If you speak Navajo it is a very simple substitution code. They spelled things out in English, chose a English word or two for each letter, translated that word into Navajo and then used that. For example the letter C. Cat stands for C and Navajo for cat is Mósí . Sheep stands for S, sheep in Navajo is Dibé. Bear is for B and bear in Navajo is Shash. They also used word for types of birds for types of planes and fish for boats etc.
Code talkers were native Americans who spoke to each other in their native language. Since their language was unknown to the enemy they communications were secure.
Code Talkers were specially trained in the art of code talking in the language of the Navajo people. As I understand it, most were of Navajo descent but not all.
A lot of code talkers were killed off because when the Japanese saw them in the planes, they would kill the code talkers right away because the code talkers were the main source of communication.
They were unable to decipher the code talkers communications because ti was not a code or a cipher. A cipher implies that there was a way to convert encode a message and later unencode it to get the message. This does not work for language translations.
They were unable to decipher the code talkers communications because ti was not a code or a cipher. A cipher implies that there was a way to convert encode a message and later unencode it to get the message. This does not work for language translations.
no one but them knew the language so it became a useful code language
The code talkers were native American from the Navajo tribe. They used their native language to send messages that the Japanese couldn't decode or understand.
When you think of code talkers you think of the Navajo during WWII. However, less famous, but equally important were the Commanche and Choctaw code talkers
You must be thinking about the Navajo code talkers
Navajo code talkers spoke in their own language over the American forces wireless communications, so preventing the enemy from understanding the transmissions.
wind talkers
I believe you are referring to the Navajo Code Talkers. The Navajos were recruited to use their language to speak in code and sent Morse code in the Navajo Code. The Japanese could not recognize the language.