| Pashto پښتو (Paʂˈto) | ||
|---|---|---|
| Spoken in: | Pakistan, Afghanistan, United States, Saudi Arabia, Australia, India | |
| Region: | South Asia | |
| Total speakers: | 45 million | |
| Ranking: | 33 | |
| Language family: | Indo-European Indo-Iranian Iranian Eastern Iranian South Eastern Pashto | |
| Writing system: | Naskh | |
| Official status | ||
| Official language of: |  NWFP, Pakistan Afghanistan
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| Regulated by: | Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan | |
| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | ps | |
| ISO 639-2: | pus | |
| ISO 639-3: | pus | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. See IPA chart for English for an English-based pronunciation key. | ||
Pashto is the language spoken among the Pashtuns of Pakistan and Afghanistan.