Across peaks, they whistle at each other in a centuries-old language, now jeopardised by rural flight. "The whistle language is our telephone," joked Hammou, 59, the elder of a family known for the ...

Sitting atop a cliff in the Canary Islands, Antonio Márquez Navarro issued an invitation — “Come over here, we’re going to slaughter the pig”— without speaking a word: He whistled it. In the distance, ...

A man in Laruns, southwestern France, whistling as a form of speech. Like others in the Canary Islands and elsewhere, local people have learned to whistle their language to communicate across long ...

For about 10,000 residents of a small village in northeast Turkey, speaking is more like singing. Receive emails about upcoming NOVA programs and related content, as well as featured reporting about ...

In Morocco's High Atlas mountains, shepherds Hammou Amraoui and his son hardly need words to speak. Across peaks, they whistle at each other in a centuries-old language, now jeopardised by rural ...