Countries
Indonesia
Afganistan
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Indonesia
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
Malaysia, Netherlands, Singapore, Suriname
Pakistan
Regulated By
-
Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan, Pashto Academy (Pakistan)
Interesting Facts
- The Javanese group is the largest ethnic group in Indonesian.
- The earliest writing in Javanese dates from the 4th Century AD, at that time Javanese was written with the Pallava alphabet.
- 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
Madurese, Sundanese and Balinese Languages
Persian and Balochi Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2744
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
67
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2129
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic, Javanese, Latin
Arabic
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
43
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
36 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Halo
(salaam) سلام
Thank You
matur nuwun
(manana) مننه (tashakor) تشكر
How Are You?
piye kabare?
(ta sanga yee?) څنگه يې؟
Good Night
wengi sing apik
(shpa mo pa kheyr) شپه مو په خير
Good Evening
Sugeng sọnten
(maakhaam mo pa kheyr) ماښام مو په خير
Good Afternoon
Sugeng siang
(wradz mo pa kheyr) ورځ مو په خير
Good Morning
Sugeng énjing
(sahr pikheyr) سحر پخير
Please
matur nuwun
(lotfan) لطفا
Sorry
Nyuwun pangapunten
(zeh mutaasif yum) زه هتاسف يم
Bye
Kepanggih malih benjang
(da khoday pa amaan) دخداى په امان
I Love You
Kula tresna panjengan
زه ستا سره مينه کوم (za la ta sara meena kawom)
Excuse Me
Nuwun séwu
(bakhena ghwaarum) بخښنه غواړم
Dialect 1
Pekalongan
Central Pashto
Where They Speak
Indonesia
Afganistan, Pakistan
How Many People Speak
82,000,000.006,500,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Cirebon
Northern Pashto
Where They Speak
Indonesia
Afganistan, Pakistan
How Many People Speak
82,000,000.0021,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Arekan
Wanetsi
Where They Speak
Indonesia
Afganistan, Pakistan
How Many People Speak
82,000,000.0095,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
1621
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
82.00 million60.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
1.25 %0.58 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
76.00 million60.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
82.00 million50.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
basa Jawa
(paṧto) پښتو
Alternative Names
Djawa, Jawa
Kandahar Pashto, Qandahar Pashto, Southwestern Pashto, Pushto
French Name
javanais
pachto
German Name
Javanisch
Paschtu
Pronunciation
[dʒɑˈʋɑnɛs]
[ˈpəʂt̪oː], [ˈpʊxt̪oː]
Ethnicity
Javanese (Mataram, Osing, Tenggerese, Boyanese, Samin, Cirebonese, Banyumasan, etc)
Pashtun
Origin
450 AD
1651
Language Family
Austronesian Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indonesian
Indo-Iranian
Branch
-
Iranian
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Javanese
Central Pashto, Northern Pashto, Yusufzai Pashto, Southern Pashto
Language Position
1182
1
120
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Signed Forms
Javanese Sign Language
Pashto Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
jv
ps
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
jav
pus
ISO 639 2/B
jav
pus
ISO 639 3
jav
pus
ISO 639 6
jav
pus
Glottocode
java1253
pash1269
Linguasphere
No data available
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Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Fusional