Pashto
Indo-Aryan language of Afghanistan and Pakistan
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Summary
Pashto is a natural language[1]. Pashto is a type of Eastern Iranian[2].
Key Facts
- Ethnic group: Pashtuns[3], Nuristani people[4], Kalash people[5], Burusho people[6]
- Country: Afghanistan[7], Pakistan[8], India[9], Balochistan[10], Iran[11], Tajikistan[12], Turkmenistan[13], United Arab Emirates[14], Canada[15], United States[16]
- Instance of: macrolanguage[17], modern language[18]
- Writing system: Arabic alphabet[19], Arabic script[20]
- Number of speakers, writers, or signers: 39,000,000[21], 50,000,000[22], 38,600,000[23]
- Described by source: The Nuttall Encyclopædia[24], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[25], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[26], Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[27], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[28]
- Topic has template: Wikidata item[29]
- Native label: پښتو ژبه[30], پښتو[31]
- UNESCO language status: 1 safe[32]
- Linguistic typology: subject–object–verb[33], fusional language[34]
- On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[35]