This Turkish Language Isn’t Spoken, It’s Whistled
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 20 ม.ค. 2020
- For three centuries, farmers living in the remote mountains of northern Turkey have communicated great distances by whistling. It’s a language called kuş dili that is still used to this day, though fewer people are learning it in the age of the cell phone. It’s also known as bird language, for obvious reasons. Muazzez Köçek lives in Kuşköy, and she is the best whistler in her village. Muazzez shows us how she uses varied pitch frequencies and melodies to translate Turkish vocabulary into whistles with meaning.
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I can’t even whistle and this lady is speaking a whole language with it
when ever I try to whistle, I end up blowing my spit everywhere ew...
I’m Turkish & can’t whistle either so this video makes me feel inadequate because I wouldn’t be able to “speak” this version (?) of Turkish 😅😩
nadiaalibaig the feeling when you try to blow a gum bubble, and end up spitting the gum on someone 😂
@@psilocylence Lol but really what can they say in this WHISTLING* way of communicating?
Same
In an alternate universe: these birds don’t whistle,they speak Turkish
XDDDDDDDDD
Lol Im also Turkish
OMG this comment killed me Lol
bird: abi bi ekmek versene çok açım
turk: özür-dilerim ne?
(google translate)
@@yunus1074 😂😂
Me: can't whistle
Turkish village: look everyone! a mute!
sadly true (┬┬﹏┬┬)
*starts whistling mockingly*
@@ubslbomlbb4319 ok. I’m from turkey and found it funny. What’s ur point?
I’m suddenly mute
I'm a mute to them :'D
Fun Fact: The name of the village, Kuşköy, literally means 'Bird Village'.
:0
Good caught. :D
çko komiq sjsjsj
Umm yeah?
And "Kuş Dili" is "Bird Tongue/Language"
Me: whistles
Turkish Villagers: *deep*
LMFAO im laughing so hard to that idk why
LMAO
I can't even whistle
Not every willage use that tho
Izuku Midoriya go do hero stuff instead of watching TH-cam
now i wanna see a bird that speaks turkish.
Underrated asf 😂
hahahaha
Cats understand turkish :)
"This bird language isnt whistled, its spoken!"
Look up parrots speak Turkish....
Fun fact: As a Turkish person, this is still very strange for me and most of the Turkish people. :)
same
The language, almost forgotten.
Life at vilage/mountain then
Thought I was the only one 😂
True I cant even whistle
Water in the kettle: *Boils*
Turkish person: yeah, my day was fine, how bout you?
yeah we Turks do it really often even I convey my best wishes to Bats every night before I go sleep
@@pembroke916 do people sometimes hunt you like turkey
No actually it means "Stop making stupid comments you stupid".
Uhm excuse me that is incredibly offensive, this is an INCREDIBLY remote area of turkey, I am saying this confidently as a TURKSIH person myself, and most of turkish people don't even know this language even exists. That is very rude of you to assume it is our "language" or anything.
@@elifsenoglu731 jeez calm down.
Tourist: the birds are lively this morning
Local guide: oh that's the baker arguing with his wife again.
kskkkskkk
LMAO KSKQKXMDLS
Hahahahahaha
HAHAKSJDHUF
Ok that was very funny 🤣🤣🤣
People who don't know how to Whistle will be considered mute in this village.
Technically true
Me too.
*Peppa intensifies*
Me lol
@Yusra Hussein LMAO
i hope that some formal linguist has gone in and documented it and made, like, a “dictionary” of all the whistles. Like a video dictionary. To fully preserve the language.
Yes, that's a good idea 💡
You are the formal linguist.
Go and document it my friend.
Stop dreaming and go do
yeah just spend a couple months and thousands of dollars to fly to turkey and document this dying language despite having any idea linguistic education@@JEAthePrince
İts turkish with just sounds i noticed i can understand the language after watching it for some time
Bc turkish is a fanatical language, everything is based on several rules around how to pronounce a word. We literally cant have a spelling competition bc its easy af. You can mimic the general sounds of letters like k and our brain filles the rest. Such as kz =kuzu. Which means sheep
I did not see any strange thing like this before . It is beyond my imagination . I just loved this . May Whistle Turkish live long .
