Countries
United States of America
  
China, Nepal
  
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 in
Navajo-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
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།
  
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
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
  
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
  
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
  
Navajo and Tibetan 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 Navajo and Tibetan greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Navajo and Tibetan language. Navajo word for "Hello" is Yá'át'ééh or Tibetan word for "Thank You" is ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay). Find more of such common Navajo Greetings and Tibetan Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Navajo vs Tibetan Difficulty
The Navajo vs Tibetan difficulty level basically depends on the number of Navajo Alphabets and Tibetan 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 Navajo and Tibetan are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Navajo and Tibetan, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Navajo is 88 weeks while to learn Tibetan time required is 24 weeks.