Pashto
Spoken language
Pashto is an Eastern Iranian language in the Indo-European language family, natively spoken in northwestern Pakistan, southern and eastern Afghanistan, and some isolated pockets of far eastern Iran near the Afghan border. It has official status in... Wikipedia
Spoken by: Pakistanis, Pashtun, Afghans, and more
Dialects: Pashto dialects
Ethnicity: Pashtuns
ISO 639-3: – inclusive code – Pashto, Pushto; Individual codes: – Central Pashto; – Northern Pashto; – Southern Pashto; – Wanetsi
Language family: Indo-European > Indo-Iranian > Iranian > Eastern Iranian > Pashto
Native to: Afghanistan, Pakistan
Speakers: L1: 44 million (2017–2021); L2: 4.9 million (2022)