ژبه او شاعري

Pashto proverbs, mataluna, were first collected in print by Septimus Thorburn in Bannu in 1876, with the Pashto and English side by side. Later collections include Rohi Mataluna (2006) and Zellem's Mataluna (2014).

Yousaf Khan aw Sherbano is a Pashto love story of a hunter from Turlandi in Swabi and a girl from a nearby village, ending in both their deaths. Sung as a narrative poem, it became the first lasting Pashto film in December 1970.

Pashto is written in Arabic letters with signs added for its own sounds. The oldest dated manuscripts are from 1649 and 1651, and the standard spelling was discussed in Kabul in 1942, 1948 and 1958 and at Bara Gali in 1990.