American Indian Insider: Write Secret Navajo Code

American Indian Insider: Write Secret Navajo Code

How the Navajo code works

The code uses Navajo words to stand for letters. In place of A, it uses the word for "ant" (wol-la-chee).

To encode your name, just replace each letter with the appropriate Navajo word like this: Andy is (A) wol-la-chee, (N) nesh-chee, (D) be, (Y) tsah-as-zih.

LetterCode wordNavajo word
AAntWol-la-chee
BBearShush
CCatMoasi
DDeerBe
EElkDzeh
FFoxMa-e

Up next: G through P