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Tibetan and Navajo


Navajo and Tibetan


Countries

Countries
China, Nepal  
United States of America  

Total No. Of Countries
2  
13
1  
14

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  
Not Available  

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
Not Available  
Apache Language  

Derived From
Not Available  
Not Available  

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
35  
17
36  
18

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5  
2
12  
9

How Many Consonants
30  
20
34  
24

Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille  
Latin  

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  
Not Available  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
2  
1
2  
1

Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks  
6
88 weeks  
13

Greetings

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)  
Not available  

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  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Central Tibetan  
Navajo1  

Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal  
Arizona  

How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00  
27
Not Available  

Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan  
Navajo2  

Where They Speak
Bhutan, China  
New Mexico  

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

Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan  
Navajo3  

Where They Speak
China  
Utah  

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

Total No. Of Dialects
6  
6
4  
4

How Many People Speak

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

Speaking Population
Not Available  
Not Available  

Native Speakers
1.20 million  
99+
1.70 million  
99+

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
Not Available  
Not Available  

Ethnicity
tibetan people  
Navajo people  

History

Origin
c. 650  
1500 CE  

Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family  
Dené–Yeniseian Family  

Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman  
Athapascan  

Branch
Not Available  
Not Available  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan  
No early forms  

Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan  
Navajo  

Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language  
Navajo Sign Language  

Scope
Not Available  
Individual  

Code

ISO 639 1
bo  
nv  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
bod  
nav  

ISO 639 2/B
tib  
nav  

ISO 639 3
bod  
nav  

ISO 639 6
Not Available  
Not Available  

Glottocode
tibe1272  
nava1243  

Linguasphere
No data Available  
No data available  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Not Available  
Living  

Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available  
Subject-Object-Verb  

Language Morphological Typology
Not Available  
Fusional, Polysynthetic, Synthetic  

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All Tibetan and Navajo 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 Tibetan and Navajo dialects. Various dialects of Tibetan and Navajo language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Tibetan are spoken in different Tibetan Speaking Countries whereas Navajo Dialects are spoken in different Navajo speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Tibetan vs Navajo Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Tibetan dialects include: Central Tibetan, Khams Tibetan. Navajo dialects include: Navajo1 , Navajo2. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

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Tibetan and Navajo Speaking population

Tibetan and Navajo speaking population is one of the factors based on which Tibetan and Navajo languages can be compared. The total count of Tibetan and Navajo Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Tibetan language is Not Available whereas the percentage of people speaking Navajo 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 Tibetan and Navajo on Tibetan vs Navajo where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Tibetan and Navajo Language Codes

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

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