Can you identify the language, and do you know where it’s spoken?
8 thoughts on “Language Quiz”
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.
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.
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.
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: