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Pashto
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| Pashto پښتو paʂto | ||
|---|---|---|
| Spoken in: | Pakistan: western provinces; Afghanistan: south, east, west and a few provinces in the north; India: small pockets in the north | |
| Region: | South-Central Asia | |
| Total speakers: | approx. 40-50 million | |
| Ranking: | 82 (Northern), 92 (Southern) | |
| Language family: | Indo-European Indo-Iranian Iranian Southeastern Pashto | |
| Official status | ||
| Official language of: | Pakistan (Provincial) Afghanistan (National) | |
| Regulated by: | no official regulation | |
| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | ps | |
| ISO 639-2: | pus | |
| ISO 639-3: | variously: pus — Pashto (generic) pst — Central Pashto pbu — Northern Pashto pbt — Southern Pashto | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. See IPA chart for English for an English-based pronunciation key. | ||
Pashto (پښتو, IPA: also known as Pakhto, Pushto, Pukhto پختو, Pashtoe, Pashtu, Pushtu, Pushtoo, Pathan, or Afghan language) is an Iranian language of the Indo-Iranian language family spoken by Pashtuns living in southeastern Afghanistan and western Pakistan.