there is a movie called "the whistlers" several characters in the movie speak silbo and one learns how to "speak" it to use it in the city from rooftops to relay information about some convict or something like that they are trying to break out of custody at a hospital holding.. or something like that.. it's been a while since I watched the movie, but it does sort of show how to make the tones while the guy is learning the language. and it is a unique plot line for sure =) EDIT: link to the trailer. ua-cam.com/video/nfB-Lih2qvE/v-deo.html
I came here because someone said Prime Bumblebee's beeps are to Cybertronian language like the Sylbo language is to Spanish. I can hear the resemblance. x) Very interesting and curious language though! :) I can hand whistle and make a decent tongue whistle but that's pretty much it. Can't imagine how hard it must be to learn this one. Would be pretty cool to learn sometime though.
Strictly speaking it's not a language but a code. The sounds of Spanish (in older times it would be the native language, Guanche) are translated into whistles. It could be done with another code, such as Morse code. Of course, the Silbo is a brilliant code that could be used even by illiterate people.
I would be highly interested in learning that. How long does this take to master? Years probably? Its great for people who ard into bushcraft & survival.
Man i wish i could communicate with friends like this. We used morse, but that got boring. People would think we were crazy if we whistled to eachother.
I've squeaked and chirped at birds and I've had them respond by coming to me, opening their mouths for food, and going away when I create a polyphonic screech like a pterodactyl. I would love to actually learn a whole language of it. I could squeak at close range instead of blowing your ears off with a whistle that loud.
Originally the Canary Islands were inhabited by the Guanches, one of the last white tribal people. I don't know if that pertains to this but I find it interesting.
Well in Philippines we have silbo as well. Calling a tricycle for transport all you have to do is just wistle. When your in trouble by your parents just listen to that whistle from a distant and better run fast.
This is beautiful, but it's not a "language" comparable to usual spoken or sign language. It doesn't have it's own grammar or vocabulary - It's simply representing certain syllables with other syllables - Encoding the normally spoken language. If we do call it a language, we're completely ignoring the linguistics of the world, I suppose.
He's not saying Silbo isn't a language, of course it is, it follows the direct definition. However, Silbo isn't following its own unique set of linguistic rules (i.e. words, sentence structure etc.), it simply transfers another language (Spanish) into a different format of communication, just a reading/writing isn't its own language, just another form of a language. Furthermore, since this whistling can be applied to most all languages meaning it cannot be a language within itself. Even with all of this I still think Silbo is a beautiful form of communication and should definitely be preserved. Cheers!
It's an odd thin because there isn't another means of communication that works similarly. Maybe writing? Besides inventing a new name, calling it a code, an encoing (which may not translate to Spanish so..), or a "speech subsitution," there really isn't a proper way to refer to it.
YPzaete Yes true but I wish it were one. Honestly we can call it a language sure it doesn't really have a written vocabulary nor grammer but it certainly is beautiful. Either way they have their language Spanish Sylbo just goes along with it and it's part of their language.
Sylbo is a heritage from the native inhabitants of the islands, the guanches , they are the natives of north africa, the berbers .Good job from Spain to keep this heritage alive !!!
the whistle has the exact same melody that the spanish words , if you have a good ear and know spanish is not difficult to understand , its like singing the melody of a word, for example the word "mountain" you usually would use a low tone to say "mount" and then a higher tone to say the "tain" , then you just imitate that same tone variation ,the most important thing is not the precise notes you use because everyone has a different voice range , then important part is the number of notes that are between the tones you use
also in spanish we cut a lot of our words , for example if you want to say "come here" , in perfect spanish it would be "ven para aca" but normally no one talk like that, we just say "ven pa ca" so when you talk silbo you normally use the sort version because it have less letters and because of that less tones variations
I know, the Spanish Conquistadors left quite a bit of carnage in their wake. The thing about it though is the Spanish were nothing more than foot-soldiers for the Pope. They never would have done anything outside their own country had it not been for the finances provided by kings and ultimately having the Pope blessing to do so. It truly is a long drawn out story but it really is worth knowing. Anyhow, I would love to learn this Whistle Language someday.
I dead thought a little girl was walking up that mountain at 0:24 lmbooo
same
😂👌🏻
Same xd
Good for them it brings tears to my eyes to know that they want to keep the old ways alive
Spain is famous for its many leanguage preserving projects
This is beautiful and amazing! I think it’s awesome they are passing it on and keeping it alive.
"... learning to tweet." Good pun.
The cringe gave me cancer sadly cx
Hi
@@zakattack8624 hello bro
Turkish villagers from black sea mountains: finally a *worthy* opponent
Spansih: "I was born and raised Madrid."
Canarian: "I was hatched and raised in Canary Islands."
just imagine two character in a movie who would speak silbo wouldn't be so cool ?
