[CedarDave]

"Navajo is very hard to learn," said Lorraine Manavi, language professor at San Juan College in Farmington ..."

The Japanese in WW-II found that out. Only a few codetalkers are still around, sad to say.

[CedarDave]

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[bgill]

There goes our advantage if/when it comes down to using code talkers again.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

According to David Kahn, when the decision was made to use Navajoes as code talkers, research showed that there were only 12 linguists familar with Navajo outside the United States, none of them in Axis countries.

[LoneStarGI]

I met a guy (non-Navajo) once that had spent many years on one of the reservations, think he was a teacher. He had learned the Navajo language, even though it was not required of him, and he spoke it fluently. I just remember thinking that it was a such a powerful, yet beautiful sounding language.

[WOBBLY BOB]

This could come in handy if FCC and Odumbler get their way.

[End Times Sentinel]

Navajo, traditionally an oral language

Really?

A guy I grew up with recently told me his goal in life was to translate The Bible into Navajo.

At that time, he was trying to figure out how to learn Navajo.

A real idiot this guy is.

[CedarDave]

Check out this link to listen to live broadcasting in Navajo:

http://www.ktnnonline.com/showdj.asp?DJID=26720

[Quix]

INDEED.

[napscoordinator]

Rosetta Stone is so awesome. I have the Spanish Rosetta Stone and use it. I even go into McDonald’s and order in Spanish...it is quite fun especially when the person at the register is spanish and does not expect it from a White Guy.

[oh8eleven]

I believe the WWII Navajo code is the only code never to have been broken by an enemy.
Semper Fi ...

[The KG9 Kid]

They even talked in code in Navajo, and used undocumented Navajo slang words.

The USMC risked a very tiny chance that there was any linguistics professor in Imperial Japan who might have some dim working documentation of Navajo in the one dusty library book on Navajo ever published, but they would have had to be a Navajo on the reservation to understand their familiar banter, and then decipher the code they were speaking. Layers of complexity kept this valuable military resource safe from the enemy.

A Navajo US Army soldier was even captured and identified by the Japanese at Bataan then tortured into attempting to decipher Navajo Code Talker messages that he couldn't understand because it was in code. There's just no flippin' way that anyone would have had a hope of cracking the Navajo Code Talker's language. Just forget it.

[Zionist Conspirator]

"Navajo is very hard to learn,"

They all are.

My theory is that English world conquest was driven by the inability of Anglo-Saxons to understand or to learn other languages. They started with the Celts and wound up in China, Africa, and India before it was over.

[The Great RJ]

11 Native American code talkers from South Dakota speaking Lakota, Nakota and Dakota dialects confounded both the Germans and Japanese in WW-II. The last survivor, Clarence Wolf Guts, died this past July. Read article here