User:Jmorr258/Turkish bird language

Endangerment reasons
The use of cellphones has eliminated the primary utilization of Kus Dili. Since the town of Kuskoy is a farming village with a deep valley, whistling can travel significantly further than be more audible than just yelling. Once the villagers began to get their hands on cellphones, many found this a much easier and more efficient way to communicate.

Due to Kuskoy being a very rural farming village, it does not provide many different opportunities in terms of jobs and lifestyle/ Because of this, much of the younger generation is deciding to leave the village in search of a different life.

Education
Kus Dili is currently being taught in two immersion programs as a subject. The first is taught at Karabork Primary School of which had 30 attendants when it first became a class. This class teaches students the techniques of Kus Dili as well as the anatomy of the mouth and teeth needed to perform this language. Later, the students would finally learn to communicate with this language.

As of 2019, Kus Dili is also being taught as an elective course at Turkeys Giresun University faculty of tourism.

Celebration
Every year since 1997, Kuskoy has held a communal based bird language, culture and art festival, where the community comes together. In this festival, individuals are to compete against each other with their whistling before a panel of judges. The winner is based on who whistles the given instructions the best.

Kuskoy does not receive many visitors but the people want to share their culture and special language with others. To gain more attention from outsiders, the villagers are renovating a school to house civilians for the festival.

Similar language
Kus Dili is not the only whistling language. Silbo Gomero is another whistling language but instead is from the Canary Islands. Similar to Kus Dili, it almost entirely copies the original language (spanish) into a string of whistles.

Unlike Kus Dili in Kuskoy, the local government has included it in the mandatory education system of the island.

Silbo Gomero faces the same challenge as Kus Dili does. As this language is primarily used for farming in deep valleys, the growth of cellphones has caused its need of use to decline.