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FIRST PERSON: Navajo code talkers' story finally told
2002
Overview
No military terms existed in the Navajo language, so they made some up. Jay-sho, or \"buzzard,\" for bomber; besh-lo, or \"iron fish,\" for submarine; has-clish-nih, or \"mud,\" for platoon; chay-da-gahi, or \"turtle,\" for tank. In addition, they used Navajo terms whose first letters indicated the spelling of English words on the receiving end. For example, A could be \"apple\" (be-la-sana) or \"ant\" (wol-la-chee) or \"ax\" (tse-nill). Navajo is one of the most difficult languages in the world to learn, says Alyse Neundorf, a linguistics professor at the University of New Mexico's Gallup campus. Her Navajo language classes are made up mostly of Navajos in their 20s and 30s who are trying to learn a language that has been slowly fading with the generations. Photo Code talker Cpl. Lloyd Oliver operates a field radio while with a Marine artillery regiment in the South Pacific in July 1943. / U.S. Marine Corps Photo The book \"Warriors: Navajo Code Talkers\" by [Kenji Kawano] tells the story of Native Americans who used their tribe's language to help U.S. Marine commanders issue secure orders during World War II battles in the Pacific. Photo Code talker [Roy Hawthorne], 76, went to war at age 17. \"It wasn't the white man's war,\" he says. \"It was America's.\" Graphic SOME NAVAJO CODE TERMS > Bomber: jay-sho, which means \"buzzard\" in Navajo > Submarine: besh-lo, \"iron fish\" > Tank: chay-da-gahi, \"turtle\" > Destroyer: ca-lo, \"shark\" > Fighter plane: da-he-tih-hi, \"hummingbird\" > Platoon: has-clish-nih, \"mud\" > Major: che-chil-be-tah-ola, \"gold oak leaf\" > Germany: besh-be-cha-he, \"iron hat\"
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Atlanta Journal Constitution, LLC