-Amen
amen
Amen.
Turkish teyze: *whistle*
Birds around: why does she want to invade Cuba?
Turkish teyze ne NXISBDISNDIH
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA I AM DONE
I'm dying😂😂😂😂
Aynen turkish teyze devam asngöamgabgbagba
Lol deli 😂
I would love to see a rap battle between two people in this language
*aggressive whistling*
Whistling bars
😂😂😂😂
*whistling intensifies*
whistles
as a turkish person i never knew this was real lmao i thought people were fooling around when they mentioned bird language ajdjhkwdk
kuguş digiligi sigikigik
I also thought it was a joke and never thought that this was actually real
@@iremk1586 ruhi çeneti izledin mi orda daha ayrıntılı
Segenigi çogok segevigiyogorugum vmcmcmcö ikisi farklı kuş dili ya, buna niye kuş dili diyorduk bilmiyorum küçükken vmcmkc
@@Kindagloomy... HSADHFHSDGSDHG cidden ya neden böyle diyorduk hakkatten de varmış :D
What a strong woman, and culture. I hope it lives forever
The original “ tweeting”
This need more likes
Lolololollolololol!!! 😂😂
Wow. Just wow.
YES
when you in a village and dont have an internet...
Fun fact: Kuşköy literally translates to bird village in Turkish.
Hahahahah deutsch ?
oh, ok. köy in Tatar means "melody" so I thought it meant "bird melody"
I know these are different languages but still they're related
@@anonymus9461 dachte ich mir auch ahahha
dostum ben bir Türk'üm ve zaten türkçe bir kelime bu yüzden sizede öyle çeviriliyor
@@anonymus9461 Kuşköy= Vogeldorf wortwörtlich übersetzt.
“kuşköy “ means bird village ! thought it would be cool to know for those who don’t know turkish 🥺
aaah thats nice thanks
Alternative title: Turkish Whistleblower reveals village secret
HAHAHA LOL
Criminally underrated.
@@datapoint6859 Great choice of words there.
Oh that’s a pin worthy comment!
I can't even whistle, and there're people out there speaking WHISTLE LANGUAGES
Chezz HAHAHAH i just realised your profile picture is from Seth Everman’s drawing
It is because of their bird ancestry
Same 🤣
@@ArkWn same
Neither can we
Mother: (Whistles)
Friend: Is that your bird?
Son: No, it's just my mom, asking you if you want to eat.
xD
@@garen7719 >:D
@@darius7019 oh Darius whatsup man
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
That was good :)
In Oaxaca, México there are some places where they also whistle to comunicate. But instead of turkish, they whistle Mazateco
I love Mexico and Mexicans. Love from Turkey
I think it also happens in the Canary Islands
@@ernestogutierrez2673 I've read that at least there's 20 whistle languages in this world.
Turkish woman: *talks about producing different pitches with different fingers*...
Me: "Sounds the same to me..."
I think when you are taught the language from a young age, you learn to differentiate them! :D
same eheheh
not at all, they sound different
@Smile MotherLover Sicc man
@Smile MotherLover hahhahahahaha nice
Me: whistles
Bird language speaker: you just made 10 grammatical mistakes.
Me: Armenian Genocide happened.
Bird Language speaker: No it didn't
Me: whistles
Bird language speaker: what you say about my mom?
@jode it’s true no birds are harmed during Armenian Genocide. They are not Christians anyway.
Then there's me barely able to even whistle lol
Me : *whistles*
Bird language speaker: "Congratulations every word of what you said was completely wrong"
🤣
For those wondering how she climbed that tree lol that's every turkish grandma. They'll tell you how old they are and second later they will pick up the heaviest thing in the world.
LMAO 🤣🤣🤣
facts
Lol, I remember when I walking along a very steep hill in Turkey, a group of old Turkish women the same age as my grandmother was hiking with ease like it was nothing. I feel so weak, hahaha.
it wasnt her tho
Long Gone exactly
The Island of Gomera, one of the Canary Islands, also has a similiar language called "Silbo Gomero" (Gomero Whistle) allowing people to comunicate from up to 5 kilometres away.
Many years ago a few of my students gave me a demonstration in class! 8)
yes it originated from the Guanches who were a Berber group of people that were the original inhabitants of the Canary Islands. They eventually were forced to assimilate away into the spanish culture but they still maintained that whistle language in some villages! it's really cool!
How did they demonstrate it? Did you stand on each end of a hall and whistle?
me: whistles for my sis to bring me a snack
my sis: says no
me: whistles, but angrily
Me: *whistles*
Turkish guy from this village: WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY ABOUT MY MOTHER?
Albos Hajdari Turkish*
asgdadsfh lol
hahahahahahahah
You are Turkish look your surname haydar
Hahah my surname indeed is Haydar (actually it's written "Hajdari" but pronounced as Haydar) . I'm Albanian and Muslim, we got Islam mostly from Ottomans, that should explain my surname.
So nobody's going to point out how she fearlessly climbed that apple tree
Omg thank you! I was thinking that too.
Where
Awantika Mishra 2:15
She's from northern Turkey. That's where the Amazon women have lived.
That's nothing for them as they do it from a very young age
My grandmother still speaks the bird language she made a great effort to teach me that language but when you have cellphone this language is so hard to learn. she says that "cellphones" makes your brain gummy...
Imagine finally learning and understanding this artful, melodic language only for a bird to land on a tree and whistle out:
"Lmao ur gay."
Me: *Whistling a song*
Villagers: no need to get political bro
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Weeb
@@rahmat4848 u gae
@@Ezbenduhin He judged it from his profile pic
I was disappointed not to see an actual conversation with the whistling
cause its bullshit
@@unbeastable957 What do you mean?
Same here
@@unbeastable957 "Even if there was proof i would never beleive it." That explains so many things wrong in our world. Spelling and punctuation aside.
sirlordford haha exactly. There’s tons of evidence for climate change but idiots won’t believe it
Me: *Whistle randomly
Them: Hey Stop, don't be Rude
When your trying to sleep but your neighbor needs to ask her sister what shes cooking: 1:55
Me: whistles randomly
Turkish person from the village: Get Grammarly
That's underrated
this has to get more likes
I know this is a joke so please don’t woos but how would grammarly correct. Would it be a verbal grammarly or what it just popped into my mind
this sentence is grammatically hilarious
that was the funniest comment out of all of em
Me: *whistles once*
Turkish person: *wondering how i managed to make 22 grammar mistakes in one whistle*
As a turk, i can confirm
LMAO (Hi! "From Turkey")
LOL
İt just in one Village speaks it
@@monikacarlyle8439 monika :D
Wow, this is beautiful! If more people watched this video, I bet they'd flock over to that village just to learn this amazing language! I know I want to! :D
i really love this. she looks so cool climbing the trees
This kind of language actually requires a really high musical IQ point
It's much easier to learn it if you grow up learning that language
@@1999FARUK1972 what make you say that?
Ali Ibn Azman I think its a pun, since the lady said low pitches travel far?
It's more of an ear thing. Even when the lady is so old, since she has been using that language for so long, she is very accustomed to the extremely high and extremely low frequencies of the human range. Which is usually not the case for people as the range decreases with age on both the lower and higher parts. If we were to learn it now, who knows if we'd be able to hear the little intricacies of the sounds made. Our ears discard any sounds that are not required for or present in our language since childhood. That way, learning new languages and different sounds becomes more about training your ear for the new sounds and making it accustomed to them.
Musical IQ has nothing to do with language patterns. Just like speaking a tonal language seems like singing a song, but native speakers can be bad singers too.
Fun fact: Kuşköy literally means "bird village" ^^
Cupcakke who?
They are the bird people.
@LiliEriNySka Orni
Biliyorum
thescp096fan 🤗
Wow the landscape they live in beautiful! It looks so peaceful.
