1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Afganistan
Turkey, Uzbekistan
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Afganistan, Pakistan, Pashtun diaspora
Afganistan, China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan
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
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.7 Regulated By
Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan, Pashto Academy (Pakistan)
Not Available
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.
- Uzbek is officially written in the Latin script, but many people still use Cyrillic script.
- In Uzbek language, there are many loanwords from Russian, Arabic and Persian.
1.9 Similar To
Persian and Balochi Languages
Kazakh and Uyghur Languages
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
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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
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
2.5 Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Not Available
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
Rakhmat
3.3 How Are You?
(ta sanga yee?) څنگه يې؟
Qalay siz?
3.4 Good Night
(shpa mo pa kheyr) شپه مو په خير
Hayirli tun
3.5 Good Evening
(maakhaam mo pa kheyr) ماښام مو په خير
Hayirli kech
3.6 Good Afternoon
(wradz mo pa kheyr) ورځ مو په خير
Hayirli kun
3.7 Good Morning
(sahr pikheyr) سحر پخير
Hayirli tong
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
(zeh mutaasif yum) زه هتاسف يم
Kechiring!
3.10 Bye
(da khoday pa amaan) دخداى په امان
Xayr
3.11 I Love You
زه ستا سره مينه کوم (za la ta sara meena kawom)
Sizni sevaman
3.12 Excuse Me
(bakhena ghwaarum) بخښنه غواړم
Iltimos! Menga qarang
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Afganistan, Pakistan
Not Available
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
6,500,000.00NA
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Afganistan, Pakistan
Not Available
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
Not Available
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 million25.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
60.00 million26.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
(paṧto) پښتو
أۇزبېك ﺗﻴﻠی o'zbek tili ўзбек тили (o‘zbek tili)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Kandahar Pashto, Qandahar Pashto, Southwestern Pashto, Pushto
Annamese, Ching, Gin, Jing, Kinh, Viet
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
1651
9th–12th centuries AD
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Turkic Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
Iranian
Southestern(Chagatai)
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Central Pashto, Northern Pashto, Yusufzai Pashto, Southern Pashto
Uzbek
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
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
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7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology