I was all set to say it was from the Canary Islands until I Googled things and it seems there are other whistling languages in Greece, Turkey and Mexico so who knows? I will go out on a limb and say it’s Silbo Gomero from the Canary Islands.
I was in the Canary Islands many years ago and I could hear the ‘whistle gomero’ (silbo gomero) and apparently it is that whistled tongue. But there are others – as noted by several of the comments – Pirahan Indians, many Indians from Mexico etc … even in Occitania, Larruns in full Pyrenees …
Is this the fabled canary island whistling language or do we now have to guess birdsong?
Sounds Passerine to me, though the overall pitch sounds deeper, like it came from a larger animal, like Homo, so maybe a creole.
I want to say Solresol, but I may be wrong.
Silbo Gomero
I was all set to say it was from the Canary Islands until I Googled things and it seems there are other whistling languages in Greece, Turkey and Mexico so who knows? I will go out on a limb and say it’s Silbo Gomero from the Canary Islands.
Could it be the whistled form of Pirahã?
I was in the Canary Islands many years ago and I could hear the ‘whistle gomero’ (silbo gomero) and apparently it is that whistled tongue. But there are others – as noted by several of the comments – Pirahan Indians, many Indians from Mexico etc … even in Occitania, Larruns in full Pyrenees …
I reckon it’s The Clangers !
The answer is Silbo Gomero, a whistled language used in La Gomera in the Canary Islands.
The recording comes from YouTube: