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"Bird language" UNESCO list
January 6 , 2018
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- The United Nations Cultural Agency has accepted the “bird language” of Black Sea villagers as an endangered part of world heritage in need of urgent protection.
- The unusual and very efficient whistle language used as a means of communication by villagers in the remote and mountainous northern Turkey has recently entered UNESCO list of Intangible Cultural Heritage.
- Around 10,000 people in the district of Canakci in Giresun province, still use the language today.
- This form of communication which dates to some 500 years ago, during the Ottoman Empire period.
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