A man in Laruns, southwestern France, whistling as a form of speech. Like others in the Canary Islands and elsewhere, local people have learned to whistle their language to communicate across long ...

Whistle communication has been documented on nearly every continent, including the Spanish Canary Islands off Morocco's Atlantic coast. "A little more than 90 languages have a whistled form, ...

In a remote mountain village high above Turkey's Black Sea coast, there are villagers who still communicate across valleys by whistling. Not just whistling as in a non-verbal, "Hey, you!" But actually ...