Why Pashtun Rulers have always neglected Pashto Language ?

[شمله ور خراساني]

السلام علیکم و رحمة الله و برکات

Could you guys explain why Pashtun rulers and their children have always spoken Farsi? And why courtiers of the Pashtun royal family were always non-Pashtuns?

And why Was Pashto not an official language in scripture?

[Zarawar]

Interesting question..

[Zarawar]

Royal family was ruling Kabul, they never had no control and no interest beyond the borders of Kabul. They enjoyed their kingdoms and would often refer to their relatives that would visit them from villages, as their farmers and mozdors. The ruling class of Kabul would intimidate their poor relatives by using farsi terms and plainly not speaking pashtu. And, this goes for majority that resided in kabul, e.g. government clerks, AIR FORCE, ARMY etc. It used to be the same as it is right now in Pakistan, the ruling class and pro-government Pashtuns of Pakistan all speak urdu and does not give Pashtu any significance at all.
Afghanistan has changed 360 degrees though....

[شمله ور خراساني]

Royal family was ruling Kabul, they never had no control and no interest beyond the borders of Kabul. They enjoyed their kingdoms and would often refer to their relatives that would visit them from villages, as their farmers and mozdors. The ruling class of Kabul would intimidate their poor relatives by using farsi terms and plainly not speaking pashtu. And, this goes for majority that resided in kabul, e.g. government clerks, AIR FORCE, ARMY etc. It used to be the same as it is right now in Pakistan, the ruling class and pro-government Pashtuns of Pakistan all speak urdu and does not give Pashtu any significance at all.
Afghanistan has changed 360 degrees though....

If this is the case, then it is safe to claim that the reason why our language was ignored and neglected is because of our own leaders. Right?

[Zarawar]

with no doubt...

[Darweshkhel]

this is a false lie that was created by our enemies to split pashtuns, afghan rulers have always spoken pashto at home. i even read documents made by british and indian attenders at the court of dost mohammad and amir abdur rahman. they have written explicitly that dari is used in official documents, public appearences etc because this was a language that was understood by all afghan ethnics. but at the court of dost mohammad, at their homes and in private it was pashto only.
afghan rulers were using dari as lingua franca to communicate with their neighbors, with persians, tajiks, uzbeks, even hindustan, pashtun rulers were educated and fluent in dari, pashto, arabic and sometimes urdo.
but they have married women from tribal areas and daughters of prominent khanan and meshran and pashto was their mother tongue.
they didnt neglect anything, pashto was just not considered as a multinational language and was not used amongst different ethnics.
the other reason is that most pashtuns are rural they live in peripheries not in cities, they main afghan centres were herat (very mixed population), kabul (very mixed) mazar (pashtun minority) and kandahar.

[Zarawar]

Obviously our leaders spoke pashtu at some point. We are the new generation, we have been affected by the weakness of pashtu. Recent leaders that mattered/matters to us like Zaher Shah, Daoud khan, Amanullah khan never spoke a word of Pashtu, and I was reffering to these leaders. Speaking a pashtu in their Darbar was like speaking in a new language.....What, are we going to deny this?

[Zarawar]

Yeah, I had family in kabul back in 50s and 60s. My father always talks about how even the ordinary Pashtuns of Kabul spoke dari, it was considered modest and stylish to speak in Dari. Pashtu was considered backwards....

[سلطان]

Pashto is the national language of Afghanistan along with Dari. Though, it stands shoulder to shoulder with Dari, there are a whole lot mare Pashtuns than Tajiks. It's up to us to make sure our language not only continues but strives.

Pointing fingers is okay as long as we are learning from the discussion regarding the matter. I hope the pointing of fingers at the leadership is not just that but rather to realize that it is upto us to pursue Pashto not only in our homes but in our communities. We must push Pashto before our language becomes a language of the past spoken by those people called Pashtoons....NOT how we want to be remembered. We need more writers. We need more poets. We need patriotic people who will carry our literary works into the future and revive our literature of the past to thrive off of.

PS....why are we writing in English here? Khpala pakhto mo sa shwa?

Wa Salam

[Shayesta]

Yeah, I had family in kabul back in 50s and 60s. My father always talks about how even the ordinary Pashtuns of Kabul spoke dari, it was considered modest and stylish to speak in Dari. Pashtu was considered backwards....

True and this was made a backward language by Pukhtoons themselves, otherwise the idiotic mistake of changing the capital from Kandahar to Kabul never should have happened in first place. My mother told me how she and her cousin (a Tajik) used to speak Pukhto with each other, but when they used to visit Kabul they used to switch over to Dari to sound 'modest'. And now, guess what? They ended up speaking Dari till the day of today, though she told that story with a 'lowered' gaze. Though, I can't tell how glad I am about the new generation and their fight for Pukhto.

why are we writing in English here? Khpala pakhto mo sa shwa?

Reason being that written Pukhto is difficult for 'Western-Pukhtoons' to understand and huge numbers of Pukhtoons in West don't understand Pukhto. I guess we have to take support of an international language here? But I do agree with you.

[ijaz yousafzai]

If this is the case, then it is safe to claim that the reason why our language was ignored and neglected is because of our own leaders. Right?

This is true beyond a shred of doubt.

[Nokia_Apridy]

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