Countries
Afganistan
Hong Kong, Macau
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
Afganistan, Pakistan, Pashtun diaspora
China, Guangdong
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Pakistan
Hawaii
Regulated By
Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan, Pashto Academy (Pakistan)
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
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.
- Cantonese have lot of slangs, many of them include words that do not make sense at all and some also have English in them.
- Even though Cantonese and Mandarin are dialects of Chinese, Cantonese has 8 tones instead of Mandarin's 4.
Similar To
Persian and Balochi Languages
Chinese Language
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4428
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
78
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2920
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
310
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks88 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
(salaam) سلام
您好
Thank You
(manana) مننه (tashakor) تشكر
谢谢
How Are You?
(ta sanga yee?) څنگه يې؟
你好吗？
Good Night
(shpa mo pa kheyr) شپه مو په خير
晚安
Good Evening
(maakhaam mo pa kheyr) ماښام مو په خير
晚上好
Good Afternoon
(wradz mo pa kheyr) ورځ مو په خير
下午好
Good Morning
(sahr pikheyr) سحر پخير
早上好
Please
(lotfan) لطفا
请
Sorry
(zeh mutaasif yum) زه هتاسف يم
遗憾
Bye
(da khoday pa amaan) دخداى په امان
再见
I Love You
زه ستا سره مينه کوم (za la ta sara meena kawom)
我爱你
Excuse Me
(bakhena ghwaarum) بخښنه غواړم
原谅我
Dialect 1
Central Pashto
Guangzhou
Where They Speak
Afganistan, Pakistan
outside mainland China
How Many People Speak
6,500,000.0071,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Northern Pashto
Xiguan
Where They Speak
Afganistan, Pakistan
Hong Kong
How Many People Speak
21,000,000.0071,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Wanetsi
Hong Kong
Where They Speak
Afganistan, Pakistan
Hong Kong
How Many People Speak
95,000.0070,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
213
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
60.00 million60.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.58 %16.00 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
60.00 million52.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
50.00 million71.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
(paṧto) پښتو
Kwang Tung Wa
Alternative Names
Kandahar Pashto, Qandahar Pashto, Southwestern Pashto, Pushto
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
French Name
pachto
cantonais
German Name
Paschtu
Kantonesisch
Pronunciation
[ˈpəʂt̪oː], [ˈpʊxt̪oː]
[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]
Ethnicity
Pashtun
Han Chinese
Origin
1651
17th century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
-
Branch
Iranian
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Central Pashto, Northern Pashto, Yusufzai Pashto, Southern Pashto
Standard Cantonese
Language Position
821
1
120
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Signed Forms
Pashto Sign Language
Signed Cantonese
Scope
Individual
-
ISO 639 1
ps
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
pus
yue
ISO 639 2/B
pus
yue
ISO 639 3
pus
No data available
ISO 639 6
pus
yue
Glottocode
pash1269
cant1236
Linguasphere
58-ABD-a
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
-
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
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