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An odd description in a later book of Xenophon's Anabasis has a Black Sea tribe communicating by shouting across an unfeasibly large distance. However it may be that the author is actually reporting on the phenomenon of whistled speech, still practised in the same region of the Black Sea today as well as in remote communities in Greece, South America and the Canary Islands.
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This page is a summary of: DID THE MOSSYNOIKOI WHISTLE? A CONSIDERATION OF THE DISTANCE BETWEEN POLEIS IN THE BLACK SEA MOUNTAINS GIVEN AT ANABASIS 5.4.31, Greece and Rome, March 2016, Cambridge University Press,
DOI: 10.1017/s0017383515000261.
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