Pashto New Testament - Afghanistan / انجيل شريف يعنى د مالک عيسى مسيح زيرى / A pocket-size edition of the 1996 translation

Product Details:

• Paperback 617 Pages
• Publisher: Afghan Media (2008)
• Product Dimensions: 5.7 x 3.8 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
• ISBN 9789692508617 / 978-9692508617

Pushtu or Pushto is the South-Central Asian language of the Pashtuns Afghāni افغانی

Pashto (/ˈpʌʃtoʊ/, rarely /ˈpæʃtoʊ/, Pashto: پښتو‎ Pax̌tō [ˈpəʂt̪oː]), sometimes spelled Pushtu or Pushto, is the South-Central Asian language of the Pashtuns. It is known in Persian literature as Afghāni (افغانی) and in Urdu and Hindi literature as Paṭhānī.Speakers of the language are called Pashtuns or Pakhtuns and sometimes Afghans or Pathans. It is an Eastern Iranian language, belonging to the Indo-European family. Pashto is one of the two official languages of Afghanistan, and it is the second-largest regional language of Pakistan, mainly spoken in the west and northwest of the country. Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) are almost 100% Pashto-speaking, while it is the majority language of the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and the northern districts of Balochistan. Along with Dari Persian, Pashto is the main language among the Pashtun diaspora around the world. The total number of Pashto-speakers is estimated to be 45–60 million people worldwide.

Pashto belongs to the Northeastern Iranian group of the Indo-Iranian branch,but Ethnologue lists it as Southeastern Iranian.  Pashto has two main dialect groups, “soft” and “hard”, the latter known as Pakhto.

Pashto
پښتو Pax̌tō
The word Pax̌tō written in the Pashto alphabet
Pronunciation	[ˈpəʂt̪oː], [ˈpʊxt̪oː]
Native to	Afghanistan and Pakistan
Ethnicity	Pashtuns[1]
Native speakers	40–60 million (2007–2009)[2][3][4]
Language family	Indo-European Indo-Iranian Iranian Eastern Iranian Pashto
Standard forms	Central Pashto Northern Pashto Southern Pashto
Dialects	~20 dialects
Writing system	Arabic (Pashto alphabet)
Official status
Official language in	Afghanistan[5]
Recognised minority language in	Pakistan[6][show]
Regulated by	Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan[citation needed] Pashto Academy, Pakistan [7]
Language codes
ISO 639-1	ps – Pashto, Pushto
ISO 639-2	pus – Pushto, Pashto
ISO 639-3	pus – inclusive code – Pashto, Pushto Individual codes: pst – Central Pashto pbu – Northern Pashto pbt – Southern Pashto wne – Wanetsi
Glottolog	pash1269  Pashto[8]
Linguasphere	58-ABD-a
Areas where Pashto is a mother tongue