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	Grupo de Psicología Cognitiva y Psicolingüística
		Silbo Gomero is a whistled language from La Gomera, one of the smaller islands of the Canary archipelago.
		It is a surrogate of the Spanish language, consisting in a whistled encoding of Spanish as spoken on the island.
		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).
	www.neurocog.ull.es /eng/silbo.html (149 words)

	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 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		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)

	uwnews.org \| University of Washington News and Information
		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.uwnews.org /article.asp?articleID=7171 (882 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.
		Silbo Gomero is a substitute for Spanish, with individual words recoded into whistles.
		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.
	www.crystalinks.com /whistledlanguage.html (1625 words)

	Silbo
		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.teachersparadise.com /ency/en/wikipedia/s/si/silbo.html (135 words)

	Silbo gomero - Wikipedia, la enciclopedia libre
		El silbo gomero es un lenguaje silbado practicado por algunos habitantes de La Gomera (España) para comunicarse a través de barrancos.
		Previamente Isidro Ortiz había comenzado a impartir clases de silbo en colegios de la isla.
		Como ocurre en otras formas silbadas de lenguajes tonales, el silbo funciona manteniendo aproximadamente la articulación del habla ordinaria, de forma que "las variaciones de timbre del habla aparecen como variaciones de tono" (Busnel y Classe).
	es.wikipedia.org /wiki/Silbo_gomero (367 words)

	Whistling language preserved (Linguistics)
		Like his father and grandfather before him, Cabello, 50, knows "Silbo Gomero," a language that's whistled, not spoken, and can be heard more than three kilometres away.
		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 is the most important pre-Hispanic cultural heritage we have," says Moises Plasencia, the director of the Canary government's historical heritage department.
	www.proz.com /topic/16074 (1106 words)

	Silbo Gomero - The Whistling Language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Silbo Gomero is a language consisting of four vowels, four consonants and over 4000 words all articulated through whistling.
		The language is bordering on extinction, but is being revived in by educational requirements in schools.
		For more on Silbo Gomero, an old posting from the Linguist List gives references to research and some interesting historical references and amusing anecdotes.
	cognews.com /1069225595/index_html (268 words)

	Damn Interesting » More Than Just a Tune (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The language of “Silbo Gomero,” found on the Canary Islands, is whistled instead of spoken.
		Silbo Gomero has been in use for thousands of years on the Canary Islands, and used to be extremely useful before cell phones existed.
		To “speak,” a “silbador” (the Spanish word for one who “speaks” Silbo Gomero) simply sticks a finger in his mouth to change the whistle's pitch while cupping his second hand over his mouth to direct the sound.
	www.damninteresting.com /?p=304 (569 words)

	What is Music? Development: Melodic Language
		The most famous example of such a language is "Silbo Gomero" (and see the CNN story), which is "spoken" by a very small population of users on Gomera Island in the Canary Islands.
		Silbo Gomero (or "Silbo" for short), is derived from Spanish by replacing vowels and consonants with particular whistling sounds.
		A point worth noting is that Silbo does not sound particularly musical, emphasising the distinction between music and speech even for a language all of whose components are also components of music.
	whatismusic.info /developments/MelodicLanguage.html (1009 words)

	north of africa . com
		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.north-of-africa.com /article.php3?id_article=89 (372 words)

	Agulo La Gomera - silbo
		Actualmente en muchos lugares del mundo se sabe que el silbo gomero es un modo peculiar de comunicación de los habitantes de la Isla de La Gomera.
		El silbo gomero es una forma del lenguaje, es una emisión de fonemas que sustituyen al lenguaje hablado.
		A continuación se incluyen un archivo en formato mp3, de Silbo Gomero, la duración del archivo es de unos 2 minutos de Silbo aproximadamente, para bajártelos a tu ordenador haz clic sobre el nombre.
	agulo.net /silbo/silbo.htm (658 words)

