Canary Islands Whistle Lang was Re: Robot langs

"Davis, Iain E." wrote:
>
> Doesn't have to be _solely_ for machines.  Most of the R2 "speech"
> appears to be whistles. I could see operating on that assumption, which
> means someone who was (more than I!) adept with generating whistles
> could potentially "speak" the language.  It'd be one of those "easier to
> comprehend than to speak" kinds of things. :)
Isn't there a whistle language that is or was used on the Canary
Islands?

Cheers,
Eamon