Language code: ps

Technical information about ISO 639 language code ps

The table below provides technical details for the Pushto language, designated by the ps code from the ISO 639-1 standard.

Code

ps

Name

Official

Pushto

Native

پښتو

Family
Indo-Iranian
Scripts
Text direction

Right-to-Left

Plural rules

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Pushto, also known as Pashto, belongs to the Indo-European language family, specifically within the Indo-Iranian subgroup. It is one of the official languages of Afghanistan and is widely spoken in the provinces of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan in Pakistan. The language is written using the Arabic script (Pashto alphabet). It is estimated that there are more than 48 million Pashto speakers worldwide.

Language presence globally

Speakers

*The graph shows a rough estimate of Pushto speakers in countries where it is an official or minority language.

Related locale codes

ps-AF Pushto (Afghanistan)

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