I'm quite fluent in Slovenian, thanks to their television that I used to watch a lot when I was a kid. :D

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Mighty Midget @ Aug 31 2007, 05:39 AM) [snapback]307901[/snapback]</div>http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/science/11/18...e.ap/index.html

Ah yes I heard that shepherds in many places of Spain formerly used that kind of communication.

For any other purpuse then calming the sheep down (while ... them)?

Yes, to communicate between people. And it seems that the language supported quite sofisticated messages, like the article says, although I don't quite know about it.

quite a message it was
:tomato:

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(_r.u.s.s. @ Aug 30 2007, 11:15 PM) [snapback]307888[/snapback]</div>This reminds me of something I saw in a comedy routine by a really funny guy confined to a wheelchair by cerebral palsy:

I was in a restaurant and suddenly found that I was choking on my food, so I waved my arms to get someone's attention and accidentally proposed to a deaf woman across the room. So now I have a wife that never listens to me!

Perfect finnish (mother tongue), almost-perfect english (with several accents) and passable french. I also know couple of words of german, japan and swedish.