Originally posted by History of Pashtuns
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lol, I can say despite being from Northern Afghanistan all my family members are Pashtuns who can speak Pashto and even read and write in Pashto despite being refugess all our lives.
There are no Tajiks in my immediate family like cousins etc but a few people from my tribe have married outside our tribe, to people of different nationalities including europeans.
Its true many Pashtuns have become Farsiwan in terms of language especially those living outside Pashtun heartlands. Its natural as its happened to Niazis of Punjab and Abdalis of Herat because the predominant language is not Pashto. Wardak and Logar are mostly Pashtuns both culture, mannerisms and everthing else, there are pockets of Farsi speaking people here and there but majority are Pashtun in every sense. A few Wardags and Logaris from Kabul do not represent all these people. As you mentioned the fringe groups are more likely to be influenced by neighbours and Wardag is on the fringe of Pashtun area so no surprises there.
Differences among different Pashtun tribes are not mainly accross the Durand Line East to West but more North to South. A wardag who is Karlani Pashtun will still have alot more in common with an Afridi than with a Kandahari.
I don't know what you are talking about in terms of accent as there dozens of accents in Afghanistan. If you mean vocabulary than of course Pashto in Afghanistan will be influenced by Farsi and vice versa. For example we say Bishqab or Qab for Plate, wbile pekhawris say Palait or lokhai. Different Pashtun regions have different expression and words and that is just natural variation particular to that area. It has nothing to do with Lar and Bar. Although Wazir and Bannusi are both Lar pashtuns, their accent and some of their vocabulary is completely Alien to a fellow Lar Pashtun from Dir or Swabi. With more centralisation I think all these accents will be lost.


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