Countries
Afganistan
Meghalaya
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Afganistan, Pakistan, Pashtun diaspora
Bangladesh, India
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
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Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Pakistan
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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.
- Khasi language contain a large number of loanwords from Bengali and Hindi Languages.
- There is significant dialectal variation in khasi language, since several dialects have only partial mutual intelligibility.
Similar To
Persian and Balochi Languages
Garo and Jaintia Languages
Derived From
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
4423
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
76
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2914
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic
Bengali, Latin
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
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Hard to Learn
Language Levels
36
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
(salaam) سلام
Kumno
Thank You
(manana) مننه (tashakor) تشكر
Khublei
How Are You?
(ta sanga yee?) څنگه يې؟
Kumno phi long?
Good Night
(shpa mo pa kheyr) شپه مو په خير
thia sukh
Good Evening
(maakhaam mo pa kheyr) ماښام مو په خير
babha janmiet
Good Afternoon
(wradz mo pa kheyr) ورځ مو په خير
babha noph-phai-sngi
Good Morning
(sahr pikheyr) سحر پخير
khublei
Please
(lotfan) لطفا
Sngewbha
Sorry
(zeh mutaasif yum) زه هتاسف يم
Map
Bye
(da khoday pa amaan) دخداى په امان
khublei
I Love You
زه ستا سره مينه کوم (za la ta sara meena kawom)
ieit ieit
Excuse Me
(bakhena ghwaarum) بخښنه غواړم
map a nga
Dialect 1
Central Pashto
Bhoi
Where They Speak
Afganistan, Pakistan
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How Many People Speak
6,500,000.001,500,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Northern Pashto
Nonglung
Where They Speak
Afganistan, Pakistan
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How Many People Speak
21,000,000.001,200,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Wanetsi
Cherrapunji
Where They Speak
Afganistan, Pakistan
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How Many People Speak
95,000.001,500,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
215
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
60.00 million0.84 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.58 %0.01 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
60.00 million0.84 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
50.00 million1.50 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
(paṧto) پښتو
Ka Ktien
Alternative Names
Kandahar Pashto, Qandahar Pashto, Southwestern Pashto, Pushto
Kahasi, Kassi, Khasa, Khashi, Khasiyas, Khuchia
French Name
pachto
khasi
German Name
Paschtu
Khasi-Sprache
Pronunciation
[ˈpəʂt̪oː], [ˈpʊxt̪oː]
[ˈkʰɑsi]
Ethnicity
Pashtun
Khasi people
Origin
1651
1200 AD
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Austroasiatic Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
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Branch
Iranian
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Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No Early Forms
Standard Forms
Central Pashto, Northern Pashto, Yusufzai Pashto, Southern Pashto
Khasi
Language Position
8240
1
120
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Signed Forms
Pashto Sign Language
Khasi Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ps
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
pus
kha
ISO 639 2/B
pus
kha
ISO 639 3
pus
kha
ISO 639 6
pus
kha
Glottocode
pash1269
khas1269
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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