Countries
China, Nepal
United States of America
National Language
Nepal, Tibet
United States of America
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
North America
Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
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Interesting Facts
- 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.
- 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
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
Apache Language
Alphabets in
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200
Navajo-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Yá'át'ééh
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
Ahéhee'
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Ąąʼ haʼíí baa naniná?
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Yá'át'ééh hiiłchi'į'
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Yá'át'ééh ałní'íní
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Yá'át'ééh
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Yá'át'ééh abíní
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
T'aa shoodi
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Nízhdził
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
Hágoónee’
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Ayóó ánííníshí
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Shoohá
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Navajo1
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
Arizona
Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Navajo2
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
New Mexico
Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Navajo3
Where They Speak
China
Utah
Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Diné Bizaad / Dinék'ehjí
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Navaho
French Name
tibétain
navaho
German Name
Tibetisch
Navajo-Sprache
Pronunciation
[tibetan]
[ˈnævəhoʊ]
Ethnicity
tibetan people
Navajo people
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Dené–Yeniseian Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Athapascan
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Navajo
Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Navajo Sign Language
Glottocode
tibe1272
nava1243
Linguasphere
No data Available
No data available
Language Linguistic Typology
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Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
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Fusional, Polysynthetic, Synthetic
Tibetan and Navajo Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Tibetan and Navajo greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Tibetan and Navajo language. Tibetan word for "Hello" is བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek) or Navajo word for "Thank You" is Ahéhee'. Find more of such common Tibetan Greetings and Navajo Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Tibetan vs Navajo Difficulty
The Tibetan vs Navajo difficulty level basically depends on the number of Tibetan Alphabets and Navajo Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Tibetan and Navajo are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Tibetan and Navajo, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Tibetan is 24 weeks while to learn Navajo time required is 88 weeks.