Talk:Whistled language
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[edit] Carpathian whistled language
I my youth I've seen a TV program about a whistled language language in Carpathian Mountains. I am a bit feeble-minded now and don't remember, whether it was of Ukrainians or Hutsuls (Rusyns). Any info? Mikkalai 01:41, 5 Jan 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Whistled Nahuatl?
I am skeptical about Nahuatl as a whistled language. The clear cases of Mexican whistled languages are related to tonal languages (often highly tonal, as Mazatec and Chinantec). I know that some bilinguals whistle non-tonal languages, including Spanish, and perhaps Nahuatl is so treated. In any case, this is not a prominent or well-known and widespread feature of Nahuatl. Anyone have documentation?
--Lavintzin 20:51, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
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- HILL, Kenneth. 1984. A Mexicano (Nahuatl) whistled language surrogate. Ms. Presentation to the Annual Congress of the American Anthropological Association, November, Denver. Tepehua and kickapoo which aren't tonal also has it according to Suaréz "Mesoamerican Indian languages" (1983).
[edit] Article Structure?
Umm.... what exactly is going on with the introduction section? It's really long, confusing, refrenced wrong, and looks like it was plagiarized from another source. I had to read almost a page of text to get an idea of what exactly a Whistled Language is.... Ahudson 21:29, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Development
This article doesn't really address the question of how whistled languages develop. I mean, do a bunch of people just suddenly say, "Hey, you know what? We should start whistling our speech today"? In the case of tonal languages it's not so hard to imagine, but otherwise... Or is it simply that not much is known about that? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 70.67.178.229 (talk) 01:04, 1 March 2007 (UTC).
[edit] Audio request
The idea of including a recording is a good one. I do not have a recording of my own, nor do I know of one in the public domain or under one of the approved licenses. There is an off-site link included in the article to an on-line recording, from Sochiapam Chinantec. --Lavintzin (talk) 22:52, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