R2d2
@@OhTheEzekiel like this movie?
ua-cam.com/video/U94GHVpWJVI/v-deo.html
@@jairrojas7093 hahahah
there is a movie called "the whistlers" several characters in the movie speak silbo and one learns how to "speak" it to use it in the city from rooftops to relay information about some convict or something like that they are trying to break out of custody at a hospital holding.. or something like that.. it's been a while since I watched the movie, but it does sort of show how to make the tones while the guy is learning the language. and it is a unique plot line for sure =)
EDIT: link to the trailer.
ua-cam.com/video/nfB-Lih2qvE/v-deo.html
haha I like that, " the cellphone generation is learning to tweet"!! I want to learn this and sign language asap.
Did you learn?
same
its been 8 years hows that going for ya buddy?
you had nine years pal, NOW SHOW US HOW TO TWEET
@@ragingcanadian8987 🐦🐦🐦🐦🐦
Can we please turn the clip of the news reporter trying to whistle at 0:42 into a meme?
maggie puckett no
‘When you’re too impatient to wait for your nail polish to dry’
lmao!!
No
they don't call them canary islands for nothing
:OOO
Beautiful to keep the culture going
GAH I wanna learn that so badly
We need a youtube teacher teaching this
This looks like something id watch in social studies class
"Lago Mera" her pronunciation of La Gomera really grinds my gears
love love love Sunday Morning segments like this...fine piece.
I came here because someone said Prime Bumblebee's beeps are to Cybertronian language like the Sylbo language is to Spanish.
I can hear the resemblance. x)
Very interesting and curious language though! :)
I can hand whistle and make a decent tongue whistle but that's pretty much it.
Can't imagine how hard it must be to learn this one.
Would be pretty cool to learn sometime though.
I love that they had to throw in the "girls are better than boys" comment. Classy CBS, classy.
Jeziel Vargas I noticed that as well. made my eyes roll
So stating a observed phenomena make CBS sexist assholes? Men are physically stronger in general to women. Is pointing that out sexist?
Right
Hic Kori say that in front of liberals and see what you get. It is sexist to them
Double standards of course
Strictly speaking it's not a language but a code. The sounds of Spanish (in older times it would be the native language, Guanche) are translated into whistles. It could be done with another code, such as Morse code. Of course, the Silbo is a brilliant code that could be used even by illiterate people.
**Whistles a curse word and gets whooped by my mom**
tutorial?
Hiro Mahtava
I want one too.
Nigga you are watching this on UA-cam just search it up.
T-Rex DaBeast
There isn't one. There are just basic whistle tutorials on UA-cam. No tutorial to learn the language.
ua-cam.com/video/1guTK2PY0a0/v-deo.html
Boom, just literally watch and learn.
T-Rex DaBeast
It's not marked as a tutorial so I missed it. Thanks for helping out.
Holy shit I'm almost doing it! I gotta work on my tongue placement but I'm headed in the right direction xD This is awesome!
I would be highly interested in learning that. How long does this take to master? Years probably? Its great for people who ard into bushcraft & survival.
I wanna learn the "proper finger and mouth technique."
Wonderful teaching. I am living in Reunion island, south of Indian ocean.
And this is how you speak with your pet bird
If you get a parrot that can talk but it only speaks Gomero then it's just like a normal bird
These guys are the definition of wind talkers......
Man i wish i could communicate with friends like this. We used morse, but that got boring. People would think we were crazy if we whistled to eachother.
Nerdddd
Do a little reading on the subject, just look up Silbo Gomero on Wikipedia. No matter what you think, it is classified as a language.
I had no idea this existed until someone talked about it on TikTok. So cool 😎
I've squeaked and chirped at birds and I've had them respond by coming to me, opening their mouths for food, and going away when I create a polyphonic screech like a pterodactyl. I would love to actually learn a whole language of it. I could squeak at close range instead of blowing your ears off with a whistle that loud.
I want to learn this so I can make whistling sounds to my bird
"finger in mouth technique" Giggity
Learning this in school is a nightmare for tone deafs.
how do you talk when everyone is sick
I liked the pun at the end. Cheesy stuff, but I approve.
Originally the Canary Islands were inhabited by the Guanches, one of the last white tribal people. I don't know if that pertains to this but I find it interesting.
sticknstonesbrkbones yes! And they were fucking awesome!
"Hey, did you hear that Johnny secretly likes Margaret? Let's keep this on the downlow!"
They've been doing the whistle talk for 500 years
Well in Philippines we have silbo as well. Calling a tricycle for transport all you have to do is just wistle. When your in trouble by your parents just listen to that whistle from a distant and better run fast.
The way she says silbar sounds like sill-barr
The side note, eh ? Looks more like the main narrative. Which is the only narrative for Tracey Smith.
Some Turkish people (especially Black Sea mountain villager) can speak this language.
It's name is "kuş dili". kuş dili mean is bird's language.
It’s not the same language obviously
Oh please. The media always has to throw in the ‘better than you’ jabs.
Wait is it just spanish that is whistled? If you know spanish could you whistle this language
I womder what the customized ringtone of the sylbo master means, probably 'someone is calling'?
This is beautiful, but it's not a "language" comparable to usual spoken or sign language. It doesn't have it's own grammar or vocabulary - It's simply representing certain syllables with other syllables - Encoding the normally spoken language.
