Hindi, Urdu and Farsi (Persian) are all Indo-European languages, hence distant cousins of English. This comes as a surprise to many people who assume that Iranians and Pakistanis, along with Arabs, all speak Arabic or some language related to Arabic, which is, of course, a Semitic language unrelated to the Indo-European languages. The language of Afghanistan is called Pushtan, or something like that? Avy, Max, Shanks or any of you familiar with the languages of that area -- can you enlighten us on the Afghan language(s)?