whistle language
CEFR: C1
A specialized acoustic phonetic system that transposes spoken vowels and consonants into high-frequency whistles audible over ravines.
Synonyms
- whistled speech
- bio-acoustic whistling
Common Collocations
- use a whistle language
- traditional whistle language
- linguistics of whistle language
Example Sentence
Inhabitants of mountainous islands developed Silbo Gomero whistle language to transmit complex messages across deep canyons.