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Were women in the Navajo codetalker?
The Navajo Code Talker program was run by the US Marines. In WWII women were not allowed to join the Marines. The code used Navajo as a base but was encoded in that so a Navajo speaker could not understand it and would need to memorize the secret code to use it.
What is the Navajo word for chocolate?
The Navajo term for fried bread is dahdiniilghaazh.
What is the Navajo translation of family?
shikʼéí --My "group of people related by blood or clan"or: dah 'oonéłígíí --- family groupor : t'ááłá'í hooghanígíí -- one family unitałchíní -- family members, children.ba'ałchíní -- his children, bada'ałchíní (plural)
When did they start to use the Navajo code talker?
Most were in their late teens or early twenties, many were 17 or 18. A few were younger and lied to get in. To be in the Marines you had to be 17. Most had been in boarding school which is were they learned English. Most, since they had been 7 or 8. They were punished for speaking Navajo. What was important in selecting the participants was not their age, but, of course, their ability to speak and understand Navajo and English fluently and the ability to learn, memorize and use the code rapidly and accurately. The 1940 census records have just been made public so you could check about most of them if you know their home town.
Why was Navajo code talkers effective?
The code itself was a very simple one. However, Navajo was spoken by very few people who were not Navajo and none of them lived outside the US. There were almost no books on the language published outside of the US. Navajo is very difficult for non Athabascan language speakers. Both the consonants and grammar and tones are hard for many people to say or hear. The code used Navajo as a basis but was not normal spoke Navajo so even if a Navajo member of the US military was captured it would sound like nonsense. It was very easy for Navajo speakers to learn and translate into English. Therefore the could use open radio frequencies and decode the message much faster than other coding methods. This made it extremely useful to send messages to direct the attacks on islands across the Pacific against the Japanese. It is thought that without it some battle might not have been won at a important period in the war. In the Battle of Iwo Jima six code talkers sent 800 messages over two days with no errors. The Japanese did capture a Navajo, Joe Kieyoomia, in the Philippines in 1942. However, when he reported he could not understand the code, instead of working with him and a cryptographer, in which case they probably would have been able to crack it, they tortured him instead and therefore got no useful information.
Were women in the Navajo codetalker?
The Navajo Code Talker program was run by the US Marines. In WWII women were not allowed to join the Marines. The code used Navajo as a base but was encoded in that so a Navajo speaker could not understand it and would need to memorize the secret code to use it.
What is the Navajo word for chocolate?
The Navajo term for fried bread is dahdiniilghaazh.
When did Navajo Codetalkers brake the code?
No we made the code. so we can defeat our enemies so they were called. like Japanese etc.
Why were the Navajo code talkers so effective in World War 2?
Navajo is a very difficult language and impossible for the Japanese to decipher
How are Navajo code talkers serving their country?
no one but them knew the language so it became a useful code language
What were the Navajo code talkers primary job in battle?
Navajo code talkers spoke in their own language over the American forces wireless communications, so preventing the enemy from understanding the transmissions.
What did the Navajo Soldiers do in World War 2?
The Code Talkers were Navajo. The Germans had no linguists trained to translate Navajo so, the Code Talkers could pass sensitive information by speaking 'in the clear'.
What is the Navajo translation of family?
shikʼéí --My "group of people related by blood or clan"or: dah 'oonéłígíí --- family groupor : t'ááłá'í hooghanígíí -- one family unitałchíní -- family members, children.ba'ałchíní -- his children, bada'ałchíní (plural)
What is the book code talkers by Joseph bruchac about?
The code talkers were Navajo enlisted men who were in the United States military in the Pacific. They spoke over the communications lines in Navajo so the Japanese listening in wouldn't understand what they said. So, the book would be about these brave men.
What is a Navajo code talker?
Code talkers were Navajo Indians used in WWII. What the Navajo did was they developed a special code inside of the Navajo language to disguise what items they were talking about. Only trained code talkers could understand what they were saying. The language and codes that they made up were so complex that not even other Navajos' could understand. They did this mainly because instead of sending long coded messages that took up to an hour to decode, the Navajo's could send a message in 40 seconds via radio. This way it was more quicker and reliable to send messages.
When did they start to use the Navajo code talker?
Most were in their late teens or early twenties, many were 17 or 18. A few were younger and lied to get in. To be in the Marines you had to be 17. Most had been in boarding school which is were they learned English. Most, since they had been 7 or 8. They were punished for speaking Navajo. What was important in selecting the participants was not their age, but, of course, their ability to speak and understand Navajo and English fluently and the ability to learn, memorize and use the code rapidly and accurately. The 1940 census records have just been made public so you could check about most of them if you know their home town.
Why was Navajo code talkers effective?
The code itself was a very simple one. However, Navajo was spoken by very few people who were not Navajo and none of them lived outside the US. There were almost no books on the language published outside of the US. Navajo is very difficult for non Athabascan language speakers. Both the consonants and grammar and tones are hard for many people to say or hear. The code used Navajo as a basis but was not normal spoke Navajo so even if a Navajo member of the US military was captured it would sound like nonsense. It was very easy for Navajo speakers to learn and translate into English. Therefore the could use open radio frequencies and decode the message much faster than other coding methods. This made it extremely useful to send messages to direct the attacks on islands across the Pacific against the Japanese. It is thought that without it some battle might not have been won at a important period in the war. In the Battle of Iwo Jima six code talkers sent 800 messages over two days with no errors. The Japanese did capture a Navajo, Joe Kieyoomia, in the Philippines in 1942. However, when he reported he could not understand the code, instead of working with him and a cryptographer, in which case they probably would have been able to crack it, they tortured him instead and therefore got no useful information.
