Pashto is an Eastern Iranian language belonging to the Indo-European language family, natively spoken in northwestern Pakistan and southern and eastern Afghanistan.
Facts
ISO 639-3 Code Speaker Count2017-2023 estimate, first-language speakers (plus 4.9 million second-language speakers, 2022). RegionNorthwestern Pakistan and southern and eastern Afghanistan 1 Classification
Official Status Connections
In Family
Source Wikipedia: Pashto
Written In
Pashto uses an extended Perso-Arabic alphabet with added letters for Pashto-specific sounds.
Sources
1. Wikipedia: Pashto
Wikimedia FoundationLead section
Pashto (Paxto) is an Eastern Iranian language, belonging to the Indo-European language family, natively spoken in northwestern Pakistan and southern and eastern Afghanistan.
Infobox, ISO 639-3
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Infobox, Speakers (Total)
L1: 51 million (2017-2023)
Lead section, first sentence, full sentence
is an Eastern Iranian language, belonging to the Indo-European language family, natively spoken in northwestern Pakistan and southern and eastern Afghanistan.
Lead section, first sentence, place of use
natively spoken in northwestern Pakistan and southern and eastern Afghanistan
Official status, Pashto entity page
It is one of the two official languages of Afghanistan.
In Family: Indo-European, Infobox, Language family
Top family: Indo-European languages; immediate branch: Southeastern Iranian languages.
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