Countries
Hong Kong, Macau
Afganistan
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
China, Guangdong
Afganistan, Pakistan, Pashtun diaspora
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Hawaii
Pakistan
Regulated By
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan, Pashto Academy (Pakistan)
Interesting Facts
- Cantonese have lot of slangs, many of them include words that do not make sense at all and some also have English in them.
- Even though Cantonese and Mandarin are dialects of Chinese, Cantonese has 8 tones instead of Mandarin's 4.
- 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
Chinese Language
Persian and Balochi Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2844
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
87
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2029
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Arabic
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
103
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
您好
(salaam) سلام
Thank You
谢谢
(manana) مننه (tashakor) تشكر
How Are You?
你好吗？
(ta sanga yee?) څنگه يې؟
Good Night
晚安
(shpa mo pa kheyr) شپه مو په خير
Good Evening
晚上好
(maakhaam mo pa kheyr) ماښام مو په خير
Good Afternoon
下午好
(wradz mo pa kheyr) ورځ مو په خير
Good Morning
早上好
(sahr pikheyr) سحر پخير
Please
请
(lotfan) لطفا
Sorry
遗憾
(zeh mutaasif yum) زه هتاسف يم
Bye
再见
(da khoday pa amaan) دخداى په امان
I Love You
我爱你
زه ستا سره مينه کوم (za la ta sara meena kawom)
Excuse Me
原谅我
(bakhena ghwaarum) بخښنه غواړم
Dialect 1
Guangzhou
Central Pashto
Where They Speak
outside mainland China
Afganistan, Pakistan
How Many People Speak
71,000,000.006,500,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Xiguan
Northern Pashto
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
Afganistan, Pakistan
How Many People Speak
71,000,000.0021,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Hong Kong
Wanetsi
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
Afganistan, Pakistan
How Many People Speak
70,000,000.0095,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
321
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
60.00 million60.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
16.00 %0.58 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
52.00 million60.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
71.00 million50.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Kwang Tung Wa
(paṧto) پښتو
Alternative Names
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
Kandahar Pashto, Qandahar Pashto, Southwestern Pashto, Pushto
French Name
cantonais
pachto
German Name
Kantonesisch
Paschtu
Pronunciation
[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]
[ˈpəʂt̪oː], [ˈpʊxt̪oː]
Ethnicity
Han Chinese
Pashtun
Origin
17th century
1651
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Indo-Iranian
Branch
-
Iranian
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Cantonese
Central Pashto, Northern Pashto, Yusufzai Pashto, Southern Pashto
Language Position
182
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Signed Cantonese
Pashto Sign Language
Scope
-
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data available
ps
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
yue
pus
ISO 639 2/B
yue
pus
ISO 639 3
No data available
pus
ISO 639 6
yue
pus
Glottocode
cant1236
pash1269
Linguasphere
No data available
58-ABD-a
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
Fusional