Countries
Afganistan
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
Total No. Of Countries
17
0
46
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National Language
Afganistan, Pakistan, Pashtun diaspora
Germany
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
North Dakota, United States of America
Speaking Continents
Asia
Europe
Minority Language
Pakistan
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia
Regulated By
Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan, Pashto Academy (Pakistan)
Council for German Orthography
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.
- One of the large group of Indo-Germanic languages is German.
- The second most popular Germanic language spoken today behind English is German language.
Similar To
Persian and Balochi Languages
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
Derived From
-
Albanian Languages
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4426
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
710
0
32
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How Many Consonants
299
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic
Latin
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
36
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks30 weeks
3
88
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Hello
(salaam) سلام
hallo
Thank You
(manana) مننه (tashakor) تشكر
Danke
How Are You?
(ta sanga yee?) څنگه يې؟
Wie geht es dir?
Good Night
(shpa mo pa kheyr) شپه مو په خير
gute Nacht
Good Evening
(maakhaam mo pa kheyr) ماښام مو په خير
guten Abend
Good Afternoon
(wradz mo pa kheyr) ورځ مو په خير
guten Tag
Good Morning
(sahr pikheyr) سحر پخير
guten Morgen
Please
(lotfan) لطفا
bitte
Sorry
(zeh mutaasif yum) زه هتاسف يم
Verzeihung
Bye
(da khoday pa amaan) دخداى په امان
Tschüs
I Love You
زه ستا سره مينه کوم (za la ta sara meena kawom)
Ich liebe dich
Excuse Me
(bakhena ghwaarum) بخښنه غواړم
Entschuldigung
Dialect 1
Central Pashto
Swiss German
Where They Speak
Afganistan, Pakistan
Switzerland
How Many People Speak
6,500,000.004,500,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Northern Pashto
Swabian German
Where They Speak
Afganistan, Pakistan
Germany
How Many People Speak
21,000,000.00820,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Wanetsi
Texas German
Where They Speak
Afganistan, Pakistan
Texas
How Many People Speak
95,000.006,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
2128
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
60.00 million229.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.58 %1.39 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
60.00 million101.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
50.00 million128.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
(paṧto) پښتو
Deutsch
Alternative Names
Kandahar Pashto, Qandahar Pashto, Southwestern Pashto, Pushto
Deutsch, Tedesco
French Name
pachto
allemand
German Name
Paschtu
Deutsch
Pronunciation
[ˈpəʂt̪oː], [ˈpʊxt̪oː]
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]
Ethnicity
Pashtun
Germans
Origin
1651
6th Century AD
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Germanic
Branch
Iranian
Western
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Central Pashto, Northern Pashto, Yusufzai Pashto, Southern Pashto
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
Language Position
829
1
120
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Signed Forms
Pashto Sign Language
Signed German
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ps
de
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
pus
deu
ISO 639 2/B
pus
ger
ISO 639 3
pus
deu
ISO 639 6
pus
deus
Glottocode
pash1269
high1287, uppe1397
Linguasphere
58-ABD-a
52-ACB–dl & -dm
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
Fusional, Synthetic