Countries
Turkey, Uzbekistan
Afganistan
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Afganistan, China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan
Afganistan, Pakistan, Pashtun diaspora
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Middle East
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Pakistan
Regulated By
-
Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan, Pashto Academy (Pakistan)
Interesting Facts
- Uzbek is officially written in the Latin script, but many people still use Cyrillic script.
- In Uzbek language, there are many loanwords from Russian, Arabic and Persian.
- Pashto language is originated in the regions of Paktika and Paktia areas of Afghanistan.
- The first Pashto poem was written in the 7th century.
Similar To
Kazakh and Uyghur Languages
Persian and Balochi Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2944
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
97
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2429
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
Arabic
Writing Direction
-
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
23
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Salom
(salaam) سلام
Thank You
Rakhmat
(manana) مننه (tashakor) تشكر
How Are You?
Qalay siz?
(ta sanga yee?) څنگه يې؟
Good Night
Hayirli tun
(shpa mo pa kheyr) شپه مو په خير
Good Evening
Hayirli kech
(maakhaam mo pa kheyr) ماښام مو په خير
Good Afternoon
Hayirli kun
(wradz mo pa kheyr) ورځ مو په خير
Good Morning
Hayirli tong
(sahr pikheyr) سحر پخير
Please
Iltimos
(lotfan) لطفا
Sorry
Kechiring!
(zeh mutaasif yum) زه هتاسف يم
Bye
Xayr
(da khoday pa amaan) دخداى په امان
I Love You
Sizni sevaman
زه ستا سره مينه کوم (za la ta sara meena kawom)
Excuse Me
Iltimos! Menga qarang
(bakhena ghwaarum) بخښنه غواړم
Dialect 1
Tashkent
Central Pashto
Where They Speak
-
Afganistan, Pakistan
How Many People Speak
32,000,000.006,500,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Afghan
Northern Pashto
Where They Speak
-
Afganistan, Pakistan
How Many People Speak
32,000,000.0021,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Ferghana
Wanetsi
Where They Speak
-
Afganistan, Pakistan
How Many People Speak
32,000,000.0095,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
621
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
25.00 million60.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.39 %0.58 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
26.00 million60.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
32.00 million50.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
أۇزبېك ﺗﻴﻠی o'zbek tili ўзбек тили (o‘zbek tili)
(paṧto) پښتو
Alternative Names
Annamese, Ching, Gin, Jing, Kinh, Viet
Kandahar Pashto, Qandahar Pashto, Southwestern Pashto, Pushto
French Name
ouszbek
pachto
German Name
Usbekisch
Paschtu
Pronunciation
[oʻzbek]
[ˈpəʂt̪oː], [ˈpʊxt̪oː]
Ethnicity
Uzbek
Pashtun
Origin
9th–12th centuries AD
1651
Language Family
Turkic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Turkic
Indo-Iranian
Branch
Southestern(Chagatai)
Iranian
Language Forms
Early Forms
Chagatay
No early forms
Standard Forms
Uzbek
Central Pashto, Northern Pashto, Yusufzai Pashto, Southern Pashto
Language Position
5382
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Uzbek
Pashto Sign Language
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
uz
ps
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
uzb
pus
ISO 639 2/B
uzb
pus
ISO 639 3
uzb
pus
ISO 639 6
uzb
pus
Glottocode
uzbe1247
pash1269
Linguasphere
No data available
58-ABD-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
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Fusional