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`
Standard	ISO 639-2, ISO 639-3
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
Supported in Localizely

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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