I'm learning my own country better with those entertaining videos. Thank you!
Me: *whistles*
Turkish teyze: it's leviosa not leviosar.
turkish teyze mi asdşlidlişas
@@loveliybox8517 çaktırma kanka o Türk eowpqhdıoasj
Herry pottar
ASFASMLFNAS.ŞLGKJNA LJKGH
Turkish teyze sljgşljhfsljgsljh
This woman: *whistles*
The bird sitting in a nearby tree: uhm, I have a boyfriend.
I have a girlfriend*
That doesn't make any sense
Gay 🐦
lol
xX_ETNCrybaby Directioner_Xx u meant lesbian? Gay is for males
Thief of Hearts Lesbian*
I love learning about different cultures and peoples. Amazing video.
*lady says to cameraman in various whistles*
“Hey wanna see me climb this tree?”
*proceeds to climb random tree
Being a Turkish myself, I never knew this language seriously existed.
I learned about it a year ago and i myself am a turkish person.
@mehmethan ogo kuguş digiligi degeigil agamk
@mehmethan are you having a stroke or....
@@Jun-Kyard speeeeedwagoooooon
What happens if some one is born def though
Not only can they whistle, but that one lady climbed that tree like an assassin, I need to up my game.
They are Black Sea people, they live in non-developed places and they climb and work since they are children
do you live in a mountain village?
@Unosonic why? he's totally right
@Unosonic How are they racist im so confused wtf
She also has good teeth
Turkey keeps surprising me and making me fall in love even more!
The place looks absolutely beautiful 😍
when she said: biioooop fiiiiooooobw hiiiiiuuuup
I felt that
𓀐𓂸𓀐𓂸
good one
hahaha
felt what?
@@mrdaudouchiha47 his boner 😂
Me: **whistles in this village**
Villagers: _So, you've chosen death?_
She whistle too. She can not say. Also she don't know english I know
@@ugurcantekin6585 I nearly had a seizure reading your comment.
Jotaro Kujo sorry for his bad English Jotaro
@@Bananaboi6969 what did he say? I got bugged reading it.
Uğur Cantekin English?
2:28 so sweet :)
I just love this lady, a very neat and beautiful person. I wish I could visit with her
why isn't anyone talking about how she climbed that tree lol
I'm turk and we have a really strong womans.. she is 100 yo.. th-cam.com/video/3WiXc4FSo2Q/w-d-xo.html there is Blacksea coast in Turkey. she is 80 yo. th-cam.com/video/uj6MBHcqhFI/w-d-xo.html .. just in Blacksea coast.
Welcome to Turkey
Joann Zhou
Ja Mann unglaublich/unbelievable :))
They are villagers. Many Black Sea women can do everything who men do. Its about lifestyle and genetic.
Hahaha superwomen .... lol
This is just a big flex on people who can’t whistle.
Biggest flex
person who can't whistle here, can confirm
Peppa pig must really hate these people
@@akit4inu you did not just-- 💀💀
@@lark3260, omg😂😂💀💀
Wow Turkey is such a Beautiful and Amazing Country. I really want to visit one day!
Me: Whistles random stuff
Turkish villager: Tf this guy want us to invade Cuba for?
Κλεμμένο.
When you whistle for fun and the Turkish villager cringes at the 8 spelling mistakes you made in one sentence
hahaha
they wont because turkish womans is not makes fun like that
@@hwidban Reis bilmiyorsan deneme yani. Gülünç duruma düşüyorsun sadece.
@@miruzanka herkesin mükemmel kusursuz ingilizcesi olacak diye birşey yok. hatalarını söyleyip yardımcı olmayacaksan negatifliğini kendine sakla ♥
@@hwidban They won't, because turkish women doesn't make fun of people.*
As a Turkish person this is pretty fun to read the comments lol
Same-
Samee
I guess it is nor true, am I right?))
@@l.u.7834 it is actually true lol
Same lol
That’s really cool. What a beautiful village.
