{"id":1099,"date":"2018-11-30T12:00:30","date_gmt":"2018-11-30T17:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.pimsleur.com\/?p=1099"},"modified":"2019-06-17T09:23:57","modified_gmt":"2019-06-17T13:23:57","slug":"whistled-languages-ultimate-guide-long-distance-conversations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pimsleur.com\/blog\/whistled-languages-ultimate-guide-long-distance-conversations\/","title":{"rendered":"Whistled Languages \u2013 Ultimate Guide to Long Distance Conversations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In some languages, <em>whistled languages<\/em> can be used as a fill-in for spoken language when a face-to-face conversation is not possible. Whistled speech is a form of communication that abstracts certain aspects of spoken language into whistles. These whistles languages can be understood by others in the speech community.<\/p>\n<p>Whistled languages can be found all around the world including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=4713068\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Yupik<\/a> (spoken in parts of Alaska and the Russian Far East),<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/410362\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mazatec languages<\/a> (spoken mostly in northern Oaxaca, Mexico),<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/show\/ancient-whistling-language-grave-danger-dying\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Greek<\/a>,<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/parallels\/2015\/09\/26\/443434027\/in-a-turkish-village-conversation-with-whistles-not-words\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Turkish<\/a>,<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/future\/story\/20170525-the-people-who-speak-in-whistles\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Akha<\/a> (spoken in southern China, eastern Myanmar, northern Laos, and northern Thailand), and<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/news.cnrs.fr\/opinions\/the-fascinating-art-of-whistled-speech\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Banen<\/a> (spoken in Cameroon).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Long Distance Conversations<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"ttps:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/tech\/elements\/the-whistled-language-of-northern-turkey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Whistled language<\/a> seems to crop up in mountain ranges or dense jungles, where difficult terrain might create more of a necessity for communication at a distance.<\/p>\n<p>Many languages with whistled speech have <em>tone<\/em> (a grammatical property of some languages; described below.) Though, neither Greek, Turkish or\u00a0Spanish (which is whistled by at least two <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/PgEmSb0cKBg\">distinct<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/40460143\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">groups)\u00a0<\/a>have tone. However, tone is an important feature of most languages with whistled speech, and it tends to be the grammatical feature that makes whistled languages possible.<\/p>\n<p>Tone is one way in which languages use <em>pitch <\/em>\u2014 the degree of highness or lowness of a sound \u2014 to encode meaning in language. In languages with tone (including Thai, Mandarin Chinese, Cantonese, most Bantu languages, Zapotec languages, and many more), each syllable has at least one tone associated with it. Tone can distinguish between words, mark inflections, and encode other grammatical properties.<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/B8RQ_4PBD0w\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sochiapan Chinantec<\/a> (spoken in north-central Oaxaca, Mexico), the syllable <em>ta<\/em> with a high pitch is a question: \u2018will we arrive?\u2019<\/p>\n<p><em>Ta<\/em> with a midtone means \u2018we arrive,\u2019 and <em>ta<\/em> with a low pitch means \u2018foot\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>In whistled speech, tones \u2014 as well as vowel length and intonation \u2014 are imitated by whistling. This type of communication is typically used over long distances. Not all whistles are considered whistled speech, however.<\/p>\n<p>Whistled speech encodes a specific message that could also be spoken. Non-speech whistling doesn\u2019t do this: the whistle we use in English to get people\u2019s attention (high-low-high) doesn\u2019t map to any specific spoken message.<\/p>\n<p>The spoken equivalent to the \u2018high-low-high\u2019 whistle is probably &#8220;hey!&#8221; but that\u2019s not pronounced with high-low-high intonation. This is in contrast to whistled speech, which mimics the pitches or tone of spoken language.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Whistled Speech Languages in Mexico<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>In Sochiapan Chinantec, entire conversations can be whistled. Whistled speech is used when face-to-face communication is difficult or impossible: for example, when there\u2019s a lot of fog or when communicating over long distances across canyons or between mountains.<\/p>\n<p>In this culture, only men whistle-speak to each other, but everyone who speaks the language can understand what the whistles mean. This gender divide is common in the whistled speech of various languages spoken in southern Mexico; it is shared, for example, by Mazatec languages.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Examples of Whistled Languages<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>If you want to hear whistled language in Sochiapan Chinantec, <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/m-Ltqp7wBIw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this<\/a> is a short example dialogue. In the whistled conversation, a man named Francisco (F) tells Marcelino (M) that he\u2019s going to go work on his land today.<\/p>\n<p>Marcelino asks about Francisco\u2019s crops and asks Francisco to bring him back some of Francisco\u2019s oranges. Francisco agrees, and Marcelino invites Francisco over later that evening, saying that he\u2019s not going anywhere today.<\/p>\n<p>Far beyond a short list of memorized phrases, entire spontaneous conversations can be held in Sochiapan Chinantec whistled speech.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>To learn more about whistled conversations in Sochiapan Chinantec, check out this brief documentary.<\/strong><\/h3>\n<div class=\"clear clearfix\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"flex-video widescreen youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"210 - Whistles in the Mist: Whistled Speech in Oaxaca\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/57291304?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>One of the fascinating things about whistled speech is that humans have developed it independently of each other on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linguisticsociety.org\/sites\/default\/files\/07_92.2Sicoli.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">every populated continent<\/a> of the world.<\/p>\n<p>Whistled speech, like language itself, serves a particular need: long-distance communication and communication that isn\u2019t face-to-face. Many of our human ancestors identified this problem and addressed it in the same way.<\/p>\n<p>Whistled speech is not the only way to solve this problem: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/715964\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">some languages<\/a> spoken in West and Central Africa use <em>talking drums<\/em>\u00a0or\u00a0<em>drum language<\/em>\u00a0to send messages long distances between towns.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Drum Language &amp; Talking Instruments<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/40460588\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Yoruba<\/a> (spoken mostly in Benin and Nigeria), a language with tone, some types of drums mimic the tones of spoken language and are used for communication. Drums are not necessarily the only \u2018talking\u2019 instruments in West Africa, either: in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/1159675\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hausa<\/a> (spoken in southern Niger and northern Nigeria), flutes, trumpets, and horns are used in addition to drums.<\/p>\n<p>In the past, speakers of Kele (the Democratic Republic of the Congo) used drum language to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/j.ctt5vjsmr.27\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announce<\/a> births, deaths, marriages, and other important cultural events. Sadly, this form of communication is no longer in use in the Kele language today.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Endangered Languages<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Similarly, forms of whistled speech are being lost in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/parallels\/2015\/09\/26\/443434027\/in-a-turkish-village-a-conversation-with-whistles-not-words\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Turkish<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/show\/ancient-whistling-language-grave-danger-dying\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Greek<\/a>. Language families like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/410362\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mazatec<\/a> and Chinantec are endangered, so the whistled forms of all these languages are threatened as well.<\/p>\n<p>Whistled speech languages (and drum languages) address the problem of long-distance communication, but other tools, like cell phones and the internet, also address this problem. However, whistled languages are mostly found in places where it\u2019s quite difficult to provide cell phone service, like mountain ranges.<\/p>\n<p>Whistled languages are free, perfectly designed for their environment, require no equipment, and are already in use around the world. Perhaps this ancient technology fills a specific niche that newer ones will never be able to replace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In some languages, whistled languages can be used as a fill-in for spoken language when a face-to-face conversation is not possible. Whistled speech is a form of communication that abstracts certain aspects of spoken language into whistles. These whistles languages can be understood by others in the speech community. 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