Pashto
Sign in to savePashto (, ; , ) 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 ().
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Pashto is a language spoken by millions of people in Afghanistan and Pakistan, where it holds official status in Afghanistan. As an Eastern Iranian language, it belongs to the same broader language family as Persian and Kurdish, and has been documented in historical texts under the name Afghani.
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- Central Pashto
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- pbu
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- Northern Pashto
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- pbt
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- Southern Pashto
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- Pashto.svg
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- The word written in the Pashto alphabet
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- Map of Pashto-speaking areas in Afghanistan and Pakistan.svg
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- A map of Pashto-speaking areas
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- Pashto
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29 sectionsContents
- Geographic distribution
- Afghanistan
- Pakistan
- History
- Grammar
- Phonology
- Vowels
- Consonants
- Vocabulary
- Classical vocabulary
- Writing system
- Dialects
- Literary Pashto
- Criticism
- Literature
- Poetry example
- Proverbs
- Phrases
- Greeting phrases
- Colors
- List of colors
- List of colors borrowed from neighbouring languages
- Times of the day
- Months
- Notes
- References
- Bibliography
- Further reading
- External links
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 ().
Spoken as a native language mainly by ethnic Pashtuns, it is one of the two official languages of Afghanistan alongside Dari, and the second-largest language in Pakistan, spoken mainly in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and the northern districts of Balochistan. Likewise, it is the primary language of the Pashtun diaspora around the world. The total number of Pashto speakers is estimated at around 35 million to 55 million. Pashto is "one of the primary markers of ethnic identity" amongst Pashtuns.
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Eastern Iranian languagesFusional languagesHarv and Sfn no-target errorsIranian languagesISO language articles citing sources other than EthnologueLanguage articles citing Ethnologue 28Language articles with Linguasphere codeLanguages of AfghanistanLanguages of Balochistan, PakistanLanguages of Khyber PakhtunkhwaLanguages of PakistanLanguages with ISO 639-1 code