Countries
Afganistan
Cyprus, European Union, Greece
Total No. Of Countries
13
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Afganistan, Pakistan, Pashtun diaspora
Albania, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Greece, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Roman Empire
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Pakistan
Albania, Armenia, Australia, Hungary, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine
Regulated By
Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan, Pashto Academy (Pakistan)
Center for the Greek language (Κέντρον Ελληνικής Γλώσσας)
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.
- Greek is the longest documented language of all the Indo-European Langauges.
- The official language of education in the Roman Empire was Greek.
Similar To
Persian and Balochi Languages
Armenian
Derived From
-
Latin
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4424
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
77
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2917
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Arabic
Arabic, Latin
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
36
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
(salaam) سلام
γεια σας (geia sas)
Thank You
(manana) مننه (tashakor) تشكر
ευχαριστώ (ef̱charistó̱)
How Are You?
(ta sanga yee?) څنگه يې؟
πώς είσαι (pó̱s eísai)
Good Night
(shpa mo pa kheyr) شپه مو په خير
Καληνυχτα (Kali̱nychta)
Good Evening
(maakhaam mo pa kheyr) ماښام مو په خير
καλησπέρα (kali̱spéra)
Good Afternoon
(wradz mo pa kheyr) ورځ مو په خير
Καλὸ ἀπόγευμα (Kaló apóyevma)
Good Morning
(sahr pikheyr) سحر پخير
καλημέρα (kali̱méra)
Please
(lotfan) لطفا
παρακαλώ (parakaló̱)
Sorry
(zeh mutaasif yum) زه هتاسف يم
συγνώμη (sygnó̱mi̱)
Bye
(da khoday pa amaan) دخداى په امان
αντίο (antío)
I Love You
زه ستا سره مينه کوم (za la ta sara meena kawom)
Σε αγαπώ (Se agapó̱)
Excuse Me
(bakhena ghwaarum) بخښنه غواړم
Με συγχωρείτε! (Me synhoríte)
Dialect 1
Central Pashto
Cappadocian Greek
Where They Speak
Afganistan, Pakistan
Greece
How Many People Speak
6,500,000.002,800.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Northern Pashto
Griko
Where They Speak
Afganistan, Pakistan
Italy
How Many People Speak
21,000,000.0050,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Wanetsi
Mariupol
Where They Speak
Afganistan, Pakistan
Ukraine
How Many People Speak
95,000.0013,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
2125
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
60.00 million13.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.58 %0.18 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
60.00 million13.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
50.00 million13.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
(paṧto) پښتو
ελληνικά
Alternative Names
Kandahar Pashto, Qandahar Pashto, Southwestern Pashto, Pushto
Ellinika, Graecae, Grec, Greco, Neo-Hellenic, Romaic
French Name
pachto
grec moderne (après 1453)
German Name
Paschtu
Neugriechisch
Pronunciation
[ˈpəʂt̪oː], [ˈpʊxt̪oː]
[eliniˈka]
Ethnicity
Pashtun
Greeks or Hellenes
Origin
1651
1500 BC
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Hellenic
Branch
Iranian
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Proto-Greek, Mycenaean Greek, Ancient Greek, Koine Greek and Medieval Greek
Standard Forms
Central Pashto, Northern Pashto, Yusufzai Pashto, Southern Pashto
Modern Greek
Language Position
8274
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Pashto Sign Language
Greek Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ps
el
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
pus
ell
ISO 639 2/B
pus
gre
ISO 639 3
pus
ell
ISO 639 6
pus
ells
Glottocode
pash1269
gree1276
Linguasphere
58-ABD-a
56-AAA-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
Fusional, Synthetic