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The purpose of this list is to allow the designation of the language or languages in MARC records. The list contains 437 discrete codes, of which 54 are used for groups of languages. CHANGES IN 2000 EDITION This list includes all valid codes and code assignments as of February 2000. There are 26 code changes, 1 deletion, and 35 additions in this revision (change list). Go to top of document STRUCTURE OF THE CODES The language codes are three-character lowercase alphabetic strings usually based on the first three letters of the English form or, in some cases, vernacular of the corresponding language name. |
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. Marines conducted in the Pacific from 1942 to 1945. They served in all six Marine divisions, Marine Raider battalions and Marine parachute units, transmitting messages by telephone and radio in their native language -- a code that the Japanese never broke. The idea to use Navajo for secure communications came from Philip Johnston, the son of a missionary to the Navajos and one of the few non-Navajos who spoke their language fluently. Johnston, reared on the Navajo reservation, was a World War I veteran who knew of the military's search for a code that would withstand all attempts to decipher it. |
