Countries
Ukraine
  
Afganistan
  
National Language
Ukraine
  
Afganistan, Pakistan, Pashtun diaspora
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia
  
Pakistan
  
Regulated By
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine: Institute for the Ukrainian Language
  
Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan, Pashto Academy (Pakistan)
  
Interesting Facts
- Ukrainian Language is second most widespread among the Slavic languages after the Russian Language.
- Ukrainian Language is among the top three most melodious language in the world.
  
- Pashto language is originated in the regions of Paktika and Paktia areas of Afghanistan.
- The first Pashto poem was written in the 7th century.
  
Similar To
Russian and Belarusian Languages
  
Persian and Balochi Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Ukrainian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Pashto-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Cyrillic, Ukrainian Braille
  
Arabic
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Здравствуйте (Zdravstvuyte)
  
(salaam) سلام
  
Thank You
Дякую (Dyakuyu)
  
(manana) مننه (tashakor) تشكر
  
How Are You?
Як ти поживаєш? (Jak ty požyvajesh?)
  
(ta sanga yee?) څنگه يې؟
  
Good Night
На добраніч (Na dobranič)
  
(shpa mo pa kheyr) شپه مو په خير
  
Good Evening
Доброго вечора (Dobroho večora)
  
(maakhaam mo pa kheyr) ماښام مو په خير
  
Good Afternoon
Доброго дня (Dobroho dnia)
  
(wradz mo pa kheyr) ورځ مو په خير
  
Good Morning
Доброго ранку! (Dobroho ranku)
  
(sahr pikheyr) سحر پخير
  
Please
будь ласк
  
(lotfan) لطفا
  
Sorry
вибачте (vybachte)
  
(zeh mutaasif yum) زه هتاسف يم
  
Bye
до побачення (do pobachennya)
  
(da khoday pa amaan) دخداى په امان
  
I Love You
я тебе люблю (ya tebe lyublyu)
  
زه ستا سره مينه کوم (za la ta sara meena kawom)
  
Excuse Me
Перепрошую! (Pereprošuju)
  
(bakhena ghwaarum) بخښنه غواړم
  
Dialect 1
Podillian
  
Central Pashto
  
Where They Speak
North Odessa Oblast, South Khmelnytskyi, South Vinnytsia
  
Afganistan, Pakistan
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
6,500,000.00
  
14
Dialect 2
Volynian
  
Northern Pashto
  
Where They Speak
Rivne, Volyn
  
Afganistan, Pakistan
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
21,000,000.00
  
4
Dialect 3
Steppe
  
Wanetsi
  
Where They Speak
South Ukraine, Southeastern Ukraine
  
Afganistan, Pakistan
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
39.00 million
  
32
60.00 million
  
27
Native Speakers
39.00 million
  
25
60.00 million
  
20
Native Name
Українська (Ukrajins'ka)
  
(paṧto) پښتو
  
Alternative Names
Not Available
  
Kandahar Pashto, Qandahar Pashto, Southwestern Pashto, Pushto
  
French Name
ukrainien
  
pachto
  
German Name
Ukrainisch
  
Paschtu
  
Pronunciation
[ukrɑˈjiɲsʲkɐ ˈmɔwɐ]
  
[ˈpəʂt̪oː], [ˈpʊxt̪oː]
  
Ethnicity
Ukrainians
  
Pashtun
  
Origin
1561
  
1651
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Slavic
  
Indo-Iranian
  
Branch
Eastern
  
Iranian
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old East Slavic, Ukrainian
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Modern Ukrainian
  
Central Pashto, Northern Pashto, Yusufzai Pashto, Southern Pashto
  
Signed Forms
Ukrainian Sign Language
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
uk
  
ps
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
ukr
  
pus
  
ISO 639 2/B
ukr
  
pus
  
ISO 639 3
ukr
  
pus
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
ukra1253
  
pash1269
  
Linguasphere
53-AAA-eda to 53-AAA-edq
  
58-ABD-a
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Fusional