They should make a TH-cam video tutorials about this. I bet many enthusiasts throughout the world would be interested! That would make this language alive for the generations to come :)
The birds living there gonna be hella confused everyday, like hold up that’s our thing, stop talking to my bird wife. No, STOP it!
Yiheng Zhou 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Man whistling nonsense
Bird: you want my wife fuckface ?
你好 我是土耳其人。我是中文学生
@@aralcubukcu 啊！我也学汉语我的朋友！
@@Darth_Revelation yaş kaç? Hangi okul? Bizim okulda çince var oradan öğreniyoruz
2:28 BLESS HER THATS SO WHOLESOME 🥺🥺
🥺
I was looking for a comment about her laugh it’s so cute ☺️
I love her laugh. It made my day
_pablitoes_ bruh
I have been to Giresun where this village is. I have been along the coast to what I can genuinely say are some of the most nicest people that I have met on my travels. Her smile is genuine. Some of the people invited me to their homes for dinner after speaking with them for 10 minutes.
Random guy: walks through the village whistelling a song.
Suddenly a teyze jumps out of a tree ready to answer the mating call of the unsuspecting traveller
Explanation for non Turkish viewers: teyze means aunt/lady.
@ right, forgot to mention... sorry
I would be mute, for I cannot whistle
Same here
You would get used to it
How do I whistle
@@LyudovikDaGoat IDK
Cheriee Davis same
There is a Turkish movie called “Sibel” that came out in 2018, with Sibel being the main character. She’s mute so in order for her to be understood, she has to whistle this language. I highly recommend watching this movie, it’s great :)
Just watched the trailer and it is beautiful. I will watch the whole movie, Thanks for this comment.
nice
but who asked
@@sezer365 your mom
@@nobodyinabody :D
@@sezer365 wtf dude
The birds: affirmative, we will talk in human languange now
This language must be preserved and shared to many people!
someone: whistles
turkish kid: why does he want to revive the soviet union?
Not all turkish people can talk this language actually its a small village where small group can do it
Lol I’m Turkish and I’ve just heard about this language
@@whydoyouneedtoknow7110 I'm english
@@whydoyouneedtoknow7110 you said "ben turkçeyim" xD
helo haksim havargi heaksim dayı
As a Turkish person who sucks at whistling normally, I feel like a disappointment lol.
I totally can relate dude, whistling is a pain- and this is so beyond 😂
I literally can't even whistle lmaoo💀💀
As a person who’s only mentally retarded, I can’t explain myself how to not learn how to whistle
frl
Bruh S A M E
They could be great musicians with that insane pitch control, i bet some of them definetly have perfect pitch
Me: wow... thats some great sounding birds
Freind: nah just some villagers
Me: *the WHAT*
Her accent is so heavy, as a native Turkish guy, sometimes I had to look at the English subtitles haha.
I am glad I stumbled upon this video. Great documentary. Thanks.
Lol im not alone, i did the exact same thing..
Yes that region accent is kinda oof
really? wow.. i'm from noth turkey too and i understand every word perfectly.. we generally speak with accent (laz) ... i never image it would be hart to understand for other people
Yonko Eagle yeah i see you man im from south west aegean region and sometimes people also doesnt understand what the hack my poeople speak about, its always also interesting for me too 😁
Abartmayın İstanbulluyum ben bile anladım dlfjfkfhsj
Me: whistles normaly
People in this village: "WHY DID HE JUST DECLARED WAR ON MY SHEEP?"
You really have to learn the dos and don'ts before visiting their village. Declaring war on their sheeps is one of the don'ts.
declare*
underrated
Ghahahahhaha
again my answers is Dude whistle normal its not the BİRD LANGUGAE its just a normal wistle doesnt mean anything when u whistle -3-
Even if you don't have lot of options, you have ways to find happiness and fun in life. She is a best example.
Excellent this should never stop.
