1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Iraq, Kurdistan
Afganistan
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey
Afganistan, Pakistan, Pashtun diaspora
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Pakistan
1.7 Regulated By
Not Available
Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan, Pashto Academy (Pakistan)
1.8 Interesting Facts
- The vocabulary in Kurdish is of Iranian origin.
- In the middle East, Kurdish is the fourth largest ethnic group.
- Pashto language is originated in the regions of Paktika and Paktia areas of Afghanistan.
- The first Pashto poem was written in the 7th century.
1.9 Similar To
Farsi Language
Persian and Balochi Languages
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
Not Available
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2.4 Scripts
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
Arabic
2.5 Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
3.2 Thank You
Sipas
(manana) مننه (tashakor) تشكر
3.3 How Are You?
Tu çawa yî?
(ta sanga yee?) څنگه يې؟
3.4 Good Night
Şev xweş
(shpa mo pa kheyr) شپه مو په خير
3.5 Good Evening
Evare baş
(maakhaam mo pa kheyr) ماښام مو په خير
3.6 Good Afternoon
Nee-wa-rowt bash
(wradz mo pa kheyr) ورځ مو په خير
3.7 Good Morning
Bayanit bash
(sahr pikheyr) سحر پخير
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
Bibûre
(zeh mutaasif yum) زه هتاسف يم
3.10 Bye
Be xêr çî
(da khoday pa amaan) دخداى په امان
3.11 I Love You
Ez te hez dikem
زه ستا سره مينه کوم (za la ta sara meena kawom)
3.12 Excuse Me
Bê zehmet
(bakhena ghwaarum) بخښنه غواړم
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Northern Kurdish
Central Pashto
4.1.1 Where They Speak
northern Iraq, northern Syria, northwest Iran, southeast Turkey
Afganistan, Pakistan
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
20,000,000.006,500,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
Central Kurdish
Northern Pashto
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Iraq, Kurdistan Province of western Iran
Afganistan, Pakistan
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
5,000,000.0021,000,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Eastern Iraq
Afganistan, Pakistan
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
3,000,000.0095,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
28.00 million60.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
21.00 million60.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
Kurdí / کوردی / к’öрди
(paṧto) پښتو
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Not Available
Kandahar Pashto, Qandahar Pashto, Southwestern Pashto, Pushto
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
[ˈpəʂt̪oː], [ˈpʊxt̪oː]
5.5 Ethnicity
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Indo-Iranian
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Not Available
No early forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Kurdish
Central Pashto, Northern Pashto, Yusufzai Pashto, Southern Pashto
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Not Available
6.4 Scope
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
7.3 ISO 639 3
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology