Pashto
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8.2
- proper noun
- /ˈpæʃtoʊ/
:
pashto
- During his travels in Afghanistan, he learned some basic phrases in Pashto.
- Pashto-speaking
Examples
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There is no central language; Persian, Dari, Pashto, Tajik, and Uzbek are spoken in the diverse land of the Hindu Kush.
Blog text (25) -
As president, I will launch a crash program in civilian and military schools to prepare more experts in critical languages such as Arabic, Chinese, Farsi, and Pashto.
Academic text (2007) -
Why was she speaking Pashto?
Blog text (4) -
It's funnier in the original Pashto.
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Did the people there speak Portuguese, or Swahili, or Pashto?
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The ANA don't speak Pashto.
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As a result, northern officers who only speak Dari have to use translators when in the Pashto-speaking south.
Academic text (2011) -
Haji Razzaq's cellular phone rings from morning to night, and most of the time, he's answering it in broken, Pashto-accented English.
Academic text (2002) -
They speak Arabic, Urdu, Dari, Pashto, Mongolian, Farsi, Russian.
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Iran retains its special interests in Afghanistan's western Herat region, which was part of Iran until 1857, and Pakistan considers the Pashto-speaking southern sections of Afghanistan to be within its sphere of influence.
Academic text (2009)
Synonyms
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8.9
A language spoken in Afghanistan and parts of Pakistan, also called Pashto
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8.7
A language spoken in Afghanistan and Pakistan and an official language of Afghanistan
Surface Forms
Etymology
The name Pashto comes from the people called Pashtun and the suffix -o that shows it is their language. So Pashto means 'the language spoken by the Pashtun', and that is why it refers to the language of Afghanistan and neighbouring Pakistan.