I request from GOOGLE GROUP to add Pashto language in Google
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Pashto is a language spoken in South-Central Asia, primarily in
Afghanistan and neighboring Pakistan as well as by the Pashtuns
throughout the world.
As the national language of Afghanistan,[15] Pashto is primarily
spoken in the east, south and southwest, but also in some northern and
western parts of the country. The exact numbers of speakers are
unavailable, but different estimates show that Pashto is the mother
tongue of 35-60%[16][17][18][19] of the total population of
Afghanistan.
In Pakistan, Pashto is the first language of about 15.42%[20] of
Pakistan's 170 million people. It is the main language of Khyber
Pakhtunkhwa, Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) and
northwestern Balochistan, but also spoken in parts of Mianwali and
Attock districts of the Punjab province as well as by Pashtuns who are
found living in different cities throughout the country. Modern Pashto-
speaking communities are also found in the cities of Karachi and
Hyderabad in Sindh.
Other communities of Pashto speakers are found in northeastern Iran,
primarily in South Khorasan Province to the east of Qaen, near the
Afghan border,[21] and in Tajikistan.[22] There are also communities
of Pashtun communities descenmt in the southwestern part of Jammu and
Kashmir.[23][24][25]
Sizable Pashto-speaking communities also exist in the Middle East,
especially in the United Arab Emirates,[26] and Saudi Arabia, as well
as in the United States, United Kingdom,[26] Thailand, Canada,
Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, Qatar, Australia, Japan and Russia
etc.
History:
The origin of Pashto language and the Pashtun tribes is unknown. The
word "Pashto" derives by regular phonological processes from Parsawā-
"Persian".[27] Nonetheless, the Pashtuns are sometimes compared with
the Pakhta tribes mentioned in the Rigveda (1700–1100 BC), apparently
the same as a people called Pactyans, described by the Greek historian
Herodotus as living in the Achaemenid's Arachosia Satrapy as early as
the 1st millennium BC.[28] However, this comparison appears to be due
mainly to the apparent, etymologically unjustified, similarity between
their names.[29][30]
Herodotus also mentions the Pactyan "Apridai" tribe but it is unknown
what language they spoke.[31] Strabo, who lived between 64 BC and 24
CE, explains that the tribes inhabiting the lands west of the Indus
River were part of Ariana and to their east was India.[29] Since the
3rd century CE and onward, they are mostly referred to by the name
"Afghan" ("Abgan")[32][33][34] and their language as "Afghani".[35]
For more Info:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Pashto_language#See_also
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