Trip to tribal locations

We are more connected today than at any time in our species’ history, yet isolated pockets of people still manage to live apart from globalized society. It’s impossible to know exactly how many such tribes exist. To call these people uncontacted”, as they often are, is imprecise. It’s nearly impossible to completely avoid contact with outsiders, and even harder to avoid objects like factory-made knives or bowls that make their way deep into remote areas through trade.

Kuskoy, Turkey

Kuskoy is Turkey’s smallest town tucked into an isolated valley on the rainy, mountainous Black Sea coast of Turkey, looks much like the other villages in the region. This region is special because for its people and its distinctive tones of local language. Over the past half-century, linguists and reporters curious about what locals call ku__s dili, or bird language,” have occasionally struggled up the footpaths and dirt roads that lead to Kuskoy.

The local people of Kuskdéy use whistled language, which you can call as bird language”. They use separate whistles made with the tongue, teeth, and fingers. Here the children in Kusk6y are learning to communicate by whistling before they started school, and that both men and women regularly gossiped, argued, and even courted via whistle. Now the authortity of the town has organised a whistling contest to encourage both tourism and cultural preservation, but the bird language or whistle language is rapidly disappearing from daily life.

Tari Highlands, Papua New Guinea