Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary:
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Navajo Word: English Translation: Military Term:
a-knah-as-donih

altseh-e-jah-he

a-tah-gi-nah

a-ye-shi

be-el-ton-tso-quodi

beh-dah-a-hi-jah-geni

besh-lo

besh-le-chee-ih-beh-hane-ih

besh-legai-na-kih

ca-lo

chal

chay-da-gahi

da-he-tih-hi

debeh-li-zini

gini

jay-sho

ji-din-ned-chanh

ke-yah

lo-tso

na-ha-tah-ba-hogan

na-nil-in

nal-deh-hi

ne-as-jah

nil-chi-hal-ne-ih

ni-ma-si

silago-keh-goh

tas-chizzie

Tsidi-ney-ye-hi

wo-chi

woltah-al-ki-gi-jeh

yis-nah

"rapid-fire gun"

"first striker"

"moved into"

"eggs"

"short big gun"

"fighting weapons"

"iron fish"

"communication by copper wire"

"two silver bars"

"shark"

"frog"

"turtle"

"hummingbird"

"black sheet"

"chicken hawk"

"buzzard"

"surrender"

"land"

"whale"

"headquarters"

"kept secret"

"troops"

"owl"

"radio"

"potatoes"

"military"

"swallow"

"bird carrier"

"light streak"

"counteract"

"captured"

machine gun

assault

invade

bombs

howitzer

weapons

submarine

telegraph

captain

destroyer

amphibious vehicle

tank

fighter plane

squad

dive-bomber

bomber

retreat

territory

battleship

headquarters

confidential

troops

observation plane

radio

grenades

military

torpedo plane

aircraft carrier

flare

counter-attack

captured

 

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