I had always just believed it was because they were isolated, but I’d been thinking about it lately and that just doesn’t hold up. Can someone familiar with code breaking and encryption help me understand why they were nearly impossible to understand, while almost every other cipher was eventually cracked? Thank you!
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To add something new, an extension of your question is “why is it harder to decrypt a nee language than it is a new code”
If you want to decrypt a code in english and you know the language, if that code uses some form of letter substitute (ie you switch the order of letters around) then a starting point for decryption is single letter and double letter words. There are only 2 single letter words (I and A) so if you see a single letter you have a 50 50 shot at knowing what it is, from there you move on to a larger but still limited number of 2 letter words (it, at, to, is ect) and you can figure out a large chunck of the alphabet.
What are the single and double letter words in navajo? Hell if I know
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