Countries
Afganistan
European Union, Poland
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
Afganistan, Pakistan, Pashtun diaspora
Poland
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Belarus, Czech Republic, England, Lithuania, Slovakia, Ukraine
Speaking Continents
Asia
Europe
Minority Language
Pakistan
Belarus, Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia, Ukraine
Regulated By
Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan, Pashto Academy (Pakistan)
Polish Language Council (Rada Języka Polskiego)
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.
- Polish Language has many loanwords from Russian, Czech, French, Italian, Hebrew and German Languages.
- The earliest writings found in polish language was list of persons and place names, is dated to 1136.
Similar To
Persian and Balochi Languages
Czech, Slovak, Serbian Languages
Derived From
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
4432
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
79
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2923
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic
Latin
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
33
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
(salaam) سلام
cześć
Thank You
(manana) مننه (tashakor) تشكر
dziękuję
How Are You?
(ta sanga yee?) څنگه يې؟
Jak się masz?
Good Night
(shpa mo pa kheyr) شپه مو په خير
dobranoc
Good Evening
(maakhaam mo pa kheyr) ماښام مو په خير
dobry wieczór
Good Afternoon
(wradz mo pa kheyr) ورځ مو په خير
dzień dobry
Good Morning
(sahr pikheyr) سحر پخير
Dzień dobry
Please
(lotfan) لطفا
proszę
Sorry
(zeh mutaasif yum) زه هتاسف يم
Przepraszam
Bye
(da khoday pa amaan) دخداى په امان
do widzenia
I Love You
زه ستا سره مينه کوم (za la ta sara meena kawom)
kocham Cię
Excuse Me
(bakhena ghwaarum) بخښنه غواړم
przepraszam
Dialect 1
Central Pashto
Kashubian
Where They Speak
Afganistan, Pakistan
Poland
How Many People Speak
6,500,000.00108,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Northern Pashto
Masovian
Where They Speak
Afganistan, Pakistan
Poland
How Many People Speak
21,000,000.0045,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Wanetsi
Silesian
Where They Speak
Afganistan, Pakistan
Czech Republic, Poland
How Many People Speak
95,000.00510,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
2134
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
60.00 million40.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.58 %0.61 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
60.00 million40.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
50.00 million40.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
(paṧto) پښتو
Polski
Alternative Names
Kandahar Pashto, Qandahar Pashto, Southwestern Pashto, Pushto
Polnisch, Polski
French Name
pachto
polonais
German Name
Paschtu
Polnisch
Pronunciation
[ˈpəʂt̪oː], [ˈpʊxt̪oː]
[ˈpɔlski]
Ethnicity
Pashtun
Poles
Origin
1651
1270
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Slavic
Branch
Iranian
Western
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Polish and Middle Polish
Standard Forms
Central Pashto, Northern Pashto, Yusufzai Pashto, Southern Pashto
Polish
Language Position
8224
1
120
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Signed Forms
Pashto Sign Language
System Językowo-Migowy (SJM) (Signed Polish)
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ps
pl
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
pus
pol
ISO 639 2/B
pus
pol
ISO 639 3
pus
pol
ISO 639 6
pus
pols
Glottocode
pash1269
poli1260
Linguasphere
58-ABD-a
53-AAA-cc
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
Fusional, Synthetic