Countries
Afganistan
Nigeria
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Afganistan, Pakistan, Pashtun diaspora
Nigeria
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa
Minority Language
Pakistan
Equatorial Guinea
Regulated By
Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan, Pashto Academy (Pakistan)
Society for Promoting Igbo Language and Culture
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.
- In Igbo, there is complicated system of high and low tones indicating differences in meaning and grammatical relationships.
- Igbo has inexhaustible and rich linguistic features like idioms, proverbs, aphorisms, anecdotes etc.
Similar To
Persian and Balochi Languages
Yoruba and Hausa Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4436
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
78
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2928
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic
Latin
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
33
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks52 weeks
3
88
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Hello
(salaam) سلام
kedụ
Thank You
(manana) مننه (tashakor) تشكر
dalụ
How Are You?
(ta sanga yee?) څنگه يې؟
kedụ ka ịmere
Good Night
(shpa mo pa kheyr) شپه مو په خير
ka chi fo
Good Evening
(maakhaam mo pa kheyr) ماښام مو په خير
mgbede ọma
Good Afternoon
(wradz mo pa kheyr) ورځ مو په خير
ehihie ọma
Good Morning
(sahr pikheyr) سحر پخير
ụtụtụ ọma
Please
(lotfan) لطفا
Biko
Sorry
(zeh mutaasif yum) زه هتاسف يم
Ndo
Bye
(da khoday pa amaan) دخداى په امان
Kachifo
I Love You
زه ستا سره مينه کوم (za la ta sara meena kawom)
a hụrụ m gị n'anya
Excuse Me
(bakhena ghwaarum) بخښنه غواړم
ngọpụ
Dialect 1
Central Pashto
Enuani
Where They Speak
Afganistan, Pakistan
Nigeria
How Many People Speak
6,500,000.0028,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Northern Pashto
Ngwa
Where They Speak
Afganistan, Pakistan
Nigeria
How Many People Speak
21,000,000.001,500,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Wanetsi
Not present
Where They Speak
Afganistan, Pakistan
-
How Many People Speak
95,000.0024.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
2120
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
60.00 million25.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.58 %0.09 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
60.00 million25.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
50.00 million24.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
(paṧto) پښتو
igbo
Alternative Names
Kandahar Pashto, Qandahar Pashto, Southwestern Pashto, Pushto
Ibo
French Name
pachto
igbo
German Name
Paschtu
Ibo-Sprache
Pronunciation
[ˈpəʂt̪oː], [ˈpʊxt̪oː]
[iɡ͡boː]
Ethnicity
Pashtun
Igbo people
Origin
1651
30th Century BC
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Kwa
Branch
Iranian
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Central Pashto, Northern Pashto, Yusufzai Pashto, Southern Pashto
Standard Igbo
Language Position
8257
1
120
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Signed Forms
Pashto Sign Language
Igbo Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ps
ig
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
pus
ibo
ISO 639 2/B
pus
ibo
ISO 639 3
pus
ibo
ISO 639 6
pus
ibo
Glottocode
pash1269
nucl1417
Linguasphere
58-ABD-a
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
Agglutinative