(Information based on Ethnologue and ISO 639, ) Macrolanguage with three varieties (Central, Northern, and Southern) (below).Įthnologue treats Waneci as a fourth, and others (e.g., MacKenzie and UCLA) analyze the dialectology still differently.
Its vocabulary includes many loans, chiefly from its Persian and Indo-Aryan neighbors, and from Arabic, especially via Islam. Pashto belongs to the Iranian subfamily of Indo-European.
