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	CNN.com - Nearly extinct whistling language revived - Nov. 18, 2003
		Juan Cabello demonstrates the whistling 'Silbo Gomero' language on the island of Gomera.
		Silbo -- the word comes from Spanish verb silbar, meaning to whistle -- features four "vowels" and four "consonants" that can be strung together to form more than 4,000 words.
		Silbo was once used throughout the hilly terrain of La Gomera as an ingenious way of communicating over long distances.
	www.cnn.com /2003/TECH/science/11/18/whistle.language.ap/index.html (706 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Europe \| Canary Island whistles again
		The language is called Silbo Gomero, and is only heard on the Canary Island of La Gomera, off the coast of Morocco.
		Until recently those who communicated in Silbo were dying out - but the government of the island made it compulsory for all schoolchildren on the island to study it, and now it is making a comeback.
		Silbo is believed to have come to the island from the Berber people of Morocco, Dr Rivero added.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/europe/3241128.stm (526 words)

	Silbo
		The Silbo Gomero ("Gomeran whistle") is a whistled language spoken by inhabitants of La Gomera in the Canary Islands to communicate across the deep valleys (barrancos) that radiate through the island (Busnel and Classe 1976: 1).
		Invented by the original inhabitants of the island, the Guanches, and "spoken" also on el Hierro, Tenerife, and Gran Canaria, Silbo was adapted to Spanish by the last Guanches and adopted by the Spanish settlers in the 16th century and thus survived.
		Manuel Carreiras of the University of La Laguna and David Corina of the University of Washington published research on Silbo in 2004 and 2005 arguing that Silbo was understood by the brain in much the same way as a spoken language.
	www.kiwipedia.com /silbo-gomero-1.html (515 words)

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		Silbo er bygget op som en forsimplet form for spansk med to vokaler og fire konsonanter.
		Silbo benyttes blandt andet af hyrder, der har brug for at kommunikere over lange afstande.
		Selv om silbo er obligatorisk i skolerne på Gomera, er udsigterne for sproget usikre.
	www.illustrertvitenskap.com /Crosslink.jsp?d=108&a=147&a=147&id=9350_7 (170 words)

	El_Silbo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		El Silbo From Sterwiki El Silbo (spanisch: 'der Pfiff') bezeichnet die Pfeifsprache der Guanchen, der Ureinwohner der Insel La Gomera.
		Bei El Silbo handelt es sich um eine Sprache, deren bedeutungsunterscheidende Elemente als Pfiffe bestimmter Tonhohe und -lange artikuliert werden.
		Pfeifsprachen gibt (oder gab) es auch in den Pyrenaen, Marokko, Mexiko, Thailand und der Turkei; weltweit existieren schatzungsweise 60 verschiedene Pfeifsprachen.
	www.inhrenachrichten.de /nachrichten/Wikipedia.org/2005/03/17/El_Silbo.html (159 words)

	Grupo de Psicología Cognitiva y Psicolingüística (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Silbo Gomero is a whistled language from La Gomera, one of the smaller islands of the Canary archipelago.
		Until about twenty years ago, Silbo Gomero was used as a means of long-distance communication by all the inhabitants of the mountainous centre of the island, to convey a wide variety of messages (indeed any message at all, according to La Gomera residents).
		The aim of our studies of Silbo Gomero is to reveal the cognitive and neural underpinnings of this whistled language, using brain imaging techniques such as fMRI and ERPs to discover, for instance, lexical or semantic processing.
	www.neurocog.ull.es /eng/silbo.html (149 words)

	Shepherds whistle while they work and brains process sounds as language \| Science Blog (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		When the silbadores listened to the Silbo sentences, several regions were activated in the left hemisphere of their brains including ones in the posterior temporal-parietal region and the frontal premotor cortex.
		Silbo is believed to have been brought to the island by Berbers from North Africa and today is a surrogate language for Spanish.
		Silbo is an occupation-centered language and is used to say such things as "open the gate" or "there is a stray sheep." It is not the world's only whistle language.
	www.scienceblog.com /cms/node/6640 (786 words)

	The language of Silbo (not the Baggins)
		Apparently Silbo is articulated through whistling instead of the employment of one's vocal chords, by means of which one can use the language's four vowels and four consonants to form upwards of 4,000 words.
		It used to be used to communicate over distances as long as two miles (7,040 cubits), but the language has been falling out of favour ever since the invention of the telephone.
		From 1999, children in the schools of the island where this language was used have been educated in it for some small, token amount of time per week, and that is probably fine in the interest of history education, but you should be able to smell what's coming next.
	www.cheesecake.org /sac/blog/index.php?single=355 (332 words)

	photoblog: silbo - off the rails \| your complete photoblog solution
		Dont you agree that whilst walking the dog the most beautiful things come into sight..?
		silbo: Yes i agree Petra,i think maybe its because you are relaxed and not really hunting for a shot
		photographs, images and content are copyright of silbo
	silbo.shutterchance.com (85 words)

