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As I recall one of the benefits of spoken Navajo was the difficulty of distinguishing it from a bad radio signal of some other language.
by tibbetts 9y ago
As I recall one of the benefits of spoken Navajo was the difficulty of distinguishing it from a bad radio signal of some other language.
- matt_wulfeck 9y agoIt had a lot of advantages. A big one being the extremely small number of people who spoke it and who lived exclusively in North America. They could also have “fun” and make it very hard to crack. For example they could call a submarine a “metal fish” one day and a “sea snake” the next day and leave everybody scratching their heads. As a native speaker they could use subtle context to convey the message and that turns out to be extremely difficult for an outsider to grasp.
- kls 9y agoIt also was not a written language, until more recent times, therefor there was virtually no literary base for a code breaker to draw from. http://www.lapahie.com/Dine_Bizaad_Right_Btfm.cfm http://www.lapahie.com/Dine_Bizaad_Right_Btfm.cfm