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This paper presents experimental results testing vowels of a register of whistled Greek called Sfyria. We used a frame sentence and minimal pairs. Each participant performed the experiment in whistled Greek, then again in spoken Greek. The results suggest that all five vowel qualities of Greek remain distinct in the whistled register (/i/ /e/ /o/ through F0 alone; /a/ /u/ through intensity). While acoustic differences were found between stressed and unstressed versions of all spoken vowel qualities (namely intensity), correlates of a stress distinction were not found for /i/. This might be a ceiling effect from general high intensity of front vowels in the whistled register, and we tentatively suggest that stressed /i/ in Sfyria is not produced differently from its unstressed counterpart.