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  • What if I told you that in Peru, people communicate using fruits and vegetables, for example, papaya.

  • If you do something easy, like lifting a pencil with your hand people call it because Papa in Peruvian slang, means when you call something you ca like the vegetable.

  • It means it's hard when you call someone lentils.

  • It means they're slow.

  • Afford that on when you call someone avocado, it means what they are doing is sure, like the tasty, sugary dessert means they are handsome.

  • Carrick means there are innocents and even pineapple means Languages can be very Yuka, but if you add fruits to them like in Peru, they can be very papaya.

  • Oh, um, tha what you hear now is not just a whistle.

  • This'd is a real language called the Bird Language E.

  • I am here at a remote village in the mountains off Turkey, and because the house is off this village, are far from each other.

  • The locals decided that to communicate, it's easier to whistle.

  • This'll Village has developed a new language that has over 250 unique words that is taught at schools to kids on that's been around for over 500 years.

  • For example, this is a conversation on these conversations can happen over a 2.5 kilometer distance in the world full of language is the most beautiful ones seem to belong to the birds that for a minute.

  • Let me ask you a question.

  • How long is your language?

  • See to say the word economics In German, you say virtue vestige often.

  • But here in Australia, I found a language that is shorter than your German and shorter than your English.

  • It's the obvious Lang.

  • Instead of saying Avocado, these guys say, instead of kangaroo instead of sandwich, sign up McDonald's afternoon.

  • Definitely.

  • Dafoe cigarettes.

  • Siggy, Melbourne Cricket Ground Breakfast, Recchi, football buddy and even a self portrait picture.

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  • They call it.

  • Yes, Selfie was invented in Australia.

  • You can count on Australians to make every word sound different, X shortened because even their country named Australia, they call that one minute e.

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