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Pashto is one of the official languages of Pakistan and Afghanistan, with around 60 million speakers worldwide. It originated in the Kandahar district of Afghanistan and is believed to be around 2,500 years old. Pashto belongs to the Indo-Iranian language family and is written using a modified Arabic script. In Pakistan, 15% of the population speaks Pashto mainly in the northern provinces of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan.

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Pashto is one of the official languages of Pakistan and Afghanistan, with around 60 million speakers worldwide. It originated in the Kandahar district of Afghanistan and is believed to be around 2,500 years old. Pashto belongs to the Indo-Iranian language family and is written using a modified Arabic script. In Pakistan, 15% of the population speaks Pashto mainly in the northern provinces of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan.

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PASHTO LANGUAGE

Made by: Abdullah Khan


ABOUT PASHTO LANGUAGE

Pashto, or Pukhto, is one of the official languages of Pakistan.


Around 60 million people in Afghanistan, adjacent areas in
Pakistan and worldwide speak Pashto as their mother tongue.
H I S T O R Y O F T H E PA S H T O L A N G U A G E
AND IT’S ORIGIN

The Pashto language belongs to the Indo-Iranian language family.


It is mainly spoken by the ethnic community of Afghanistan,
popularly known as Pashtuns.
The language is said to have originated in the Kandahar district of
Afghanistan and is said to be one of the two administrative and
national languages of Afghanistan
It is believed that the Pashto language is about 2500 years old.
LANGUAGE STRUCTURE

The Pashto language has a total of 46 letters that are written in


the Naskh script. These letters have been modified from the Arabic
alphabet by including some extra letters to arrive at sounds that are
Pashto-specific.
PASHTO IN PAKISTAN

In Pakistan, Pashto is spoken by 15% of its population, mainly in


the northwestern province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and northern
districts of Balochistan province. It is also spoken in parts of
Mianwali and Attock districts of the Punjab province, areas of
Gilgit-Baltistan and in Islamabad. Pashto speakers are found in
other major cities of Pakistan, most notably Karachi, Sindh, which
may have the largest Pashtun population of any city in the world
S E V E R A L FA C T S A B O U T PA S H T O
LANGUAGE

There are nearly twice as many Pashto speakers in the world as there are Dutch
speakers.
There are 2–3 main Pashto dialect groups.

As with most languages, the way Pashto is spoken varies by region. Depending
on which source you consult, there are two or three main dialect groups:

Northern Pashto, spoken in Pakistan.


Southern Pashto, spoken in Afghanistan.

Central Pashto, spoken in Pakistan.

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