pashtun etymology

[RevolutionThroughReason]

Kandahar is a predominantly Soft Pashto speaking region is it not? Same rules apply for any predominantly soft Pashto speaking region. You're doing what they call "splitting hairs". You made a claim; the claim was that Ghilzai Kuchyan speak Soft pashto while living amongst Hard Pakhto speakers

please demonstrate this, name some of these tribes of Kuchyan Ghilzi that live amongst hard Pakhto speakers but speak soft Pashto. then show this is true.

[MistyCohen]

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[Shah-i-Kot]

@khushal, since my knowledge on phonology is limited, I would suggest Badlun to answer your question. He knows phonology:
http://www.pashtunforums.com/pashto-...htm#post707805

You seem to be a dedicated learner of Pashto,

you live in Poland, right? Are there Pashtuns in Poland? Who in Poland do you converse with in Pashto?

[khushal]

RTR,
Youre changing goal posts and almost tricked me into it. Population wise the majority speak the hard Pashto, I never said anything about region. My claim is that what your saying does not mean that one dialect came before the other.

The kochyan migrate, so they do live among hard Pashto speakers often in paktia and parts of Pakistan. They probably spend more time in hard Pashto regions then soft Pashto regions.

[لومپ]

Does anyone of you know the etymology of the word برید brid (attack, onslaught) ?? I have not found any information, I also looked in Morgenstierne's etymological dictionaries...

[Bengal_Tiger]

Brown Skinned Savage a.k.a. RevolutionThroughReason (Mahmood Al-Yemeni) was quoted by another forum member.

Though the Yemeni is weak in his knowledge of Pashtun history and affairs, he tries to pretend he is one.

The claim that Paktian cannot at all mean Pashtun is nonsense (what else can we expect from our Yemeni "friend") because both words have the same three fundamental consontants.


P + T + N

PakTyaN

PashTuN


The "sh" and "k"or "kh" are not a hard consonant in this context because even in modern Pashto they vary from region to region and dialect.

However due to sheer probablity (and a lot of history is that, a lot of history is not hard established concrete facts but just reliance on unchallenged narratives and probablistic theses) and some of these factors:

- Same location as modern Pashtuns
- Same initial letter
- Same middle consonant
- Same final letter/consonant
- Plus other factors

It is almost certain that the Paktyans were Pashtuns, however it takes an agenda-driven bigot not to merely question if that is true but instead to go even further and dismiss it as totally false, an agenda-driven bigot like Arab nationalist and anti-Pashtun, Mahmood al-Yemeni.

However this is part of Al-Yemeni's wider ideological war against Pashtun identity, language, heritage and culture.

A more sophisticated version of Ghul Agha (renowned anti-Pashtun Tajik) but in essence the same, though with this version using a more superficially pseudo-historical, pseudo-intellectual style and posing as a Pashtun whilst Ghul Agha openly declares that he is a Tajik.


[MENTION=1201]Toramana[/MENTION] [MENTION=17579]Loy Afghanistan[/MENTION]

[Smarty]

an agenda-driven bigot like Arab nationalist and anti-Pashtun, Mahmood al-Yemeni.

However this is part of Al-Yemeni's wider ideological war against Pashtun identity, language, heritage and culture.

A more sophisticated version of Ghul Agha (renowned anti-Pashtun Tajik) but in essence the same, though with this version using a more superficially pseudo-historical, pseudo-intellectual style and posing as a Pashtun whilst Ghul Agha openly declares that he is a Tajik.


@Toramana @Loy Afghanistan

Hey bengali, dont defecate on history threads..........