Re: Conlang with whistles

Jan van Steenbergen wrote:
>
> Have you considered ingressive whistling? It's very easy to do (as a matter of
> fact, when I was a child is learnt to do that before I learnt to whistle
> normally). There is even a nice trill to it: when your tongue is immediately
> under the opening of the mouth with a small amount of saliva on it.
>
> Another thing, but difficult to practise is multiphonics. I used to have the
> ability to whistle two tones simultanuously, but unfortunately I lost it.
>
> Last thing I can think of is whistling overtones.
That reminds me of the overtone singing ("throat singing") found in Tuva
and some other traditional cultures. Is a tonal language using
overtone-singing possible, or do those sounds require too much more
practice or instruction than the phones described by the IPA?

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