Northern Pashto | |
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Native to | Afghanistan |
Region | Khyber Pakhtunkhwa |
Ethnicity | Pashtun |
Speakers | L1: 23 million (2017)[1] L2: 1.4 million (2022)[1] |
Pashto alphabet | |
Official status | |
Regulated by | Pashto Academy of Pakistan[2] |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | pbu |
Glottolog | nort2646 |
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Northern Pashto (Pashto: شمالي پښتو) is a standard variety of the Pashto language spoken in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, comprising the Northwestern and Northeastern dialects of Pashto.[3]