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I would like to give some information about a language which is used in my hometown, it s bird language.
Bird language
And argue they can, because there's a whole language of whistles which about 1,000 people in and around Kuskoy use.
Anything they can say in Turkish, they can whistle as well. And when your best friend is just across the valley - but it takes an hour of rock scrambling to get there - it's a pretty useful talent to have.
At the moment they have 29 separate whistled noises, one for each letter of the Turkish alphabet. But there could be more - just alter the angle of the tongue, and away you go.
Education in the fine art of whistling begins at an early age, and it's a bit like learning to talk - all the local kids pick it up in the end.
Practice makes perfect, and the shrill sound of local chatter echoes down the valley more or less constantly.
A long history
No one really knows exactly when it started, only why. But the writer Xenophon described people shouting across valleys in the same region more than 2,000 years ago.
Long-distance whistling in Kuskoy is passed down from generation to generation, and it probably has a long history.
There are a handful of other villages around the world where the same tradition thrives in similar remote regions of Mexico, Greece and Spain.
But Kuskoy believes it boasts the largest concentration of whistlers on the planet. It's determined that its language will not be allowed to wither and die as people move away from the village, and modern technology intrudes into the mountains.
Most people in the area are farmers of one sort or another, and they still whistle as part of their everyday business.
News that a lorry might be coming to pick up the tea harvest, or that someone in the valley round the corner has some leaves to sell, whistles quickly through the community.
every year in july there is an international bird language festiva.
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