Countries
Afganistan
China
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Afganistan, Pakistan, Pashtun diaspora
China
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Pakistan
Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan
Regulated By
Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan, Pashto Academy (Pakistan)
Working Committee of Ethnic Language and Writing of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region
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.
- Uyghur language has large quantity of loan words from Persian, Russian and Chinese.
- Uyghur was originally written with the Orkhon Alphabets.
Similar To
Persian and Balochi Languages
Uzbek Language
Derived From
-
Gokturk Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4436
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
79
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2927
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Vertical, Top-To-Bottom
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
35
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
(salaam) سلام
Ässalamu läykum.
Thank You
(manana) مننه (tashakor) تشكر
rakhmat
How Are You?
(ta sanga yee?) څنگه يې؟
Yakshimasiz? / Qandaq ahwalingiz?
Good Night
(shpa mo pa kheyr) شپه مو په خير
Kachlikingz khayrilik bolsun
Good Evening
(maakhaam mo pa kheyr) ماښام مو په خير
Kachlikingz khayrilik bolsun!
Good Afternoon
(wradz mo pa kheyr) ورځ مو په خير
تۆنۈگۈن خەير
Good Morning
(sahr pikheyr) سحر پخير
Atiganlikingz khayrilik bolsun!
Please
(lotfan) لطفا
birdam
Sorry
(zeh mutaasif yum) زه هتاسف يم
kachurung
Bye
(da khoday pa amaan) دخداى په امان
Khayr khosh
I Love You
زه ستا سره مينه کوم (za la ta sara meena kawom)
sizni yahshi kOrman
Excuse Me
(bakhena ghwaarum) بخښنه غواړم
Kachurung
Dialect 1
Central Pashto
Turpan
Where They Speak
Afganistan, Pakistan
China
How Many People Speak
6,500,000.0010,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Northern Pashto
Hotan
Where They Speak
Afganistan, Pakistan
China
How Many People Speak
21,000,000.0010,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Wanetsi
Lop Nur
Where They Speak
Afganistan, Pakistan
China
How Many People Speak
95,000.0025,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
217
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
60.00 million10.40 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.58 %0.12 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
60.00 million8.20 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
50.00 million25.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
(paṧto) پښتو
Уйғур /ئۇيغۇر (ujġgur / uyghur)
Alternative Names
Kandahar Pashto, Qandahar Pashto, Southwestern Pashto, Pushto
Uighuir, Uighur, Uiguir, Uigur, Uygur, Weiwu’er, Wiga
French Name
pachto
ouïgour
German Name
Paschtu
Uigurisch
Pronunciation
[ˈpəʂt̪oː], [ˈpʊxt̪oː]
[ʊjʁʊrˈtʃɛ], [ʊjˈʁʊr tili]
Ethnicity
Pashtun
Uyghur
Origin
1651
11
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Turkic Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
-
Branch
Iranian
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Karakhanid, Chagatai, Eastern Turki
Standard Forms
Central Pashto, Northern Pashto, Yusufzai Pashto, Southern Pashto
Uyghur
Language Position
8298
1
120
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Signed Forms
Pashto Sign Language
Signed Uyghur
Scope
Individual
-
ISO 639 1
ps
ug
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
pus
uig
ISO 639 2/B
pus
uig
ISO 639 3
pus
uig
ISO 639 6
pus
uig
Glottocode
pash1269
uigh1240
Linguasphere
58-ABD-a
No data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
-
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
-