
What is Pashto Language and who speaks it?
Pashto is an Eastern Iranian language spoken in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Pashto is the second-largest regional language in Pakistan, with approximately 17 million speakers, who are mainly concentrated in the southern and eastern parts of the country.
Pashto is also the provincial language of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, where it is spoken by 15% of the population. The total number of Pashto-speakers exceeds 27 million people worldwide, making it the fifth most spoken language in the world.
Pashto has a rich literary tradition going back more than 500 years, with poetry being its most dominant form. The earliest known written records of Pashto date to the 16th century. The first known document in Pashto (a copy of Ghulam Hasan Khan's " Majal") was written in 1596.The first Pashto poetry can be traced back to the end of the 16th century, with poets such as Baha-ud-Din Naqshbandi, Shah Hussain Muzammil and Abdul Rauf Yaqubi.
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