Countries
European Union, Finland
Afganistan
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
Afganistan, Pakistan, Pashtun diaspora
Second Language
Estonia
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
Pakistan
Regulated By
Institute for the Languages of Finland
Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan, Pashto Academy (Pakistan)
Interesting Facts
- Finnish language has adopted many words from Iranian, Turkic, Baltic, Germanic and Slavic languages.
- In Finnish language, there are no articles or grammatical gender.
- 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
Estonian and Livonian Languages
Persian and Balochi Languages
Derived From
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
2944
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
87
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
1329
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Arabic
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
43
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Moi
(salaam) سلام
Thank You
Kiitos
(manana) مننه (tashakor) تشكر
How Are You?
Mitä kuuluu?
(ta sanga yee?) څنگه يې؟
Good Night
hyvää yötä
(shpa mo pa kheyr) شپه مو په خير
Good Evening
Hyvää iltaa
(maakhaam mo pa kheyr) ماښام مو په خير
Good Afternoon
Hyvää iltapäivää
(wradz mo pa kheyr) ورځ مو په خير
Good Morning
Hyvää huomenta
(sahr pikheyr) سحر پخير
Please
haluta
(lotfan) لطفا
Sorry
Anteeksi
(zeh mutaasif yum) زه هتاسف يم
Bye
Heippa
(da khoday pa amaan) دخداى په امان
I Love You
Minä rakastan sinua
زه ستا سره مينه کوم (za la ta sara meena kawom)
Excuse Me
Anteeksi
(bakhena ghwaarum) بخښنه غواړم
Dialect 1
Colloquial Finnish
Central Pashto
Where They Speak
Finland
Afganistan, Pakistan
How Many People Speak
5,600,000.006,500,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Rauma
Northern Pashto
Where They Speak
Finland, Rauma
Afganistan, Pakistan
How Many People Speak
5,600,000.0021,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Meänkieli
Wanetsi
Where They Speak
Finland, Sweden
Afganistan, Pakistan
How Many People Speak
60,000.0095,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
2121
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
5.40 million60.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.13 %0.58 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
5.40 million60.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
0.01 million50.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
suomi / suomen kieli
(paṧto) پښتو
Alternative Names
Suomi
Kandahar Pashto, Qandahar Pashto, Southwestern Pashto, Pushto
French Name
finnois
pachto
German Name
Finnisch
Paschtu
Pronunciation
[ˈsuomi]
[ˈpəʂt̪oː], [ˈpʊxt̪oː]
Ethnicity
ethnic Finns
Pashtun
Origin
1543
1651
Language Family
Uralic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Finno-Ugric
Indo-Iranian
Branch
Finnic
Iranian
Language Forms
Early Forms
Proto-Finnic language
No early forms
Standard Forms
standard Finnish
Central Pashto, Northern Pashto, Yusufzai Pashto, Southern Pashto
Language Position
2282
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Finnish
Pashto Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
fi
ps
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
fin
pus
ISO 639 2/B
fin
pus
ISO 639 3
fin
pus
ISO 639 6
fin
pus
Glottocode
finn1318
pash1269
Linguasphere
No data available
58-ABD-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
Fusional