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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
Not Available   
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   
Not Available   

Derived From
Not Available   
Not Available   

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
Not Available   
Left-To-Right, Horizontal   

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
2   
1
2   
1

Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks   
13
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
Not available   
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
Not Available   
1,200,000.00   
27

Dialect 2
Navajo2   
Khams Tibetan   

Where They Speak
New Mexico   
Bhutan, China   

How Many People Speak
Not Available   
1,400,000.00   
23

Dialect 3
Navajo3   
Amdo Tibetan   

Where They Speak
Utah   
China   

How Many People Speak
Not Available   
1,800,000.00   
16

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
Not Available   
Not Available   

Native Speakers
1.70 million   
99+
1.20 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
Not Available   
Not Available   

Ethnicity
Navajo people   
tibetan people   

History

Origin
1500 CE   
c. 650   

Language Family
Dené–Yeniseian Family   
Sino-Tibetan Family   

Subgroup
Athapascan   
Tibeto-Burman   

Branch
Not Available   
Not Available   

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
No early forms   
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan   

Standard Forms
Navajo   
Standard Tibetan   

Signed Forms
Navajo Sign Language   
Tibetan Sign Language   

Scope
Individual   
Not Available   

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
Not Available   
Not Available   

Glottocode
nava1243   
tibe1272   

Linguasphere
No data available   
No data Available   

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living   
Not Available   

Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb   
Not Available   

Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Polysynthetic, Synthetic   
Not Available   

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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 Not Available whereas the percentage of people speaking Tibetan language is Not Available. 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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