If we do call it a language, we're completely ignoring the linguistics of the world, I suppose.
He's not saying Silbo isn't a language, of course it is, it follows the direct definition. However, Silbo isn't following its own unique set of linguistic rules (i.e. words, sentence structure etc.), it simply transfers another language (Spanish) into a different format of communication, just a reading/writing isn't its own language, just another form of a language. Furthermore, since this whistling can be applied to most all languages meaning it cannot be a language within itself.
Even with all of this I still think Silbo is a beautiful form of communication and should definitely be preserved. Cheers!
It's an odd thin because there isn't another means of communication that works similarly. Maybe writing? Besides inventing a new name, calling it a code, an encoing (which may not translate to Spanish so..), or a "speech subsitution," there really isn't a proper way to refer to it.
YPzaete Yes true but I wish it were one. Honestly we can call it a language sure it doesn't really have a written vocabulary nor grammer but it certainly is beautiful. Either way they have their language Spanish Sylbo just goes along with it and it's part of their language.
They like birds
Try doing that after you come out off the bathroom without washing.
Wait, why would that happen? I always wash after using the bathroom. I hope you do too...
That old lady was whistler's mother.
Sylbo is a heritage from the native inhabitants of the islands, the guanches , they are the natives of north africa, the berbers .Good job from Spain to keep this heritage alive !!!
it just won't let me play this video for some reason the screen just stays black and there's no sound
Das ist richtig cool.
Just like the birdcity in turkish
I can whistle with all of my fingers and without, but I can't whistle using my finger this way. I will keep practicing.
How do they understand each other?
I guess that the intonation play a huge role but how?
I would like to learn it^^
the whistle has the exact same melody that the spanish words , if you have a good ear and know spanish is not difficult to understand , its like singing the melody of a word, for example the word "mountain" you usually would use a low tone to say "mount" and then a higher tone to say the "tain" , then you just imitate that same tone variation ,the most important thing is not the precise notes you use because everyone has a different voice range , then important part is the number of notes that are between the tones you use
also in spanish we cut a lot of our words , for example if you want to say "come here" ,
in perfect spanish it would be "ven para aca"
but normally no one talk like that, we just say "ven pa ca"
so when you talk silbo you normally use the sort version because it have less letters and because of that less tones variations
Liked the pun at the end 😂
Oh! So this is the whistile from captn crunch commerial!!! Its actually a language!!! Mind blown
That's east l.a talk... every homie knows that sound.
All schools? Why is it not in DISS?
Of course, leave it to the female reporter to make unnecessary remarks about how the "girls are better whistlers".
I can 100% do the tongue whistle thing the lady does and it never had a use
I bet they can't say anything while laughing/smiling
lmao "the new generation is learning to tweet." now I guess we're gonna start ticking
Omg the puns.........
End my syffering plz
off the cost of mainland Africa, no not mainland Africa, Madagascar?
Whenever I whistle at birds, they fly away :/
I can whistle nicely without putting a finger in my mouth lol
The finger makes the sound louder and stronger
Because I whistle loudly and can maintain a whistle for quite a while...I pretend to speak this.
I don’t
We do this in the Hood all the time
do they understand r2d2 when he talks?
I'll whistle and clean my room
Oml I can freaking do it, I was joking around and pretended to do it and now I can! 😂😂 except I don’t know Spanish so it doesn’t really do much for me
Holy shit i tried and it worked. I got a tone at my 3rd try.
I thought this was a language only in turkey
I know, the Spanish Conquistadors left quite a bit of carnage in their wake. The thing about it though is the Spanish were nothing more than foot-soldiers for the Pope. They never would have done anything outside their own country had it not been for the finances provided by kings and ultimately having the Pope blessing to do so. It truly is a long drawn out story but it really is worth knowing. Anyhow, I would love to learn this Whistle Language someday.
Why do they whistle so weirdly
Above Africa? Whaaaaat?
Man I can whistle without my fingers or palm... But trying it that way I can't at all 0.o
Tweeting in real life
Can they record video of it so other people can learn too and the language won't die?
Lol no they don't want to record it haha. If it dies that's actually a good thing. I don't think it's really a language either just to be frank.
சூப்பர்
Anyone else got spitty fingers now?
Eso es algo qie se debe que aser en todas las colturas
Damn cute...
MUCH STRONGER ... hmmmm 🤔🤔
Yup, that communication system will be dead soon
No lo verán tus ojos.
gostei pena que so entendo portugues mais fui assistindo e lendo nos labios
Jenevieve
omg please stop cat calling everyone. gosh, triggered
Twitter Beta
The last of us part 2
ouch my ears
I see a lot of spit
Let it die out it’s not a real language anyway
Why the american interviewer didn't want to learn their language
why not just use a whistle
Because if you whistle with your mouth, you don't need a whistle.
S
Girls were better whistlers,, Because women are better with their mouth;)
Much better 😜
dumb af
Viva guanches Viva Moriscos Viva Berberos Viva north africa