Countries
Afganistan
Vietnam
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Afganistan, Pakistan, Pashtun diaspora
Vietnam
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Australia, East Asia, North America, Southeast Asia, Western Europe
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Pakistan
Czech Republic
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.
- The vocabulary of Vietnamese language is influenced by Chinese Language.
- The only language in East Asia that uses the Latin alphabet is Vietnamese.
Similar To
Persian and Balochi Languages
Chinese Language
Derived From
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Chinese Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4437
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
712
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2921
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic
Latin
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
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Hard to Learn
Language Levels
33
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
(salaam) سلام
Xin chào
Thank You
(manana) مننه (tashakor) تشكر
Cam on
How Are You?
(ta sanga yee?) څنگه يې؟
Bạn khỏe không?
Good Night
(shpa mo pa kheyr) شپه مو په خير
Chúc ngủ ngon
Good Evening
(maakhaam mo pa kheyr) ماښام مو په خير
Chào buổi tối
Good Afternoon
(wradz mo pa kheyr) ورځ مو په خير
Chào buổi trưa
Good Morning
(sahr pikheyr) سحر پخير
Chào buổi sáng
Please
(lotfan) لطفا
xin vui lòng
Sorry
(zeh mutaasif yum) زه هتاسف يم
Xin lỗi
Bye
(da khoday pa amaan) دخداى په امان
Tạm biệt
I Love You
زه ستا سره مينه کوم (za la ta sara meena kawom)
tôi yêu bạn
Excuse Me
(bakhena ghwaarum) بخښنه غواړم
Xin loi
Dialect 1
Central Pashto
Northern Vietnamese
Where They Speak
Afganistan, Pakistan
Dong Bac, Haiphong, Hanoi, Red River Delta, Tay Bac
How Many People Speak
6,500,000.0076,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Northern Pashto
North-central Vietnamese
Where They Speak
Afganistan, Pakistan
Ha Tinh, Nghe An, Thanh Hoa
How Many People Speak
21,000,000.0076,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Wanetsi
Mid-Central Vietnamese
Where They Speak
Afganistan, Pakistan
Hue, Quang Tri, Thua Thien
How Many People Speak
95,000.0076,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
215
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
60.00 million91.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.58 %1.14 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
60.00 million75.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
50.00 million16.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
(paṧto) پښتو
tiếng việt (㗂越)
Alternative Names
Kandahar Pashto, Qandahar Pashto, Southwestern Pashto, Pushto
Annamese, Ching, Gin, Jing, Kinh, Viet
French Name
pachto
vietnamien
German Name
Paschtu
Vietnamesisch
Pronunciation
[ˈpəʂt̪oː], [ˈpʊxt̪oː]
[tĭəŋ vìəˀt] (Northern)
[tǐəŋ jìək] (Southern)
Ethnicity
Pashtun
Vietnamese (Kinh) people
Origin
1651
c. 1440
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
Pre-Vietnamese, Proto-Vietnamese, Archaic Vietnamese, Ancient Vietnamese, Middle Vietnamese, Modern Vietnamese
Standard Forms
Central Pashto, Northern Pashto, Yusufzai Pashto, Southern Pashto
Standard Vietnamese
Language Position
8214
1
120
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Signed Forms
Pashto Sign Language
Vietnamese sign languages
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ps
vi
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
pus
vie
ISO 639 2/B
pus
vie
ISO 639 3
pus
vie
ISO 639 6
pus
vie
Glottocode
pash1269
viet1252
Linguasphere
58-ABD-a
46-EBA
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
Analytic, Isolating