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The whistled language of La Gomera Island in the Canaries, the Silbo Gomero, replicates the islanders habitual language (Castilian Spanish) with whistling.

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Musical protolanguage" Delve even further, and we might begin to understand how those traits arose in pre-history. Music and language both involved extraordinary changes: refined articulation, the capacity to imitate others and the ability think symbolically. But what set it all in motion? One particularly elegant solution to this conundrum dates back to the father of evolutionary theory, Charles Darwin, who proposed that the two traits arose together as a kind of “musical protolanguage”. According to this view, humans first started singing before we could talk – perhaps as a kind of courtship ritual. Like the blackbird’s song, the musical protolanguage would have been a way to show off our virtuosity, forge social bonds, and scare off rivals, without carrying specific meanings. Over time, however, the practice would have pushed us to evolve a finer control of our vocal chords, which then laid the foundations for more meaningful utterances.

BBC - Future - The beautiful languages of the people who talk like birds

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Whisteling!

So now I can kinda whistle on my hands, plus I can whistle handsfree AND whistle on an acorn cap AND a rough cockle shell and now I'm practicing whistling on my fingers~

My dad can do that and he's SO LOUD with it! So cool!

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