Countries
Iraq, Kurdistan
Afganistan
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey
Afganistan, Pakistan, Pashtun diaspora
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Middle East
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Pakistan
Regulated By
-
Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan, Pashto Academy (Pakistan)
Interesting Facts
- The vocabulary in Kurdish is of Iranian origin.
- In the middle East, Kurdish is the fourth largest ethnic group.
- 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
Farsi Language
Persian and Balochi Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3344
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
87
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2929
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
Arabic
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
43
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
4 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Silaw
(salaam) سلام
Thank You
Sipas
(manana) مننه (tashakor) تشكر
How Are You?
Tu çawa yî?
(ta sanga yee?) څنگه يې؟
Good Night
Şev xweş
(shpa mo pa kheyr) شپه مو په خير
Good Evening
Evare baş
(maakhaam mo pa kheyr) ماښام مو په خير
Good Afternoon
Nee-wa-rowt bash
(wradz mo pa kheyr) ورځ مو په خير
Good Morning
Bayanit bash
(sahr pikheyr) سحر پخير
Please
Bê zehmet
(lotfan) لطفا
Sorry
Bibûre
(zeh mutaasif yum) زه هتاسف يم
Bye
Be xêr çî
(da khoday pa amaan) دخداى په امان
I Love You
Ez te hez dikem
زه ستا سره مينه کوم (za la ta sara meena kawom)
Excuse Me
Bê zehmet
(bakhena ghwaarum) بخښنه غواړم
Dialect 1
Northern Kurdish
Central Pashto
Where They Speak
northern Iraq, northern Syria, northwest Iran, southeast Turkey
Afganistan, Pakistan
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.006,500,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Central Kurdish
Northern Pashto
Where They Speak
Iraq, Kurdistan Province of western Iran
Afganistan, Pakistan
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.0021,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Southern Kurdish
Wanetsi
Where They Speak
Eastern Iraq
Afganistan, Pakistan
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.0095,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
321
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
28.00 million60.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.31 %0.58 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
21.00 million60.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
20.00 million50.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Kurdí / کوردی / к’öрди
(paṧto) پښتو
Alternative Names
Kurdî, کوردی
Kandahar Pashto, Qandahar Pashto, Southwestern Pashto, Pushto
French Name
kurde
pachto
German Name
Kurdisch
Paschtu
Pronunciation
[kʊɾdɪʃ]
[ˈpəʂt̪oː], [ˈpʊxt̪oː]
Ethnicity
Kurds
Pashtun
Origin
16th century CE
1651
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Indo-Iranian
Branch
-
Iranian
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Kurdish and Middle Kurdish
No early forms
Standard Forms
Kurdish
Central Pashto, Northern Pashto, Yusufzai Pashto, Southern Pashto
Language Position
1482
1
120
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Signed Forms
Kurdish Sign Language
Pashto Sign Language
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
ku
ps
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
kur
pus
ISO 639 2/B
kur
pus
ISO 639 3
kur
pus
ISO 639 6
kur
pus
Glottocode
kurd1259
pash1269
Linguasphere
58-AAA-a
58-ABD-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
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Fusional