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Central Pashto, or Pax̌to, serves as a prestige Pashto dialect, and is based on the dialect spoken in the area around Kabul, northern Wardak, Logar and Paktia provinces. This is the dialect of Pashto used in Afghan media. Central Pashto has been developed by the National Radio & Television of Afghanistan and the Academy of Sciences of Kabul. This dialect of Pashto has been chosen as standard because the Pashtuns from north, south, east and west as well as those living in Pakistan, India, Iran and all around the world widely understand this dialect. There has also been an effort to adopt a written form based on Latin script, but because of linking the Perso-Arabic based script with the religious views of Afghans, the effort of adapting a Roman alphabet has been failed. However, Pashto is widely written in Latin script outside Afghanistan by the 2nd and 3rd generation of Pashtun refugees many of whom never learned how to read and write the Perso-Arabic based Pashto alphabet.
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