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Pashto alphabet and characters
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Pashto alphabet is a modified form of the Arabic alphabet. It consists of 44 letters and 4 diacritic marks.
Pashto grammar rules
Pashto is an inflected language with a complex system of noun declensions and verb conjugations.
There are two numbers – plural and singular. Nouns can be either masculine or feminine.
There are just two cases, direct and oblique, though in the singular there is also a vocative. Cases are marked with prefixes, suffixes or both.
There are no articles.
Pashto formatting rules
Short date format | dd/mm/yy |
e.g. 22.10.2016 | |
Long date format | dd/MMMM/yyyy dddd, dd MMMM, yyyy |
e.g. 19/رجب/2016 |
Pashto capitalisation usage
This section does not apply to Pashto.
Solutions for Pashto
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