud finger kind. i cant do the retroflexed tongue, but im sure i could learn. it would be fun to learn some words. and who knows what happens from there. wikipedia says:There are a few different techniques of how to produce whistle speech, the choice of which is dependent on practical concerns. Bilabial and labiodental techniques are common for short and medium distance discussions (in a market, in the noise of a room, or for hunting); whereas the tongue retroflexed, one or two fingers introduced in the mouth, a blow concentrated at the junction between two fingers or the lower lip pulled while breathing in air are techniques used to reach high levels of power for long distance speaking.[4]
@bobabier53943 жыл бұрын
so you basically learned that a quiet whistle without fingers involved are more useful for short distances and the loud ones with one or more fingers are for distance communication. wow. after you understood the technique you gotta learn the language^^ sorry, dude. to be able to whistle loud or quiet is just like to be able to talk or to scream. as a good whistler in our culture you still need years to learn that language.
@Pssst.ByTheWay3 жыл бұрын
@@bobabier5394 whats with the smug, down looking, passive aggressive tone. i didnt even say anything apart from, i can whistle, which kinds and its be fun to learn the language. and you come up all in my comment smug for nothing. wtf. not everyone can whistle quiet or loud. so its hardl like talking and screaming. i didnt say it was a realisation that a loud whistle is better for long distances. i just wrote a chain of though. not like i was "AHA loud noise travel further!?!" where is this condesending smugness coming from. plus unlike your useless comment i looked stuff up on wikipedia. and hopefully contributed to the discussion. if you looking for a fire hydrant to pee on, look somewhere else
@BaSsGaZ3 жыл бұрын
Everyone is like "Shutfeeew up! I'meeew tryiiiiing to spweeeeak heeeeeere"
@rishabhtyagi73693 жыл бұрын
Respect for your efforts to 'rediscover' and 'revive' your culture form India.
@janethsantamaria7373 жыл бұрын
It’s a different and interesting report. Congratulations from Ecuador
@portapeye10 ай бұрын
Fascinating. Reminds me of how birds communicate. Language is after all sounds produced in patterns. Awesome. 😊
@lS-qp6zq3 жыл бұрын
A whistling language that has been formed by their ancestors for generations, it's a shame for it to disappear from their culture. (But cellphone battery fail is always a possibility, so...)
@Alejandro-jk7md2 жыл бұрын
Its actually not disapearing because its taught in schools all over La Gomera
@mu31913 жыл бұрын
Amazing. Whenever I try to whistle it sounds like a dying miniature brass instrument
@willfr83 жыл бұрын
Can't believe whistling is just as hard as learning a new language (but I guess this IS a new language 😂)
@holdingpattern2452 жыл бұрын
it's just regular Spanish language with all of the sounds changed into whistles.
@sandrakisch36003 жыл бұрын
Fascinating! Thankyou from Canada.
@MIDEVILKING262 жыл бұрын
I am from Gran Canaria and was always curious about this
@rahelbekafa11363 жыл бұрын
Thank you 🙏 I never heard this before wow
@dweuromaxx3 жыл бұрын
You're welcome!
@manichairdo92659 ай бұрын
Keeping your unique and rich cultural history alive is essential. Beautiful area and beautiful people.
@dbal_3d2 жыл бұрын
So that’s the language R2D2 speaks!
@marodrey3 жыл бұрын
Bravo!!! Excellent story and great tradition!
@KingLouie913 жыл бұрын
Too bad there is no explanation about the technique itself, or rather, when he started explaining the technique a voice-over starts chattering through it.
@Deenique163 жыл бұрын
You can easily do your own research. It’s said to mimic the sounds in the Spanish language. As far as the technique they literally said you have to practice whistling through your fingers. There is no magic trick
@burninglight2 жыл бұрын
I am descendant of Guanches and we grow up whistling 😗 but we were not allowed to whistle in the house. It’s weird but whistling to us was like second nature.
