Countries
Afganistan
  
China, Nepal
  
National Language
Afganistan, Pakistan, Pashtun diaspora
  
Nepal, Tibet
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Pakistan
  
China, India, Nepal
  
Regulated By
Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan, Pashto Academy (Pakistan)
  
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
  
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.
  
- Tibetan dialects vary alot, so it's difficult for tibetans to understand each other if they are not from same area.
- Tibetan is tonal with six tones in all: short low, long low, high falling, low falling, short high, long high.
  
Similar To
Persian and Balochi Languages
  
Not Available
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Pashto-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Arabic
  
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
  
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
(salaam) سلام
  
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
  
Thank You
(manana) مننه (tashakor) تشكر
  
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
  
How Are You?
(ta sanga yee?) څنگه يې؟
  
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
  
Good Night
(shpa mo pa kheyr) شپه مو په خير
  
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
  
Good Evening
(maakhaam mo pa kheyr) ماښام مو په خير
  
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
  
Good Afternoon
(wradz mo pa kheyr) ورځ مو په خير
  
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
  
Good Morning
(sahr pikheyr) سحر پخير
  
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
  
Please
(lotfan) لطفا
  
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
  
Sorry
(zeh mutaasif yum) زه هتاسف يم
  
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
  
Bye
(da khoday pa amaan) دخداى په امان
  
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
  
I Love You
زه ستا سره مينه کوم (za la ta sara meena kawom)
  
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
  
Excuse Me
(bakhena ghwaarum) بخښنه غواړم
  
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
  
Dialect 1
Central Pashto
  
Central Tibetan
  
Where They Speak
Afganistan, Pakistan
  
China, India, Nepal
  
How Many People Speak
6,500,000.00
  
14
1,200,000.00
  
27
Dialect 2
Northern Pashto
  
Khams Tibetan
  
Where They Speak
Afganistan, Pakistan
  
Bhutan, China
  
How Many People Speak
21,000,000.00
  
4
1,400,000.00
  
23
Dialect 3
Wanetsi
  
Amdo Tibetan
  
Where They Speak
Afganistan, Pakistan
  
China
  
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00
  
16
How Many People Speak?
60.00 million
  
27
1.20 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
60.00 million
  
20
1.20 million
  
99+
Native Name
(paṧto) پښتو
  
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
  
Alternative Names
Kandahar Pashto, Qandahar Pashto, Southwestern Pashto, Pushto
  
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
  
French Name
pachto
  
tibétain
  
German Name
Paschtu
  
Tibetisch
  
Pronunciation
[ˈpəʂt̪oː], [ˈpʊxt̪oː]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Pashtun
  
tibetan people
  
Origin
1651
  
c. 650
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
  
Tibeto-Burman
  
Branch
Iranian
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
  
Standard Forms
Central Pashto, Northern Pashto, Yusufzai Pashto, Southern Pashto
  
Standard Tibetan
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Tibetan Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Not Available
  
ISO 639 1
ps
  
bo
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
pus
  
bod
  
ISO 639 2/B
pus
  
tib
  
ISO 639 3
pus
  
bod
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
pash1269
  
tibe1272
  
Linguasphere
58-ABD-a
  
No data Available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Not Available
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
  
Not Available