Northern Pashto
| Northern Pashto | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Pakistan, Afghanistan |
| Ethnicity | Pashtun |
| Speakers | L1: 23 million (2017) L2: 1.4 million (2022) |
| Pashto alphabet | |
| Official status | |
| Regulated by | Pashto Academy of Pakistan |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | pbu |
| Glottolog | nort2646 |
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| Pashto language |
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Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan Pashto Academy |
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Northern Pashto (Pashto: شمالي پښتو) is a standard variety of the Pashto language spoken in the northern and central parts of the Pakistani province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and central-eastern Afghanistan, comprising the Northwestern and Northeastern dialects of Pashto.