@dweuromaxx2 жыл бұрын
@burninglight light Interesting! In Germany there is a superstition only known to few - whistling in a theater brings bad luck to the actors.. 🎭
@burninglight2 жыл бұрын
@@dweuromaxx Interesting
@burninglight2 жыл бұрын
@@dweuromaxx there’s so much people don’t know about our heritage. I think 🤔 this whole thing about the Guanches have been exploded for money. They made it into a tourist spot and making money off my ancestors. Spain murdered my people and now they make statues of them to promote people touring the island. They did not create pottery, pyramid and among other things. Just not right to gain profit from souls that that murdered.
@hibya20662 жыл бұрын
Do guanches still existe?! Are those that whiste all descendants of them?
@burninglight2 жыл бұрын
@@hibya2066 not everyone that whistle are Guanches. Guanches tribe does not exist but they have descendants.
@StormyHotwolf88 Жыл бұрын
This is like finding out about using lighting if you are learning fire bending.
@ilovemuseums Жыл бұрын
Jesus, omgh I'm a grown-up adult and suddenly today I've learned about the Silbo language... didn't even know its existence, I had no idea that such a language exists in the world :-)
@The7thAdam3 жыл бұрын
I'm going to learn this by all means
@Deenique163 жыл бұрын
Nice
@thephantomzoneboxing3 жыл бұрын
haha good luck with that sh!t
@ellederberryblue83773 жыл бұрын
Well there are over 20 different whistling African languages. Interesting that ppl are perplexed at the origin of this form of communication 🤔🤔.
@BIGDaddYfromVenuS5 ай бұрын
Beautiful house in beautiful island 😍😍
@Ladran_Sancho Жыл бұрын
Human ingenuity at its best!
@AsperaAdAstra Жыл бұрын
Damn, didnt know there is such cool info on German news channels!
@rommix0 Жыл бұрын
Weird I got here. I only found out about this whistling language because there is a dataset for it on OpenSLR that could be used for deep learning.
@alfredobrown Жыл бұрын
This is very interesting! Did not know about it. I have a unique way of whistling to call my sons. Even the neighbors now know it !
@NevilleBamshu232 ай бұрын
I hesrd about this from a comment in vid about stick jumping...this is so fascinating..
@georgeg60363 жыл бұрын
Very Cool!
@alexbowman7582Ай бұрын
There used to be a similar whistling language in Britain only used by workmen on building sites and only spoken to attractive females who happened to walk by the site however that whistling language was banned after complaints not from the attractive women whistled at but by unattractive women who were not whistled at.
@malikaabizar8318 Жыл бұрын
Canary islands 🇮🇨 inhabited first by the guanches ( amazigh people of north africa ) you can also find their mommified bodies their, the silbo is their language of whistling made by guamches. Long live imazighen.
@F.G_73 жыл бұрын
Omg 😱 Same in Turkey (Kusköy)
@dweuromaxx3 жыл бұрын
@lilo Thank you for the hint! We should send Hendrik to Kusköy - however it is questionable whether the people understand the "vocabulary" he has learned so far...😉
@daMacadamBlob Жыл бұрын
this is so cool
@dweuromaxx Жыл бұрын
Thanks! We think so too
@Theoldindie3 жыл бұрын
The real "windtalkers"...
@the_original_Bilb_Ono Жыл бұрын
I gotta learn this.
@jeremymiller95823 жыл бұрын
The 2 vowels/4 consonants model is dated (though it still has supporters); the most recent proposal I’ve seen using modern statistical methods shows 4 vowels/8-10 consonants. Research is ongoing.
@Douken3 жыл бұрын
So you say you've traveled there and that's what they do?
@jeremymiller95823 жыл бұрын
@@Douken I’ve been there, but I don’t know how to understand/speak it. However, it’s the subject of many research articles in phonology, where the “consensus” description has been revised over time.
