Today I Found Out

The Language Made Up Entirely of Whistles (2015x12)

Air date: Jun 01, 2015

→Subscribe for new videos every day! http://bit.ly/todayifoundoutsubscribe →Why Do “” means “Gomeran whistling,” which is an apt name for the language “spoken” on La Gomera in the Canary Islands. You see, this language is made up entirely of whistling sounds. The language was used by the Guanches—the aboriginal people of the Canary Islands—long before Spanish settlement. It is a whistled form of the original Guanche language, which died out around the 17th century. Not much is known about that spoken language of those people save for a few words recorded in the journals of travellers and a few others that were integrated into the Spanish spoken on the Canary Islands. It is believed that spoken Guanche had a simple phonetic pattern that made it easily adaptable to whistling. The language was whistled across the Canary Islands, popular on Gran Canaria, Tenerife, and El Hiero as well as La Gomera. Want the text version? http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2013/07/the-language-made-up-entirely-of-whistles/ Resources/Further Reading: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-20953138 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silbo_Gomero_language http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgEmSb0cKBg