Pashto is "one of the primary markers of ethnic identity" amongst Pashtuns. [14] A national language of Afghanistan, [15] Pashto is primarily spoken in the east, south, and southwest, but also in some …

Aug 5, 2025 · Pashto, or Pukhto, is one of the official languages of Afghanistan. Around 60 million people in northwestern Pakistan and southeastern Afghanistan speak Pashto as their mother tongue.

Dec 10, 2025 · Originally spoken by the Pashtun people, Pashto became the national language of Afghanistan in 1936. It is spoken by more than 35 million people, most of whom reside in …

Pashto is an Iranian language spoken in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran, India and other countries by about 40 million people.

Pashto, sometimes also romanized as Pashtu or Pakhto, is the most widely spoken modern Eastern Iranian language, spoken primarily in south of Afghanistan and northwest of Pakistan. It is the only …

May 14, 2025 · Pashto is written in a variant of the Arabic script, but with extra letters to accommodate sounds that don’t exist in Arabic or Persian. Learning to read and pronounce these letters correctly is …

Pashto (پښتو‎), sometimes spelled as Pushto, is an Indo-Iranian language spoken primarily in Afghanistan and Pakistan. It is one of the two official languages of Afghanistan, alongside Dari (Afghan Persian), …

Pashto is one of the East Iranian group of languages. There are two major dialects of Pashto: Western Pashto, spoken in Afghanistan and in the capital, Kabul; and Eastern Pashto, spoken in northeastern …

Pashto[b] (/ ˈpʌʃtoʊ /, [6][4][5] / ˈpæʃtoʊ / PASH-toh; [c]پښتو, Pəx̌tó, [pəʂˈto, pʊxˈto, pəʃˈto, pəçˈto]) is an eastern Iranian language in the Indo-European language family, natively spoken in northwestern …

Pushto (sometimes called Afgan) belongs to the Indo-European family of languages, Iranian group. It is spoken by approximately 19 million people [c. 8 million in Afghanistan (c. 50% of the population) and …