Countries
Afganistan
Bhutan
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Afganistan, Pakistan, Pashtun diaspora
Bhutan
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
India
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Pakistan
India
Regulated By
Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan, Pashto Academy (Pakistan)
Dzongkha Development Commission
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.
- Standard romanization of the Dzongkha language is Roman Dzongkha.
Similar To
Persian and Balochi Languages
Sikkimese Language
Derived From
-
Tibetan Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4495
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
75
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2930
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic
Dzongkha Braille, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
36
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks38 weeks
3
88
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Hello
(salaam) سلام
Kuzoozangpo La
Thank You
(manana) مننه (tashakor) تشكر
Kaadinchhey La
How Are You?
(ta sanga yee?) څنگه يې؟
Ga Day Bay Zhu Yoe Ga ?
Good Night
(shpa mo pa kheyr) شپه مو په خير
lek shom ay zim
Good Evening
(maakhaam mo pa kheyr) ماښام مو په خير
ཞི་བདེ་ལག་པ་
Good Afternoon
(wradz mo pa kheyr) ورځ مو په خير
ཉིན་གུང་དགའ་བོ
Good Morning
(sahr pikheyr) سحر پخير
ཞི་བདེ་པའི་སྔོན་འགྲུལ
Please
(lotfan) لطفا
བསྐྱར་མ་
Sorry
(zeh mutaasif yum) زه هتاسف يم
Tsip maza
Bye
(da khoday pa amaan) دخداى په امان
Log Jay Gay
I Love You
زه ستا سره مينه کوم (za la ta sara meena kawom)
Nga cheu lu ga
Excuse Me
(bakhena ghwaarum) بخښنه غواړم
Tsip maza
Dialect 1
Central Pashto
Laya
Where They Speak
Afganistan, Pakistan
Bhutan
How Many People Speak
6,500,000.001,100.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Northern Pashto
Lunana
Where They Speak
Afganistan, Pakistan
Bhutan
How Many People Speak
21,000,000.00700.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Wanetsi
Adap
Where They Speak
Afganistan, Pakistan
Bhutan
How Many People Speak
95,000.00130,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
214
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
60.00 million0.64 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.58 %0.07 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
60.00 million0.17 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
50.00 million0.47 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
(paṧto) پښتو
རྫོང་ཁ (dzongkha)
Alternative Names
Kandahar Pashto, Qandahar Pashto, Southwestern Pashto, Pushto
Bhotia of Bhutan, Bhotia of Dukpa, Bhutanese, Drukha, Drukke, Dukpa, Jonkha, Rdzongkha, Zongkhar
French Name
pachto
dzongkha
German Name
Paschtu
Dzongkha
Pronunciation
[ˈpəʂt̪oː], [ˈpʊxt̪oː]
[t͡ɕoŋkʰa]
Ethnicity
Pashtun
Ngalop people
Origin
1651
17th Century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
-
Branch
Iranian
Tibeto-Burman
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Central Pashto, Northern Pashto, Yusufzai Pashto, Southern Pashto
Dzongkha
Language Position
8231
1
120
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Signed Forms
Pashto Sign Language
Signed Dzongkha
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ps
dz
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
pus
dzo
ISO 639 2/B
pus
dzo
ISO 639 3
pus
dzo
ISO 639 6
pus
dzo
Glottocode
pash1269
nucl1307
Linguasphere
58-ABD-a
No data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
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