Countries
Afganistan
Turkey, Uzbekistan
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
Afganistan, Pakistan, Pashtun diaspora
Afganistan, China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan
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.
- Uzbek is officially written in the Latin script, but many people still use Cyrillic script.
- In Uzbek language, there are many loanwords from Russian, Arabic and Persian.
Similar To
Persian and Balochi Languages
Kazakh and Uyghur Languages
Derived From
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
4429
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
79
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2924
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
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Hard to Learn
Language Levels
32
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
(salaam) سلام
Salom
Thank You
(manana) مننه (tashakor) تشكر
Rakhmat
How Are You?
(ta sanga yee?) څنگه يې؟
Qalay siz?
Good Night
(shpa mo pa kheyr) شپه مو په خير
Hayirli tun
Good Evening
(maakhaam mo pa kheyr) ماښام مو په خير
Hayirli kech
Good Afternoon
(wradz mo pa kheyr) ورځ مو په خير
Hayirli kun
Good Morning
(sahr pikheyr) سحر پخير
Hayirli tong
Please
(lotfan) لطفا
Iltimos
Sorry
(zeh mutaasif yum) زه هتاسف يم
Kechiring!
Bye
(da khoday pa amaan) دخداى په امان
Xayr
I Love You
زه ستا سره مينه کوم (za la ta sara meena kawom)
Sizni sevaman
Excuse Me
(bakhena ghwaarum) بخښنه غواړم
Iltimos! Menga qarang
Dialect 1
Central Pashto
Tashkent
Where They Speak
Afganistan, Pakistan
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How Many People Speak
6,500,000.0032,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Northern Pashto
Afghan
Where They Speak
Afganistan, Pakistan
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How Many People Speak
21,000,000.0032,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Wanetsi
Ferghana
Where They Speak
Afganistan, Pakistan
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How Many People Speak
95,000.0032,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
216
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
60.00 million25.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.58 %0.39 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
60.00 million26.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
50.00 million32.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
(paṧto) پښتو
أۇزبېك ﺗﻴﻠی o'zbek tili ўзбек тили (o‘zbek tili)
Alternative Names
Kandahar Pashto, Qandahar Pashto, Southwestern Pashto, Pushto
Annamese, Ching, Gin, Jing, Kinh, Viet
French Name
pachto
ouszbek
German Name
Paschtu
Usbekisch
Pronunciation
[ˈpəʂt̪oː], [ˈpʊxt̪oː]
[oʻzbek]
Ethnicity
Pashtun
Uzbek
Origin
1651
9th–12th centuries AD
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Turkic Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Turkic
Branch
Iranian
Southestern(Chagatai)
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Chagatay
Standard Forms
Central Pashto, Northern Pashto, Yusufzai Pashto, Southern Pashto
Uzbek
Language Position
8253
1
120
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Signed Forms
Pashto Sign Language
Signed Uzbek
Scope
Individual
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
ps
uz
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
pus
uzb
ISO 639 2/B
pus
uzb
ISO 639 3
pus
uzb
ISO 639 6
pus
uzb
Glottocode
pash1269
uzbe1247
Linguasphere
58-ABD-a
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
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Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
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