I've been trying to read and translate a Spanish guidebook on Silbo Gomero for a while now. At long last, I've reached the part where it explains the mechanisms behind the identification of letters! Now I understand how to speak Silbo Gomero! The next problem is actually speaking Silbo Gomero.
Silbo is a whistled language, intended to be heard over a range of a couple miles. To generate a whistle loud enough to travel this distance, one has to use the "fingers-in-mouth" method. And boy is it difficult. All I've succeeded in doing so far is to hyperventilate and to cover my fingers in a film of slobber. I'm going to keep trying, so don't shake my hand for a couple of days, alright?
