have you guys had problems when talkin to someone in pashto...

[tor_khan]

So I was once telling a story to a friend of mine from Swat, after I was done reciting the story he tells me he hardly understood a word I said.

I wonder if tor_khan felt a similar way when I spoke to him.

The highlight was ''Goshey? What is Goshey?'' ''Oh! You mean gwakhey''.

Admin Khana ... I just read this one. I understand you perfectly ... your Pashto is wonderful and it is music to my ears . Just wonder if you understand my Northern utterings??

... I listen to the context of the conversation to help me work out new pronunciations or vocabulary ... when I speak with one of my really good friends from Khost (family living in Logar), I follow their familiar vocabulary and use it to make myself clear back to him ... I find the language very accessible.

The dialect I have had most 'difficulty' with is Wazirwola. In the UAE the taxis were dominated by folk from Waziristan and on occasions I had to switch to Urdu to be understood.

[khushal]

I just met some who told me he is a syed from bannu. I thought bunno was marwat land. who are the syeds, are they pashtun?

[khushal]

Sayed are those people who claim to be related to the prophet or something

ya, but are these guys pashtun, do they belong to a qwam? becasue he did not answer that question when I asked him.

[Laila]

ya, but are these guys pashtun, do they belong to a qwam? becasue he did not answer that question when I asked him.

Khushal khana, i am sure you have seen how many people can claim the lineage. However, no one can see if they are legit or not. The thing is, when the Sayeds of other places came to Afghanistan, they basically split up in different groups for their mission and spread around in different areas of Afghanistan. Sayeds are not ethnically Pashtuns. They do not belong to a Pashtun qawm. Many have been living with Pashtuns for so long, they are assimilated into that culture.

[Breshna]

ya, but are these guys pashtun, do they belong to a qwam? becasue he did not answer that question when I asked him.

Khushal...look up the word...Mashwani.

You will... know...who they...are.