"wol-la-chee" (ant), "be-la-sana" (apple) and "tse-nill" (axe) all would stand for the letter "a." For example if they needed to spell the island of “Tarawa”, they would say “Turkey-ant-rabbit-ant-weasle-ant”, but they would speak it in Navajo. Yet, because this spelling-it-out technique would make it easier to crack, letters carried multiple terms. Using only the first letter of the English equivalent in spelling an English word So,“apple”, “ant” or “axe” were the three options that would stand for the letter…
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