How to Use Pashto in a Sentence

Pashto

noun
  • Lakanwal, 29, spoke Pashto during the hearing and used an interpreter to communicate.
    Justin Goldman, NBC news, 4 Feb. 2026
  • The decree was issued last month but has only recently come to international attention after it was leaked to the Afghan rights group Rawadari, which published it in the original Pashto.
    Mick Krever, CNN Money, 1 Mar. 2026
  • Lake initially preserved service in only four languages (Mandarin, Dari, Pashto, and Farsi) but later added a few more, including Korean and Kurdish.
    The Atlantic, 11 Feb. 2026
  • Turkish administrators announced translation support for earthquake victims in several languages, including Russian, German, and Pashto—but not Kurdish, the language of some fifteen million Turkish citizens.
    Nikhil Krishnan, New Yorker, 20 July 2026
  • And people reporting such incidents, along with video and photos, can do so in one of 42 languages, including Swahili, Amharic, Pashto, Urdu, Tamil, Hmong, Nepali, Kinyarwanda, Telugu, Somali, Tigrinya, and many others.
    Peter Lucas, Boston Herald, 19 Mar. 2026

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