28 May
2013
28 May
'13
2:37 p.m.
On 05/28/2013 12:30 PM, Mouse wrote:
I believe there is some indigenous people somewhere
which has a
language whose sounds are all what a Westerner would call whistling; it
is used for (what is for them) long-distance communication, in part
because their land lends itself well to long-distance propagation of
such sounds.
Some Basque shepherds have a whistled language--the advantage being that
the sounds carry better than, say--uh, Basque.
--Chuck