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STAAR

State of Texas

Assessments of

Academic Readiness

GRADE 7

Reading

Administeed ay

RAS

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READING

Reading

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Than a Whistle

1 ust off the coast of Africa lies a small group of islands known as the anary slands. The second smallest of these islands is a omera. f you were to visit a omera, you might expect to hear the whistles of birds, such as canaries, in the air. Although you may indeed hear tweets drifting through the deep valleys and ravines, you would also hear a unique whistle not heard anywhere else in the world"and one that has nothing to do with birds. This whistle is called Silbo Gomero, or just el Silbo (the whistle) by the islanders. ts far more than an ordinary whistle. ts a spoken language. Afica

A a of te anay sands

tlantic Ocean a omea 2 El Silbo has a history that reaches back for many generations. o one is certain of its origin. Some speculate that it began as a northern African language. istorians do know that the whistled language was used by the original inhabitants of the island. When the Spanish explorers arrived during the 1500s and

1600s, they adopted the language and el Silbo was widely spoken for

centuries after. 3 El Silbo translates a dialect of Spanish by assigning whistles of different pitch and length to each vowel or consonant sound. The whistle language contains up to four vowels and up to ten consonants used to compose words. ne of the advantages to el Silbo is that the sounds can travel up to two miles. Without using much energy, it can be heard much farther away than a shout. While there are a few other whistling languages in the world, el Silbo is spoken by the largest group of people and is the only one that contains every vowel and consonant in the local spoken language. R eading age 4

A Ravine on La Gomera

Juliet Ferguson/Alamy Stock Photo

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