1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Afganistan
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Afganistan, Pakistan, Pashtun diaspora
Russia
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Afganistan
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Pakistan
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
1.7 Regulated By
Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan, Pashto Academy (Pakistan)
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
1.8 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.
- In Russian language, the words are not pronounced as they are written.
- In Russian language, there are only 200,000 words out of which only few words are used and due to this many words have more than one meaning.
1.9 Similar To
Persian and Balochi Languages
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
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
2.5 Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
(salaam) سلام
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
3.2 Thank You
(manana) مننه (tashakor) تشكر
спасибо(spasibo)
3.3 How Are You?
(ta sanga yee?) څنگه يې؟
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
3.4 Good Night
(shpa mo pa kheyr) شپه مو په خير
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
3.5 Good Evening
(maakhaam mo pa kheyr) ماښام مو په خير
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
3.6 Good Afternoon
(wradz mo pa kheyr) ورځ مو په خير
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
3.7 Good Morning
(sahr pikheyr) سحر پخير
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
3.8 Please
(lotfan) لطفا
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
3.9 Sorry
(zeh mutaasif yum) زه هتاسف يم
Извините(Izvinite)
3.10 Bye
(da khoday pa amaan) دخداى په امان
до свидания(do svidaniya)
3.11 I Love You
زه ستا سره مينه کوم (za la ta sara meena kawom)
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
3.12 Excuse Me
(bakhena ghwaarum) بخښنه غواړم
извините(izvinite)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Central Pashto
Doukhobor Russian
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Afganistan, Pakistan
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
6,500,000.0030,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Afganistan, Pakistan
Olonets
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
21,000,000.00NA
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Afganistan, Pakistan
Novgorod
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
95,000.00NA
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
60.00 million276.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
60.00 million166.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
NA110.00 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Kandahar Pashto, Qandahar Pashto, Southwestern Pashto, Pushto
Russki
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
[ˈpəʂt̪oː], [ˈpʊxt̪oː]
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
5.5 Ethnicity
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
Old East Slavic
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Central Pashto, Northern Pashto, Yusufzai Pashto, Southern Pashto
Standard Russian
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Signed Russian
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-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
Fusional, Synthetic