Pashto, Southern > LINGUIST List Language Search
Name:
Pashto, Southern
Type:
Language
Alternate Names:
Pakhtu; Pakhtoo; Afghan; Paktu; "Afghani"; Pashtu; Pushto; Quetta-Kandahar Pashto; Southern Pashto; Kandahari; Pashto; Paṣḥtō; Pushtu; “Afghani”
Spoken in:
Iran, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, United Kingdom, Pakistan, United Arab Emirates
Number of speakers:
1,360,000 in Pakistan (2000). Population total all countries: 2,680,100
(Ethnologue)
Code:
pbt
Code Standard:
ISO 639-3
Documentation:
SIL
Families:
Indo-European (Indo-Germanische, Indo-Hittite)
Parent Subgroup:
Pashto; Passtoo; Pakhtoo; Pushto; Pashtu; Afghan; Afghanisch (psht)
Child Dialects:
Quetta Pashto (pbt-que)
Southeastern Pashto (pbt-sou)
Kandahar Pashto; Qandahar Pashto; Pishin Kandahar Paṣḥtō; Pishin Kandahar Pashto (pbt-kan)
Southwestern Pashto; South-west Paṣḥtō; South-west Pashto; Paṣḥtō; Pashto (pbt-sop)

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