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, ...

Whistle while you work, indeed. A language that uses a series of whistles to communicate has challenged the conventional wisdom that language is a left-brain activity. Whistled Turkish — which is ...

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 ...

Generally speaking, language processing is a job for the brain's left hemisphere. That's true whether that language is spoken, written, or signed. But researchers have discovered an exception to this ...

A seasonally inspired stream for the curious, but distracted. Let us know what you think. By The New York Times Unlike all other spoken languages, a whistled form of Turkish requires that “speakers” ...

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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Halil Cindik, head of the Kuskoy Bird Language Association, demonstrates his technique for whistling Turkish words and phrases. The piercing tones can be heard a mile or more away, depending on ...