Pashto leid
Appearance
(Reguidit frae Pashto)
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Pashto | |
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پښتو Pax̌tō | |
The wird Pax̌tō written in the Pashto alphabet | |
Pronunciation | [ˈpəʂt̪oː], [ˈpʊxt̪oː] |
Native tae | Afghanistan an Pakistan |
Region | Sooth Asia, Central Asie |
Ethnicity | Pashtuns |
Native speakers | 50–60 million (2007–2009)[1][2][3] |
Indo-European
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Staundart forms | Central Pashto
Northren Pashto
Soothren Pashto
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Dialects | ~20 dialects |
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Offeecial status | |
Offeecial leid in | Afghanistan[4] |
Recognised minority leid in | |
Regulatit bi | Academy o Sciences o Afghanistan, Pashto Academy, Pakistan[6] |
Leid codes | |
ISO 639-1 | ps – Pashto, Pushto |
ISO 639-2 | pus – Pushto, Pashto |
ISO 639-3 | pus – inclusive code – Pashto, PushtoIndividual codes: pst – Central Pashtopbu – Northern Pashtopbt – Southern Pashtowne – Wanetsi |
Glottolog | pash1269 Pashto[7] |
Linguasphere | 58-ABD-a |
Pashto (Naskh: پښتو [paʂˈto]; forby transliteratit Pakhto, Pushto, Pukhto, Pashtu, or Pushtu), cried Afghani[8] an aa, is a member o the Eastren Iranian leids group which is spoken primarily bi the Pashtun fowk in Afghanistan an Pakistan, as well as bi the Pashtun diaspora athort the globe.[9]
References
[eedit | eedit soorce]- ↑ Penzl, Herbert; Ismail Sloan (2009). A Grammar of Pashto a Descriptive Study of the Dialect of Kandahar, Afghanistan. Ishi Press International. p. 210. ISBN 0-923891-72-2. Retrieved 25 October 2010.
Estimates of the number of Pashto speakers range from 40 million to 60 million...
- ↑ Nationalencyklopedin "Världens 100 största språk 2007" The World's 38 Largest Languages in 2007 (39 million)
- ↑ Pashto (2005). Keith Brown (ed.). Encyclopedie o Leid an Linguistics (2 ed.). Elsevier. ISBN 0-08-044299-4.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
- ↑ Constitution o Afghanistan – Chapter 1 The State, Article 16 (Languages) and Article 20 (Anthem)
- ↑ Concise Encyclopedia of Languages of the World. Elsevier. 6 Apryle 2010. pp. 845–. ISBN 978-0-08-087775-4.
- ↑ Sebeok, Thomas Albert (1976). Current Trends in Linguistics: Index. Walter de Gruyter. p. 705.
- ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Pashto". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
- ↑ Dictionary.com, "Afghani," in The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Source location: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2004. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Afghani. Accessed: July 14, 2010.
- ↑ "Pashto". Omniglot.com. Archived frae the original on 5 September 2015. Retrieved 25 October 2010.
The exact number o Pashto speakers is no kent for sure, but maist estimates range frae 45 million tae 55 million.
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