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Indo Iranian Language Wing (IILW)
Indo Iranian Language Wing at DSL Beaconsfield
Pashto پښتو is classified as an Iranian language within the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European languages. Pashto belongs to the Southeastern branch of Iranian languages, along with Sarikoli, Wakhi, Munji, Shughni, and other languages. (Source wikipedia.org)
Pashto is spoken by about 28 million people in the western provinces of North-West Frontier Province, Federally Administered Tribal Areas, and Balochistan of Pakistan and by over 13 million people in the south, east, west and a few Northern provinces of Afghanistan.
Pashto is an official and one of the national languages of Afghanistan as of 1936. It is one of the official languages in the western provinces of Pakistan. A related language spoken in areas of northern Afghanistan, a dialect of Persian, is Dari. (Source wikipedia.org)
Pashto, being an Indo-European language, shares many cognates with other related languages. Following the advent of Islam in Afghanistan, the Pashto language has received a significant influx of loan-words from Arabic, Persian and various Turkic languages. Ethnically Afghanistan has Pashtun 42%, Tajik 27%, Hazara 9%, Uzbek 9%, Aimaks 4%, Turkmen 3%, Baloch 2% and others 4%.
Our courses range from Survival level that is taught over a period of 10 weeks, to Operational courses for interpreters on Op Herrick.
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