yell, shouting language

Yelling system of the Lokele people in D.R. Congo, described in Carrington (1944). H and L linguistic tone is encoded by shouted vocables, where syllables kɛ or lɛ correspond to L-toned syllables and ki or li to H-toned syllables (540). Most commonly used for long-distance communication “between canoes on the river… beyond the reach of normal conversation” (540). Evidently, “[e]xactly the same system of message transmission as that in use on the two-toned slit drum bouŋgu is used for transmitting information… [as the] shouting-at-a-distance language” (540).

Carrington, J. F. (1976). The Drum Language of the Lokele Tribe. In T. A. Sebeok & J. Umiker-Sebeok, Speech Surrogates: Drum and Whistle Systems. 1976. (pp. 591–668). De Gruyter Mouton. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110804423-001