Switzerland hopes to have yodelling recognised by the United Nations this month to help protect the ancestral sing-song ...

LUCERNE, Switzerland (AP) — Yodel-ay-hee ... what?! Those famed yodeling calls that for centuries have echoed through the Alps, and more recently have morphed into popular song and folk music, could ...

Switzerland currently counts some 12,000 keen yodellers lilting their way through the style's distinctive topsy-turvy up-and-down melodies across 780 yodelling clubs.

In its early days, yodeling involved chants of wordless vowel sounds, or “natural yodeling,” with melodies but no lyrics. More recently, “yodeling song” has included verses and a refrain. The Swiss ...