Language code: pus

Technical information about ISO 639 language code pus

The table below provides technical details for the Pashto, Pushto language, designated by the pus code from the ISO 639-2 standard.

Code

pus

Name

Official

Pashto, Pushto

Native

پښتو

Text direction

Right-to-Left

Language varieties
Northern PashtoCentral PashtoSouthern PashtoWanetsi (Tareeno)
Related languages
Dari PersianBalochiKurdishTajikOssetian
Key facts
Pashto belongs to the Eastern Iranian branch of the Indo-European familyIts alphabet extends the Arabic script with unique letters such as ښ, ږ, ټ and ډPhonemic retroflex consonants and aspirated stops give it a distinctive sound among Iranian languagesThe earliest known Pashto literature dates to the 16th-century poet Pir Roshan and his followersLexicon preserves archaic Indo-Iranian words while absorbing many borrowings from Persian, Arabic, and Urdu
Sample phrase

سلام، څنګه یې؟

Character encodings

UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32

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The Pashto, Pushto language, identified by the code pus, falls under the 'Macrolanguage' category in terms of its scope and is classified as 'Living' by its type.

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