Countries
Afganistan
European Union, Finland
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
Afganistan, Pakistan, Pashtun diaspora
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Estonia
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Pakistan
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
Regulated By
Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan, Pashto Academy (Pakistan)
Institute for the Languages of Finland
Interesting Facts
- Pashto language is originated in the regions of Paktika and Paktia areas of Afghanistan.
- The first Pashto poem was written in the 7th century.
- Finnish language has adopted many words from Iranian, Turkic, Baltic, Germanic and Slavic languages.
- In Finnish language, there are no articles or grammatical gender.
Similar To
Persian and Balochi Languages
Estonian and Livonian Languages
Derived From
-
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
4429
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
78
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2913
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic
Latin
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
34
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
(salaam) سلام
Moi
Thank You
(manana) مننه (tashakor) تشكر
Kiitos
How Are You?
(ta sanga yee?) څنگه يې؟
Mitä kuuluu?
Good Night
(shpa mo pa kheyr) شپه مو په خير
hyvää yötä
Good Evening
(maakhaam mo pa kheyr) ماښام مو په خير
Hyvää iltaa
Good Afternoon
(wradz mo pa kheyr) ورځ مو په خير
Hyvää iltapäivää
Good Morning
(sahr pikheyr) سحر پخير
Hyvää huomenta
Please
(lotfan) لطفا
haluta
Sorry
(zeh mutaasif yum) زه هتاسف يم
Anteeksi
Bye
(da khoday pa amaan) دخداى په امان
Heippa
I Love You
زه ستا سره مينه کوم (za la ta sara meena kawom)
Minä rakastan sinua
Excuse Me
(bakhena ghwaarum) بخښنه غواړم
Anteeksi
Dialect 1
Central Pashto
Colloquial Finnish
Where They Speak
Afganistan, Pakistan
Finland
How Many People Speak
6,500,000.005,600,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Northern Pashto
Rauma
Where They Speak
Afganistan, Pakistan
Finland, Rauma
How Many People Speak
21,000,000.005,600,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Wanetsi
Meänkieli
Where They Speak
Afganistan, Pakistan
Finland, Sweden
How Many People Speak
95,000.0060,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
2121
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
60.00 million5.40 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.58 %0.13 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
60.00 million5.40 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
50.00 million0.01 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
(paṧto) پښتو
suomi / suomen kieli
Alternative Names
Kandahar Pashto, Qandahar Pashto, Southwestern Pashto, Pushto
Suomi
French Name
pachto
finnois
German Name
Paschtu
Finnisch
Pronunciation
[ˈpəʂt̪oː], [ˈpʊxt̪oː]
[ˈsuomi]
Ethnicity
Pashtun
ethnic Finns
Origin
1651
1543
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Uralic Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Finno-Ugric
Branch
Iranian
Finnic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Proto-Finnic language
Standard Forms
Central Pashto, Northern Pashto, Yusufzai Pashto, Southern Pashto
standard Finnish
Language Position
8222
1
120
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Signed Forms
Pashto Sign Language
Signed Finnish
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ps
fi
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
pus
fin
ISO 639 2/B
pus
fin
ISO 639 3
pus
fin
ISO 639 6
pus
fin
Glottocode
pash1269
finn1318
Linguasphere
58-ABD-a
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
Agglutinative, Synthetic