Countries
Afganistan
India
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Afganistan, Pakistan, Pashtun diaspora
India
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Pakistan
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan, Pashto Academy (Pakistan)
Govenment of Goa
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.
- Fr. Thomas Stevan wrote the first book in Konkani in 1651.
- Sahitya Academy recognized konkani as a language in year 1976.
Similar To
Persian and Balochi Languages
Marathi
Derived From
-
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4452
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
716
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2936
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic
Devanagari
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
33
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks4 weeks
3
88
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Hello
(salaam) سلام
Namaskar
Thank You
(manana) مننه (tashakor) تشكر
Dev Borem Korum
How Are You?
(ta sanga yee?) څنگه يې؟
kaso assa?
Good Night
(shpa mo pa kheyr) شپه مو په خير
Rati Boren Zavonn
Good Evening
(maakhaam mo pa kheyr) ماښام مو په خير
Sanj Borem Zavonn
Good Afternoon
(wradz mo pa kheyr) ورځ مو په خير
संध्याकाळ शुभेच्छा
Good Morning
(sahr pikheyr) سحر پخير
Dis Borem Zavonn
Please
(lotfan) لطفا
Chike
Sorry
(zeh mutaasif yum) زه هتاسف يم
Maf kor
Bye
(da khoday pa amaan) دخداى په امان
Adeus
I Love You
زه ستا سره مينه کوم (za la ta sara meena kawom)
hav tujo mog korta.
Excuse Me
(bakhena ghwaarum) بخښنه غواړم
upkar korxi
Dialect 1
Central Pashto
Antruz
Where They Speak
Afganistan, Pakistan
Goa
How Many People Speak
6,500,000.002,500,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Northern Pashto
Not present
Where They Speak
Afganistan, Pakistan
-
How Many People Speak
21,000,000.002,700,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Wanetsi
Not present
Where They Speak
Afganistan, Pakistan
-
How Many People Speak
95,000.007.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
211
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
60.00 million7.40 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.58 %0.11 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
60.00 million7.40 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
50.00 million8.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
(paṧto) پښتو
Kōṅkaṇī
Alternative Names
Kandahar Pashto, Qandahar Pashto, Southwestern Pashto, Pushto
Konkan standard, Bankoti, Kunabi, North Konkan, Central Konkan, Concorinum, Cugani, Konkanese
French Name
pachto
konkani
German Name
Paschtu
Konkani
Pronunciation
[ˈpəʂt̪oː], [ˈpʊxt̪oː]
kõkɳi
Ethnicity
Pashtun
Konkanis
Origin
1651
1209 A.D.
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European 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
Kokani
Language Position
8223
1
120
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Signed Forms
Pashto Sign Language
Indian Signing System (ISS)
Scope
Individual
Individual, Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
ps
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
pus
kok
ISO 639 2/B
pus
kok
ISO 639 3
pus
kok
ISO 639 6
pus
kok
Glottocode
pash1269
goan1235
Linguasphere
58-ABD-a
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
-