Pakistan: Ningraharian Pashto, Northeastern Pashto.United Arab Emirates: Pakhtoo, Pashtu, Passtoo, Pushto, Pusto.Called ‘Pakhtoon’ in the north, ‘Pashtoon’ in the south. Afghanistan: Afghan, Pakhtoo, Pakhtu, Paktu.Pakistan: Pakhto, Pashtu, Pushto, Yusufzai Pashto.Spoken in: Pakistan (Afghanistan border, most of NWFP, Yusufzai, and Peshawar), Afghanistan (Central Ghilzai area), United Arab Emirates.Dialects: Waciri (Waziri), Bannuchi (Bannochi, Bannu).Spoken in: Southern Pakistan (Wazirstan, Bannu, Karak, southern ethnic group territories and adjacent areas).Classification: Indo-European, Indo-Iranian, Iranian, Eastern, Southeastern.Dialects: Central Pashto, Northern Pashto, Southern Pashto.(Information based on Ethnologue and ISO 639, ) Macrolanguage with three varieties (Central, Northern, and Southern) (below).Įthnologue treats Waneci as a fourth, and others (e.g., MacKenzie and UCLA) analyze the dialectology still differently. Its vocabulary includes many loans, chiefly from its Persian and Indo-Aryan neighbors, and from Arabic, especially via Islam. Pashto belongs to the Iranian subfamily of Indo-European. 2.2 Linguistic portals and bibliographies.
