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Name:
Pashto, Northern
Type:
Language
Alternate Names:
Passtoo; Pusto; Paktu; Pakhtu; Pakhtoo; Afghan; Pakhto; Pashtu; Pushto; Yusufzai Pashto; Northern Pashto; Eastern Afghan; Pakh'to; Pashto; Paṣḥtō
Spoken in:
India, Afghanistan, United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates, Pakistan
Number of speakers:
9,590,000 in Pakistan (1993). Includes all Pashto varieties. Population total all countries: 9,720,700. Ethnic population: 49,529,000 possibly total Pashto in all countries
(Ethnologue)
Code:
pbu
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 Dialect Group:
Northeastern Pashto; North-east Paṣḥtō; North-east Pashto; Paḳḥtō; Pakhto (pbu-nor)
Child Dialects:
Ghilzai; Ghilzai Paṣḥtō; Ghilzai Pashto (pbu-ghi)
Northwestern Pakhto (pbu-nop)
Ningraharian Pashto (pbu-nin)
Durani (pbu-dur)

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