Pashto Also spelt Pakhto and Pushtu, Pashto is the language of the Pashtun or Pakhtun or Pathan people of Afghanistan and Pakistan's Northwest Frontier and Baluchistan provinces. An Iranian language related to Persian and Kurdish, Pashto retains many aspects of archaic Persian grammar and spelling.

Pashto Supplements to the Perso-Arabic Alphabet
Letters (Independent Forms Only)	Pashto Names	Pronunciation
	Té	retroflex T
	Dzé	Dz in adze
	Tsé	Ts as in gnats
	Daal ("hard")	retroflex D
	Ré ("hard")	retroflex R
	Zhé (Kandahar)	retroflex version of French J (or S in pleasure)
	Ghé (Kabul & Peshawar)	hard G in go
	Shin (Kandahar)	retroflex Sh
	Khin (Kabul & Peshawar)	close to Ch in German doch
	Nuun ("hard")	retroflex N
	majhula yé	close to diphthong in eight
	de taanis saqila yé	"eille" in French veille or equivalent to E + in Russian
	de tazkir saqila yé	same as above (but verbs only)