Locale Ps Af

Reference data for the Pashto (Afghanistan) locale — endonym پښتو (افغانستان), written in the Arabic script, right-to-left (RTL).

Identifiers

• BCP 47 tag: ps-AF
• ISO 639-1: ps
• ISO 639-3: pus
• Script: Arab (Arabic)
• Region: AF (Afghanistan)
• Text direction: rtl — right-to-left (RTL)

Speakers (approximate)

• L1 (native): 17,000,000
• L2 (additional): 5,000,000
• L1+L2 (total): 22,000,000

Set dir="rtl" for this locale (per Locale's text-direction guidance) rather than assuming left-to-right layout.

Base locale

This is a regional variant of Locale Ps 001 (Pashto), the base/macro locale for this language.

Pluralization

CLDR plural categories for this locale: one, other (2 forms).

• one — n = 1 (e.g. 1)
• other — everything else (e.g. 0, 2~16, 100, 1000, …)

See Unicode Messageformat for writing plural messages using these categories.

Translating into this locale

Apply Locale Ps 001 with the conventions of Afghanistan.

• Context: Pashto and Dari are both official; many materials are bilingual. Provide complete Pashto content, not a thin translation of Dari.
• Calendar and formats: the Solar Hijri calendar is official, with Pashto month names (وری, غویی, غبرګولی, چنګاښ, زمری, وږی, تله, لړم, لیندۍ, مرغومی, سلواغه, کب); afghani (؋); the weekend is Friday.
• Tone: polite and respectful, with religious greetings customary in correspondence.

Common pitfalls

• Using Dari month names in Pashto content.
• Using Western date formats on official forms.
• The general pitfalls in Locale Ps 001 also apply.

Learn more

• Locale for BCP 47 identifiers, locale-sensitive formatting, pluralization, and text-direction concepts that apply across all locales.
• Unicode Messageformat for writing plural/selection messages correctly for this locale's grammar.
• Unicode CLDR locale data for number, calendar, and currency formats (https://cldr.unicode.org)