UNESCO gives a shout-out to Switzerland’s yodelling

GENEVA — Switzerland’s long-celebrated yodelling has received a response from the UN cultural agency: The Alpine tradition of chant and song is indeed worthy of classification in a list of the world’s cultural heritage.

A committee of Paris-based UNESCO, meeting in New Delhi, on Thursday listed yodelling in its list of intangible cultural heritage.

Yodelling was selected among 67 traditions honoured by UNESCO in the Indian capital, including Italian cooking, Ghanaian highlife music, the fermented Kyrgyz beverage Maksym and the El Joropo music and dance tradition in Venezuela.

The list is different from the UNESCO World Heritage List, which enshrines protections for physical sites that are considered important to humanity, like the Pyramids of Giza in Egypt.

“Yodelling can be performed