Definitions

1. Pushto is the predominant language while Hindku is mostly spoken and understood in Kohat city and adjacent areas.
2. Pushto is one of the national languages of Afghanistan (Dari Persian is the other). (Web site)
3. Pushto is written in a Persian-Arabic script but contains letters which are not to be found in either Persian or Arabic languages. (Web site)
4. Pushto is taught at very few universities in the United States and Canada. (Web site)
5. In 1936, Pushto was made the national language of Afghanistan by royal decree. (Web site)

Present

1. Traces of the history of Pushto are present in its vocabulary.

Baluchistan

1. According to an estimate in 1950, the total number of Pushto speakers was nearly 5.35 million, 4.47 million in the NWFP and 270,000 in Baluchistan. (Web site)

Sixteenth Century

1. HISTORY The first written records of Pushto are believed to date from the sixteenth century and consist of an account of Shekh Mali's conquest of Swat.

Languages

1. Due to its close geographic proximity to languages of the Indian sub-continent, Pushto has borrowed words from Indian languages for centuries. (Web site)

Spoken

1. Urdu is understood by a large number of people while Pushto is spoken and understood in Chitral and Drosh. (Web site)
2. Pushto is spoken in most of Afghanistan. (Web site)

Pakistan

1. Pushto Speakers: Eight million Pashtuns live in Afghanistan, nine million in Pakistan, and the remainder in Iran. (Web site)

Arabic Script

1. Pushto has been written in a variant of the Persian script (which in turn is a variant of Arabic script) since the late sixteenth century. (Web site)

Pashto

1. Pashto (Pushtu or Pushto; spoken by the Pathan people) 15. (Web site)

Persian

1. Starting in the Islamic period, Pushto borrowed many words from Arabic and Persian. (Web site)
2. Armenian is most closely related to Greek, but has many borrowed words from such Indo-Iranian languages as Pushto and Persian. (Web site)
3. Unlike other Iranian languages, such as Persian, Pushto allows consonant clusters of two or three sounds at the beginning of a syllable. (Web site)

Language

1. Article on the Pushto (or Pashto) language, its history and role in Afghan society.

Punjabi

1. Languages from neighboring regions including Punjabi, Pushto, Burushaski and Shina are also challenging the existence of Balti.

Afghans

1. The Pushto, or language of the Afghans, is written in the 'naskh' character of Arabic. (Web site)
2. Pushto and Balauchi are so close to Persian that we do not need any tranlations with Afghans, or Iranians.
3. PUSHTO From the point of view of the people who speak it, Pushto is the language of the Afghans. (Web site)

Dari

1. Pushto: Pushto and Dari are the two official languages of Afghanistan. (Web site)

Afghanistan

1. These tribes are present in Dist: Musakhail of Baluchistan in Pakistan and Afghanistan with mother tongue as pushto.
2. In the seventeenth century, Khushhal Khan Khatak, considered the national poet of Afghanistan, was writing in Pushto. (Web site)
3. In Afghanistan, Dari Persian, along with Pushto, are official languages of the country. (Web site)

Sindhi

1. I believe future of Urdu is as much at stake as any other local or regional language, if we are not going to protect Sindhi, Pushto, Balochi, Punjabi etc. (Web site)

Baluchi

1. Baluchi, Sindhi and Pushto have influenced the Brahvi language, but the core vocabulary and grammatical structure of the language have not changed over time. (Web site)
2. Pushto and Baluchi is so similar that YOU cannot even tell the difference.

Pushto

1. Regional languages include Punjabi, which is spoken by 48 per cent of the population (1981), Pushto, Sindhi, Saraiki, and Baluchi. (Web site)
2. There are 8 million speakers of Pushto in Afghanistan (50% of the population) and almost 9 million in Pakistan (13% of the population). (Web site)
3. Pushto has long been recognized as an important language in Afghanistan and Pakistan. (Web site)

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