What is a Pashto Dictionary?

A Pashto dictionary is a lexical resource for the Pashto language. Pashto is one of the languages spoken by the Pashtun people, who primarily live in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Pashto is classified as an Indo-European language under the Iranian sub-category and is also referred to as an Indo-Iranian language. As a written language, it utilizes an altered form of Arabic script.

The Pashtun people are the largest ethnic group in Afghanistan and the second largest in Pakistan, but only about 40 percent of Afghanis and 8 percent of Pakistanis speak Pashto. In addition to the Pashto language, ethnic Pashtuns are united by a moral and behavioral code known as Pashtunwali, or Pathanwali, as About.com explains.