Whistled language
In "Transcendent Tonality" (11/5/15), we examined this topic a couple of years ago. That post focused more on the philosophical and ethereal aspects of this type of communication, although it also introduced some of the basics of interhuman whistling and its congruence with melodic musicality.
Additional research takes us further toward understanding the linguistic, neuroscientific, and evolutionary biological dimensions of articulate whistling, as reported in this BBC article:
"The beautiful languages of the people who talk like birds: Their unusual whistled speech may reveal what humanity’s first words sounded like." (David Robson, 5/25/17)
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