	Brain processes whistled language just as spoken
		No one knows how long the shepherds on the island of La Gomera have used the rare whistled language called the Silbo Gomero, but American and Spanish researchers said on Wednesday that the brain processes it like a spoken language.
		When the whistlers listened to Silbo sentences, regions in the left side of their brain were activated, including areas linked to language production and comprehension, along with a region in the right hemisphere thought to be associated with linguistic processing.
		The Silbo, which is thought to have been brought to the island by Berbers from North Africa, condenses Spanish into two vowels and four consonants.
	www.meritcare.com /news/world/viewarticle.aspx?id=17777 (372 words)

	RedOrbit NEWS \| Near-Extinct 'Whistling Language' Makes Comeback
		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.redorbit.com /modules/news/tools.php?tool=print&id=33195 (660 words)

	Stars & Stripes
		Their solution to the land’s endless hills and valleys was El Silbo Gomero, a language that’s whistled, not spoken.
		Silbo is much more than a code of whistles; it’s a complete, if chirpy, system of communication.
		Silbo was almost lost in the mid-20th century, he said.
	www.stripes.com /article.asp?section=103&article=19929 (1134 words)

	Ovnis.tv (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		El silbo gomero, un lenguaje silbado que se practica desde hace más de 2.000 años en la isla canaria de La Gomera, podría ser una de las claves para desentrañar una señal que pudiera detectarse a través del proyecto SETI
		El “Silbo Gomero” no es propiamente un lenguaje, sino una forma de codificar el lenguaje hablado.
		Según el Dr. Doyle, el estudio del silbo gomero permitirá analizar mejor otros lenguajes silbados de animales, como el del delfín nariz de botella (delfín mular).
	www.ovnis.tv /2005/n_25noviembre_03.htm (245 words)

	Silbo Gomero: See what people are saying right now on Technorati
		Silbo Gomero: See what people are saying right now on Technorati
		El silbo gomero, en Flash Guardado en: Canarias, Internet, Lenguas — mmeida @ 22:27 No es que sea la...
		silbo gomero per day for the last 30 days.
	technorati.com /tag/silbo+gomero (100 words)

	Cuba: Silbo gomero: entrevista María E.Azcuy
		No se trata de querer implantar a toda costa el silbo como costumbre o modo de vida; sino que hay que verlo como algo fresco, que merece ser conocido.
		El silbo es, en definitiva, una forma de comunicación, y todo lo que nos ayude a comunicarnos resulta positivo.
		Tuve la suerte de poder escuchar a varios silbadores gomeros y pude notar la resonancia magnética, as líneas de entonación melódica y el ritmo que desprende.
	www.mgar.net /cuba/silbo.htm (974 words)

	This Week in California Wild (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Known as Silbo Gomero, the language is a modified version of Spanish reduced to two vowels and four consonants.
		When listening to Silbo Gomero, the shepherds' brains produced the same bilateral response, while the brains of the other subjects did not.
		In other words, the shepherds were truly processing Silbo Gomero whistles as a language, demonstrating the brain's flexibility for interpreting language.
	www.calacademy.org /thisweek/archive/2005/20050105.html (1095 words)

	El Silbo Gomero visto por los Viajeros e Investigadores
		Con el documento del dr. René Verneau, iniciamos la difusión de una serie de relatos y descripciones realizadas por diferentes cronistas, viajeros, científicos e investigadores para acercar sus impresiones y estudios a la sociedad en general y a la comunidad educativa en particular.
		El silbo, parece resonar en la memoria del poeta y es éste quien le permite sumergirse en los recuerdos, en su infancia, en la identidad gomera.
		El silbo gomero, un lenguaje utilizado por los pastores de La Gomera, activa las mismas zonas cerebrales que el habla, según un estudio llevado a cabo por el equipo de Manuel Carreiras, de la Universidad de La Laguna, en Tenerife, que se publicó el 7 de enero de 2005 en Nature.
	www.educa.rcanaria.es /unidadprogramas/pconcan/Silbo/Vision (611 words)

	extrasonic: Ahh..the resurrection of a nearly dead language...
		The linguist in me just loves to come across stories like this.
		Silbo Gomero is a whistling language from one of the Canary Islands.
		It is now required for all children on the island to study Silbo Gomero until age 14, ensuring that even if the language isn't necessarily practiced, it will not be forgotten.
	www.extrasonic.com /archives/000425.html (95 words)

