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Q: Anyone know about "Pashto" language?
The language of "KHAN" having more than 5000 year old history,become famous after 2000 A.D.
9 years 43 weeks ago in Teaching & Learning - Other cities
Its not a language of Khan.. I am sure a lot of khans cannot speak Pashto..
Its just one of the thousands of local languages in the world which are confined to a small area within a country...
In the contest of "my language is older than yours", it seems you can't beat Tamil language, which is the oldest written language still in usage without huge alterations or changes
source http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamil_language and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_language
If we just speak about oldest languages, even those not spoken nowadays, then that would be Sumerian, oldest writings. If you are into very loose definition of writing, Vinca (a village in Serbia) script is the oldest found so far, goes back to Neolithic.
But it's not about the age, it's about how you use it, right ?
ha ha, i just want see anyone know about Pashto or not? so you people know about it?????????????? then wait for my next question,that will make your mouth and eyes open
DrMonkey:
Pashto, from the Pashtun people, who live in Afghanistan and in Pakistan, regularly featured in the news since 1979. Yeah, heard about it. Pashtun have cool hats. They seems to have quite a few fanatical religious people too. What's the link with China ? Is it a pissing contest "my civilization is more X than yours" ?
hunny797:
no.many of us don't know what that is. But we do know how to search for information and GK
"Hey guys let's keep an outdated, illogical writing system so complicated that it makes our youth illiterate until the end of high-school, because we are too lazy to impose a modern logical alphabet on our own, also we don't want these foreigners from foreignland to understand what we write" - Mao Zedong
"To be a selfish prick is to be glorious" - Deng Xiaoping
"Zzzzzz" - Hu Jintao
Hotwater:
Actually that's not quite right......if memory serves me right Mao did discuss in the 50's whether to "romanise" Chinese which is where pinyin eventually came from but Stalin sort of persuaded him to keep Hanzi. I'll try & find the links on my PC when I get home tonight.
kasuka91:
Yh, Mao also brought in simplified Chinese, which helped make it easier for young children to learn. China's literacy rate is also very high for a developing country.
