Countries
Afganistan
Ukraine
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Afganistan, Pakistan, Pashtun diaspora
Ukraine
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Europe
Minority Language
Pakistan
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia
Regulated By
Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan, Pashto Academy (Pakistan)
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine: Institute for the Ukrainian Language
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.
- Ukrainian Language is second most widespread among the Slavic languages after the Russian Language.
- Ukrainian Language is among the top three most melodious language in the world.
Similar To
Persian and Balochi Languages
Russian and Belarusian Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4433
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
76
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2922
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic
Cyrillic, Ukrainian Braille
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
36
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
(salaam) سلام
Здравствуйте (Zdravstvuyte)
Thank You
(manana) مننه (tashakor) تشكر
Дякую (Dyakuyu)
How Are You?
(ta sanga yee?) څنگه يې؟
Як ти поживаєш? (Jak ty požyvajesh?)
Good Night
(shpa mo pa kheyr) شپه مو په خير
На добраніч (Na dobranič)
Good Evening
(maakhaam mo pa kheyr) ماښام مو په خير
Доброго вечора (Dobroho večora)
Good Afternoon
(wradz mo pa kheyr) ورځ مو په خير
Доброго дня (Dobroho dnia)
Good Morning
(sahr pikheyr) سحر پخير
Доброго ранку! (Dobroho ranku)
Please
(lotfan) لطفا
будь ласк
Sorry
(zeh mutaasif yum) زه هتاسف يم
вибачте (vybachte)
Bye
(da khoday pa amaan) دخداى په امان
до побачення (do pobachennya)
I Love You
زه ستا سره مينه کوم (za la ta sara meena kawom)
я тебе люблю (ya tebe lyublyu)
Excuse Me
(bakhena ghwaarum) بخښنه غواړم
Перепрошую! (Pereprošuju)
Dialect 1
Central Pashto
Podillian
Where They Speak
Afganistan, Pakistan
North Odessa Oblast, South Khmelnytskyi, South Vinnytsia
How Many People Speak
6,500,000.0042,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Northern Pashto
Volynian
Where They Speak
Afganistan, Pakistan
Rivne, Volyn
How Many People Speak
21,000,000.0044,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Wanetsi
Steppe
Where They Speak
Afganistan, Pakistan
South Ukraine, Southeastern Ukraine
How Many People Speak
95,000.0042,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
2115
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
60.00 million39.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.58 %0.46 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
60.00 million39.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
50.00 million30.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
(paṧto) پښتو
Українська (Ukrajins'ka)
Alternative Names
Kandahar Pashto, Qandahar Pashto, Southwestern Pashto, Pushto
Ukrayins'ka Mova
French Name
pachto
ukrainien
German Name
Paschtu
Ukrainisch
Pronunciation
[ˈpəʂt̪oː], [ˈpʊxt̪oː]
[ukrɑˈjiɲsʲkɐ ˈmɔwɐ]
Ethnicity
Pashtun
Ukrainians
Origin
1651
1561
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Slavic
Branch
Iranian
Eastern
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old East Slavic, Ukrainian
Standard Forms
Central Pashto, Northern Pashto, Yusufzai Pashto, Southern Pashto
Modern Ukrainian
Language Position
8226
1
120
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Signed Forms
Pashto Sign Language
Ukrainian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ps
uk
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
pus
ukr
ISO 639 2/B
pus
ukr
ISO 639 3
pus
ukr
ISO 639 6
pus
ukr
Glottocode
pash1269
ukra1253
Linguasphere
58-ABD-a
53-AAA-eda to 53-AAA-edq
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
Fusional, Synthetic