Re: OT: Codetalkers

>>>> # 1<salut_vous_autre@...> 01/26/05 10:14 AM >>>
>>As you probably know, there was also a small group of Comanche
>>codetalkers. I
>>am trying to remember if I read somewhere that a few Crow speakers did
>>this,
>>too--anybody heard that?
>
>Comanche and Crow?
>
>I've never heard they did codes like navaho
I don't know about Crow, but I am checking in a book right now (I work in
a University Library) that talks a little about Comanche code talkers:
"Navajo code-talkers served in the Pacific theatre during World War II, but
few know about the Comanche code-talkers who served in the European
theatre. As descendants of the Comanches who once roamed the Panhandle
and West Texas, the code-talkers relayed information using their language
as a code that our enemies neither understood nor could learn to understand."
(_The Indian Texans_, James M. Smallwood, 2004, p. 104 sidebar.)

[snip Navajo stuff]
>Does someone here speaks navajo?
I wish :)))

>It is probably very intersting to learn for a conlanger...
That's why I have looked at it as inspiration for emindahken...

>If the subject and the object can only be indicated on the verb, is it a
>language that is neither ergative nor accusative?
Not sure. To my way of thinking, I don't care whether it is
accusative/ergative/Split-S or something else, as long as it can
convey meaning without large amounts of ambiguity. :)

James W.