I believe
there is some indigenous people somewhere which has a
 language whose sounds are all [] whistling; [...] 
 Maybe you had this in mind:
 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silbo_Gomero_language  
Maybe.  I thought it was a completely distinct language on its own, but
what I remember is fuzzy enough that the thing described certainly
could have been Silbo Gomero as outlined in that wikipedia page.
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