16.1924, Media: NPR: Whistling to Communicate in Alaska

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Subject: 16.1924, Media: NPR: Whistling to Communicate in Alaska

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Date: 22-Jun-2005
From: Lee Hartman < lhartman at siu.edu >
Subject: NPR: Whistling to Communicate in Alaska

	
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Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 12:42:58
From: Lee Hartman < lhartman at siu.edu >
Subject: NPR: Whistling to Communicate in Alaska



A whistling language used by Yupik-speakers in Alaska was the subject of a
report on National Public Radio in the U.S. on June 21.  You can hear the
audio archive at

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4713068

Lee Hartman
Carbondale, Illinois, U.S.A.


Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics

Subject Language(s): Yupik, Central Siberian (ESS)




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