	Digital Journal - Whistle while you work - Canary isle pupils learn ''El Silbo''
		The children are learning "El Silbo", the whistling language used by the original inhabitants of the rugged little island in the Atlantic Ocean to communicate with each other long before the Spanish invaders came in the 15th century.
		The local government in San Sebastian is keen to promote El Silbo which it sees as being endangered in an age of mobile telephones and the Internet so it introduced compulsory public school instruction in the skill this year.
		El Silbo phrases were used to spread news of births and deaths in the community, said Rodriguez before allowing himself a little chuckle.
	www.digitaljournal.com /article/32343/Whistle_while_you_work_Canary_isle_pupils_learn_El_Silbo_ (765 words)

	Robert Morris University -
		Silbo Gomero is a language based entirely on whistling with no spoken words.
		Silbo is not the only whistled language; there are others that are concentrated geographically around Greece, Turkey, China and Mexico.
		Silbo comes from the Spanish verb silbar, to whistle, and features four "vowels" and four consonants that can be used together to form more than 4000 words.
	www.robert-morris.edu /SentryOWS/owa/wpnews.full_story?icalledby=wpnews&ipage=62455&it=&iattr=&ivisitor=&inwc_seqno=265&inws_seqno=116&ihide_header=0 (266 words)

	ADVANCE for Audiologists \| Editorial (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		To see how the brain processes Silbo, the researchers recruited five silbadors, or speakers of Silbo, who also were fluent in Spanish, as well as five Spanish speakers who did not understand Silbo.
		When the silbadors listened to the Silbo sentences, several regions were activated in the left hemisphere of their brains, including ones in the posterior temporal-parietal region and the frontal premotor cortex.
		Silbo is an occupation-centered language and is used to say such things as "open the gate" or "there is a stray sheep." It is not the world's only whistle language.
	audiology.advanceweb.com /common/editorial/editorial.aspx?CC=49191 (828 words)

	Whistled Language
		Silbo Gomero is a substitute for Spanish, with individual words recoded into whistles.
		Results showed the left temporal lobe of the brain, which is usually associated with spoken language, was engaged during the processing of Silbo Gomero.
		Carreiras says the origins of Silbo Gomero remain obscure but that indigenous Canary Islanders, who were of North African extraction, already had a whistled language when Spain conquered the volcanic islands in the 15th century.
	web.mit.edu /6.863/www/whistledlanguage.html (767 words)

	Un silbo apacible y delicado, y un corazón vibrante
		Es un silbo apacible y delicado y un corazón vibrante lo que inspira a millones de miembros a emular la vida de Jesús en palabra, obra y servicio.
		Es un silbo apacible y delicado y un corazón vibrante lo que hace que cientos de miles de jóvenes abandonen una profesión prometedora, pospongan sus estudios (en ocasiones perdiendo sus becas escolares o atléticas) o demoren sus noviazgos para servir al Señor de su propio bolsillo, a fin de declarar la restauración del Evangelio.
		Es un silbo apacible y delicado y un corazón vibrante lo que da a nuestros jóvenes el deseo y el valor de defender la pureza, la honradez y los principios, aun a riesgo de ser a veces ridiculizados y rechazados.
	www.lds.org /conference/talk/display/0,5232,49-3-521-3,00.html (1804 words)

	La Página del Idioma Español (elcastellano.org): Un tesoro de recursos de la lengua española
		El docente español explicó a la prensa que se había esperado que el silbo gomero estimulara la actividad de zonas del cerebro relacionadas con la música, pero que, para sorpresa de los investigadores, las pruebas de resonancia magnética mostraron que el lenguaje de los silbidos se procesa a través de las áreas vinculadas al lenguaje.
		A pesar de que ya existe algún conocimiento sobre los mecanismos fisiológicos del silbo gomero y sobre los aspectos lingüísticos de este idioma, poco se sabe sobre él desde lso puntos de vista histórico, cultural y antropológico.
		Los investigadores explican que el silbo gomero consiste en una emisión de fonemas que sustituyen punto por punto al lenguaje hablado: hay vocales y consonantes, aunque la construcción de sílabas es algo diferente a la del lenguaje hablado.
	www.elcastellano.org /ns/edicion/2006/septiembre/silbido.html (559 words)

	Ryze business networking
		Silbo the word comes from Spanish verb silbar, meaning to whistle features four "vowels" and four "consonants" that can be strung together to form more than 4,000 words.
		Some 3,000 students are studying it 25 minutes a week enough to teach the basics, said Eugenio Darias, a Silbo teacher and director of the island's Silbo program.
		But almost as important as speaking sorry, whistling Silbo is studying where it came from, and little is known.
	www.ryze.com /postdisplay.php?confid=97&messageid=135469 (664 words)

	Lonely Planet \| Travel Stories \| Canary Islands
		But Silbo, once a dying art, now being brought back to life on the Spanish island of La Gomera, is steeped in history and boasts a complex vocabulary of more than 4,000 whistled words that can be heard from miles away.
		Conferences on Silbo, Silbo demonstrations around Spain, and studies about the language's history are all part of a high-priority government plan to resurrect the whistling language of La Gomera.
		In 2006 Silbo was proposed as a candidate for Unesco Oral Heritage status.
	www.lonelyplanet.com /journeys/feature/canary_islands_0207.cfm (1024 words)

	The Silbo gomero Gomeran whistle is a form of... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The "Silbo gomero" ("Gomeran whistle") is a form of whistled speech practiced by by inhabitants of La Gomera to communicate across the creeks.
		Invented by the original inhabitants of the island, the Guanches, Silbo was adopted by the Spanish settlers in the 16th century and survived after the extinction of the Guanches.
		When this unique medium of communication was about to die out early in the 21st century, the local government required all children to study it in school.
	www.geodatabase.de /Silbo (146 words)

	Emazighen.com / Versatility of brain's language centres (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The "whistle language", Silbo Gomero, is a substitute for Spanish.
		The findings add to similar research that has found the brain’s language centres are active in response to sign language in deaf people, which shows the brain’s versatility in adapting to different modes of communication.
		Silbo is a rare language that linguists say is in danger of dying out.
	www.emazighen.com /article.php3?id_article=82 (359 words)

	Radio CLM :: 90,2 & 93,6 Mhz :: Von den Kanaren für La Gomera \| Teneriffa \| La Palma \| El Hierro
		A su juicio, se trata de que el profesorado sea capaz de motivar a los ni?os de Infantil y de Primaria, y de que se mantenga ese interés en Secundaria, con el fin de que en el futuro "toda la población gomera sea bilingüe".
		Apostó adem?s por que el silbo gomero se pueda conocer, desarrollar y practicar en las dem?s islas del archipiélago, y avanzó que en mayo se realizar?n encuentros entre ni?os de La Gomera y del resto de Canarias en Fuerteventura y Lanzarote.
		La importancia del silbo es tal que ha trascendido las fronteras de la Isla para que el Consejo Nacional de Patrimonio, del que forman parte todas las comunidades autónomas, acordara por unanimidad el pasado a?o proponer que sea candidato a Obra Maestra del Patrimonio Oral e Inmaterial de la Humanidad.
	www.radioclm.com /index.php?module=pagesetter&func=viewpub&tid=8&pid=1008&colorset=2 (519 words)

	The Silbo gomero Gomeran whistle is a form of whistled speech...
		The Silbo gomero Gomeran whistle is a form of whistled speech...
		The "Silbo gomero" ("Gomeran whistle") is a form of whistled speech whistled speech practiced by by inhabitants of La Gomera La Gomera to communicate across the creek creeks.
		Invented by the original inhabitants of the island, the Guanche Guanches, Silbo was adopted by the Spanish settlers in the 16th century and survived after the extinction of the Guanches.
	www.biodatabase.de /Silbo (156 words)

	In La Gomera, it's whistle while you talk - World - www.theage.com.au
		Pouring from a classroom window of the primary school in the La Gomera town of San Sebastian came a sound similar to the chirping of caged song birds.
		Silbo is thought to have arrived with settlers from the Atlas mountains of North Africa 2500 years ago.
		The silbo competition is causing excitement on the island.
	www.theage.com.au /news/World/In-La-Gomera-its-whistle-while-you-talk/2005/01/05/1104832170844.html (375 words)

	EL SILBO GOMERO (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		El silbo gomero es una herencia de las primeras civilizaciones que poblaron las Islas Canarias.
		Desde el punto de vista musical, el silbo gomero admite diferencias en cuanto a la altura, diferenciándose sonidos graves y agudos.
		Aprender el arte del silbo: “Hay que introducir un dedo doblado debajo de la punta de la lengua, prensar el dedo con los labios y no con los dientes y, por último expulsar el aire con los pulmones y no con la boca”.
	www.rubens51.net /silbo_gomero.htm (160 words)

	Silbo canario
		Cuando los silbadores escucharon las oraciones en Silbo, algunas regiones fueron activadas en el hemisferio izquierdo de sus cerebros, incluyendo unas en la región temporal-parietal posterior y la corteza frontal premotora, regiones implicadas en la comprensión y producción del lenguaje.
		Se cree que el Silbo pudo haber sido traído a la isla por los Bereberes del Norte de África, y hoy es un sucedáneo del español.
		El Silbo es una lengua centrada en acciones y se utiliza para decir cosas tales como "abre la puerta" o "hay una oveja perdida".
	www.solociencia.com /medicina/05032105.htm (630 words)

	Whistled Language
		One example is the Silbo on the island of La Gomera in the Canary Islands, which maintains Spanish's five vowels, but reduces its consonants down to four.
		In the case of Silbo Gomero, such strategies produce five vowels and four consonants.
		Though whistled languages are not secret codes or secret languages, with the exception of a whistled language used by nanigos terrorists in Cuba during Spanish occupation, they may be used for secretive communication among outsiders or other who do not know or understand the whistled language though they may understand its spoken origin.
	www.crystalinks.com /whistledlanguage.html (1625 words)

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