Countries
Afganistan
India, Pakistan
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
Afganistan, Pakistan, Pashtun diaspora
Pakistan
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Pakistan
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia, Oceania
Minority Language
Pakistan
India
Regulated By
Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan, Pashto Academy (Pakistan)
National Council for Promotion of Urdu Language, India, National Language Authority, Pakistan
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.
- Urdu is a language of beauty and grace, that adds meaning to prose and charm to poetry.
- Different languages such as Arabic, Persian and Turkish gave birth and richness to Urdu.
Similar To
Persian and Balochi Languages
Arabic and Hindi Languages
Derived From
-
Ghaznavid Persian Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4452
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
710
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2940
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic
Arabic
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
34
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
(salaam) سلام
خوش آمديد
Thank You
(manana) مننه (tashakor) تشكر
آپ کا شکریہ
How Are You?
(ta sanga yee?) څنگه يې؟
آپ کیسے ہیں؟
Good Night
(shpa mo pa kheyr) شپه مو په خير
گڈ نائٹ
Good Evening
(maakhaam mo pa kheyr) ماښام مو په خير
سلام علیکم
Good Afternoon
(wradz mo pa kheyr) ورځ مو په خير
گڈ آفٹر نون
Good Morning
(sahr pikheyr) سحر پخير
گڈ مارننگ
Please
(lotfan) لطفا
براہ مہربانی
Sorry
(zeh mutaasif yum) زه هتاسف يم
معاف کرنا
Bye
(da khoday pa amaan) دخداى په امان
الوداع
I Love You
زه ستا سره مينه کوم (za la ta sara meena kawom)
مجھے تم سے محبت
Excuse Me
(bakhena ghwaarum) بخښنه غواړم
معاف کیجئے گا
Dialect 1
Central Pashto
Dakhini
Where They Speak
Afganistan, Pakistan
India
How Many People Speak
6,500,000.0011,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Northern Pashto
Hyderabadi Urdu
Where They Speak
Afganistan, Pakistan
India
How Many People Speak
21,000,000.0069,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Wanetsi
Rekhta
Where They Speak
Afganistan, Pakistan
South Asia
How Many People Speak
95,000.0069,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
213
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
60.00 million104.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.58 %0.99 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
60.00 million61.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
50.00 million43.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
(paṧto) پښتو
اُردُو
Alternative Names
Kandahar Pashto, Qandahar Pashto, Southwestern Pashto, Pushto
Bihari
French Name
pachto
ourdou
German Name
Paschtu
Urdu
Pronunciation
[ˈpəʂt̪oː], [ˈpʊxt̪oː]
[ˈʊrd̪u]
Ethnicity
Pashtun
Urdu-speaking people
Origin
1651
12th Century CE
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Indo-Iranian
Branch
Iranian
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Central Pashto, Northern Pashto, Yusufzai Pashto, Southern Pashto
Modern Standard Urdu
Language Position
8220
1
120
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Signed Forms
Pashto Sign Language
Signed Urdu
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ps
ur
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
pus
urd
ISO 639 2/B
pus
urd
ISO 639 3
pus
urd
ISO 639 6
pus
urd
Glottocode
pash1269
urdu1245
Linguasphere
58-ABD-a
59-AAF-q
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
Fusional