Silbo Gomero - The Gomeran Whistle

  • Silbo Gomero - The Gomeran Whistle
Silbo Gomero - The Gomeran Whistle
 

Need to communicate over 5 kilometres with no electronics? Try silbo gomero, the whistling language developed centuries ago by the inhabitants of La Gomera in the Canary Islands. It was created by transposing the Spanish language's phonemes into whistles, it's literally like speaking by whistling! It's such a peculiar tradition that some restaurants even provide whistling demonstrations for tourists.