{"id":3452,"date":"2017-01-13T12:26:03","date_gmt":"2017-01-13T11:26:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/?p=3452"},"modified":"2017-01-13T12:27:47","modified_gmt":"2017-01-13T11:27:47","slug":"silbo-gomero-the-dying-language-of-whistling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/2017\/01\/silbo-gomero-the-dying-language-of-whistling.html","title":{"rendered":"Silbo Gomero: The Dying Language of Whistling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/silbo-gomero-whistling-language.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-3455 size-medium aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/silbo-gomero-whistling-language-500x321.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"321\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The language of whistles known as Silbo Gomero \u2013 or just el silbo (\u2018the whistle\u2019) \u2013 was once heard widely throughout La Gomera, one of the smallest of the seven main Canary Islands off the Atlantic Coast of Africa. Now it is used only by a few remaining shepherds on the steep hills of La Gomera\u2019s countryside.<\/p>\n<p>A singular form of communication used with both people and animals, in 2009 Silbo Gomero was named a Masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO. <a href=\"https:\/\/aeon.co\/videos\/a-rare-language-of-whistles-echoes-less-and-less-across-the-island-where-it-was-born?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&amp;utm_campaign=807cb5d062-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_01_12&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_411a82e59d-807cb5d062-68785313\">Angello Faccini\u2019s arrestingly photographed film<\/a> finds one of Silbo Gomero\u2019s last remaining practitioners reflecting on his fading way of life and its ephemeral language. Picture: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unesco.org\/culture\/ich\/es\/RL\/el-silbo-gomero-lenguaje-silbado-de-la-isla-de-la-gomera-islas-canarias-00172\">Unesco<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The language of whistles known as Silbo Gomero \u2013 or just el silbo (\u2018the whistle\u2019) \u2013 was once heard widely throughout La Gomera, one of the smallest of the seven main Canary Islands off the Atlantic Coast of Africa. Now it is used only by a few remaining shepherds on the steep hills of La [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[77,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3452"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3452"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3461,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3452\/revisions\/3461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}