In this video, we travel to the Spanish island of La Gomera in the Canaries, to encounter an ancient mode of communication. Long before telephones were invented, locals living on the island, located ...

07:00, Sun, Jan 21, 2024 Updated: 11:02, Fri, Jan 26, 2024 Once upon a time, Europe was home to one of the highest concentrations of unique and distinct languages. Hundreds if not thousands of them ...

On the Canary Island of La Gomera there is a special form of communication: the whistled language Silbo Gomero. Find out why this tradition is still preserved today in part fourteen of our series ...

Sitting atop a cliff in the Canary Islands, Antonio Márquez Navarro issued an invitation — “Come over here, we’re going to slaughter the pig”— without speaking a word: He whistled it. In the distance, ...

On a Spanish island, an ancient whistling language that once seemed to be dying out is now undergoing a revival. The night has not yet fallen in La Gomera, one of the smallest Canary Islands. From the ...

The whistled language of La Gomera Island in the Canaries, the Silbo Gomero, replicates the islanders' habitual language (Castilian Spanish) with whistling. Handed down over centuries from master to ...