| 单词 | silbo gomero |
| 释义 | > as lemmasSilbo Gomero 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. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > a language > [noun] > whistled language whistled language or speech1948 whistle-speech1948 whistle-language1956 silbo1957 the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [noun] > Indo-European > postulated Italo-Celtic > Romance > Spanish > whistled, as used by inhabitants of Gomero silbador1957 silbo1957 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. < as lemmas |
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