Whistle-speech

口哨语

A term used in linguistics to refer to a stylized form of communication, in which whistling substitutes for the tones of normal speech. In some dialects (such as Mazatec, in Mexico) quite sophisticated conversations have been observed to take place using whistle-speech. An analogous system of communication is drum-signalling.

语言学用来指一种风格化的信递形式，即用口哨代替正常言语的音调。有些方言（如墨西哥的马萨特克语）里能见到用口哨语进行的很复杂的会话，一种类似的信递系统是鼓点语。