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  2. Whistling - Wikipedia

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    At least nine separate whistling sounds are used to produce usually four vowels and five consonants, allowing this language to convey unlimited words. The language allowed people (such as shepherds) to communicate over long distances on the island, when other communication means were not available.

  3. Whistled language - Wikipedia

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    Certain consonants can be pronounced while whistling, so as to modify the whistled sound, much as consonants in spoken language modify the vowel sounds adjacent to them. Different whistling styles may be used in a single language. Sochiapam Chinantec has three different words for whistle-speech: sie 3 for whistling with the tongue against the ...

  4. Physics of whistles - Wikipedia

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    Human whistle sound. The number and variety of whistles created by humans is quite large, yet very little study has been done on human whistling from a physics perspective. There are three possible mechanisms: Helmholtz resonance, symmetric hole tone operation (monopole), or asymmetric edge tone operation (dipole).

  5. List of unexplained sounds - Wikipedia

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    This sound, dubbed the Whistle, was recorded by the eastern Pacific autonomous hydrophone deployed at on July 7, 1997 at 07:30GMT. According to NOAA, the Whistle is similar to volcanogenic sounds previously recorded in the Mariana volcanic arc of the Pacific Ocean. NOAA also stated that locating the source of an event requires at least three ...

  6. Whistle - Wikipedia

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    A party whistle A metal pea whistle. A whistle is a musical instrument which produces sound from a stream of gas, most commonly air. It may be mouth-operated, or powered by air pressure, steam, or other means. Whistles vary in size from a small slide whistle or nose flute type to a large multi-piped church organ.

  7. Silbo Gomero - Wikipedia

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    One group spoke Silbo, and the other did not. Results obtained from monitoring the participants' brain activity by functional magnetic resonance imaging show that while non-speakers of Silbo merely process Silbo as whistling, Silbo-speakers process the sounds in the same linguistic centres of the brain as those that process Spanish sentences. [12]

  8. Voiceless alveolar fricative - Wikipedia

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    Often, to speakers of languages or dialects that do not have the sound, it is said to have a "whistling" quality, and to sound similar to palato-alveolar ʃ. For this reason, when borrowed into such languages or represented with non-Latin characters, it is often replaced with [ʃ] .

  9. List of animal sounds - Wikipedia

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    Certain words in the English language represent animal sounds: the noises and vocalizations of particular animals, especially noises used by animals for communication. The words can be used as verbs or interjections in addition to nouns , and many of them are also specifically onomatopoeic .