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| spykel Diglot Groupie Canada Joined 5631 days ago 40 posts - 48 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Scottish Gaelic | Message 17 of 45 06 September 2009 at 11:45pm | IP Logged | ||
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Here is some spoken Navajo. No wonder the Germans couldn't decipher it in WWII.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFayFUiyv20 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| drfeelgood17 Bilingual Hexaglot Groupie United Kingdom Joined 6253 days ago 98 posts - 117 votes  Speaks: English*, Tagalog*, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Japanese, Latin, Arabic (Written) | Message 18 of 45 07 September 2009 at 12:22am | IP Logged | ||
I like the way it sounds. It's interesting that the phone number is actually read out in English. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Journeyer Triglot Senior Member United States tristan85.blogspot.c Joined 6672 days ago 946 posts - 1110 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, German Studies: Sign Language | Message 19 of 45 07 September 2009 at 5:04am | IP Logged | ||
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It was actually the Japanese who the code was used against. I've never heard of the code
being used on the Western Front, but I could be wrong. I think the military also used Cherokee in the war and I think that *was* used in Europe. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| immpulss Newbie United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5680 days ago 9 posts - 9 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, French | Message 21 of 45 25 April 2011 at 7:13am | IP Logged | ||
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Out of curiosity, I keep reading in articles around the internet that native peoples
don't like it when non-natives learn their language as the language is sacred and should only be spoken by natives. As opposed to the European languages where learning it usually brings out a positive response in native speakers. Has anyone who actually attempted to learn a language like Lakota or Navajo actually come up against this attitude? or would they be more open to you if you tried to communicate in their language? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| hrhenry Octoglot Senior Member United States languagehopper.blogs Joined 4934 days ago 1871 posts - 3642 votes Speaks: English*, SpanishC2, ItalianC2, Norwegian, Catalan, Galician, Turkish, Portuguese Studies: Polish, Indonesian, Ojibwe | Message 22 of 45 25 April 2011 at 12:39pm | IP Logged | ||
I'm learning a little Ojibwe at a very relaxed pace and haven't run into that at all with the few natives that know of it. But then, at this point I don't consider it serious study either, so I don't usually bring it up in conversation. I do know, however, that a blog I have that documents what I'm doing with the language is being referenced by a couple of the local reservations according to google analytics, so... that's encouraging, I suppose (this reminds me that I need to post an update). But then again, that could just be due to the fact that there aren't many Ojibwe language resources on the internet. R. == 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| gambi Newbie New Zealand Joined 4913 days ago 37 posts - 52 votes Speaks: English Studies: Indonesian, Burmese | Message 23 of 45 26 April 2011 at 4:57am | IP Logged | ||
I'm not sure about Cherokee but the US military used Choctaw code-talkers during World War 1. The Choctaw language belongs to the Muskogean family of languages traditionally spoken in south-eastern United States. It's still one of the most widely spoken native languages of North America. Here's a short vid about their language, history and culture. Voices of Choctaw Indians 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| immpulss Newbie United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5680 days ago 9 posts - 9 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, French | Message 24 of 45 26 April 2011 at 8:40am | IP Logged | ||
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Well according to Wikipedia, Cherokee was used as a code in World War I and Choctaw was
used in Europe during World War II. http://en.wikipedia .org/wiki/Code_talkers#Use_of_Cherokee 1 person has voted this message useful |
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