Navajo code-talkers
Brian D Williams
talon57 at well.com
Mon Apr 1 23:26:20 PST 1996
Tim May comments:
>According to an episode of "The X Files," which dealt with Navajo
>code-talkers, the answer is that young Navajo men are losing their
>fluency in Navajo, especially of the nuances and double entendres
>that code-talkers relied upon. (For those who scoff at using a
>television show as a source, writers for shows like this often do
>more interesting research than, say, the average encyclopedia
>article will report.)
Navajo also has something now it didn't have before WWII, a
written language, and I believe a rudimentary dictionary.
Brian
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