Countries
Afganistan
Cambodia
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Afganistan, Pakistan, Pashtun diaspora
Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Pakistan
Australia, France, United States of America
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.
- Khmer is not the tonal language.
- Khmer language has borrowed philisophical, administrative and technical vocabulary from Sanskrit and Pali.
Similar To
Persian and Balochi Languages
Lao Language
Derived From
-
Pali and Sanskrit Languages
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4453
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
720
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2933
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic
Khmer
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
ជំរាបសួរ (jomreab suor)
Thank You
(manana) مننه (tashakor) تشكر
សូមអរគុណអ្នក (saum arkoun anak)
How Are You?
(ta sanga yee?) څنگه يې؟
អ្នកសុខសប្បាយទេ
Good Night
(shpa mo pa kheyr) شپه مو په خير
រាត្រីលា
Good Evening
(maakhaam mo pa kheyr) ماښام مو په خير
ល្ងង់អរិយដ្ឋរ
Good Afternoon
(wradz mo pa kheyr) ورځ مو په خير
លើកលែងរសៀល
Good Morning
(sahr pikheyr) سحر پخير
អរុណប្រចាំឡើង
Please
(lotfan) لطفا
សូម
Sorry
(zeh mutaasif yum) زه هتاسف يم
សូរី
Bye
(da khoday pa amaan) دخداى په امان
លាស់ជាស្រី (leah sah srey)
I Love You
زه ستا سره مينه کوم (za la ta sara meena kawom)
បងបានស្រលាញ់អូន
Excuse Me
(bakhena ghwaarum) بخښنه غواړم
សូមទាញយក
Dialect 1
Central Pashto
Northern Khmer
Where They Speak
Afganistan, Pakistan
Australia, Cambodia, France, Thailand, United States of America
How Many People Speak
6,500,000.001,400,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Northern Pashto
Khmer Krom
Where They Speak
Afganistan, Pakistan
Vietnam
How Many People Speak
21,000,000.001,200,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Wanetsi
Western Khmer
Where They Speak
Afganistan, Pakistan
Cambodia, Thailand
How Many People Speak
95,000.0016,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
216
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
60.00 million16.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.58 %0.24 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
60.00 million13.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
50.00 million16.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
(paṧto) پښتو
ភាសាខ្មែរ (bhāsā khmɛ̄r)
Alternative Names
Kandahar Pashto, Qandahar Pashto, Southwestern Pashto, Pushto
Cambodian, Khmer
French Name
pachto
khmer central
German Name
Paschtu
Kambodschanisch
Pronunciation
[ˈpəʂt̪oː], [ˈpʊxt̪oː]
[pʰiːəsaː kʰmaːe]
Ethnicity
Pashtun
Khmer, Northern Khmer
Origin
1651
14
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Austroasiatic Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
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Branch
Iranian
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Proto-Khmer
Standard Forms
Central Pashto, Northern Pashto, Yusufzai Pashto, Southern Pashto
Modern Khmer
Language Position
821
1
120
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Signed Forms
Pashto Sign Language
Khmer Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ps
km
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
pus
khm
ISO 639 2/B
pus
khm
ISO 639 3
pus
khm
ISO 639 6
pus
khm
Glottocode
pash1269
khme1253
Linguasphere
58-ABD-a
48-ACB
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
Analytic, Isolating