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Information on the Silbo Gomero language used by shepherds in the Canary Islands. [via LING-L](categories: )
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The bit on whistled languages isn’t too surprising. The bits of the brain we think of a “language centers” really do more generalized tasks like pattern and symbol recognition. Show a subject square-triangle-circle over and over and Broca’s area lights up like an Xmas tree. Whistled language is just a slight shift in modality from spoken language, so it’s good to see that it wasn’t different.
Interestingly enough, David Corina (one of the researchers) is pretty well-known in the sign linguistics world. Check it out: