A question of language

[dashtestan]

So in my experience in Pakistan... if you don't speak Pashto if you are not Pashtoon...

Why?

And even if you do speak Pashto but your blood isn't Pashtoon... you are also not Pashtoon...

(Well that makes sense to me...)

But I think you have to pick one or the other....

What do you consider a person who is genetically 100% Pashtoon but now speaks another language?

[Michin Khel]

So in my experience in Pakistan... if you don't speak Pashto if you are not Pashtoon...

Why?

And even if you do speak Pashto but your blood isn't Pashtoon... you are also not Pashtoon...

(Well that makes sense to me...)

But I think you have to pick one or the other....

What do you consider a person who is genetically 100% Pashtoon but now speaks another language?

Pashto speakers of any origin are considered pashtuns while those who dont speak pashto are not considered pashtuns no matter how much pure they are. Forexample marwats and niazis are cousin tribes and both have same roots but marwats who r pashto speakers consider niazis of mianwali as punjabs as they now speak seraiki.

[dashtestan]

So Imran Khan isn't a pashtoon? He speaks Saraiky I believe... he is from Mianwali, isn't he?
This is true of most Saraiky-speakers...myself being one... we are people from a bunch of different ethnic groups who retain our traditions of those groups but now speak a language which doesn't belong to any ethnic group... but rather the language of the people who border the Indus River... whatever their ethnic group.

Well Saraikis at the cost of not being accepted as part of our ethnic groups, we at least have cordial relations with most of the ethnic groups of Pakistan due to being the people living in the buffer zone between all of them LOL.

[fzpz]

It depends on what you define pashtun as. As a linguistic group? Ethnic group? Tribal group? Value group? The examples you showed are a case of ethno-linguistic groupings. Not that different from the popularized ethno-linguistic-religous groupings of jews and sikhs.

Speaking of siraiki, what a beautiful language.

[torkham]

i have niazi friends, from rural mianwali, and thier ways are like tribal pashtun. i recognise thier pashtun roots, even if they speak saraiki.
i love the sound of their language and especially songs of attaullah khan issakhelwi.