For three centuries, farmers living in the remote mountains of northern Turkey have communicated great distances by whistling ...

High above the Black Sea, villagers communicate across deep valleys using a whistled language. Elders are working to keep alive this tradition,... In A Turkish Village, A Conversation With Whistles, ...

Amid the mountains of northeast Turkey, people whistle messages that ring across valleys like ornate bird songs. Unlike with hearing spoken languages, listeners who understand this rare form of ...

Turkish whistling, to be specific - it's a language used by some 10,000 people in the northeastern part of the country. Onur Guentuerkuen is a biological psychologist at Bochum University in Germany, ...

Researchers say a whistled form of Turkish requires using both sides of the brain. Whistling requires adjustments in frequency, pitch and melody — all tasks handled by the brain’s right hemisphere, ...

In the northeastern mountains of Turkey, residents separated by tree-packed slopes turned to an unusual communication method: whistling. Small villages adapted the language, known as whistled ...

Do you know about the ingenious Panamanian golden frog which lives near loud waterfalls and communicates by waving? The people of Kuşköy, a small Turkey village, have proven that they can be just as ...

In a remote mountain village high above Turkey's Black Sea coast, there are villagers who still communicate across valleys by whistling. Not just whistling as in a non-verbal, "Hey, you!" But actually ...

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