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Pashto
Pashto (, ; , ) is an Eastern Iranian language in the Indo-European language family, natively spoken in northwestern Pakistan and southern and eastern Afghanistan. It has official status in Afghanistan. It was also known in historical Persian literature as Afghani ().
Naskh
small, round script of Islamic calligraphy
Pashto alphabet
Perso-Arabic script used to write the Pashto language

Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan
government agency of Afghanistan
ڼ
ڼ is the twenty-ninth letter of Pashto alphabet. It represents the retroflex nasal (IPA: ) which is ण in Devanagari and is transliterated . In Shahmukhi and Saraiki it is written as ݨ.
ځ
', , , or ' () is a Pashto letter representing the sibilant affricative (IPA: ) sound. In size and shape, it is a ḥāʾ with a hamza above. It is written in several ways depending on its position in the word:
Pashto Academy
language regulatory institution in Pakistan