DECIPHER 28 : NAVAJO CODE

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‣ They called the Navajo language a "weird succession of guttural, nasal, tongue-twisting sounds . . . we couldn't even transcribe it, much less crack it." The Navajo code was judged a success. The first letter of a Navajo word corresponded with one of the 26 letters in the English alphabet.

Several different words were chosen to represent the more commonly used letters in order to make the code even more secure. Thise code was proposed by Philip Johnston, a civil engineer of Los angeles, to the United States Marine Corps at the beginning of World War II.

This was used to hide a message against the Japanese. It was said that most of Japanese cryptographers are educated in the United States and fluent in standard and colloquial English, were amazingly adept at breaking codes.

Plaintext ↔ Ciphertext:

A ↔ Wol-la-chee

B ↔ Shush

C ↔ Moasi

D ↔ Be

E ↔ Dzeh

F ↔ Ma-e

G ↔ Klizzie

H ↔ Lin

I ↔ Tkin

J ↔ Tkele-cho-gi

K ↔ Klizzie-yazzi

L ↔ Dibeh-yazzi

M ↔ Na-as-tso-si

N ↔ Nesh-chee

O ↔ Ne-as-jah

P ↔ Bi-sodih

Q ↔ Ca-yeilth

R ↔ Gah

S ↔ Dibeh

T ↔ Than-zie

U ↔ No-da-ih

V ↔ A-keh-di-glini

W ↔ Gloe-ih

X ↔ Al-an-as-dzoh

Y ↔ Tsah-as-zih

Z ↔ Besh-do-gliz


Try to Decode this:
↳ Gloe-ih Wol-la-chee Tsah-as-zih

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