Re: Navajo codetalking

> From: John Cowan
>
> http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq61-4.htm
>
> The section headed "Alphabet" was used to encode English letters as
> Navajo words (the English equivalents began with the relevant letters,
> but of course the Navajo equivalents didn't).
>
> The conlang-interesting section is the 400-odd Navajo equivalents of
> various military terms, which expose underlying Navajo metaphors
> (the literal English translation is given as well as the formal
> English equivalent).
>
> Bonus: a translation of the U.S. Marine hymn ("From the halls of
> Montezuma/To the shores of Tripoli") into Navajo.

Great find, John.  I'll spend some time with this and my "Analytical Lexicon
of Navaho"

Thanks,
David

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