Countries
Afganistan
Indonesia
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Afganistan, Pakistan, Pashtun diaspora
Indonesia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Pakistan
Malaysia, Netherlands, Singapore, Suriname
Regulated By
Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan, Pashto Academy (Pakistan)
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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.
- The Javanese group is the largest ethnic group in Indonesian.
- The earliest writing in Javanese dates from the 4th Century AD, at that time Javanese was written with the Pallava alphabet.
Similar To
Persian and Balochi Languages
Madurese, Sundanese and Balinese Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4427
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
76
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2921
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic
Arabic, Javanese, 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 weeks36 weeks
3
88
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Hello
(salaam) سلام
Halo
Thank You
(manana) مننه (tashakor) تشكر
matur nuwun
How Are You?
(ta sanga yee?) څنگه يې؟
piye kabare?
Good Night
(shpa mo pa kheyr) شپه مو په خير
wengi sing apik
Good Evening
(maakhaam mo pa kheyr) ماښام مو په خير
Sugeng sọnten
Good Afternoon
(wradz mo pa kheyr) ورځ مو په خير
Sugeng siang
Good Morning
(sahr pikheyr) سحر پخير
Sugeng énjing
Please
(lotfan) لطفا
matur nuwun
Sorry
(zeh mutaasif yum) زه هتاسف يم
Nyuwun pangapunten
Bye
(da khoday pa amaan) دخداى په امان
Kepanggih malih benjang
I Love You
زه ستا سره مينه کوم (za la ta sara meena kawom)
Kula tresna panjengan
Excuse Me
(bakhena ghwaarum) بخښنه غواړم
Nuwun séwu
Dialect 1
Central Pashto
Pekalongan
Where They Speak
Afganistan, Pakistan
Indonesia
How Many People Speak
6,500,000.0082,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Northern Pashto
Cirebon
Where They Speak
Afganistan, Pakistan
Indonesia
How Many People Speak
21,000,000.0082,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Wanetsi
Arekan
Where They Speak
Afganistan, Pakistan
Indonesia
How Many People Speak
95,000.0082,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
2116
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
60.00 million82.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.58 %1.25 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
60.00 million76.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
50.00 million82.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
(paṧto) پښتو
basa Jawa
Alternative Names
Kandahar Pashto, Qandahar Pashto, Southwestern Pashto, Pushto
Djawa, Jawa
French Name
pachto
javanais
German Name
Paschtu
Javanisch
Pronunciation
[ˈpəʂt̪oː], [ˈpʊxt̪oː]
[dʒɑˈʋɑnɛs]
Ethnicity
Pashtun
Javanese (Mataram, Osing, Tenggerese, Boyanese, Samin, Cirebonese, Banyumasan, etc)
Origin
1651
450 AD
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Austronesian Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Indonesian
Branch
Iranian
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Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Central Pashto, Northern Pashto, Yusufzai Pashto, Southern Pashto
Javanese
Language Position
8211
1
120
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Signed Forms
Pashto Sign Language
Javanese Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ps
jv
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
pus
jav
ISO 639 2/B
pus
jav
ISO 639 3
pus
jav
ISO 639 6
pus
jav
Glottocode
pash1269
java1253
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