Pashto, is an Eastern Iranian language in the Indo-European language family.
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16 Facts About Pashto
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The total number of Pashto-speakers is at least 40 million, although some estimates place it as high as 60 million.
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Pashto is "one of the primary markers of ethnic identity" amongst Pashtuns.
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Pashto is one of the two official languages of Afghanistan, along with Dari Persian.
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The Pashto Tolana was later incorporated into the Academy of Sciences Afghanistan in line with Soviet model following the Saur Revolution in 1978.
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In 1974, the Department of Pashto was established in the University of Balochistan for the promotion of Pashto.
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Pashto lagged far behind Urdu and English in prestige or development in almost every domain of political or economic power.
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Some linguists have argued that Pashto is descended from Avestan or a variety very similar to it, while others have attempted to place it closer to Bactrian.
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P?ta Xazana is a Pashto manuscript claimed to be written by Mohammad Hotak under the patronage of the Pashtun emperor Hussain Hotak in Kandahar; containing an anthology of Pashto poets.
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Some of those who wrote in Pashto 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.
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In Pashto, 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.
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Unlike most other Indo-Iranian languages, Pashto uses all three types of adpositions—prepositions, postpositions, and circumpositions.
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Pashto employs the Pashto alphabet, a modified form of the Perso-Arabic alphabet or Arabic script.
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Pashto dialects are divided into two categories, the "soft" southern grouping of Pasto, and the "hard" northern grouping of Paxto .
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Pashto-speakers have long had a tradition of oral literature, including proverbs, stories, and poems.
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The first Pashto teaching text was written during the period of Ahmad Shah Durrani by Pir Mohammad Kakar with the title of Ma?rifat al-Afghani .
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