Countries
United States of America
China, Nepal
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
United States of America
Nepal, Tibet
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
North America
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
China, India, Nepal
Regulated By
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Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
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.
- Tibetan dialects vary alot, so it's difficult for tibetans to understand each other if they are not from same area.
- Tibetan is tonal with six tones in all: short low, long low, high falling, low falling, short high, long high.
Similar To
Apache Language
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
Derived From
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-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3635
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
125
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3430
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
22
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks24 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Yá'át'ééh
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Thank You
Ahéhee'
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
How Are You?
Ąąʼ haʼíí baa naniná?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Good Night
Yá'át'ééh hiiłchi'į'
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Good Evening
Yá'át'ééh ałní'íní
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Afternoon
Yá'át'ééh
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Morning
Yá'át'ééh abíní
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Please
T'aa shoodi
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Sorry
Nízhdził
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Bye
Hágoónee’
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
I Love You
Ayóó ánííníshí
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Excuse Me
Shoohá
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Dialect 1
Navajo1
Central Tibetan
Where They Speak
Arizona
China, India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
170,000.001,200,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Navajo2
Khams Tibetan
Where They Speak
New Mexico
Bhutan, China
How Many People Speak
170,000.001,400,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Navajo3
Amdo Tibetan
Where They Speak
Utah
China
How Many People Speak
120,000.001,800,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
46
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
1.70 million1.20 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.05 %0.05 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
1.70 million1.20 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
0.17 million6.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Diné Bizaad / Dinék'ehjí
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Alternative Names
Navaho
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
French Name
navaho
tibétain
German Name
Navajo-Sprache
Tibetisch
Pronunciation
[ˈnævəhoʊ]
[tibetan]
Ethnicity
Navajo people
tibetan people
Origin
1500 CE
c. 650
Language Family
Dené–Yeniseian Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Athapascan
Tibeto-Burman
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Standard Forms
Navajo
Standard Tibetan
Language Position
2929
1
120
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Signed Forms
Navajo Sign Language
Tibetan Sign Language
Scope
Individual
-
ISO 639 1
nv
bo
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
nav
bod
ISO 639 2/B
nav
tib
ISO 639 3
nav
bod
ISO 639 6
nav
bod
Glottocode
nava1243
tibe1272
Linguasphere
No data available
No data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
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Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
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Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Polysynthetic, Synthetic
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