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Syed Wamiq Ahmed Hashmi
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Pashto
Indo-Aryan language of Afghanistan and Pakistan
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Wikidata (Q58680) ↗
Details
Instance of
natural language
,
macrolanguage
,
modern language
Subclass of
Eastern Iranian
Country
Afghanistan
,
Pakistan
,
India
,
Balochistan
,
Iran
,
Tajikistan
,
Turkmenistan
,
United Arab Emirates
,
Canada
,
United States
category for films in this language
Category:Pashto-language films
category for music in this language
Category:Pashto-language music
described by source
The Nuttall Encyclopædia
,
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
,
Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
,
Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)
,
Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
entry in abbreviations table
Psht.
, अफ़॰
ethnic group
Pashtuns
,
Nuristani people
,
Kalash people
,
Burusho people
linguistic typology
subject–object–verb
,
fusional language
native label
پښتو ژبه
, پښتو
number of speakers, writers, or signers
39000000
, 50000000
, 38600000
topic has template
Q101517221
topic's main category
Category:Pashto
UNESCO language status
1 safe
Wikimedia language code
ps
writing system
Arabic alphabet
,
Arabic script
Works in this collection
(1)
Khayr al-Bayān
1651
Connected on Wikidata
Subject of
1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Pushtu
Pashto
Takatoo
A Dictionary of the Pukhto, Pushto, Or Language of the Afghans
A Dictionary of the Pukhto, Pushto, Or Language of the Afghans
The development of the Pashto script
Authority files
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Encyclopædia Britannica ↗