Language · Indo-European
Pashto
پښتو – its own name
Official or co-official in 1 country. Listed in 4 countries.
- Speakers (estimate)
- c. 58 million
- sum over countries per CLDR, including second-language users
- Script
- Arabic
Place in the family tree
- Indo-European
- Classical Indo-European
- Indo-Iranian
- Iranian-Nuristani
- Iranian
- Pashto
- Pashto
Nodes of the Glottolog tree (Glottolog, CC BY 4.0).
Where it is spoken
- Co-official 1
- Widely used 1
- Minority 2
Co-official
- Afghanistan 43% 17 million
Widely used
-
Pakistan
16%
40 million
Predominant in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
Minority
- United Arab Emirates 2.9% 291 thousand
- Iran 0.2% 141 thousand