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Central Pashto

Central Pashto is an Indo-European language spoken in Pakistan and Afghanistan, by about 6.5 million people.

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Central Pashto · 31.9°N 69.5°E

Central Pashto (Pashto: منځنۍ پښتو, romanized: Manźanəi Pax̌to) is a standard variety of the Pashto language, spoken in parts of Pakistan and Afghanistan. They are the middle dialects of Mangal, Zadran, Mahsudi and Waziri. These dialects are affected by what Ibrahim Khan terms as "the Great Karlāṇ Vowel Shift".

Here is a comparison of Middle Dialects with South Eastern:

From Wikipedia · Central Pashto · CC BY-SA 4.0

Words in Central Pashto

MeaningWordRomanization
personsarai*
namenum*
eyest3rga*
earxw3Z*
nosepeza*
toothxw3S*
tongueZ3ba*
handlos*
bloodwina*
boneh3dik3*
skins3rm3n*
breastsina*
watereb3*
fireyer*
sunmir*
starstera*
stonekora*
treewona*
leafponie*
nightSpa*
dogspai*
fishk3b*
oneyou*
twodwa*
Iz3*
yout3*
wemeZa*
drinkC3*
seelid3*
hearrwed3*

* in the simplified ASJP transcription

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Vocabulary compares 40 basic words (ASJP); grammar compares 195 features (Grambank). Similar is not always related.

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