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Greece’s disappearing whistled language (video-photos)

"Sfyria" is effectively a whistled version of spoken Greek

BBC: The last speakers of Ancient Sparta (audio)

The iconic city-state may have fallen nearly 2.400 years ago, but today, 2.000 people still speak the language of these ancient warriors