See soorce fer Pashto leid

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{{Infobox language
| name = Pashto
| nativename = {{lang|ps|پښتو }}<br />''{{transl|ps|Pax̌tō}}''
| pronunciation = {{IPA-ps|ˈpəʂt̪oː&#93;, &#91;ˈpʊxt̪oː|}}
| states = [[Afghanistan]] an [[Pakistan]]
| region = Sooth Asia, Central Asie
| ethnicity = Pashtuns
| speakers = 50–60 million<!--to nearest 5M; one source has 38.6M-->
| date = 2007–2009
| ref = <ref name="Penzl">{{Cite book |title=A Grammar of Pashto a Descriptive Study of the Dialect of Kandahar, Afghanistan |last1=Penzl |first1=Herbert |author2=Ismail Sloan |volume= |year=2009 |publisher=Ishi Press International |location= |isbn=0-923891-72-2 |pages=210 |quote=Estimates of the number of Pashto speakers range from 40 million to 60 million... |url=https://books.google.com/?id=zvRePgAACAAJ |accessdate=2010-10-25}}</ref><ref>[[Nationalencyklopedin]] "Världens 100 största språk 2007" The World's 38 Largest Languages in 2007 (39 million)</ref><ref>{{ELL2|Pashto}}</ref>
| familycolor = Indo-European
| fam2 = Indo-Iranian
| fam3 = Iranian
| fam4 = Eastren Iranian
| dialects = ~20 dialects
| stand1 = Central Pashto
| stand2 = Northren Pashto
| stand3 = Soothren Pashto
| script = * Perso-Arabic script
| nation = {{AFG}}<ref name="AC">[[Constitution o Afghanistan]] – [http://www.servat.unibe.ch/icl/af00000_.html ''Chapter 1 The State, Article 16 (Languages) and Article 20 (Anthem)'']</ref>
| minority = {{Collapsible list |titlestyle=font-weight:normal; background:transparent; text-align:left;|title={{PAK}}<ref>{{cite book|title=Concise Encyclopedia of Languages of the World|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=F2SRqDzB50wC&pg=PA845|date=6 April 2010|publisher=Elsevier|isbn=978-0-08-087775-4|pages=845–}}</ref>|
|{{flag|Khyber Pakhtunkhwa}}
|{{flag|Balochistan}}
}}
| agency = Academy o Sciences o Afghanistan, Pashto Academy, [[Pakistan]]<ref>{{cite book |last=Sebeok |first=Thomas Albert |title=Current Trends in Linguistics: Index |year=1976 |publisher=Walter de Gruyter |pages=705}}</ref>
| iso1 = ps
| iso1comment = – Pashto, Pushto
| iso2 = pus
| iso2comment = – Pushto, Pashto
| iso3 = pus
| iso3comment = – Pashto, Pushto
| lc1 = pst
| ld1 = [[Central Pashto]]
| lc2 = pbu
| ld2 = [[Northern Pashto]]
| lc3 = pbt
| ld3 = [[Southern Pashto]]
| lc4 = wne
| ld4 = [[Wanetsi]]
| lingua = 58-ABD-a
| image = Pashto.svg
| imagecaption = The wird ''Pax̌tō'' written in the Pashto alphabet
| map = 
| mapcaption = Auries whaur Pashto is a mither tongue
| notice = IPA
| image_size = 200px
| glotto = pash1269
| glottoname = Pashto
}}
'''Pashto''' (Naskh: {{lang|ps|پښتو}} {{IPA-ps|paʂˈto|}}; forby transliteratit ''Pakhto'', ''Pushto'', ''Pukhto'', ''Pashtu'', or ''Pushtu''), cried '''Afghani'''<ref>[[Reference.com|Dictionary.com]], "Afghani," in [[The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language|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.</ref> 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.<ref name="Omniglot">{{cite web|url=http://www.omniglot.com/writing/pashto.htm|title=Pashto|quote=''The exact number o Pashto speakers is no kent for sure, but maist estimates range frae 45 million tae 55 million.''|publisher=Omniglot.com|accessdate=2010-10-25|archive-date=2015-09-05|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150905061758/http://www.omniglot.com/writing/pashto.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref>

== References ==
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{{Commonscat|Pashto language}}
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[[Category:Pashto leid| ]]
[[Category:Leids o Afghanistan]]
[[Category:Leids o Pakistan]]
[[Category:Leids o the Federally Administered Tribal Auries| ]]
[[Category:Leids o Balochistan (Pakistan)]]
[[Category:Indo-European leids]]
[[Category:Subject–object–verb leids]]