Countries
Afganistan
South Africa
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Afganistan, Pakistan, Pashtun diaspora
South Africa
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zimbabwe
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa
Minority Language
Pakistan
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan, Pashto Academy (Pakistan)
Pan South African Language Board
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.
- The meaning of word "Zulu" means "Sky"and Zulu was the name of the ancestor who founded the Zulu royal line in about 1670.
- Zulu language has many loanwords borrowed from Afrikaans and English Languages.
Similar To
Persian and Balochi Languages
Xhosa Language
Derived From
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
4457
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
77
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2950
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic
Latin
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, 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
Sawubona
Thank You
(manana) مننه (tashakor) تشكر
Ngiyabonga
How Are You?
(ta sanga yee?) څنگه يې؟
unjani
Good Night
(shpa mo pa kheyr) شپه مو په خير
okuhle ebusuku
Good Evening
(maakhaam mo pa kheyr) ماښام مو په خير
okuhle kusihlwa
Good Afternoon
(wradz mo pa kheyr) ورځ مو په خير
okuhle ntambama
Good Morning
(sahr pikheyr) سحر پخير
okuhle ekuseni
Please
(lotfan) لطفا
Ngiyacela
Sorry
(zeh mutaasif yum) زه هتاسف يم
Ngiyaxolisa
Bye
(da khoday pa amaan) دخداى په امان
bye
I Love You
زه ستا سره مينه کوم (za la ta sara meena kawom)
Ngiyakuthanda wena
Excuse Me
(bakhena ghwaarum) بخښنه غواړم
Uxolo
Dialect 1
Central Pashto
Qwabe
Where They Speak
Afganistan, Pakistan
Gabon, South Africa
How Many People Speak
6,500,000.0028,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Northern Pashto
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
Where They Speak
Afganistan, Pakistan
Georgia, South Africa
How Many People Speak
21,000,000.0028,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Wanetsi
Ndebele
Where They Speak
Afganistan, Pakistan
Zimbabwe
How Many People Speak
95,000.0028,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
214
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
60.00 million30.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.58 %0.16 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
60.00 million12.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
50.00 million16.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
(paṧto) پښتو
isiZulu
Alternative Names
Kandahar Pashto, Qandahar Pashto, Southwestern Pashto, Pushto
Isizulu, Zunda
French Name
pachto
zoulou
German Name
Paschtu
Zulu-Sprache
Pronunciation
[ˈpəʂt̪oː], [ˈpʊxt̪oː]
[zuːlu]
Ethnicity
Pashtun
Zulu people
Origin
1651
19
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Benue-Congo
Branch
Iranian
Beatu
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
urban Zulu
Standard Forms
Central Pashto, Northern Pashto, Yusufzai Pashto, Southern Pashto
Deep Zulu
Language Position
8287
1
120
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Signed Forms
Pashto Sign Language
Zulu Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ps
zu
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
pus
zul
ISO 639 2/B
pus
zul
ISO 639 3
pus
zul
ISO 639 6
pus
zul
Glottocode
pash1269
zulu1248
Linguasphere
58-ABD-a
99-AUT-fg
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
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