There is a language on a small Spanish island in the Canary archipelago that is made entirely of whistles, can carry a full sentence across six miles of mountain ravine, and is still taught to every child in school

The island is called La Gomera. It sits in the Atlantic Ocean approximately 300 kilometres off the west coast of Morocco, in the western half of the Canary Islands archipelago. It is small, roughly 380 square kilometres in area, and dominated by an extinct volcanic dome that rises steeply from the sea. The interior of [...] The post There is a language on a small Spanish island in the Canary archipelago that is made entirely of whistles, can carry a full sentence across six miles of mountain rav