silbon.
/ˈsɪlbəʊ/ A form of whistled Spanish used by the inhabitants of Gomera in the Canary Islands, in order to communicate across long distances. Also known as Silbo Gomero.
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1957 Archivum Linguisticum 9 i. 44 There are abundant references to the silbo and at least two full-length studies.
1964 A. Classe in D. Abercrombie et al. Daniel Jones 43 The investigation of a whistled form of Spanish (Silbo Gomero)... We tested one group of consonants which are invariably confused in the Silbo.
1977 Sci. Amer. May 141/2 In the Spanish Civil War military signals were on occasion cast in Silbo, but there were Gomerans on both sides and so the measure-countermeasure drama soon ran its course.
1978 Verbatim Sept. 13/1 A phonetic analysis of the Silbo Gomero of Canarian Spanish is extended feature by feature to the articulated whistle.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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