Why are there no human languages consisting significantly or primarily of whistles?
Why do people make stupid questions?
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>>17032894Some birds seem to communicate in what sounds like what is close to the sound of human whistling.Some obscure Indigenous tribals have a language primarily made up of audible "clicking" sounds, very different than typical spoken human language but still made with the same vocal mechanisms of the mouth, throat, tongue and breath
i cant whistle
>>17032920Just push your lips together, and blow
>>17032894>Speakers of more than 80 languages have been found to practice various degrees of whistled speechhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whistled_language
>>17032937more specificallyhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_bird_language
>>17032923*ppfffrrtrtffffrrrtttt*
>>17032913>I compiled all my relevant knowledge in one paragraph and now I look like LLM
>>17032937>check list of whistled languages >click link for "Sfyria">link directs to the same exact page and sectionWikipedia editors are incompetent.
>>17032894This is bait thread to get people to list people that talk in whistles. I know at least one such language. Its not science but a pretext.
>>17032894clicks have higher data rates than whistles
>>17033006Nice contribution to the discussion.
>>17032938I thought this one was the most well known:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silbo_Gomero>>17033302FOr a wide ebough definition, Morse code qualifies and has a fairly good data rate if you are competent.
>>17033324Congratulations you fell for the bait
I'm a mediocre beatboxer. I've thought about making a beatboxing / percussion language for a long time. It could convey information more densely than Morse code, and would be cool as hell. The question is should it be a full-blown conlang built from the ground up, or something like an English vocable substitution cypher? The latter would be easier to learn, but the former has more creative potential as well as educational by promoting the learning of languages in general.
A whistling language would be ultra dank too and could easily gain some measure of popularity. Just call it "Avian" and it excites the imagination. One could design the structure of the language to somehow reflect "avianness," For example emphasizing 4-dimensionality reflecting flight instead of 2-dimensionality, and verb-oriented / processual, reflecting migration.A river” might literally be “that-which-flows”“tree” could be “that-which-branches-and-holds”“predator” could be “that-which-pursues-from-above."The language would have an inherent dynamic and flowing linguistic quality that would aesthetically pair perfectly with the whistles.Welp this is too cool not to be made. So I will make it. Then I will make music with it.
>>17033431I suppose the language will be built upon a set of foundational experiential verbs.
>>17032894Hard to do using human vocal cords
