Pashto is spoken by an estimated 45-60 million people.
"As David MacKenzie notes there is no real need to develop a "Standard" Pashto:"The morphological differences between the most extreme north-eastern and south-western dialects are comparatively few and unimportant
"== Writing system ==Pashto employs the Pashto alphabet, a modified form of the Perso-Arabic alphabet or Arabic script

