Countries
Afganistan
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
Total No. Of Countries
14
0
46
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National Language
Afganistan, Pakistan, Pashtun diaspora
Russia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Afganistan
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Pakistan
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Regulated By
Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan, Pashto Academy (Pakistan)
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
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.
- In Russian language, the words are not pronounced as they are written.
- In Russian language, there are only 200,000 words out of which only few words are used and due to this many words have more than one meaning.
Similar To
Persian and Balochi Languages
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
Derived From
-
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4433
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
710
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2921
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic
Cyrillic
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
Thank You
(manana) مننه (tashakor) تشكر
спасибо(spasibo)
How Are You?
(ta sanga yee?) څنگه يې؟
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
Good Night
(shpa mo pa kheyr) شپه مو په خير
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
Good Evening
(maakhaam mo pa kheyr) ماښام مو په خير
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
Good Afternoon
(wradz mo pa kheyr) ورځ مو په خير
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
Good Morning
(sahr pikheyr) سحر پخير
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
Please
(lotfan) لطفا
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
Sorry
(zeh mutaasif yum) زه هتاسف يم
Извините(Izvinite)
Bye
(da khoday pa amaan) دخداى په امان
до свидания(do svidaniya)
I Love You
زه ستا سره مينه کوم (za la ta sara meena kawom)
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
Excuse Me
(bakhena ghwaarum) بخښنه غواړم
извините(izvinite)
Dialect 1
Central Pashto
Doukhobor Russian
Where They Speak
Afganistan, Pakistan
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
How Many People Speak
6,500,000.0030,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Northern Pashto
Olonets
Where They Speak
Afganistan, Pakistan
Olonets
How Many People Speak
21,000,000.00154,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Wanetsi
Novgorod
Where They Speak
Afganistan, Pakistan
Novgorod
How Many People Speak
95,000.00154,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
2113
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
60.00 million276.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.58 %2.33 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
60.00 million166.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
50.00 million110.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
(paṧto) پښتو
Русский
Alternative Names
Kandahar Pashto, Qandahar Pashto, Southwestern Pashto, Pushto
Russki
French Name
pachto
russe
German Name
Paschtu
Russisch
Pronunciation
[ˈpəʂt̪oː], [ˈpʊxt̪oː]
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
Ethnicity
Pashtun
Russians
Origin
1651
1000 AD
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Slavic
Branch
Iranian
Eastern
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old East Slavic
Standard Forms
Central Pashto, Northern Pashto, Yusufzai Pashto, Southern Pashto
Standard Russian
Language Position
827
1
120
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Signed Forms
Pashto Sign Language
Signed Russian
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ps
ru
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
pus
rus
ISO 639 2/B
pus
rus
ISO 639 3
pus
rus
ISO 639 6
pus
rus
Glottocode
pash1269
russ1263
Linguasphere
58-ABD-a
53-AAA-ea
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
Fusional, Synthetic