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Countries

Afganistan

Total No. Of Countries

Rank: 14 (Overall)

0 46

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National Language

Afganistan, Pakistan, Pashtun diaspora

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Asia

Minority Language

Pakistan

Regulated By

Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan, Pashto Academy (Pakistan)

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.

Similar To

Persian and Balochi Languages

Derived From

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

Rank: 24 (Overall)

18 247

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Phonology

How Many Vowels

Rank: 4 (Overall)

0 32

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How Many Consonants

Rank: 19 (Overall)

9 60

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Scripts

Arabic

Writing Direction

Right-To-Left, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

Rank: 2 (Overall)

2 12

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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks

Rank: 17 (Overall)

3 88

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Greetings

Hello

(salaam) سلام

Thank You

(manana) مننه (tashakor) تشكر

How Are You?

(ta sanga yee?) څنگه يې؟

Good Night

(shpa mo pa kheyr) شپه مو په خير

Good Evening

(maakhaam mo pa kheyr) ماښام مو په خير

Good Afternoon

(wradz mo pa kheyr) ورځ مو په خير

Good Morning

(sahr pikheyr) سحر پخير‏

Please

(lotfan) لطفا

Sorry

(zeh mutaasif yum) زه هتاسف يم

Bye

(da khoday pa amaan) دخداى په امان

I Love You

زه ستا سره مينه کوم (za la ta sara meena kawom)

Excuse Me

(bakhena ghwaarum) بخښنه غواړم

Dialects

Dialect 1

Central Pashto

Where They Speak

Afganistan, Pakistan

How Many People Speak

6,500,000.00

Rank: 42 (Overall)

1.5 960000000

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Dialect 2

Northern Pashto

Where They Speak

Afganistan, Pakistan

How Many People Speak

21,000,000.00

Rank: 25 (Overall)

700 274000000

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Dialect 3

Wanetsi

Where They Speak

Afganistan, Pakistan

How Many People Speak

95,000.00

Rank: 70 (Overall)

2 230000000

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Total No. Of Dialects

Rank: 19 (Overall)

0 188

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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

60.00 million

Rank: 27 (Overall)

0 1200

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Speaking Population

0.58 %

Rank: 28 (Overall)

0 89

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Native Speakers

60.00 million

Rank: 20 (Overall)

0 873

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Second Language Speakers

50.00 million

Rank: 18 (Overall)

0.01 400

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Native Name

(paṧto) پښتو

Alternative Names

Kandahar Pashto, Qandahar Pashto, Southwestern Pashto, Pushto

French Name

pachto

German Name

Paschtu

Pronunciation

[ˈpəʂt̪oː], [ˈpʊxt̪oː]

Ethnicity

Pashtun

History

Origin

1651

Language Family

Indo-European Family

Subgroup

Indo-Iranian

Branch

Iranian

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms

Standard Forms

Central Pashto, Northern Pashto, Yusufzai Pashto, Southern Pashto

Language Position

Rank: 64 (Overall)

1 120

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Signed Forms

Pashto Sign Language

Scope

Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

pus

ISO 639 2/B

pus

ISO 639 3

pus

ISO 639 6

pus

Glottocode

pash1269

Linguasphere

58-ABD-a

Types of Language

Language Type

Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Object-Verb

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.