1 Countries
1.1 Countries
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Afganistan, Pakistan, Pashtun diaspora
Nepal, Tibet
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
China, India, Nepal
1.7 Regulated By
Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan, Pashto Academy (Pakistan)
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
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.
- 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.
1.9 Similar To
Persian and Balochi Languages
Not Available
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
Not Available
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
Arabic
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
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
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
3.2 Thank You
(manana) مننه (tashakor) تشكر
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
3.3 How Are You?
(ta sanga yee?) څنگه يې؟
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
3.4 Good Night
(shpa mo pa kheyr) شپه مو په خير
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
3.5 Good Evening
(maakhaam mo pa kheyr) ماښام مو په خير
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
3.6 Good Afternoon
(wradz mo pa kheyr) ورځ مو په خير
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
3.7 Good Morning
(sahr pikheyr) سحر پخير
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
3.8 Please
(lotfan) لطفا
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
3.9 Sorry
(zeh mutaasif yum) زه هتاسف يم
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
3.10 Bye
(da khoday pa amaan) دخداى په امان
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
3.11 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)
3.12 Excuse Me
(bakhena ghwaarum) بخښنه غواړم
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Central Pashto
Central Tibetan
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Afganistan, Pakistan
China, India, Nepal
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
6,500,000.001,200,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
Northern Pashto
Khams Tibetan
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Afganistan, Pakistan
Bhutan, China
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
21,000,000.001,400,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Afganistan, Pakistan
China
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
95,000.001,800,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
60.00 million1.20 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
60.00 million1.20 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
(paṧto) پښتو
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Kandahar Pashto, Qandahar Pashto, Southwestern Pashto, Pushto
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
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
Sino-Tibetan Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Tibeto-Burman
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Central Pashto, Northern Pashto, Yusufzai Pashto, Southern Pashto
Standard Tibetan
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Tibetan Sign Language
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
58-ABD-a
No data Available
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Not Available
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology