Countries
Afganistan
Iraq, Kurdistan
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
Afganistan, Pakistan, Pashtun diaspora
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Middle East
Minority Language
Pakistan
Not spoken in any of the countries
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 vocabulary in Kurdish is of Iranian origin.
- In the middle East, Kurdish is the fourth largest ethnic group.
Similar To
Persian and Balochi Languages
Farsi Language
Derived From
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
4433
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
78
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2929
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
34
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks4 weeks
3
88
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Hello
(salaam) سلام
Silaw
Thank You
(manana) مننه (tashakor) تشكر
Sipas
How Are You?
(ta sanga yee?) څنگه يې؟
Tu çawa yî?
Good Night
(shpa mo pa kheyr) شپه مو په خير
Şev xweş
Good Evening
(maakhaam mo pa kheyr) ماښام مو په خير
Evare baş
Good Afternoon
(wradz mo pa kheyr) ورځ مو په خير
Nee-wa-rowt bash
Good Morning
(sahr pikheyr) سحر پخير
Bayanit bash
Please
(lotfan) لطفا
Bê zehmet
Sorry
(zeh mutaasif yum) زه هتاسف يم
Bibûre
Bye
(da khoday pa amaan) دخداى په امان
Be xêr çî
I Love You
زه ستا سره مينه کوم (za la ta sara meena kawom)
Ez te hez dikem
Excuse Me
(bakhena ghwaarum) بخښنه غواړم
Bê zehmet
Dialect 1
Central Pashto
Northern Kurdish
Where They Speak
Afganistan, Pakistan
northern Iraq, northern Syria, northwest Iran, southeast Turkey
How Many People Speak
6,500,000.0020,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Northern Pashto
Central Kurdish
Where They Speak
Afganistan, Pakistan
Iraq, Kurdistan Province of western Iran
How Many People Speak
21,000,000.005,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Wanetsi
Southern Kurdish
Where They Speak
Afganistan, Pakistan
Eastern Iraq
How Many People Speak
95,000.003,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
213
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
60.00 million28.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.58 %0.31 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
60.00 million21.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
50.00 million20.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
(paṧto) پښتو
Kurdí / کوردی / к’öрди
Alternative Names
Kandahar Pashto, Qandahar Pashto, Southwestern Pashto, Pushto
Kurdî, کوردی
French Name
pachto
kurde
German Name
Paschtu
Kurdisch
Pronunciation
[ˈpəʂt̪oː], [ˈpʊxt̪oː]
[kʊɾdɪʃ]
Ethnicity
Pashtun
Kurds
Origin
1651
16th century CE
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Indo-Iranian
Branch
Iranian
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Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Kurdish and Middle Kurdish
Standard Forms
Central Pashto, Northern Pashto, Yusufzai Pashto, Southern Pashto
Kurdish
Language Position
8214
1
120
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Signed Forms
Pashto Sign Language
Kurdish Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
ps
ku
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
pus
kur
ISO 639 2/B
pus
kur
ISO 639 3
pus
kur
ISO 639 6
pus
kur
Glottocode
pash1269
kurd1259
Linguasphere
58-ABD-a
58-AAA-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
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