Spoken by as many as 50 million people in Afghanistan and Pakistan, Pashto comprises a range of widely diverging varieties. The Center for Advanced Study of Language Pashto Grammar provides a description of the language that is supported by examples presented in native orthography, Roman transcription, morpheme-by-morpheme glossing, and translation. It is designed as a primary reference work for both linguists and students of Pashto.

Foreword; Series Editors' Preface; Preface; About this Grammar; Scope of this book; Orthography; Tables and examples; Abbreviations and symbols; The Pashto Language; Background; Population of speakers; History and classification; Dialectal variation; Phonology and Orthography; Phonetics and phonology; Consonants; Inventory; "Elegant" consonants; Vowels; Inventory; Vowel transcription; "Elegant" vowels; Middle dialect vowels; Stress; Orthography; The script; Letters unique to Pashto; Tables of letters and numerals; Representation of vowels; Word-initial vowels; Word-internal vowels. Word-final vowelsRationale for transcription system; Orthographic variation; Pashto Dialects; Introduction; Characterizing Pashto dialects; Dialect marking in this work; Dialect marking in tables; Dialect marking in interlinear examples; The four dialects of General Pashto; International differences; The Middle dialects; Middle dialect vowels; Middle dialect consonants; Other approaches; Two dialects; Three dialects; Nouns; Inflection; Gender; Number; Case; Direct case; Oblique case; Ablative case; Vocative case; Split ergativity; Animacy; Inflectional affixation; Introduction. Stem allomorphy and other morphophonemic alternationsClass I; Overview; Class I masculine nouns; Masculine animate nouns in General Pashto; Masculine animate nouns in Waziri; Masculine inanimate nouns in General Pashto and Waziri; Class I feminine nouns in General Pashto and Waziri; General Pashto Class I feminine animate nouns; General Pashto Class I feminine inanimate nouns; Waziri Class I feminine nouns; Class II; Overview; General Pashto Class IIa; General Pashto Class IIb; Class III; Overview; Subclassification of Class III in General Pashto; Class IIIa; Masculine Class IIIa nouns. Feminine Class IIIa nounsClass IIIb; Masculine Class IIIb nouns; Feminine Class IIIb nouns; Class III in Waziri; Irregular nouns and irregular patterns in General Pashto; Kinship terms; Arabic borrowings; Inflection and agreement of conjoined nouns; Derivational morphology and loanwords; Derivational morphology of nouns; Nouns derived with suffixes; Compounds; Reduplication of nouns; Loanwords; Adjectives and Other Noun Modifiers; Introduction; Inflectional classes in General Pashto and Waziri; Inflectional classes of General Pashto adjectives; General Pashto Class I; Case-marking suffixes.