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Why did the USA use the Navajo language and not another language?
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∙ 13y ago
Because the Japanese could not break the Navajo language.
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How do you say Sioux in Navajo language?
The Navajo use the same terms to mean both the Sioux and the Comanche:naałani or anaałaninaa means enemies, łani means "many"
What was the code they spoke in world war 2?
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.
Are the Navajo secret codes still in use today?
No, the sole purpose was to create a code that the Japanese could not break. Once WW2 ended there was no further use for it. The Japanese were very good at breaking our codes, but when you used a "book code" with words of another language that they did not know it stymied them. The Navajo Code Talkers did not speak ordinary Navajo in their messages, they translated the messages to Navajo then encoded it using the memorized "book code" and spoke those Navajo words. Even when the Japanese had captured Navajo soldiers (who of course had no code talking training), they could recognize the words but the message was gibberish.
What is the Navajo word for parting?
Even if I knew, I doubt there is a written word for it. Navajo had an unbeatable advantage as a code in WW2 because it was a spoken language only, and an illegal language until the US found a use for it. Suggest you try Navajo and "translation." Who knows? A written language was created for Cherokee, so maybe there are ones for other American native languages, or at least phonetic equivalents. Also, some words do not exist in some languages. For example, French has no word for "shallow." This made a problem when using Navajo as a military radio code, as some military terms did not exist in the Navajo language.
What does the Navajo and Apache term Dine mean?
Diné is the Navajo language word for "person" or man". Dine'é is plural, tribe, clan or people.Navajo language is: Diné bizaad. Navajo land is: Diné bikéyah.Diné Diyinii means "Holy People" -- Navajo spiritual beings.Nihookáá' Dine'é --- "the earth surface people", the people on earth.The i is pronounced like in English "bit". The e is high tone so the word goes low to high. Navajo is a tonal language. The mark is not a stress or accent mark. The e is a short sound like in "met" not drawn out as in "neigh"
What is the navajo word for navajo?
The correct Navajo name for themselves is Diné, but they now also use the term Naabeehó.
How effective were the code talkers?
Very effective, Navajo Indians were used to rely information over the air. They did not use a code but rather their native language.
Can you use the Tamil?
Yes. Tamil is just another language and can be used by all who know how to use the language.
What currency did the Navajo use?
jewelry
How did they use the codetalker?
In WW2, the US allowed the Navajo speakers to establish their own set of code words so as to facilitate rapid communications in the Pacific Theater. As the Navajo language had never been a written language, the words themselves were unintelligible to those who had never heard them before.See the related Wikipedia link listed below for more information:
What tribe did the code talkers come from?
The code talkers of WWII were from the Navajo tribe. Navajo has no alphabet or symbols, and is spoken only on the Navajo lands of the American Southwest. One estimate indicates that less than 30 non-Navajos, none of them Japanese, could understand the language at the outbreak of World War II. The idea to use Navajo for secure communications came from Philip Johnston, the son of a missionary to the Navajos.
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