1.   But now, she is learning about Navajo clans and hogans and has been taught a few Navajo words by her cousin in Maine.

2.   Different Navajo words could be translated into different English words for the same letter, making the code particularly complex.

3.   Different Navajo words could be translated into different English words for the same letter, making the code especially complex.

4.   For example, tas-chizzie, the Navajo word for swallow, was used to mean torpedo plane.

5.   Navajo Code Talkers received and sent messages by translating Navajo words into English, then using the first letter of each English word to decipher the meaning.

6.   Second, the code talkers would often substitute an entire Navajo word for each letter they were using to spell out a military term.

7.   The codetalkers spelled English words by using the Navajo word whose English translation had the initial letter needed.

8.   There is no Navajo word for interception.