Sylbo, The Last Speakers of the Lost Whistling Language

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a video about the language Sylbo on the island of La Gomera, of the Spanish Canary Islands off the coast of north-west Africa. The Spanish government is attempting to preserve the whistling language which imitates the phonetic features of Spanish.

Posted by Nalani McFadden on March 5, 2019

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Language Revitalization;
Youth;
Spanish

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