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Origins of the Pashto Language
Pashto, also known as Pushtu, is one of the two major languages of Afghanistan, the other being Persian (also known as Farsi).

Pashto is the language of the Pashtuns, the indigenous inhabitants of Afghanistan. It is an Iranian language and thus part of the Indo European family.

How many people speak the Pashto language?
Pashto is spoken by about 15 million people (about 60% of the population). Another 20 million speakers live across the border in Pakistan, in the North-West Frontier Provence whose capital is Peshawar.

Pashto-speaking Countries
Pashto is spoken in Afghanastan.

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Talk Now Pashto CD-ROM Details

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Pashto Music and Dance

Music is represented chiefly by traditional folk songs, ballads, and dances. Among the stringed instruments, the six-stringed rohab is thought to be the ancestor of the Western violin and cello. Other instruments include the santur (a kind of zither), a hand-pumped harmonium, the chang (a plucked mouth harp), and a variety of drums beaten with the palm and fingers. The attan dance derived from Pashtun areas is the national dance. It is performed in a large circle with the dancers clapping their hands and quickening the movements of their feet to the beat of the music. On vacation holidays or weekends Afghans often gather to play music and sing at a picnic on a river bank or in a woodland.

Pashto Food and Drink

The diet of most Afghan villagers consists mainly of unleavened flat bread called nan, soups, a kind of yogurt called mast, vegetables, fruit, and occasionally rice and meat. Tea is the favourite drink.

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