Pashto

Pashto

پښتو
50M speakers · Indo-European Indo-Iranian · Arabic
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AfghanistanPakistan

Written in the arabic script, written right-to-left. Uses SOV word order with fusional morphology. Notable features include 2 grammatical genders, 2 noun cases, a politeness/honorific system, pronoun dropping.

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Official in 2 countries

AfghanistanPakistan
Asia
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Typology

Word order SOV
Adjective before noun
Numeral before noun
Adposition both
Def. article no
Indef. article yes
Pro-drop yes
Gender yes
Noun cases yes
Ergative yes

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