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TIL in the village of Aas, France, there is a whistled language based on the Béarnese dialect of Gascon in Occitan. The language died in 1999 with the last speaker, Anne Pallas. Revitalization efforts involved activists traveling to La Gomera in the Canary Islands of Spain.

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