How to Communicate in a Quiet Language

Learn what NASA astronaut Nicole Stott learned from her time in outer space. Plus: whistled languages around the world.

More from retired NASA astronaut Nicole Stott:

• Pick up "Back to Earth: What Life in Space Taught Me About Our Home Planet — and Our Mission to Protect It" https://www.sealpress.com/titles/nicole-stott/back-to-earth/9781541675049/
• Website: https://www.npsdiscovery.com/
• Follow @Astro_Nicole on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Astro_Nicole
• Space for Art Foundation: https://www.spaceforartfoundation.org/

At least 80 cultures have developed whistled versions of their languages for long-distance communication by Grant Currin

• Holmes, B. (2021, August). Speaking in whistles. Knowable Magazine | Annual Reviews. https://knowablemagazine.org/article/mind/2021/whistled-languages
• Robson, D. (2017). The beautiful languages of the people who talk like birds. Bbc.com. https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20170525-the-people-who-speak-in-whistles
• Environmental and Linguistic Typology of Whistled Languages. (2019). Annual Reviews. https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/10.1146/annurev-linguistics-011619-030444
• Sounds of Whistled Speech in “The Relevance of Human Whistled Languages for Dolphin Communication.” (2021). SoundCloud; SoundCloud. https://soundcloud.com/user-28976943/sets/meyer-and-diaz-2021-sounds-of-whistled-speech

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