Silbo Gomero -- the long-distance whistled Spanish of La Gomera in the Canaries

03/12/2021

Silbo Gomero -- the long-distance whistled Spanish of La Gomera in the Canaries

"A whistled register of Spanish used by inhabitants of La Gomera in the Canary Islands to communicate over a distance of up to three miles, across the deep ravines and narrow valleys that radiate through the island." -- Wikipedia

Listen (turning on captioning helps).

Posted at 12:38 PM in Culture, Dialects, Foreign Languages, Linguistics, Music, Travel | Permalink

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