1 Countries
1.1 Countries
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Afganistan, Pakistan, Pashtun diaspora
Bangladesh, India
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Pakistan
Bangladesh, Bhutan
1.7 Regulated By
Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan, Pashto Academy (Pakistan)
Asam Sahitya Sabha
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.
- Assamese was reinstated as the state language of Assam in 1873.
- Assamese language has its own stream of origin, it is evolved in a different way from rest of the Indo-Aryan languages of India.
1.9 Similar To
Persian and Balochi Languages
Bengali and Oriya
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
Sanskrit Language
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
3.2 Thank You
(manana) مننه (tashakor) تشكر
ḍhonyobaaḍ
3.3 How Are You?
(ta sanga yee?) څنگه يې؟
aapuni kene aase?
3.4 Good Night
(shpa mo pa kheyr) شپه مو په خير
subhoraattri
3.5 Good Evening
(maakhaam mo pa kheyr) ماښام مو په خير
subha gadhuli
3.6 Good Afternoon
(wradz mo pa kheyr) ورځ مو په خير
subha abeli
3.7 Good Morning
(sahr pikheyr) سحر پخير
suprobhaat
3.8 Please
(lotfan) لطفا
anugroha kori
3.9 Sorry
(zeh mutaasif yum) زه هتاسف يم
moi ḍukkhita
3.10 Bye
(da khoday pa amaan) دخداى په امان
biḍai
3.11 I Love You
زه ستا سره مينه کوم (za la ta sara meena kawom)
moi tomaak bhaalpaao
3.12 Excuse Me
(bakhena ghwaarum) بخښنه غواړم
kyoma koribo
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Afganistan, Pakistan
Western Assam
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
6,500,000.006,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
Northern Pashto
Goalpariya
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Afganistan, Pakistan
Western Assam
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
Assam
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 million15.30 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
60.00 million15.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
(paṧto) پښتو
অসমীয়া (asamīẏa)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Kandahar Pashto, Qandahar Pashto, Southwestern Pashto, Pushto
Asambe, Asami, Asamiya
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
[ˈpəʂt̪oː], [ˈpʊxt̪oː]
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Indo-Iranian
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Central Pashto, Northern Pashto, Yusufzai Pashto, Southern Pashto
Assamese
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Not Available
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-Object-Verb
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology