Type Pashto (پښتو) in Pashto (Perso-Arabic) and get the instant romanized Latin script version — plus an English translation. No button, no wait.
Pashto (Perso-Arabic) (Original)
سلام، تاسو څنګه یاست؟
Romanized (Latin script)
Salaam, taaso tsangah yaast?
پښتو
Pashto is the native language of the Pashtun people and one of the two official languages of Afghanistan (alongside Dari). It uses a modified Perso-Arabic script with additional letters for Pashto-specific sounds.
Afghan diaspora communities worldwide, journalists covering Afghanistan, NGO workers, military and diplomatic personnel, and researchers of South Asian languages.
Pashto is spoken by 60M+ people, primarily in South & Central Asia. It uses the Pashto (Perso-Arabic) writing system, which is written right to left.
Romanization (also called transliteration) converts Pashto (Perso-Arabic) characters to their equivalent Latin (Roman) letter representations. This allows speakers of Latin-script languages to read and pronounce Pashto text without knowing the Pashto (Perso-Arabic) script.
This tool uses Google's neural romanization engine to convert Pashto text to Latin script in real time. The romanization follows standard transliteration conventions and is updated automatically 800ms after you stop typing — no button click required.