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3 unusual facts about Comanche language


Comanche language

In the 1956 film "The Searchers", starring John Wayne, there are several badly pronounced Comanche words interspersed, such as "Nawyecka" (nooyʉka 'move camp around') and "timoway" (tʉmʉʉ 'buy, trade').

In a 2013 Boston Globe article, linguist Todd McDaniels of Comanche Nation College commented on Johnny Depp's attempts to speak the Comanche language in the film "The Lone Ranger", saying “The words were there, the pronunciation was shaky but adequate.

A group of seventeen young men referred to as the Comanche Code Talkers were trained and used by the U.S. Army to send messages conveying sensitive information in the Comanche language so that it could not be deciphered by the enemy.



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