Silbo

See also: silbo and silbó

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Etymology

From Spanish el silbo, from Spanish silbo gomero (literally Gomeran whistling), from Spanish silbo (whistling) + gomero (Gomeran; pertaining to Gomero, Canary Islands).

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Silbo

  1. A dialect of Spanish, a variant of the Spanish language that is spoken through whistling. This variant originates from La Gomera, Canary Islands, Spain.
    • 2015, Julien Meyer, Whistled Languages: A Worldwide Inquiry on Human Whistled Speech, Springer, →ISBN, page 65:
      For a long time, the initiative of teaching Silbo in school remained unique in the world. In 2009, after receiving intense regional and national support, the Spanish whistled form of La Gomera was inscribed on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.

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