The Brillouin light-scattering technique was used to investigate the single-crystal elastic properties of two aluminosilicate zeolites, natrolite ͑NAT͒ and analcime ͑ANA͒, at ambient conditions. An inversion of the acoustic velocity data results in the full set of elastic stiffness moduli ͑C ij 's͒ for both materials. From the single-crystal moduli the aggregate adiabatic bulk moduli ͑K s ͒, shear moduli ͑G͒, and Poisson's ratios ͑ ͒ were found to be K s = 48.5͑1.0͒ GPa, G = 31.6͑1.0͒ GPa, and = 0.232͑5͒ for NAT, and K s = 59.8͑1.2͒ GPa, G = 32.1͑1.0͒ GPa, and = 0.272͑5͒ for ANA ͑Voigt-Reuss-Hill averages͒. The bulk and shear moduli of both zeolites are relatively low compared with those of densely packed aluminosilicates, reflecting an open framework structure of ͑Al, SiO 4 ͒ tetrahedra which is easily deformed by bending the Si-O-Al angles. As expected for a less dense crystal, NAT is softer and more compressible than ANA. An evaluation of the directional Young's moduli shows that the compressibility of NAT is nearly uniform along the ͓100͔ and ͓010͔ axes, while ͓001͔ is stiffer, in agreement with previous compression studies. We do not find experimental evidence of negative Poisson's ratios for NAT zeolites as predicted by recent theoretical calculations.