@serapaltnok9756 Жыл бұрын
In giresun city of turkey, in a village, we have a bird language (kuş dili) like that 🙂
@MARV0C3 жыл бұрын
we be watching this for spanish class.
@Deenique163 жыл бұрын
Jayden, your grammar is horrible.
@mateocolegial55713 жыл бұрын
*COOL!!!*
@miriamhernandez4952 жыл бұрын
Nos podemos comunicar con los pajaritos... Guau. Ahora entiendo Alos pajaritos cuando nos cantan...🥰
@StudentsBunnyHome3 жыл бұрын
Hey guys from DW! Put the elements at the end of the video... I was expecting a suggestion for another interesting clip!
@dweuromaxx3 жыл бұрын
@Homeworks Thanks, we just did our homework, done!
@StudentsBunnyHome3 жыл бұрын
@@dweuromaxx Hahaha... Thanks to all of you!
@김선정-t4h3 жыл бұрын
its a very beautiful story .. >.
@Maskerade40403 жыл бұрын
It is
@flowmingo75222 жыл бұрын
This sounds like a good medium for a human-dolphin language exchange
@yl376610 ай бұрын
Coming from San Mao’s novel about this whistling language on la gomera island
@lafilosofiadelcanido1055 Жыл бұрын
En mi barrio, los asaltantes y extorsionadores se comunican igual.
@ScottPalmer-mp1we Жыл бұрын
With my luck, I would finally get a great whistle out and it would be an unknowing insult or bad word.
@TaLeng20235 ай бұрын
With my luck, I'll probably end up summoning some eldritch entity and learn the hard way why many cultures have taboos on whistling.
@AstroFlipo9 ай бұрын
Does anyone know where I can learn how to whistle like that? Like not talk the language but whistle like that?
@SicketMog2 ай бұрын
Online by yourself (?). I've picked up random hobbies/learned a bunch of random shizz online over the years. Edit: oh and the reason I'm on this video now is just because I've recently been wanting to learn to whistle NORMALLY; to expand my range and whistle songs. Sat in front of the computer, sick, the other week (still sick but now down with something new) and just whistled and suddenly whistling different notes clicked for me while it never has before. Thus looked up how worldclass whistlers sound, fell down a new e-rabbithole and am now slowly learning.
@talatpasa8662 жыл бұрын
similarly, it is widely used in Turkey Giresun Kuşköy.
@catalinpastiu6740 Жыл бұрын
The island where Columbus used to launch his voyages from.
@KaneyoriHK Жыл бұрын
I tried it out, and I had oddly good success, but I'm a decent whistler
@spawnnato Жыл бұрын
I don’t know what’s more interesting… the whistling, or this guys hair.
@DrKingcake3 жыл бұрын
It’s amazing, they don’t have a Spanish accent, it almost sounds Cuban.
@christownsend75523 жыл бұрын
“Trade route” Spanish.
@redl1ner1702 жыл бұрын
It's very diferent from cuban.
@jorgeortiz44852 жыл бұрын
@@redl1ner170 It is definitely different from the Cuban, and at the same it is, it's actually the parent accent/dialect of the Cuban accent. Spaniards from the Canary Islands, along with Andalusia, Galicia, the Basque Country, Extremadura and Castile-Leon, were the principal groups emigrating to the Americas during the Spanish Empire days and after. Canarians, shown here, primarily migrated to the Dominican Republic, Cuba, Puerto Rico and Venezuela, which is why their accents are indeed similar to this day.
@karinec.21318 ай бұрын
Where do you think it comes from…
@NevilleBamshu232 ай бұрын
Sat here tryin to whistle like this ha ha i"m probaly pissin my neighbours off..
@Ethan-xy4ih Жыл бұрын
I was doing an IELTS reading test and it led me here
@wretched17 Жыл бұрын
What's even more amazing is that man had a coconut grafted to his head in lieu of a toupee...
