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

[MostafaM]

I don´t understand Kandahari dialect and have some difficulties with Mashreqi Pakhto, too.

I am Paktiawal and grew up with them, Zadrans, Mangals and Jajis.
Everything else is a foreign language for me and I desperatly need to change that.

[MostafaM]

A guy came to me and asked me "She yast?"

Sounded Dutch to me.
I had never heard the term "yast" and "she", the softer version of "khe" was new for me, too.

It was emberassing. :-(

[takari_sharsi]

I can teach you kandahar dialect mostafa wrora.

[MostafaM]

Some Afridis and Mehsuds don't have the decency to switch to a more understood dialect when talking to you. The problem is that these two dialects have most of the regular "alif" alphabets replaced with "wow" and vice-versa.

So raghalaye becomes roghalaye (hagha roghalaye dai)
parun becomes paraan
nan saba becomes non soba

Also, waye becomes yaye... (as in hagha se yaye?)

And it's just impossible to understand sometimes, to be honest.

"Wo" becomes "yey", too.

Love the Wazirs and Maseeds.
Their dialect is very close to mine except they say something really funny but I won´t write down here. Specially for someone who speaks Farsi....

"Ze kor ta zem!" becomes something really weird with the Maseeds. hahaha

[Soldat_Amir]

I remember waiting at the Visa office for my wifes visa application in Islamabad, and there was two Pashtuns, one from a tribe called Ibrahimkhel and the other one was from Mardan.

I could not understand a single word from the guy from Mardan, honestly he spoke so fast and fluent but the guy from this Ibrahimkhel tribe spoke very slowly and I understood him well.

I think its beautiful that we have these dialects, but we should all follow a agreed dialect by all tribes.

[Soldat_Amir]

I once visited a friend in the UK to fix his computer and his father is from Attok and they speak your standard Pakhto...I introduced myself to him in Pashto, but I made a mistake I spoke in my native dialect, and he said in the end after nodding a few times pretending to understand, that are you a Farsiban.

[Admin 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''.

[Char$i]

I speak Kandahari-type Pashto and I have difficulty understanding Peshawari people.

[یاسمینه]

Today I recorded a short voice clip in Pashto and sent it to a Pashtun. I was surprised because he understood what I wanted to say

[Haris]

Yeah. When I was a young kid in Kabul, my mum & aunts were going somewhere (I think to the markaz or someone's house, can't remember) and needed me to go too since they couldn't go without a male. So a taxi was called and I was told to wait in it while they got ready.


The taxi driver says something in Dari so I say:

"Dari ne ast, Pakhto ast"

"Kha, de kum zi ye haleka"

"Ze de Wardak yum"

"De Wardak ye?"

"Ao"

"Wardak ke de kum kali ye?"

"De Millikhel"

"De koom?"

"De Millikhel"

"De Mollikhel?"

"Na Millikhel"

"Meelukhel?"

"Na Millikhel!"

"Walah ke me awredalay wi, khudazda che the sa wayee"


Then there was just the most awkward silence for the next few minutes. I was so relieved when my mum came lol.
I think it was more due to me not being able to pronounce words properly as a kid rather than any difference in the language.

[Gulbabo]

Yeah. When I was a young kid in Kabul, my mum & aunts were going somewhere (I think to the markaz or someone's house, can't remember) and needed me to go too since they couldn't go without a male. So a taxi was called and I was told to wait in it while they got ready.


The taxi driver says something in Dari so I say:

"Dari ne ast, Pakhto ast"

"Kha, de kum zi ye haleka"

"Ze de Wardak yum"

"De Wardak ye?"

"Ao"

"Wardak ke de kum kali ye?"

"De Millikhel"

"De koom?"

"De Millikhel"

"De Mollikhel?"

"Na Millikhel"

"Meelukhel?"

"Na Millikhel!"

"Walah ke me awredalay wi, khudazda che the sa wayee"


Then there was just the most awkward silence for the next few minutes. I was so relieved when my mum came lol.
I think it was more due to me not being able to pronounce words properly as a kid rather than any difference in the language.

haha cute!

[roadrunner]

probably most can't speak a word without a dictionary.

[MostafaM]

probably most can't speak a word without a dictionary.

Said the Gujarati Hulk!

[faye]

noserunner has escaped from the funny farm, again. ;-]

[MostafaM]

ww