Northern Pashto
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.
| Northern Pashto | |
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| Native to | Pakistan |
| Region | Khyber Pakhtunkhwa |
| Ethnicity | Pashtun |
| Speakers | L1: 29 million (2017 census) L2: 1.37 million (2021) |
Indo-European
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| Pashto alphabet | |
| Official status | |
| Regulated by | Pashto Academy of Pakistan |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | pbu |
| Glottolog | nort2646 |
| Part of a series on |
| Pashto language |
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| Writing systems |
| Dialects |
| Language regulation |
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Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan Pashto Academy |
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