Loud, piercing and sharp...a whistle is hard to ignore. But whistling
languages are in danger of dying out. But residents of Kusköy on the
Black Sea coast still communicate by whistling. An ee sounds higher than
an ah. Consonants are distinguished by changes in pitch over different
intervals of time. Eskimos communicate with whistles; so do indigenous
people in the Amazon, and in Europe shepherds keep boredom at bay and
communicate by whistling to each other. But the world's 70 whistling
languages are slowly becoming extinct. Kusköy in Turkey is defending the
tradition. (DW)
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