| 单词 | whistle-language |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswhistle-language whistle-language n. = whistle-speech n. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > a language > [noun] > whistled language whistled language or speech1948 whistle-speech1948 whistle-language1956 silbo1957 1956 J. Whatmough Lang. iii. 48 In this book we are not concerned with such departures from true speech as the so-called whistle ‘languages’ of Mazateco..and of the Canary Islands. 1957 Amer. Anthropologist 59 487 My direct interest in the subject stems from a brief encounter with a whistle-‘language’ and a slit-gong xylophone..among the Northern Chins of Burma. 1978 Maledicta 2 254 Whistle-Languages: Who knows whether there are insults or other abuses in whistled languages of the Canary Islands, Kuskoy/Turkey, etc.? < as lemmas |
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