Countries
European Union, Finland
  
Afganistan
  
National Language
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
  
Afganistan, Pakistan, Pashtun diaspora
  
Second Language
Estonia
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
  
Pakistan
  
Regulated By
Institute for the Languages of Finland
  
Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan, Pashto Academy (Pakistan)
  
Interesting Facts
- Finnish language has adopted many words from Iranian, Turkic, Baltic, Germanic and Slavic languages.
- In Finnish language, there are no articles or grammatical gender.
  
- Pashto language is originated in the regions of Paktika and Paktia areas of Afghanistan.
- The first Pashto poem was written in the 7th century.
  
Similar To
Estonian and Livonian Languages
  
Persian and Balochi Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Finnish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Pashto-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Arabic
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Moi
  
(salaam) سلام
  
Thank You
Kiitos
  
(manana) مننه (tashakor) تشكر
  
How Are You?
Mitä kuuluu?
  
(ta sanga yee?) څنگه يې؟
  
Good Night
hyvää yötä
  
(shpa mo pa kheyr) شپه مو په خير
  
Good Evening
Hyvää iltaa
  
(maakhaam mo pa kheyr) ماښام مو په خير
  
Good Afternoon
Hyvää iltapäivää
  
(wradz mo pa kheyr) ورځ مو په خير
  
Good Morning
Hyvää huomenta
  
(sahr pikheyr) سحر پخير
  
Please
haluta
  
(lotfan) لطفا
  
Sorry
Anteeksi
  
(zeh mutaasif yum) زه هتاسف يم
  
Bye
Heippa
  
(da khoday pa amaan) دخداى په امان
  
I Love You
Minä rakastan sinua
  
زه ستا سره مينه کوم (za la ta sara meena kawom)
  
Excuse Me
Anteeksi
  
(bakhena ghwaarum) بخښنه غواړم
  
Dialect 1
Colloquial Finnish
  
Central Pashto
  
Where They Speak
Finland
  
Afganistan, Pakistan
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
6,500,000.00
  
14
Dialect 2
Rauma
  
Northern Pashto
  
Where They Speak
Finland, Rauma
  
Afganistan, Pakistan
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
21,000,000.00
  
4
Dialect 3
Meänkieli
  
Wanetsi
  
Where They Speak
Finland, Sweden
  
Afganistan, Pakistan
  
How Many People Speak?
5.40 million
  
99+
60.00 million
  
27
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
5.40 million
  
99+
60.00 million
  
20
Second Language Speakers
0.01 million
  
39
Not Available
  
Native Name
suomi / suomen kieli
  
(paṧto) پښتو
  
Alternative Names
Suomi
  
Kandahar Pashto, Qandahar Pashto, Southwestern Pashto, Pushto
  
French Name
finnois
  
pachto
  
German Name
Finnisch
  
Paschtu
  
Pronunciation
[ˈsuomi]
  
[ˈpəʂt̪oː], [ˈpʊxt̪oː]
  
Ethnicity
ethnic Finns
  
Pashtun
  
Origin
1543
  
1651
  
Language Family
Uralic Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Finno-Ugric
  
Indo-Iranian
  
Branch
Finnic
  
Iranian
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Proto-Finnic language
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
standard Finnish
  
Central Pashto, Northern Pashto, Yusufzai Pashto, Southern Pashto
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Signed Finnish
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
fi
  
ps
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
fin
  
pus
  
ISO 639 2/B
fin
  
pus
  
ISO 639 3
fin
  
pus
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
finn1318
  
pash1269
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
58-ABD-a
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
  
Fusional