Re: Navajo codetalking
| From: | John Cowan <cowan@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, October 21, 2000, 5:05 |
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On Fri, 20 Oct 2000, Marcus Smith wrote:
> The Gray Wizard wrote:
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> >Great find, John. I'll spend some time with this and my "Analytical Lexicon
> >of Navaho"
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> Good luck. The forms they cite on the web do not match the forms in my
> Navajo dictionary (the standard one by Young and Morgan).
Not surprising. When the list was developed, Navajo had no standard
orthography. Indeed, the Navy believed that only 30 non-Navajos knew
the language, "none of them Japanese".
What we have here is half-assed phonetic rendering for English-speakers.
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John Cowan cowan@ccil.org
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