Pashtuns and Pakhtuns

[Aryob]

ze ne pohegam che da baRa galai da nasta kala shawe wa. ka da agha zaRa nasta wi no aghe na pasta bala nasta bia shawe da aw ma awredali che dwaRe khwa pa de sar ta rasedali che da urdu ے ba ne karawi. no wos ne pohegam che agha ba kala berta badlegi.

as far as the kamees and keesa is concerned, i have always been reading them as کمیس and کیسه in Afghan books and news. For me قصه قمیص is absolutely wrong.

[Badlun]

Like everyone else said, Pashtun/Pakhtun/Pukhtun is all the same word pronounced differently. If we start with the word پښتو itself a lot of us would pronounce it differently. I believe the standard way would be to put a zwarakay (not zwar) on پ and then pronounce the rest of the word. It will be hard for me to spell it but zwarakay is an added diacritic in Pashto that we don't stretch as we do the zwar or zabar or fatha.

You would hear the "she" of the letter ښ and the "zhe" of the letter ږ in Kandahar/Helmand/Farah/Nimroz/Uruzgan/Herat/Zabol/Ghazni and all the way east in Paktika (not Paktia) and then south in quetta and all of balochistan's pashtun population. You will also hear the "she" and "zhe" in waziristan, Laki, dera ismail khan, tank areas but their accent is very different than kandari, as a paktiawal its very easy for me to understand.

YouTube - Words of Life WAZIRI People/Language Movie Trailer (Waziri dialact)

I might be missing some regions but in a bigger picture rest of the pashtuns use the "khe" ښ and "gey" ږ but their dialacts differ. The central provinces of Afghanistan (Kabul (including surobi offcourse), Wardak, Logar) uses "khe" and "gey" and thats the pashto you would hear on Afghan national TVs and government spokesmen speaking it so is considered more standard.

YouTube - Good News PASHTU Kabuli (for men) People/Language Movie Trailer (Kabul Pashto, please only hear the words not the content. Khodai me de ne gonangarawi ).

Paktia/khost/Paktika also uses khe and gey but dialact and added vocabulary makes it hard for others to understand. Kurram agency and Waziri also sound very similar.

Good material for Pashto listening but no body noticed that its preaching Christianity in Pashto. Still I appreciate these recordings and its not sure where the speakers are Christians or otherwise.

[Aryob]

daa dai zamong de zazayo khwaga zhaba........


YouTube - Da Aryobe Zazai Seama

[Aryob]

and this is my infamous wardak mama video

YouTube - Wardak mama - - www.afghanan.net

[BLS_1919v2.0]

daa dai zamong de zazayo khwaga zhaba........


YouTube - Da Aryobe Zazai Seama

Baba sounds like a little like the Afridis that I have heard. Although I am not entirely sure. I have a paktiawaal friend, and he told me his area and the Afridi's dialect of pashto is almost the same (if not the closest to theirs).

[Nokia_Apridy]

na Bls .......Orakzai KHOYAT KHAIL...

[graveyardofempires]

daa dai zamong de zazayo khwaga zhaba........


YouTube - Da Aryobe Zazai Seama

wahwah jwandey wosey Baba se khwandawera khabera dey wekra.

these are the most knowledgeable people who know the world and life.

[graveyardofempires]

Kandahar accent

YouTube - chaman taliban funny on usa force

YouTube - CHAMAN FUNNY LALI MAMA BY SHAMSHOZAI KHAN

[graveyardofempires]

Kunar Pukhto

YouTube - Dateline Behind Enemy Lines in Afghanistan part 1/2

[sahil112]

Kandahar accent

YouTube - chaman taliban funny on usa force

YouTube - CHAMAN FUNNY LALI MAMA BY SHAMSHOZAI KHAN

the first video is so funny ahaha thank you for posting it!!!!

[kakargirl]

sahil kandaharians know how to take the mick , i think they are excellent at it , it comes naturally, one of my brother does great impressions when hes in a good mood , well funny mood.

[sahil112]

sahil kandaharians know how to take the mick , i think they are excellent at it , it comes naturally, one of my brother does great impressions when hes in a good mood , well funny mood.

yh ino but the taliban guy is legend!!! i wish i cud sit dwn with him ova tea and hve couple of jkez ahaha

[kakargirl]

yh ino but the taliban guy is legend!!! i wish i cud sit dwn with him ova tea and hve couple of jkez ahaha

yeah hes a legend , thats the thing about back home the men/boys know how to have a laugh its a normal thing, when he was laughing it reminded me of my cousin back home if they crack a joke and that high pitched laughter, its same with when females get togeather they will do impressions its a good laugh ,it makes you home sick.

[Gulbabo]

lol @ wrong dialect.

this is an example of how we speak, listen how in the begining he say پښتو, and not پشتو or پختو

YouTube - Pashto: Alphabets

how you pronounce ښ this letter?

it is 'pahhto' with a deep 'hey' sound and very very slight 'khay'. the alphabet you posted is pronounced as 'heen' with a slight khay and a very deep 'hay'... very slight that it shouldn't sound like 'khay' in 'khoshala'...

in Afghanistan, the use sound of alphabet 'khay' when refering to 'heen' is associated with either laghmanian, or pekhawrian... mostly they say 'pakhhhhhhhhto'...