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The Navajo language does not include a native word for fighter plane.

In the Navajo code used in World War 2, the word used was dahetihhi, which means "humming bird" - this ensured that even if the Japanese could somehow translate the word it would still not make any sense. The code worked in two stages: first, take a native word such as jaysho (buzzard) and then apply it to something military (a bomber plane). Nobody other than the code talkers themselves could make that connection.

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