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About Pashto    Pashto is an Iranian language of the Indo-European family spoken by over 17 million people, primarily in Afghanistan and Pakistan.    This course teaches the Northern dialect as spoken in Kabul (Afghanistan), which will be understood through all Pashto-speaking regions.    Pashto is one of the two official languages of Afghanistan (Dari is the other) and the native tongue of approximately 50 percent of the population there.    Although, not an official language in Pakistan, it is spoken by approximately 13% of the population.    Pashto uses a modified version of the Arabic alphabet, and is read right to left.