UNIT 09 - READING 1 Whistled Languages
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UNIT 09 - READING 1 Whistled Languages
Whistling is often thought of as a simple action done without thinking, but some people use whistling to have entire conversations. Today, as many as 70 whistled languages are used around the world. Some are based on widespread spoken languages, like Spanish, while others are based on languages with few speakers. What they usually have in common is that they are used in mountainous areas or thick forests. In these surroundings, whistling can be heard more clearly and from farther away than shouting can. Whistled languages are in danger of extinction because they tend to be used in isolated places. Take Sfyria, a whistled language from Antia, Greece, as an example. Its whistled sounds are based on the spoken sounds of Greek. Different combinations of whistled tones represent vowels, and consonants are reproduced by changing the tones of vowels. In the village where Sfyria originated, the population has declined to 37 people. Some residents have lost their teeth in their old age, so only six people able to whistle the language remain. In an attempt to save Sfyria, the people of Antia agreed to teach it to outsiders, something that was not done historically, and in 2012, they held a festival that attracted attention from around Greece and internationally. Some groups have been fairly successful in preserving their whistled languages. On the island of La Gomera, near northern Africa, a whistled language called Silbo Gomero allows people to communicate in Spanish over long distances. It works by simplifying the sounds of Spanish into two whistled vowels and four whistled consonants. In the 1950s, the use of Silbo Gomero declined because of new communication technology, but in the 1980s, people began to realize what they were losing and took steps to protect it. They revived classes in schools and introduced programs for adults, and people of all ages on the island can use Silbo Gomero today. So why fight to preserve a whistled language when we have long-distance communication tools? Each language carries information about the culture and history of the people who use it. As people everywhere begin to communicate in similar ways, will we remember the unique stories of people who saw, and talked about, the world in their own distinctive ways?
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