Your Pashto translations might be technical in nature, or require a creative twist to make them work like native texts.
Your TranslateMedia Project Manager will hand-pick a team of professional Pashto translators to match exactly the skills sets required to do your work to the highest possible quality.
We have specialist teams of Pashto linguists in various fields and competences. They are experts in their industry, with relevant knowledge and experience, and we assign them to work according to their skills sets.
Although many of our Pashto linguists are located in Afghanistan we also have a large number of mother tongue Pashto translators and interpreters dispersed all around the world. Our global Project Management presence and dispersed teams of Pashto translators means that we can offer you real advantages where you have tight turnaround requirements.
We advise clients to plan in advance, book Pashto interpreting services early, and always give very clear instructions on what is expected and required from the interpreting team.
Our experience in Pashto interpreting is extensive and broad; we have provided Pashto interpreters for large international events, down to personal shopping trips for VIPs. We will ask you all the right questions to make sure that we understand what sort of interpreting you need and we can offer advice in case of any questions.
Our Project Managers can then build you a team of Pashto interpreters and brief them specifically for your assignment. We can source Pashto interpreters, find booths and audio equipment suppliers, and put together interpreting teams with exactly the right competences and knowledge, all over the world.
If you would like a quote for interpreting please let us know:
Pashto; alternatively spelled Pushto, Pakhto or Pukhto, also known historically as Pathani and Afghani, is the native language of the Pashtun people of South-Central Asia. Pashto is a part of the Eastern Iranian group of languages. Pashto is one of two official languages of Afghanistan, with the other being Dari, and Pashto is also spoken as a regional language in northwestern and western Pakistan and among the Pashtun diaspora around the world.
Pashto is part of the Northeastern Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian language family, although Ethnologue has it listed as Southeastern Iranian. The number of Pashto-speakers or Pashtuns is estimated to be around 40–60 million people worldwide.
As a national language of Afghanistan, Pashto is primarily spoken in the south, east and southwest, but also in some western and northern parts of the country. The correct numbers of speakers are unavailable, but various different estimates show that Pashto is the mother tongue of around 35–60% of the population of Afghanistan.
In Pakistan, Pashto is more of a provincial language, spoken as a first language by only around 15.42% of Pakistan’s population of 170 million people. It is the main language of the majority Pashtun- regions of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA), Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and northern Balochistan. It is also spoken in parts of Attock and Mianwali districts of the Punjab province as well as by Pashtuns who are found in different cities throughout the country. Modern Pashto communities are found in the cities of Hyderabad and Karachi in Sindh. With as high as 7 million people by some estimates, the city of Karachi has by far the largest concentration of urban Pashtun population in the world that means there are more Pashtuns in Karachi than in any other city in the world. As per the demographic ratio, Pashtuns are about a quarter of Karachi’s population.