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NorthernPashtoLanguage
The NorthernPashtoLanguage is a PashtoLanguage of Pakistan. SIL code: PBU. ISO 639-1: ps. ISO 639-2: pus. Population: 9,585,000 in Pakistan or 8.47% of population, including Southern Pashto (1993 estimate). Population total all countries: 9,685,000. Region: Along Afghanistan border, most of NWFP, Yusufzai and Peshawar. Also spoken in Afghanistan, India, UAE, United Kingdom. Alternate names: PAKHTO, PUSHTO. Dialects: NINGRAHARIAN PASHTO, NORTHEASTERN PASHTO. Comments: A good deal of similarity with Northwestern Pashto in Afghanistan. Subdialects of Northeastern Pashto are Kohat (Khatak), Yusufzai (Peshawar), Afridi, Shinwari, Mohmand, Shilmani. There is generally an 80% lexical similarity between Northeastern and Southwestern Pashto. Rich literary tradition. The Powinda are a nomadic Pashto-speaking group. Dictionary. Literacy rate in second language: Low. Modified Perso-Arabic script used. Used in schools and media in NWFP and adjacent tribal territories. Newspapers, radio programs, films, TV. Sunni Muslim, some Shi'a. Bible 1895. Also spoken in: Afghanistan. (Language name: PASHTO, NORTHERN.) Alternate names: PAKTU, PAKHTU, PAKHTOO, AFGHAN. Dialects: NORTHWESTERN PAKHTO, GHILZAI, DURANI. Comments: Bilingualism in Farsi. Since the early 1930s the Afghan government has been exerting considerable effort to standardize and publicize the language. One of the two official languages taught in schools. The Ghilzai speakers are nomadic and 24% of the national population. The Durani, 16%, live in permanent settlements. The people are called 'Pakhtoon' in the north, 'Pashtoon' in the south. Pashto clans are: Mohmandi, Ghilzai, Durani, Yusufzai, Afridi, Kandahari (Qandahari), Waziri, Chinwari (Shinwari), Mangal, Wenetsi. National language. Literacy rate in first language: 5% to 10% (?) Literacy rate in second language: 15% to 25%. Radio programs. Mainly Hanafi Sunni Muslim. Bible 1895. Also spoken in: United Arab Emirates. (Language name: PASHTO, NORTHERN. Population: 100,000 in UAE (1986). Alternate names: PUSTO, PASHTU, PASSTOO, PAKHTOO, PUSHTO. Comments: People called Pathans. Speakers have come from Pakistan. Modified Urdu script used. Unskilled laborers, drivers. Muslim. Bible 1895.(extract from http://www.ethnologue.com/)
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InstancesContentBearingPhysicalUn Object o Process que expresa contenido. Esto cubre los Objects que contienen una Proposition, como un libro, así como un ManualSignLanguage, por lo que puede contener una Proposition.
 EasternIranianLanguageOf the 84 IranianLanguages, 14 of these are classified as an EasternIranianLanguage.(extract from http://www.ethnologue.com/)
 EntityLa clase universal de individuos. Es el nodo principal de la ontología.
 HumanLanguageLa subclass de Languages usados o sea «lenguajes naturales» por Humans.
 IndoEuropeanLanguageThere are 433 languages categorized as an IndoEuropeanLanguage, forming a major family of the world's languages and including many of the most familiar languages of Europe and South Asia.(extract from http://www.ethnologue.com/)
 IndoIranianLanguageAn IndoIranianLanguage is any of 296 closely related IndoEuropeanLanguages spoken in south Asia and nearby regions.(extract from http://www.ethnologue.com/)
 IranianLanguageOf the 296 IndoIranianLanguages, 84 of these are classified as an IranianLanguage.(extract from http://www.ethnologue.com/)
 LanguageUn sistema de signos para expresar pensamientos. El sistema puede ser natural o artificial, por ejemplo, algo que emerge poco a poco como un artefacto cultural o algo se crea intencionalmente por una persona o grupo de personas.
 LanguageFamilyA LanguageFamily is group of SpokenHumanLanguages related through descent from a common ancestral language. (reference from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_family)
 LinguisticExpressionEsta es la subclase de ContentBearingPhysical que es relacionada con idiomas. Note que esta Class abarca ambos Language y los elementos de Languages, por ejemplo Words «palabras».
 NaturalLanguageLa subclass de HumanLanguages (lenguajes naturales) que fueron diseñados y que evolucionaron de generación a generación. Esta clase incluye todos los lenguajes nacionales como el inglés, el español y el japonés, etc. Note que esta clase incluye los dialectos de lenguajes naturales.
 PashtoLanguageOf the 11 SoutheasternIranianLanguages, four of these are classified as a PashtoLanguage.(extract from http://www.ethnologue.com/)
 PhysicalUna entidad que tiene ubicación en espacio-tiempo. Note que las ubicaciones se entienden tener sitio en espacio-tiempo.
 SoutheasternIranianLanguageOf the 14 EasternIranianLanguages, 11 of these are classified as a SouthasternIranianLanguage.(extract from http://www.ethnologue.com/)
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