Countries
Afganistan
South Africa
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Afganistan, Pakistan, Pashtun diaspora
South Africa
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Lesotho, South Africa
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa
Minority Language
Pakistan
Botswana, Lesotho
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.
- Xhosa has 15 click sounds, borrowed from the khoi-khoi and san languages of the South Africa.
- The same sequence of consonants and vowels can have different meaning when said with different tones, so Xhosa is tonal.
Similar To
Persian and Balochi Languages
Zulu, Swazi, and Ndebele
Derived From
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Khoi-Khoi and San Languages
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4453
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
710
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2943
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
Molo
Thank You
(manana) مننه (tashakor) تشكر
Ndiyabulela
How Are You?
(ta sanga yee?) څنگه يې؟
Unjani
Good Night
(shpa mo pa kheyr) شپه مو په خير
Ulale kakuhle
Good Evening
(maakhaam mo pa kheyr) ماښام مو په خير
Ubusuku obuhle
Good Afternoon
(wradz mo pa kheyr) ورځ مو په خير
Uben' emva kwemini entle
Good Morning
(sahr pikheyr) سحر پخير
Molo
Please
(lotfan) لطفا
Ndicela
Sorry
(zeh mutaasif yum) زه هتاسف يم
Ndicela uxolo
Bye
(da khoday pa amaan) دخداى په امان
Uhambe/Usale kakuhle
I Love You
زه ستا سره مينه کوم (za la ta sara meena kawom)
Ndiyakuthanda
Excuse Me
(bakhena ghwaarum) بخښنه غواړم
Uxolo
Dialect 1
Central Pashto
Gcaleka
Where They Speak
Afganistan, Pakistan
South Africa
How Many People Speak
6,500,000.0019,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Northern Pashto
Thembu
Where They Speak
Afganistan, Pakistan
South Africa
How Many People Speak
21,000,000.0019,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Wanetsi
Hlubi
Where They Speak
Afganistan, Pakistan
South Africa
How Many People Speak
95,000.0019.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
219
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
60.00 million20.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.58 %0.11 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
60.00 million8.20 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
50.00 million11.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
(paṧto) پښتو
isiXhosa
Alternative Names
Kandahar Pashto, Qandahar Pashto, Southwestern Pashto, Pushto
“Cauzuh” (pej.), Isixhosa, Koosa, Xosa
French Name
pachto
xhosa
German Name
Paschtu
Xhosa-Sprache
Pronunciation
[ˈpəʂt̪oː], [ˈpʊxt̪oː]
[ˈkǁʰɔ̀ːsa]
Ethnicity
Pashtun
amaXhosa, amaBhaca
Origin
1651
16th Century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Benue-Congo
Branch
Iranian
Bantu
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Central Pashto, Northern Pashto, Yusufzai Pashto, Southern Pashto
isiXhosa
Language Position
8221
1
120
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Signed Forms
Pashto Sign Language
Signed Xhosa
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ps
xh
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
pus
xho
ISO 639 2/B
pus
xho
ISO 639 3
pus
xho
ISO 639 6
pus
xho
Glottocode
pash1269
xhos1239
Linguasphere
58-ABD-a
99-AUT-fa
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
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