Bird: chirps
Turkish woman in the mountains: more apples. got it
sleep snug smug 🤣👏🏻🎉
@@beagioart 2:16
@@beagioart ne alaka?
all Turkish womans can't speak 'bird language' lol
@merturas muduroglu why we don't
Imagine if she just faked it all and it's just random whistling LMAO
😂😂😂
Everything sounded the same to me, wouldn't be surprised lol
LOL
No its real, we have this bird thing in Turkey but its like a myth
@@nuiaslou18 true
masallah teyzeme, allah uzun saglukli ömür versun sa`a
Ruhi Çenet in bunla ilgili bir videosu vardı
Karadeniz insanı olunca şaşırmıyorum onları çok seviyorum Türkler burda mısınız ? Alooo ses verin
as
If people used this language, I would be technically mute. I can't whistle.
@Simply Sasuke hah been trying to learn it since last many years to no avail
Inna British accent: just put your lips together, and blow.
Awantika Mishra if you didn’t learn a$ a kid then idk what to tell ya.. but imagine you have a $traw... in$tead of inhaling, exhale... ju$t pretend there$ a $traw
2 Train why are all of your S dollar $ign$
Me: * tries to whistle *
bird: * vietnam war flashback *
Bruh, heheheahahahahah
Broooo HAHAHAHHAHAHAHA TF
Omg that meme
AHHAAHAHHAHAAHHAHA
My mom is Turkish, and she's really good at doing this type of whistling! It's really funny because when I perform for school, she starts whistling and I always know it's her.
This Giresun… My hometown.
I cant speek this „Language“.
But i Love it to listen
Ay orası Giresun muuu memleketimmiş ya orası sşxldşs
@@sayendeyim2985 giresunun neresinden?
@@HaustechnikYeni Eynesil, yani orada doğmadım da annem babam oralı
Me: Can't whistle
Them: Speaks a full language using whistling
XD
Ela Nesh same
We have all sorts of strange villages, one of them even speak in reversed Turkish. We are weird like that lmao.
Is there Duolingo for this? Ima learn this
You need to know Turkish before learn bird language so you can start from learning Turkish on Duolingo
Stan loona huh 🤔
[TRL] Troll Troll
@@Ricky-wy6dl stream b#rn
Gabriel Del Frontón what are you saying
How interesting. I've been to Turkey but did not know about these whistlers
!
Her laugh in the end made the whole video worth it❤️
Imagine getting jumped and then you hear
*WHISTLE WHISTLE WHISTLE WHISTLE*
TheGhettoReviewer I can translate it says “Give me your vocal chords”
Gaming Trifilm 😂😂😂
Gaming Trifilm 😂
Gaming Trifilm 😂😂😂
Gaming Trifilm 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
The African tongue clicking language : Finally, a worthy oponent!
You have to be at close range for clicks, this is far superior ma man
@@Sulfat_lol agreed
Click languages use more phonemes than just clicks, tho. A whistled Turkish code isn't comparable to a real language.
@@Sulfat_lol They serve different functions though. Clicks are used to sneak up to pray.
There are quite a few of those. The clicks are just more consonants in the regular spoken languages
beautiful scenery! irandan salamlar
Don't knw why people disliked the vedio .it's so nice to see and informative
~How people communicate~
America: uses words
Kuşköy: whistles
Minecraft villagers: *Hmmm*
underrated
LEGO’s: HEY!
@Kulaklıksız Kaanser they barely even do that!
@@bellamckinnon8655 I mean...I do uhm-
I wonder what people outside america do to comunicate.
those spanish people on the canary islands: finally, a worthy opponent
*starts whistling aggressively*
@@Sraxton suddenly hears trough the fire and the flames in the backroud but whisteled
I wonder if there are other parts of the world that do it as well. ☺️
I want to like this comment but I kinda wanna keep it at 111
Silbo Gomero!!
Karadenizliyim. Eskiden beri kuş dili ifadesini bilmeme rağmen gerçekten dili konuşan birilerinin olduğunu bilmek çok şaşırttı beni :)
I am from Black sea region. We were using the term and joking each other saying 'I know bird language'. But Wauw it does really exist!
Turks are our brothers!
Greetings from Hungary!