Read the text and choose the right answer for each question. Linguists believe there are about 70 whistled languages still in use today, although only 12 are fully understood. Most are found in isolated areas with difficult terrain, such as mountains or canyons, where communication over distances is difficult. The obvious advantage of whistled speech is that it allows the speaker to communicate over larger distances than ordinary speech. The whistler also has the benifit of reaching a number of people at once. Although this is not practical for those who want a private conversation, it is a convenient and efficient way to spread news fast. Most whistled languages are based on actual spoken languages and are not secret codes. They express the same information as the spoken language through the tone, length and stress of the whistle. Several hundred years ago people of La Gomera in the Canary Islands developed a whistled language called "El Sylbo". The islanders needed to communicate over valleys and cliffs. When one person heard a whistle, they passed it on. Islanders became so skilled that messages were successfully spread from one end of the island to the other. Today El Sylbo is rarely used in everyday communication, however, it is still used to announce community events among the farming communities. In order to protect the language from dying out, the authorities in La Gomera have made El Sylbo a part of the school curriculum. The young people have embraced the idea of learning this whistled language and even see some advantages in it. The people of La Gomera are fiercely proud of their linguistic heritage. The same pride can be seen in Kuskoy, Turkey - known as the "bird village". About 1,000 residents in and around also use a whistled language to communicate across the rocky valleys. They have 29 whistles, one for each letter of the Turkish alphabet. "Most people here are farmers and still whistle across the valleys to communicate with their neighbours", explains one of the residents. The village even holds an annual festival for the best whistler. The message from Kuskoy is simple: despite all the advances that have been made in the field of communication, sometimes the old ways are still the best. How do people communicate in some regions? Сan whistlers speak to many people at once? Are whistled languages based on Morse code? How did the people of La Gomera communicate? Is a whistled language learnt at school anywhere? Is it really so, that some Turkish people teach their whistled language at a music school? Are there any annual festivals for the best whistlers in Turkey? How many whistled languages are there in use today? What are most whistle languages based on? How many whistled languages are fully understood? They do it by whistling. Yes, they can. No, they aren't. They used to repeat the whistles they heard. Yes, it is, "El Sylbo" (the Canary Islands). We don't know about it. Yes, there are. About 70. On actual spoken languages. Only 12.

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Read the text and choose the right answer for each question.

Linguists believe there are about 70 whistled languages still in use today, although only 12 are fully understood. Most are found in isolated areas with difficult terrain, such as mountains or canyons, where communication over distances is difficult.
The obvious advantage of whistled speech is that it allows the speaker to communicate over larger distances than ordinary speech. The whistler also has the benifit of reaching a number of people at once. Although this is not practical for those who want a private conversation, it is a convenient and efficient way to spread news fast.
Most whistled languages are based on actual spoken languages and are not secret codes. They express the same information as the spoken language through the tone, length and stress of the whistle.
Several hundred years ago people of La Gomera in the Canary Islands developed a whistled language called "El Sylbo". The islanders needed to communicate over valleys and cliffs. When one person heard a whistle, they passed it on. Islanders became so skilled that messages were successfully spread from one end of the island to the other.
Today El Sylbo is rarely used in everyday communication, however, it is still used to announce community events among the farming communities. In order to protect the language from dying out, the authorities in La Gomera have made El Sylbo a part of the school curriculum. The young people have embraced the idea of learning this whistled language and even see some advantages in it.
The people of La Gomera are fiercely proud of their linguistic heritage. The same pride can be seen in Kuskoy, Turkey - known as the "bird village". About 1,000 residents in and around also use a whistled language to communicate across the rocky valleys. They have 29 whistles, one for each letter of the Turkish alphabet.
"Most people here are farmers and still whistle across the valleys to communicate with their neighbours", explains one of the residents. The village even holds an annual festival for the best whistler. The message from Kuskoy is simple: despite all the advances that have been made in the field of communication, sometimes the old ways are still the best.

Объекты 1
- How do people communicate in some regions?
- Сan whistlers speak to many people at once?
- Are whistled languages based on Morse code?
- How did the people of La Gomera communicate?
- Is a whistled language learnt at school anywhere?
- Is it really so, that some Turkish people teach their whistled language at a music school?
- Are there any annual festivals for the best whistlers in Turkey?
- How many whistled languages are there in use today?
- What are most whistle languages based on?
- How many whistled languages are fully understood?
Объекты 2
- They do it by whistling.
- Yes, they can.
- No, they aren't.
- They used to repeat the whistles they heard.
- Yes, it is, "El Sylbo" \(the Canary Islands\).
- We don't know about it.
- Yes, there are.
- About 70.
- On actual spoken languages.
- Only 12.

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