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Ethnologue: Languages of the World.

If we look to our state policies regarding the promotion of Pashto and the interests of the Pakhtun political elite, it is clear that the future of the Pashto language is dark.

Coyle, Dennis Walter August 2014.

This literary language has long been referred to in the West as 'common' or 'standard' Pashto without, seemingly, any real attempt to define it.

Nile Green comments in this regard: "In 1944, Habibi claimed to have discovered an eighteenth-century manuscript anthology containing much older biographies and verses of Pashto poets that stretched back as far as the eighth century.

On a provincial level, Pashto is the regional language of and north.

UCLA International Institute: Center for World Languages.

, and include words from Greek and probably Old Persian".

The alphabet was further modified over the years.

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