@dweuromaxx Жыл бұрын
🤔
@pillbobaggins2766 Жыл бұрын
it makes me think of the native birds in Australia
@anandraneves26702 жыл бұрын
Incrível!!!
@dharmapunk7773 жыл бұрын
anybody else wish they spent more time on the actual instructions and less time on the background info?
@dweuromaxx3 жыл бұрын
@dharmapunk777 So you want to see a whistling tutorial? 🚂
@dharmapunk7773 жыл бұрын
@@dweuromaxx a Silbo tutorial
@sergio_jose Жыл бұрын
Sounds like my mom tryna round us up at the store 😂 she's cuban but raised in puerto rico (and my dad and me are puerto rican) so we get a lot of culture from the canary islands 🙏
@Jinouga5023 жыл бұрын
Human version of speaking bird.
@lindo72133 жыл бұрын
Great, but to me is impossible too the whistle. 😆😅
@invatalimbaturcacudelia91712 жыл бұрын
A whistling language exist even in Northern Turkey.
@MdMASUDRANA-te5rb Жыл бұрын
💜💜💜
@tonyhakston5363 жыл бұрын
3:50 did he just
@Astranamic5 ай бұрын
So R2-D2's beeping could actually be a plausible form of communication!
@behrouzshiri3742 Жыл бұрын
If it wasn't for IELTS reading 15, probably I wouldn't know these guys exists XD
@aurtisanminer28273 жыл бұрын
It’s like an extra primitive version of morse code in ham radio.
@mokodo_2 жыл бұрын
Imagine arguing with your wife in this language
@dweuromaxx2 жыл бұрын
@Greg _ • Better try "Love chirping" first 😁
@marcusjava999911 ай бұрын
When I try to learn a new language. My brain tries to tie the English words first into the translation for me to understand what’s said. I feel like I’m doing this wrong. How can I understand other languages without forcing myself to translate every word into English first? Or is that the only way?
@ahsanashrafani3 жыл бұрын
Who is like me there? Those who have completed IELTS passage15 test 4.
@vivian9803 Жыл бұрын
Well... now I've heard everything... 😆
@Douken3 жыл бұрын
3:49 What! 9,000!?
@flymetotheup99043 жыл бұрын
I can whistle.
@michellearango41483 ай бұрын
It's not that e.z but I 1t 2 learn !!! 😢 M moving to "la Gomera " ...
@HOPROPHETA3 ай бұрын
Sounds like a bird language. Many western cultures use this in part for naval notifications and for comments such as "watch out!"
@BudFox5753 ай бұрын
The German guy at the beginning was mind blown lol. If you whistled like this in Germany they would commit you to a mental institution 😂
@erhangenc23817 ай бұрын
Turkish city çanakçı kuşköy use bird language
@TopOfTheMorningIRLNZ4 ай бұрын
'to be honest I haven't understood anything'.... ahahahhahaha
@redtrojan77583 жыл бұрын
VIVA CANARIAS
@larsthorwald3338 Жыл бұрын
Let's hear him whistle the Gettysburg Address. hahaha
@delacaravanio7 ай бұрын
Presenter looks like a German Brian Cox
@ayoub.boughaba Жыл бұрын
dude imagine if this is all cap and some group just invented that language like 20 years ago or something 💀💀
@teresaherrerapadilla1836 Жыл бұрын
Noo es muy verídico y se ha pasado de generación a generación Sobre todo en las personas campesinas q vivían más aisladas entre las montañas y laderas Te lo afirma una Gomera 😊😂❤
@TcserveriКүн бұрын
🇹🇷 🇪🇸 🇬🇷 🇮🇹 Same ppl
@diego-pro78673 жыл бұрын
People from the last of us 2 bring me here
@hdgarcia4 ай бұрын
Have they heard of the cell phone
@dweuromaxx3 ай бұрын
Poor reception up there in the mountains..😉
@jessicametaneira78613 жыл бұрын
I think I crapped my pants trying to understand those whistles