Pashto in India

Speakers

21,677

Type

Location

Pashto in India

Country

Information available

1. Basics

Names

Pashto in India

Size

21,677

2. Status

Status

  • Official country wide language
  • Official regional language
  • Official minority language
  • Recognised community language
  • Unrecognised community language
National language
No
Indigenous language
Yes
Administrative units of the country
North Western India

3. State

Documentation: materials

Written

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials

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Video

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials
Digital
Yes
Comments
TV program Nindara and other videos are available in Pashto language.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXacnsxOulY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWLXqI35yS4
Pashto Nindara TV Program, https://youtu.be/HLaS7kbKFrc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBWv-sfDWdE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ay9fU7Mfq7I

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Audio

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials
Digital
Yes

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Documentation: descriptions

  • Elaborated dictionaries, grammars, statistical language models, etc.
  • Dictionaries and grammars
  • Dictionary and grammar
  • Glossary and descriptions
  • Few descriptions
  • No descriptions
Digital
Yes
Comments
Some Linguistic and culture related material is available in Pashto language.

http://linguistics.uok.edu.in/Files/f6ec3740-422d-4ac1-9f52-ddfe2cffcb28/Journal/c50400d4-98ed-4053-9b4c-c2ede4b7942c.pdf

Wani, N. H. 2010. A Sociolinguistic Survey of Pashtu Communities in Present Day Kashmir. (MA thesis, Srinagar: University of Kashmir).

Aejaz Mohammed Sheikh. 2014. Pashtu. In Omkar N. Koul (ed.), The Languages of Jammu and Kashmir, 244-251. New Delhi: Orient Blackswan.

Pashto Phonology An Optimality Approach by Naseem Ahmad Khan
https://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/handle/10603/389728

An ethnolinguistic study of pashto speakers of Jammu and Kashmir by Humaira Khan
https://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/jspui/handle/10603/147919

https://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/jspui/handle/10603/78454 by Lone Mudasir Ahmad
https://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/simple-search?query=pashto+&go=

https://www.thecitizen.in/index.php/en/NewsDetail/index/14/21641/A-Pakhtun-Village-in-Kashmir

Standardization

  • Modern standard language
  • Young standard language
  • Standardised language
  • Quasi-standard language
  • Semi-standardised language
  • Un-standardised language

Graphisation & script encoding

  • Standardised writing system with full script encoding
  • Conventionalised writing system with partial script encoding
  • Consistent writing system with no script encoding
  • Unsystematic writing system(s)
  • Limited written use
  • No written use

4. Users

Geographical distribution

  • Users live and dominate in all regions of the country
  • Users live in one [state/...] of the country
  • Users live in a cross-border region [state/...] of the country
  • Users live in separated [states/...] of the country
  • Users live dispersed across one [state/...] of the country
  • Users live scattered all over the country

Settlements

  • Rural
  • Urban
Administrative units of the country
Jammu and Kashmir

Size / Number of users

Number of users

21677
Source
Census of India
Year
2011

Users within total population

Users within the reference community

Age distribution of users

Generational use

Educational attainment

Occupational qualifications

Language competence

Literacy of users

Digital use

5. Use

Socio-geographic dimension

Geographic scope
  • International
  • Supranational
  • Cross-border (states)
  • State-wide
  • Supra-regional cross-border
  • Supra-regional
  • Regional cross-border
  • Regional
  • Local
Source
https://www.langlex.com/cens/MTProfile.php?mtname=Afghani%2FKabuli%2FPashto

Economic dimension

Functional dimension

Functional use in administration

Language use in administration
  • International level
  • National level
  • Regional level
  • Local level
  • Auxiliary use
  • No use

Types of language use

  • signed / spoken use
  • written use
  • digital use
Comments
State/District

Ethnoculture

  • No use
  • Informal learning
  • Skills and knowledge
  • Performing arts
  • Social practices
  • Customary law
  • Traditional medicine
  • Knowledge and practices
  • Traditions and expressions

Formal Education

Early childhood education
Primary level
Lower secondary level
Higher secondary level
Tertiary level

Public healthcare

Information, communication and cultural production

  • Information services
  • Broadcasting
  • Video, film
  • Sound/music recording
  • Publishing activities
  • Language not used
  • Information services
  • Broadcasting
  • Video, film
  • Sound/music recording
  • Publishing activities
  • Language not used
  • Information services
  • Broadcasting
  • Video, film
  • Sound/music recording
  • Publishing activities
  • Language not used

Legal system

Completion