15 Facts About Pashto language

The total number of Pashto language-speakers is at least 40 million, although some estimates place it as high as 60 million.

Pashto language is "one of the primary markers of ethnic identity" amongst Pashtuns.

The Pashto language Tolana was later incorporated into the Academy of Sciences Afghanistan in line with Soviet model following the Saur Revolution in 1978.

Thus Pashto became a national language, a symbol for Pashtun nationalism.

In 1974, the Department of Pashto language was established in the University of Balochistan for the promotion of Pashto language.

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Pashto language lagged far behind Urdu and English in prestige or development in almost every domain of political or economic power.

Some linguists have argued that Pashto language is descended from Avestan or a variety very similar to it, while others have attempted to place it closer to Bactrian.

P?ta Xazana is a Pashto language manuscript claimed to be written by Mohammad Hotak under the patronage of the Pashtun emperor Hussain Hotak in Kandahar; containing an anthology of Pashto language poets.

Some of those who wrote in Pashto language are Bayazid Pir Roshan, Khushal Khan Khattak, Rahman Baba, Nazo Tokhi, and Ahmad Shah Durrani, founder of the modern state of Afghanistan or the Durrani Empire.

In Pashto language, this means that the verb agrees with the subject in transitive and intransitive sentences in non-past, non-completed clauses, but when a completed action is reported in any of the past tenses, the verb agrees with the subject if it is intransitive, but with the object if it is transitive.

Unlike most other Indo-Iranian languages, Pashto uses all three types of adpositions—prepositions, postpositions, and circumpositions.

Pashto language employs the Pashto language alphabet, a modified form of the Perso-Arabic alphabet or Arabic script.

Pashto language dialects are divided into two categories, the "soft" southern grouping of Pasto, and the "hard" northern grouping of Paxto.

Pashto language-speakers have long had a tradition of oral literature, including proverbs, stories, and poems.

The first Pashto language teaching text was written during the period of Ahmad Shah Durrani by Pir Mohammad Kakar with the title of Ma?rifat al-Afghani.