What is Code talker?
A '''code talker''' was a person who was hired by the [[United States military]] during wartime to use a little-known language as a means of [[:wikt:secret|secret]] [[communication]] through [[code]]s. The term is now usually known with [[United States]] service members during the [[World War]]s who used their knowledge of [[Native American]] languages. About 400 to 500 Native Americans in the [[United States Marine Corps]] whose primary job was to transmit secret [[Military tactics|tactical]] [[message]]s. The code talkers improved the speed of [[encryption]] and [[decryption]] of communications in front line operations during [[World War II]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://americanindian.si.edu/education/codetalkers/html/chapter4.html|title=Code Talking – Native Words Native Warriors|website=americanindian.si.edu|access-date=2019-01-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190112040555/https://americanindian.si.edu/education/codetalkers/html/chapter4.html|archive-date=January 12, 2019|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/american-indian-code-talkers|title=American Indian Code Talkers|website=The National WWII Museum {{!}} New Orleans|language=en|access-date=2019-01-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190127101902/https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/american-indian-code-talkers|archive-date=January 27, 2019|url-status=live}}</ref> Native [[soldier]]s developed two types of Native American Code Talking (NACT). First developed by [[Choctaw]] in [[World War I]], Type one NACT contained coded [[vocabulary]], collections of [[word]]s or [[phrase]]s that were assigned to military subjects, within their languages. Type two NACT simply used existing Native languages. Both forms worked as codes because they were based on languages unknown to the enemy and, as the new codes were not based on mathematical processes as found in most code and cipher systems, the enemy had nothing to which to compare them. During World War II, [[Comanche]] soldiers