Languages

Pashto

Language

Citation Formats

General Reference

Language Atlas. "Pashto." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://language.interactiveatlas.org/languages/pashto.

APA Style

Language Atlas. (n.d.). Pashto. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://language.interactiveatlas.org/languages/pashto

BibTeX

@misc{languageatlas-pashto,
  author = {Language Atlas},
  title = {Pashto},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://language.interactiveatlas.org/languages/pashto},
  note = {Accessed August 30, 2026}
}

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

pus 1

Speaker Count

51,000,000 1

2017-2023 estimate, first-language speakers (plus 4.9 million second-language speakers, 2022).

Cross-Tradition Connections

In Family

Indo-European

Source Wikipedia: Pashto

Sources

1. Wikipedia: Pashto

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Quote, Lead 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.

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1. Wikipedia: Pashto

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