Pashto Translation Services

Pashto (also known as Afghan, Pathan, Pushto, Pashtoe, Pashtu, and Pukhto) is the language spoken by the ethnic Afghan otherwise known as the Pashtun people who inhabit Afghanistan and the western provinces of Pakistan

The language is believed to have originated in the Kandahar/Helmand areas of Afghanistan. Dari often dominates over Afghan/Pashto in Afghanistan in everyday government use since the capital was moved to Kabul from Kandahar in the 18th century. Pashto is spoken by ca 30% of Afghanistan's population as .Pashto is one of the two official languages of Afghanistan. The other is the Persian language, known as Dari in Afghanistan. It is also an important regional language in Pakistan.

The northern dialect is spoken by about 12,206,000 people, and the southern dialect by about 8,685,000 people as of 1993.

PASHTO
Pashto is one of the East Iranian group of languages, which includes, for example, Ossete (North Ossetian, south Ossetian, Caucusus Soviet Socialist Republic) and Yaghnobi (Tajikistan).

East Iranian and West Iranian (which includes Persian) are major sub-groups of the Iranian group of the Indo Iranian branch of the Indo European family of languages. Indo-Iranian languages are spoken in a wide area stretching from portions of eastern Turkey and eastern Iraq to western India. The other main division of Indo- Iranian, in addition to Iranian, is the Indo-Aryan languages, a group comprised of many languages of the Indian subcontinent.

Sample Translation
This organization's ideology is based on Pashtun supremacy and ultra-nationalism. They believe Afghanistan belongs only to the Pashtuns, and that all other ethnic groups are inferior and foreign. They want a government in Afghanistan that consists of pure ethnic Pashtuns. They do not always go by the name of Afghan Milat, they sometimes refer to themselves as social democrats.