Northern Pashto

Northern Pashto
Northern Pashto
Native to	Pakistan, Afghanistan
Ethnicity	Pashtun
Speakers	L1: 23 million (2017); L2: 1.4 million (2022)
Language family	Indo-European Indo-Iranian Iranian Eastern Pashto Northern Pashto; ; ; ; ;
Writing system	Pashto alphabet
Official status
Regulated by	Pashto Academy of Pakistan
Language codes
ISO 639-3	pbu
Glottolog	nort2646

Northern Pashto (Pashto: شمالي پښتو) is a standard variety of the Pashto language spoken in the northern and central parts of the Pakistani province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and central-eastern Afghanistan, comprising the Northwestern and Northeastern dialects of Pashto.^[3]

Northern Comparison

موږ

"we"

Northern [Wardak]

/muʝ/

Northern [Eastern and Western dialects]

/munɡ/

Northern [Eastern and Western dialects]

/muɡ/

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^ ^a ^b Northern Pashto at Ethnologue (27th ed., 2024)
^ Sebeok, Thomas Albert (1976). Current Trends in Linguistics: Index. Walter de Gruyter. p. 705.
^ "Glottolog 4.3 - Northern Pashto". glottolog.org. Retrieved 2020-10-16.

[e27-1] Northern Pashto at Ethnologue (27th ed., 2024)

[2] Sebeok, Thomas Albert (1976). Current Trends in Linguistics: Index. Walter de Gruyter. p. 705.

[3] "Glottolog 4.3 - Northern Pashto". glottolog.org. Retrieved 2020-10-16.

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