From a cryptography POV, why were the Navajo code talkers so difficult to decipher?

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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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One of the biggest reasons it was indecipherable was that the speakers used idomatic language and the fact that few outside the Navajo nation can actually speak it fluently. It is a difficult language that grew up in a very isolated location

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