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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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