Language/Central-pashto

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Facts about Central Pashto

• Pashto, sometimes spelled Pukhto or Pakhto, is an Eastern Iranian language of the Indo-European family. It is known in Persian literature as Afghani. Spoken as a native language mostly by ethnic Pashtuns, it is one of the two official languages of Afghanistan, and is the second-largest regional language in Pakistan, mainly spoken in the northwestern province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and the northern districts of the Balochistan province. Likewise, it is the primary language of the Pashtun diaspora around the world. The total number of Pashto speakers is at least 40 million, although some estimates place it as high as 60 million. Pashto is "one of the primary markers of ethnic identity" amongst Pashtuns.
• Central Pashto (Pashto: منځنۍ پښتو‎) (manźanəi pax̌to) are the middle dialects: Dzadrāṇi, Banusi and Waziri.

These dialects are affected by what Ibrahim Khan terms as the "the Great Karlāṇ Vowel Shift".

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• Language code (ISO 639-3): pst
• Autonyms (how to write "Central Pashto" in Central Pashto): منځنۍ پښتو
• Other names for "Central Pashto": Mahsudi, Waziri
• The Central Pashto language is spoken in: Pakistan

Sources

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Pashto
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pashto

Pashto Dictionaries

• Qamosona: multilingual Pashto dictionary

• ThePashto: Pashto-English dictionary (Arabic & Latin alphabets)

• Khyber: Pashto surnames

• Pashto-English dictionary by Zeeya Pashtoon (2009)

• Etymological vocabulary of Pashto by Georg Morgenstierne (2003)

• dictionnaire pachto-anglais (1939) پښتو انګليسي قاموس

• Dictionary of the Pukkhto or Pukshto language, in which the words are traced to their sources in the Indian and Persian languages, by Henry Walter Bellew (1901)

• Dictionary of the Puk'hto, Pus'hto, or language of the Afgháns, by Henry George Raverty (1860)

• Conversational manual: common phrases in English, Hindustani, Persian and Pashtu, by George Plunkett (1875) (Latin characters)

• 17 minute languages: Pashto-English common phrases (+ audio)

• Defense language institute: basic vocabulary of the Afghan Pashto (+ audio) - civil affairs - medical

• Defense language institute: basic vocabulary of the Pakistanese Pashto (+ audio) - civil affairs - medical

Sources

https://www.lexilogos.com/english/pashto_dictionary.htm

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Pashtun Cuisine — Traditional Clothing — Travel Essentials — Modes of Transportation — Past Continuous — Past Simple — Sports — Common Hobbies — Prepositions of Place — Common Prepositions — Household Chores — Rooms and Furniture — Possessive Adjectives — Possessive Pronouns — Relationships — Family Members — Wh Questions — Common Drinks — Common Foods — Present Continuous — Present Simple — State Verbs — Action Verbs — Subject Object Verb — Numbers 11 20 — Numbers 1 10 — Object Pronouns — Subject Pronouns — Introducing Yourself — Basic Greetings