Pashtu
Pushtu, also known as Afghan, Pushto, Pashto, Pashtoe, Pashtu, and Pukhto is the language spoken by the ethnic Afghan otherwise known as the Pashtun people who inhabit Afghanistan and the Western provinces of Pakistan. Its ISO 639 codes are ps and pus. Pushtu is presently classified in the East Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European languages.
Pushtu from the time of Islam's rise in Central Asia uses a modified version of Arabic script, however, because of the Internet wide spread use of Pushtu is taking hold in the form of the Latin alphabet..
It is one of the two official languages of Afghanistan, spoken largely in the south, east and a few provinces in the north. It is spoken by more than 70% of the Afghan population who are of the Pashtoon or ethnic Afghan tribe, as well as by ethnic Afghans/Pashtuns who live on the other side of the disputed Durand Line in present day Pakistan. The langauge is believed to have originated in the Kandahar(Qandahar)/Helmand areas of Afghanistan. It has some Arabic and Persian words incorporated in it. Persian often dominates over Afghan/Pashto in Afghanistan in everyday government use since the capital was moved to Kabul from Kandahar in the 18th century.
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