Countries
Afganistan
  
European Union, Hungary, Serbia, Vojvodina, Serbia
  
National Language
Afganistan, Pakistan, Pashtun diaspora
  
Austria, Gambia, Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
United States of America
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Africa, Europe
  
Minority Language
Pakistan
  
Austria, Croatia, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine
  
Regulated By
Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan, Pashto Academy (Pakistan)
  
known, Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Magyar Tudományos Akadémia Nyelvtudományi Intézete)
  
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.
  
- Hungarian language has only preserved most of its ancient elements.
- 'Magyar' is the Hungarian name for the language, the 'Magyar' is also used as an English word to refer to Hungarian people.
  
Similar To
Persian and Balochi Languages
  
Mansi and Khanty Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
East and South Slavic Languages
  
Alphabets in
Pashto-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Hungarian-alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Arabic
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
(salaam) سلام
  
szia
  
Thank You
(manana) مننه (tashakor) تشكر
  
köszönöm
  
How Are You?
(ta sanga yee?) څنگه يې؟
  
Hogy vagy?
  
Good Night
(shpa mo pa kheyr) شپه مو په خير
  
Jó Éjszakát
  
Good Evening
(maakhaam mo pa kheyr) ماښام مو په خير
  
jó Estét
  
Good Afternoon
(wradz mo pa kheyr) ورځ مو په خير
  
Jó Napot Kívánok
  
Good Morning
(sahr pikheyr) سحر پخير
  
jó Reggelt
  
Please
(lotfan) لطفا
  
Kérlek
  
Sorry
(zeh mutaasif yum) زه هتاسف يم
  
bocsi
  
Bye
(da khoday pa amaan) دخداى په امان
  
viszlát
  
I Love You
زه ستا سره مينه کوم (za la ta sara meena kawom)
  
Szeretlek
  
Excuse Me
(bakhena ghwaarum) بخښنه غواړم
  
elnézést
  
Dialect 1
Central Pashto
  
Csángó
  
Where They Speak
Afganistan, Pakistan
  
Bacău County, Rumania
  
How Many People Speak
6,500,000.00
  
14
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Northern Pashto
  
Oberwart
  
Where They Speak
Afganistan, Pakistan
  
Austria
  
How Many People Speak
21,000,000.00
  
4
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Wanetsi
  
Székely
  
Where They Speak
Afganistan, Pakistan
  
Székely Land
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
60.00 million
  
27
13.00 million
  
99+
Native Speakers
60.00 million
  
20
13.00 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
0.07 million
  
38
Native Name
(paṧto) پښتو
  
magyar / magyar nyelv
  
Alternative Names
Kandahar Pashto, Qandahar Pashto, Southwestern Pashto, Pushto
  
Magyar
  
French Name
pachto
  
hongrois
  
German Name
Paschtu
  
Ungarisch
  
Pronunciation
[ˈpəʂt̪oː], [ˈpʊxt̪oː]
  
[ˈmɒɟɒr]
  
Ethnicity
Pashtun
  
Hungarians
  
Origin
1651
  
1192 AD
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Uralic Family
  
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
  
Finno-Ugric
  
Branch
Iranian
  
Ugric
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Old Hungarian
  
Standard Forms
Central Pashto, Northern Pashto, Yusufzai Pashto, Southern Pashto
  
Modern Hungarian
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
ps
  
hu
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
pus
  
hun
  
ISO 639 2/B
pus
  
hun
  
ISO 639 3
pus
  
hun
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
pash1269
  
hung1274
  
Linguasphere
58-ABD-a
  
ohu
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
  
Agglutinative, Synthetic