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Navajo and Tibetan


Tibetan and Navajo


Countries

Countries
United States of America  
China, Nepal  

Total No. Of Countries
1  
14
2  
13

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
-  
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
-  
-  

Alphabets

Alphabets in
Navajo-Alphabets.jpg#200  
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200  

Alphabets
36  
18
35  
17

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
12  
9
5  
2

How Many Consonants
34  
24
30  
20

Scripts
Latin  
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille  

Writing Direction
-  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
2  
1
2  
1

Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks  
19
24 weeks  
6

Greetings

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།  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Navajo1  
Central Tibetan  

Where They Speak
Arizona  
China, India, Nepal  

How Many People Speak
170,000.00  
99+
1,200,000.00  
99+

Dialect 2
Navajo2  
Khams Tibetan  

Where They Speak
New Mexico  
Bhutan, China  

How Many People Speak
170,000.00  
99+
1,400,000.00  
99+

Dialect 3
Navajo3  
Amdo Tibetan  

Where They Speak
Utah  
China  

How Many People Speak
120,000.00  
99+
1,800,000.00  
99+

Total No. Of Dialects
4  
4
6  
6

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
1.70 million  
99+
1.20 million  
99+

Speaking Population
0.05 %  
99+
0.05 %  
99+

Native Speakers
1.70 million  
99+
1.20 million  
99+

Second Language Speakers
0.17 million  
99+
6.00 million  
99+

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  

History

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
29  
27
29  
27

Signed Forms
Navajo Sign Language  
Tibetan Sign Language  

Scope
Individual  
-  

Code

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  
-  

Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb  
-  

Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Polysynthetic, Synthetic  
-  

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All Navajo and Tibetan Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Navajo and Tibetan dialects. Various dialects of Navajo and Tibetan language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Navajo are spoken in different Navajo Speaking Countries whereas Tibetan Dialects are spoken in different Tibetan speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Navajo vs Tibetan Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Navajo dialects include: Navajo1, Navajo2. Tibetan dialects include: Central Tibetan , Khams Tibetan. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

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Navajo and Tibetan Speaking population

Navajo and Tibetan speaking population is one of the factors based on which Navajo and Tibetan languages can be compared. The total count of Navajo and Tibetan Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Navajo language is 0.05 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Tibetan language is 0.05 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Navajo and Tibetan on Navajo vs Tibetan where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Navajo and Tibetan Language Codes

Navajo and Tibetan language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Navajo and Tibetan Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.

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