Countries
Afganistan
  
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
  
National Language
Afganistan, Pakistan, Pashtun diaspora
  
Russia
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Afganistan
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia, Europe
  
Minority Language
Pakistan
  
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
  
Regulated By
Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan, Pashto Academy (Pakistan)
  
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
  
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.
  
Similar To
Persian and Balochi Languages
  
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
  
Alphabets in
Pashto-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Russian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Arabic
  
Cyrillic
  
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
(salaam) سلام
  
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
  
Thank You
(manana) مننه (tashakor) تشكر
  
спасибо(spasibo)
  
How Are You?
(ta sanga yee?) څنگه يې؟
  
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
  
Good Night
(shpa mo pa kheyr) شپه مو په خير
  
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
  
Good Evening
(maakhaam mo pa kheyr) ماښام مو په خير
  
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
  
Good Afternoon
(wradz mo pa kheyr) ورځ مو په خير
  
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
  
Good Morning
(sahr pikheyr) سحر پخير
  
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
  
Please
(lotfan) لطفا
  
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
  
Sorry
(zeh mutaasif yum) زه هتاسف يم
  
Извините(Izvinite)
  
Bye
(da khoday pa amaan) دخداى په امان
  
до свидания(do svidaniya)
  
I Love You
زه ستا سره مينه کوم (za la ta sara meena kawom)
  
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
  
Excuse Me
(bakhena ghwaarum) بخښنه غواړم
  
извините(izvinite)
  
Dialect 1
Central Pashto
  
Doukhobor Russian
  
Where They Speak
Afganistan, Pakistan
  
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
  
How Many People Speak
6,500,000.00
  
14
Dialect 2
Northern Pashto
  
Olonets
  
Where They Speak
Afganistan, Pakistan
  
Olonets
  
How Many People Speak
21,000,000.00
  
4
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Wanetsi
  
Novgorod
  
Where They Speak
Afganistan, Pakistan
  
Novgorod
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
60.00 million
  
27
276.00 million
  
6
Native Speakers
60.00 million
  
20
166.00 million
  
8
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
110.00 million
  
7
Native Name
(paṧto) پښتو
  
Русский
  
Alternative Names
Kandahar Pashto, Qandahar Pashto, Southwestern Pashto, Pushto
  
Russki
  
French Name
pachto
  
russe
  
German Name
Paschtu
  
Russisch
  
Pronunciation
[ˈpəʂt̪oː], [ˈpʊxt̪oː]
  
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
  
Ethnicity
Pashtun
  
Russians
  
Origin
1651
  
1000 AD
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
  
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
  
Slavic
  
Branch
Iranian
  
Eastern
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Old East Slavic
  
Standard Forms
Central Pashto, Northern Pashto, Yusufzai Pashto, Southern Pashto
  
Standard Russian
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Signed Russian
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
ps
  
ru
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
pus
  
rus
  
ISO 639 2/B
pus
  
rus
  
ISO 639 3
pus
  
rus
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
pash1269
  
russ1263
  
Linguasphere
58-ABD-a
  
53-AAA-ea
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
  
Fusional, Synthetic