Sentence examples for bird language from inspiring English sources

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In recent years, the town has organized a whistling contest to encourage both tourism and cultural preservation, but the bird language is rapidly disappearing from daily life.

"Up," the elegiac 3-D Disney Pixar balloon movie with sound by Tom Myers and Michael Silvers, recycles a vintage-Disney howling wind (originally created for "A Bug's Life") and introduces a bird language that uses hyena and macaw calls.

Over the past half-century, linguists and reporters curious about what locals call kuş dili, or "bird language," have occasionally struggled up the footpaths and dirt roads that lead to Kuşköy.

The phrase "Do you have fresh bread?," which in Turkish is "Taze ekmek var mı?," becomes, in bird language, six separate whistles made with the tongue, teeth, and fingers.

Over the past half-century, linguists and reporters curious about what locals call ku__ş dili, or "bird language," have occasionally struggled up the footpaths and dirt roads that lead to Kuşköy.

In kuş dili, or "bird language," the phrase means "thank you very much" (çok teşekkür ederim in spoken Turkish).

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Luis F. Baptista, a leading expert on bird song who had learned to recognize not just bird languages but also dialects and regional accents, died on Monday at his home in Sebastopol, Calif.

It was all the birds that communicated with the boy and taught him birds' language.

It gave him a chance to shrug off the burden of emulation, and he took it, still speaking Bird's language but in his own emerging voice.

However, Bird wrote language for one of the "balanced treatment" bills that respiratory therapist Paul Ellwanger was promoting to state legislatures in the late 1970s, two versions of which became Arkansas Act 590 and Louisiana Act 685 (Edwords 1982).

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