Countries
East Asia, European Union, South America
Afganistan
Total No. Of Countries
31
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
East Asia, European Union
Afganistan, Pakistan, Pashtun diaspora
Second Language
Central Europe, East Asia, Eastern Europe, South America
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe, South America
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Pakistan
Regulated By
Akademio de Esperanto
Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan, Pashto Academy (Pakistan)
Interesting Facts
- The most widely spoken constructed language in the world is Esperanto.
- Esperanto is an artificial international language.
- 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
Latin and Italian Languages
Persian and Balochi Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3244
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
57
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2729
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Arabic
Writing Direction
-
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
23
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
6 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Halo
(salaam) سلام
Thank You
Dankon
(manana) مننه (tashakor) تشكر
How Are You?
Kiel vi sanas?
(ta sanga yee?) څنگه يې؟
Good Night
Bonan nokton
(shpa mo pa kheyr) شپه مو په خير
Good Evening
Bonan vesperon
(maakhaam mo pa kheyr) ماښام مو په خير
Good Afternoon
Bonan posttagmezon
(wradz mo pa kheyr) ورځ مو په خير
Good Morning
Bonan matenon
(sahr pikheyr) سحر پخير
Please
Mi petas
(lotfan) لطفا
Sorry
Mi bedaŭras!
(zeh mutaasif yum) زه هتاسف يم
Bye
Ĝis poste
(da khoday pa amaan) دخداى په امان
I Love You
Mi amas vin
زه ستا سره مينه کوم (za la ta sara meena kawom)
Excuse Me
Pardonu!
(bakhena ghwaarum) بخښنه غواړم
Dialect 1
Not present
Central Pashto
Where They Speak
Not present
Afganistan, Pakistan
How Many People Speak
2,000,000.006,500,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Not present
Northern Pashto
Where They Speak
Not present
Afganistan, Pakistan
How Many People Speak
1,000,000.0021,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Not present
Wanetsi
Where They Speak
Not present
Afganistan, Pakistan
How Many People Speak
2,000,000.0095,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
021
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
2.20 million60.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.03 %0.58 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
0.20 million60.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
2.00 million50.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Esperanto
(paṧto) پښتو
Alternative Names
Eo, La Lingvo Internacia
Kandahar Pashto, Qandahar Pashto, Southwestern Pashto, Pushto
French Name
espéranto
pachto
German Name
Esperanto
Paschtu
Pronunciation
[espeˈranto]
[ˈpəʂt̪oː], [ˈpʊxt̪oː]
Ethnicity
Esperanto speakers
Pashtun
Origin
1887
1651
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Indo-Iranian
Branch
-
Iranian
Language Forms
Early Forms
Proto-Esperanto
No early forms
Standard Forms
Esperanto
Central Pashto, Northern Pashto, Yusufzai Pashto, Southern Pashto
Language Position
3382
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Signuno
Pashto Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
eo
ps
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
epo
pus
ISO 639 2/B
epo
pus
ISO 639 3
epo
pus
ISO 639 6
epo
pus
Glottocode
espe1235
pash1269
Linguasphere
51-AAB-da
58-ABD-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Constructed
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Fusional