Its one of the greatest parts of history that we used our native language in World War II. Were very proud of it. Nez was in the 10th grade when he was recruited in the spring of 1942 by representatives of the the U.S. Marines, who came to his Arizona boarding school looking for Navajo speakers. The military, ferrying troops to battle sites across the Pacific, was urgently seeking an undecipherable code to transmit classified information. It had attempted to use various languages and dialects as code, but each was quickly cracked by cryptographers in Tokyo. But the written record for Navajo was scarce and [its] syntax and grammar were elaborate. The spoken language used tones that were difficult for an untrained ear to understand, azcentral writes. The code developed from Navajo ultimately proved insurmountably difficult for the Japanese to decipher.
Posted on: Wed, 04 Jun 2014 20:34:34 +0000
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