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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Not only is Navajo a super difficult language, it’s got a lot of idiom and descriptive language where English or German speakers would use nouns. Just google “Navajo weather report”. Plus, code talkers actually agreed on a code and it described actions in fanciful language and called military terms various animals. So, long messages in a guttural, high-inflection language with no roots to Romance or Asian languages, spoken in idioms and substitution of critter names or descriptions for nouns. I picked up medical Spanish in two months, but I’ve been surrounded by the Navajo language for two years and I got nothing but hello and thank you. There’s tons of younger Navajo who can’t speak it and barely understand it because it’s just…hard.
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