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