Pashtunistan (Pashto: پښتونستان, lit. 'land of the Pashtuns ') [4] or Pakhtunistan is a historical region on the crossroads of Central and South Asia, located on the Iranian Plateau, inhabited by the Pashtun people of southern and eastern Afghanistan [5] and northwestern Pakistan, [6][7] wherein Pashtun culture, the Pashto language, and identity...

Pashtuns (/ ˈpʌʃˌtʊn /, / ˈpɑːʃˌtʊn /, / ˈpæʃˌtuːn /; Pashto: پښتانه, romanized: Pəx̌tānə́; [18]), also known as Pakhtuns, [19] or Pathans, [d] are a nomadic, [23][24][25] pastoral, [26][27] eastern Iranic ethnic group [19] primarily residing in northwestern Pakistan and southern and eastern Afghanistan. [28][29] They were historically also refe...

2019年5月22日 · There are over 50 million Pashtuns in the world with a majority of them living in the Pakhtunistan region which was divided after the Second Anglo-Afghan War. The Pashtuns adhere to Pashtunwali (ethics that guide communal and individual conduct) and converse in the Pashto language.

Pashtun, member of an ethnolinguistic group residing primarily in the region that lies between the Hindu Kush in northeastern Afghanistan and the northern stretch of the Indus River in Pakistan. The Pashtun are united by a common language, Pashto, and constitute the largest ethnic group of …

The Pashtuns speak Pashto, an Indo-European language, belonging to the Iranian sub-group of the Indo-Iranian branch, within Eastern Iranian and Southeastern Iranian. Pashto writing uses the Perso-Arabic script, dividing into two main dialects, the …

Pashtuns or Pakhtuns (Pashto: پښتون) are an Iranic ethnic group of Afghanistan and Pakistan. They are the largest ethnic group in Afghanistan and the second largest in Pakistan. Their native language is Pashto, but many of them also speak Dari, Hindko and Urdu languages.

2019年8月11日 · With a population of at least 50 million, the Pashtun people are Afghanistan's largest ethnic group , and are also the second-largest ethnicity in Pakistan. They are also known as "Pathans." Pashtuns are united by the Pashto language, which is a member of the Indo-Iranian language family, although many also speak Dari (Persian) or Urdu.

2025年2月5日 · Originally spoken by the Pashtun people, Pashto became the national language of Afghanistan in 1936. It is spoken by more than 35 million people, most of whom reside in Afghanistan or Pakistan. Smaller speech communities exist in Iran, Tajikistan, the United Arab Emirates, and the United Kingdom.

The Pashtun tribes (Pashto: پښتانه قبايل), are tribes of the Pashtun people, a large Eastern Iranian ethnic group who speak the Pashto language and follow Pashtunwali, the social code of conduct for Pashtuns.

The Pashtuns speak Pashto (also spelled Pukhto, Pakhto, Pushto or Pukhtu), which is in the the North-Eastern group of the Iranian branch of the Indo-European family of languages. It is more similar to Baloch than Urdu.