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Countries

Countries
United States of America

Total No. Of Countries
1 14

National Language
United States of America

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents
North America

Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries

Regulated By
-

Interesting Facts
  • Navajo language is tonal language, as it heavily relies on pitch to distinguish between similar words.
  • Navajo ethinc group is 2nd largest Native American group.

Similar To
Apache Language

Derived From
-

Alphabets

Alphabets in
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Alphabets
36 18

Phonology

How Many Vowels
12 9

How Many Consonants
34 24

Scripts
Latin

Writing Direction
-

Hard to Learn

Language Levels
2 1

Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks 19

Greetings

Hello
Yá'át'ééh

Thank You
Ahéhee'

How Are You?
Ąąʼ haʼíí baa naniná?

Good Night
Yá'át'ééh hiiłchi'į'

Good Evening
Yá'át'ééh ałní'íní

Good Afternoon
Yá'át'ééh

Good Morning
Yá'át'ééh abíní

Please
T'aa shoodi

Sorry
Nízhdził

Bye
Hágoónee’

I Love You
Ayóó ánííníshí

Excuse Me
Shoohá

Dialects

Dialect 1
Navajo1

Where They Speak
Arizona

How Many People Speak
170,000.00 73

Dialect 2
Navajo2

Where They Speak
New Mexico

How Many People Speak
170,000.00 76

Dialect 3
Navajo3

Where They Speak
Utah

How Many People Speak
120,000.00 66

Total No. Of Dialects
4 4

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
1.70 million 83

Speaking Population
0.05 % 59

Native Speakers
1.70 million 78

Second Language Speakers
0.17 million 65

Native Name
Diné Bizaad / Dinék'ehjí

Alternative Names
Navaho

French Name
navaho

German Name
Navajo-Sprache

Pronunciation
[ˈnævəhoʊ]

Ethnicity
Navajo people

History

Origin
1500 CE

Language Family
Dené–Yeniseian Family

Subgroup
Athapascan

Branch
-

Language Forms

Early Forms
No early forms

Standard Forms
Navajo

Language Position
29 27

Signed Forms
Navajo Sign Language

Scope
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1
nv

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T
nav

ISO 639 2/B
nav

ISO 639 3
nav

ISO 639 6
nav

Glottocode
nava1243

Linguasphere
No data available

Types of Language

Language Type
Living

Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb

Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Polysynthetic, Synthetic

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Know Alphabets in Navajo

When you start learning to write in any language the Alphabets form a skeleton of any language. Let's talk About Navajo Language, where you will learn the number of letter in Navajo Alphabets. Every language has its own set of alphabets or characters so it is necessary to know alphabets in Navajo. Navajo phonology gives Navajo vowels and Navajo consonants. There are 12 vowels and 34 consonants in Navajo language. Based upon the number of alphabet, vowels and consonants in the language we can check if Navajo is one of the Most Difficult Languages. All about Navajo language is given in detail in this section.

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All Navajo countries

Want to explore all Navajo countries? About Navajo language serves you with all Navajo Speaking Countries. Countries that use Navajo as official language are called as Navajo countries.

  • Countries that use Navajo as their National Language are: United States of America.

Second language indicates to any language which the person learns in addition to first or native language.

  • Countries that use Navajo as second language are: Navajo is not spoken as second language in any of the countries.

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Learn Navajo greetings

Languages are used by every human being to communicate. And communication begins with the greetings. First step to form any interaction is to learn Navajo Greetings. Whenever you are travelling to new country where in you don’t know the local language of that country then you should at least be familiar with some greetings to start any formal or informal conversion. When we talk about Navajo language, we are always interested in learning useful phrases in Navajo language.Learn Navajo greetings that can be used in formal situations:

  • Hello: Yá'át'ééh
  • Thank you: Ahéhee'
  • Good Morning: Yá'át'ééh abíní
  • Good Evening: Yá'át'ééh ałní'íní
  • Good Afternoon: Yá'át'ééh

All Navajo Language Codes

Get to know all Navajo language codes here. There are several languages spoken all over the world where in most of the languages have alternate names which come from diverse sources. All Navajo Language Codes are assigned with unique code. There is usually two or three letters code for each language. In most of the applications, these language codes are used where it is tedious to use language names.

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