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About Pashto Language

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1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Afganistan
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
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1
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1.3 National Language
Afganistan, Pakistan, Pashtun diaspora
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
Asia
1.6 Minority Language
Pakistan
1.7 Regulated By
Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan, Pashto Academy (Pakistan)
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.
1.9 Similar To
Persian and Balochi Languages
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
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Rank: 24 (Overall)
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2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
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7
Rank: 4 (Overall)
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2.3.2 How Many Consonants
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29
Rank: 19 (Overall)
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2.4 Scripts
Arabic
2.5 Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
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2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
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44 weeks
Rank: 11 (Overall)
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3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
(salaam) سلام
3.2 Thank You
(manana) مننه (tashakor) تشكر
3.3 How Are You?
(ta sanga yee?) څنگه يې؟
3.4 Good Night
(shpa mo pa kheyr) شپه مو په خير
3.5 Good Evening
(maakhaam mo pa kheyr) ماښام مو په خير
3.6 Good Afternoon
(wradz mo pa kheyr) ورځ مو په خير
3.7 Good Morning
(sahr pikheyr) سحر پخير‏
3.8 Please
(lotfan) لطفا
3.9 Sorry
(zeh mutaasif yum) زه هتاسف يم
3.10 Bye
(da khoday pa amaan) دخداى په امان
3.11 I Love You
زه ستا سره مينه کوم (za la ta sara meena kawom)
3.12 Excuse Me
(bakhena ghwaarum) بخښنه غواړم
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Central Pashto
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Afganistan, Pakistan
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
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4.2 Dialect 2
Northern Pashto
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Afganistan, Pakistan
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
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21,000,000.00
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4.3 Dialect 3
Wanetsi
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Afganistan, Pakistan
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
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4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
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21
Rank: 19 (Overall)
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5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
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60.00 million
Rank: 27 (Overall)
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5.2 Speaking Population
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0.58 %
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5.3 Native Speakers
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60.00 million
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5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
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5.3.2 Native Name
(paṧto) پښتو
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Kandahar Pashto, Qandahar Pashto, Southwestern Pashto, Pushto
5.3.4 French Name
pachto
5.3.5 German Name
Paschtu
5.4 Pronunciation
[ˈpəʂt̪oː], [ˈpʊxt̪oː]
5.5 Ethnicity
Pashtun
6 History
6.1 Origin
1651
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
6.2.2 Branch
Iranian
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Central Pashto, Northern Pashto, Yusufzai Pashto, Southern Pashto
6.3.3 Language Position
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6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
6.4 Scope
Individual
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
ps
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
pus
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
pus
7.3 ISO 639 3
pus
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
pash1269
7.6 Linguasphere
58-ABD-a
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
Living
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Fusional

Know Alphabets in Pashto

When you start learning to write in any language the Alphabets form a skeleton of any language. Let's talk About Pashto Language, where you will learn the number of letter in Pashto Alphabets. Every language has its own set of alphabets or characters so it is necessary to know alphabets in Pashto. Pashto phonology gives Pashto vowels and Pashto consonants. There are 7 vowels and 29 consonants in Pashto language. Based upon the number of alphabet, vowels and consonants in the language we can check if Pashto is one of the Most Difficult Languages. All about Pashto language is given in detail in this section.

All Pashto countries

Want to explore all Pashto countries? About Pashto language serves you with all Pashto Speaking Countries. Countries that use Pashto as official language are called as Pashto countries.

  • Countries that use Pashto as their National Language are: Afganistan, Pakistan, Pashtun diaspora.

Second language indicates to any language which the person learns in addition to first or native language.

  • Countries that use Pashto as second language are: Pashto is not spoken as second language in any of the countries.

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Learn Pashto greetings

Languages are used by every human being to communicate. And communication begins with the greetings. First step to form any interaction is to learn Pashto Greetings. Whenever you are travelling to new country where in you don’t know the local language of that country then you should at least be familiar with some greetings to start any formal or informal conversion. When we talk about Pashto language, we are always interested in learning useful phrases in Pashto language.Learn Pashto greetings that can be used in formal situations:

  • Hello: (salaam) سلام
  • Thank you: (manana) مننه (tashakor) تشكر
  • Good Morning: (sahr pikheyr) سحر پخير‏
  • Good Evening: (maakhaam mo pa kheyr) ماښام مو په خير
  • Good Afternoon: (wradz mo pa kheyr) ورځ مو په خير

All Pashto Language Codes

Get to know all Pashto language codes here. There are several languages spoken all over the world where in most of the languages have alternate names which come from diverse sources. All Pashto Language Codes are assigned with unique code. There is usually two or three letters code for each language. In most of the applications, these language codes are used where it is tedious to use language names.