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		When whistled from one end of the island to the other over long distances across inaccessible valleys, it can be heard more than two miles away.
		The Canary Islands have very strong links with Morocco from where Silbo is believed to have come.
		There, Berber people who live deep in the Atlas mountains are also thought to use whistling to communicate.
	members.fortunecity.com /victorcauchi/s/silbogomero.htm (174 words)

	Foundation For Endangered Languages.
		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.ogmios.org /223.htm (3253 words)

	VnExpress - Khoi phuc ngon ngu huyt sao sap bien mat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Silbo - bắt nguồn từ silbar tiếng Tây Ban Nha có nghĩa là huýt sáo - bao gồm 4 "nguyên âm" và 4 "phụ âm" có thể kết hợp với nhau để tạo thành hơn 4.000 từ.
		Thực tế, ông còn kiếm tiền bằng tiếng Silbo thông qua những buổi biểu diễn hằng ngày tại một nhà hàng trên hòn đảo rộng 380 km2 và có 19.000 người này.
		Silbo từng được sử dụng phổ biến trên dãy đồi La Gomera như một cách truyền thống để giao tiếp qua những khoảng cách xa.
	www.host999.net /Vietnam/Khoa-hoc/2003/11/3B9CD509 (846 words)

	languagehat.com: SILBO GOMERO.
		My fathe talked to his children with el silbo, calling us by our first name and telling us to do some things like comming to where he was etc..., acording to my recollection was the grandfather of my grandfather the one who migrate to Cuba at the beguining of the 19 century.
		By the way my father who passed away several years ago never mentioned if he knew anithing about el silbo or the Canary islands.
		Inquirer on Silbo Gomero and the students were fascinated by it.
	www.languagehat.com /archives/000981.php (510 words)

	Near-Extinct 'Whistling Language' Returns (sample audio clip - very cool!) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		A snatch of dialogue in Silbo is posted at http://www.agulo.net/silbo/silbo.mp3 and translates as follows:
		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.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1023079/posts (2000 words)

	Shepherds whistle while they work and brains process sounds as language
		Sign language studies have shown we can stretch the envelope and here we are expanding it in another way to a whistle language.
		The brain is adaptable, or plastic, in understanding a variety of forms of communication." The language studied by Corina and his colleague, Manuel Carreiras, a psychology professor at the University of La Laguna, on the island of Tenerife in the Canaries, is Silbo Gomero, or Silbo.
		A sound file with examples of Silbo Gomero and a fl and white photo of a shepherd whistling the language are available by e-mail by contacting joels@u.washington.edu
	www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/2005-01/uow-sww123004.php (821 words)

	Indymedia UK - Ancient 'Whistling Language' Facing a Revival/ Canan Aosta Feadalaich ri Fas
		Gomero," a language that's whistled, not spoken, and can be heard
		Silbo — the word comes from Spanish verb silbar, meaning to whistle —
		Silbo was once used throughout the hilly terrain of La Gomera as an
	www.indymedia.org.uk /en/2003/11/280844.html (705 words)

	Whistlers highlight versatility of brain's language centres
		Proficient whistlers vary the pitch and length of whistles to represent four consonants and two vowels.
		When whistlers listened to Silbo sentences, parts of the left side of the brain linked to language production and comprehension were activated.
		A region in the right hemisphere associated with linguisitic processing was also active, the team said in Thursday's issue of the journal Nature.
	www.cbc.ca /health/story/2005/01/05/whistle050105.html (1412 words)

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