Yusufzai's and Daudzai's?-Help

[pkownz3]

Hi everyone, I'm pretty new here and happy I found this forum.
I was wondering wht my lineage might be. My father is Daudzai and my mom is Yusufzai, My dad is from Lahore and my mom is from Gurjanawalla, in Punjab. Most of my family lives in Punjab but I also have alot of relatives living in Khyber/Mardan/ Northwest area,and even a few in Afghanistan most of them look white lol. My mom knows very little pashto, my dad knows basic. I myself know very little but I'm learning. I heard that my great grandmother knew fluent pashto and same with my grandfather basiclly everyone knew fluent pashto two generations ago. My mom and my dad call themselves Pathan in front of their Pakistani/Indian friends but with other Pashtuns they call themselves Pashtuns. Now I'm just wondering what could be my roots? Could I be mixed with Indian blood? *gasp* Everyone in my entire family is Pashtun, except for a few people, my family is pretty strict with pashtun-pashtun marriges. I might post a pic of myself because I'm that desperate to know lmao.

[Levanaye Zalmaye]

There's no such thing as "Pashtun blood". Pashtuns are descended from not only the original natives of what is now Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa but also the original Yousufzai who conquered it in the 15th century, Turks from Central Asia, nomads from the Caucasus, Jews, Aryans, White Huns, Arabs, people we'd consider "white", people we'd consider "Asian/Chinese", people we'd consider Aryan, people we'd consider Indian, etc, etc. Many non-Pashtun peoples were either Pashtunized over the ages by their Pashtun conquerors and there were also many settlers and conquerors that got gradually absorbed into the Pashtun culture and tribal confederacies.

"Pashtun-nes" comes from having a lineage (tribe, khel/clan, family, land, ancestral home), the ability to speak Pashto, respecting adhering to the norms of Pashtun culture and not necessarily green eyes and freckles.

[pkownz3]

I see, yeah I know a bit about my culture, like I'm Musa-Khel and all, people tend to think I'm Lebonese, Afghani,Albanian or Pakistani. I was just wondering how did my family of Yusufzai's and Daudzai's get in Punjab?

[graveyardofempires]

^
peopel are right
you are an Afghan

your family got there either looking for work or they got their when Afghans used to rule India.

[KingKhan]

Pashtuns are very colorful in a way. You could have a sibling whose real light, while your other sibling can be brown. It doesn't mean your Indian, or European.

Also,

Your 100% Pashtun, and welcome I hope you find the language section helpful.

[pkownz3]

Thashakur.

[AFG21]

^ first lesson you must say manana and not tashakur, tashakur is farsi.

[pkownz3]

Really? We speak Kandahari Pashto, well atleast the few elders do. Is there a huge difference?

[khushal]

^
there is not a big difference in the different dialects of pashto except the hard Khay pashto dialect is better, no I kid.
tushakur is farsi which actually borrowed it from arabic.
In pashto its manana.

How do you guys say "how are you" in your family if you dont mind me asking?

[pkownz3]

I just asked and its chitor asti.

[khushal]

thats also farsi. It seems your family is speaking farsi and not pashto.
In pashto its --tsenga ye?

[pkownz3]

I already knew that, Sanga yee was how are you in Pasho and Za she yem is I am fine. I dunno I think we're speaking dari lolol.

[Amir al Ghaznavi]

I dont know if you is pakhtun or not, but you sho is confused

[pkownz3]

Haha yeah pretty confused. I think I am though most probably yeah, because we belong to pashtun tribes and all don't know why we speak farsi/dari.

[Laila]

^ Hmmm confusing... why do you speak Farsi, are you intermarried with Farsi/Dari speakers?