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or Kandahar dialect or South Western dialect• Literary Pashto's vocabulary, however, also derives from.

Contemporary South Asia - July 1995.

Estimates of the number of Pashto speakers range from 60 million to 80 million.

While it is clear that not all those who self-identify as ethnically Pashtun themselves use Pashto as their primary language, language does seem to be one of the primary markers of ethnic identity in contemporary Afghanistan.

It has adopted neologisms to coin new terms from already existing words or phrases and introduce them into the Pashto lexicon.

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From the 3rd century CE onward, they are mostly referred to by the name Afghan Abgan.

Sometimes spelled "Pushtu" or "Pushto", and then either pronounced the same or differently.

, Population Census — ,• An exception occurs when a completed action is reported in any of the past tenses simple past, past progressive, present perfect, or past perfect.

Unlike most other Indo-Iranian languages, Pashto uses all three types of — prepositions, postpositions, and circumpositions.

Coyle, Dennis Walter August 2014.