1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Afganistan
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Afganistan, Pakistan, Pashtun diaspora
Germany
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
North Dakota, United States of America
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Pakistan
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia
1.7 Regulated By
Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan, Pashto Academy (Pakistan)
Council for German Orthography
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.
- One of the large group of Indo-Germanic languages is German.
- The second most popular Germanic language spoken today behind English is German language.
1.9 Similar To
Persian and Balochi Languages
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
Albanian Languages
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
Danke
3.3 How Are You?
(ta sanga yee?) څنگه يې؟
Wie geht es dir?
3.4 Good Night
(shpa mo pa kheyr) شپه مو په خير
gute Nacht
3.5 Good Evening
(maakhaam mo pa kheyr) ماښام مو په خير
guten Abend
3.6 Good Afternoon
(wradz mo pa kheyr) ورځ مو په خير
guten Tag
3.7 Good Morning
(sahr pikheyr) سحر پخير
guten Morgen
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
(zeh mutaasif yum) زه هتاسف يم
Verzeihung
3.10 Bye
(da khoday pa amaan) دخداى په امان
Tschüs
3.11 I Love You
زه ستا سره مينه کوم (za la ta sara meena kawom)
Ich liebe dich
3.12 Excuse Me
(bakhena ghwaarum) بخښنه غواړم
Entschuldigung
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Central Pashto
Swiss German
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Afganistan, Pakistan
Switzerland
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
6,500,000.004,500,000.00
1.5
960000000
1.4 Dialect 2
Northern Pashto
Swabian German
1.4.1 Where They Speak
Afganistan, Pakistan
Germany
1.4.2 How Many People Speak
21,000,000.00820,000.00
700
80000000
1.6 Dialect 3
1.6.1 Where They Speak
Afganistan, Pakistan
Texas
1.6.2 How Many People Speak
95,000.006,000.00
1400
96000000
1.7 Total No. Of Dialects
2 How Many People Speak
2.1 How Many People Speak?
60.00 million229.00 million
0.13
1200
2.2 Speaking Population
2.3 Native Speakers
60.00 million101.00 million
0.13
873
2.3.1 Second Language Speakers
NA128.00 million
0.01
400
2.3.2 Native Name
2.3.3 Alternative Names
Kandahar Pashto, Qandahar Pashto, Southwestern Pashto, Pushto
Deutsch, Tedesco
2.3.4 French Name
2.3.5 German Name
2.4 Pronunciation
[ˈpəʂt̪oː], [ˈpʊxt̪oː]
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]
2.5 Ethnicity
3 History
3.1 Origin
3.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
3.2.1 Subgroup
3.2.2 Branch
3.3 Language Forms
3.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
3.3.2 Standard Forms
Central Pashto, Northern Pashto, Yusufzai Pashto, Southern Pashto
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
3.3.3 Language Position
3.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Signed German
3.4 Scope
4 Code
4.1 ISO 639 1
4.2 ISO 639 2
4.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
4.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
4.3 ISO 639 3
4.4 ISO 639 6
4.5 Glottocode
pash1269
high1287, uppe1397
4.6 Linguasphere
4.7 Types of Language
4.7.1 Language Type
4.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object
4.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
Fusional, Synthetic