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‘Special and Beautiful’ Whistled Language Echoes Around This Island On a jagged island in the Canary archipelago, a whistling language known as “Silbo Gomero” is still in use thanks to mandatory classes for schoolchildren. Video Antonio Marquéz Navarro, 71, whistling: “Come over here, we’re going to slaughter the pig.”CreditCredit.Finbarr O Reilly for The New York Times LA GOMERA, Spain — Sitting atop a cliff in the Canary Islands, Antonio Márquez Navarro issued an invitation — “Come over here, we’re going to slaughter the pig” — without speaking a word: He whistled it. In the distance, three visiting hikers stopped dead in their tracks at the piercing sound and its echo bouncing off the walls of the ravine that separated them.

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