Langenesis

Indo-European family

Pashto

c. 1500 CE – today Living

Pashto (c. 1500 CE – today) is a living Indo-European language. Lineage: Proto-Indo-European → Proto-Indo-Iranian → Proto-Iranian → Pashto.

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Speakers
45M (45,000,000)
ISO 639-3
pus
Glottocode
pash1269

Eastern Iranian; national language of Afghanistan and widely spoken in Pakistan. Literature securely dated from the 16th c.; claims of earlier texts are disputed.

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4,500 BCE – 2,500 BCE
  2. Proto-Indo-Iranianc. 2,500 BCE – 1,800 BCE
  3. Proto-Iranianc. 1,800 BCE – 1,000 BCE
  4. Pashtoc. 1500 CE – today

Sister languages 16

Also descended from Proto-Iranian.

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