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A whistled language is the use of whistling to emulate speech and facilitate communication. Generally whistled languages emulate the intonation, tones or vowel formants, and prosody of a natural language so that speakers of that language can recognize the speech melody of what is being said and thus understand the whistled speech. Whistled language is rare compared to spoken language, but it is found in cultures around the world. It is especially common in tonal languages where the whistled tones follow the tones of the syllables (tone melodies of the words).