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Pashto alphabet and characters

The Pashto alphabet should display only the following characters. If your document is not showing correctly, then first check that the encoding for that program and font supports Iranian languages.

Pashto alphabet is a modified form of the Arabic alphabet. It consists of 44 letters and 4 diacritic marks.

Characters:

Pashto alphabet

Pashto grammar rules

Nouns

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.

Verbs

Pashto formatting rules

Date formats

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

Numbers and currency

Pashto capitalisation usage

Use of capitalisation

This section does not apply to Pashto.

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Decimal separator	. (period)
	e.g. 11.50
Thousand separator	, (comma)
	e.g. 2,000, not 2000
Five and more digit numbers format	split into groups of three from the right using comma
	e.g. 20,000, not 20000
Pashto currency symbol	؋
Currency symbol position	located after the number
	e.g. 150 ؋