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Code talker (en.wikipedia.org)

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A code talker was a person employed by the military during wartime to use a little-known language as a means of secret communication. The term is most often used for United States service members during the World Wars who used their knowledge of Native American languages as a basis to transmit coded messages.

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[–] Codilingus 4 points 2 weeks ago

There's a decent Nick Cage movie from 2002, Windtalkers, about Navajo Indians in WWII being code talkers. And no Nick Cage doesn't play a Navajo.