PASHTO PEOPLE, CULTURE, & LANGUAGE

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Pashto is an Eastern Iranian language in the Indo-European language family. It is known in historical Persian literature as Afghani (افغانی, Afghāni). Spoken as a native language mostly by ethnic Pashtuns, it is one of the two official languages of Afghanistan alongside Dari, and it is the second-largest provincial language of Pakistan, spoken mainly in Khyber Pokhtunkhwa and the northern districts of Balochistan. Likewise, it is the primary language of the Pashtun diaspora around the world. The total number of Pashto speakers is at least 40 million, although some estimates place it as high as 60 million. Pashto is "one of the primary markers of ethnic identity" amongst Pashtuns.
The dialect spoken in this video is the "Ghaznawi dialect". This dialect is spoken in Ghazni which was originally called Alexandria of Opiana. It is close to the Kandahari dialect but is different in some ways. It uses the Kandahari "Zh" as opposed to "G" and it uses the "sh" instead of "kh". If a person from Peshawar heard it, he would think it is Kandahari but if a person from Kandahar heard it, he would think it is vaguely northeastern. There are 300+ regional accents of Pashto, all with minor differences. There is also an accent called "Wanetsi" which is unintelligible to the vast majority of Pashtuns regardless of their region. Some have even speculated that it might be a separate language at this point.
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[@billsidiqi57]

Love from your tajik brothers ❤️ we are one blood ❤️ Btw Wardaki is the second most beautiful Pashtō dialect after Kandahari.

[@SnowLeopard-lt1vf]

I prefer wardaki accent over Kandahari 😂😂 Love from your Pashtun brothers ❤️Salaam Alaykum.

[@thsht1677]

A lot of love to you as well my tajik brother.

[@hyyybo9594]

Love to all my Iranic brothers i am from Nangarhar but i really like the Kandahari pashto😂❤

[@ARYA-lk2ku]

All iranian languages are beautiful ❤️

[@gingerbread7829]

Extremely sus pfp you got there.

[@user-ns6os2ym6n]

@@gingerbread7829 well in indo-iranic context it's kinda tolerable.

[@amirtrz4253]

Tf is that profile

[@fruitcakeandcookiess]

I've never heard of the Pashto language before but it's a very beautiful language!

[@ashir2119]

its beautiful yes but it has 2 versions. kha and sha

[@ikramulhaq7431]

thank you manana

[@ikramulhaq7431]

@@ashir2119 its have 2 dozens above versions .every tribe have own dialect

[@Az-pe8jj]

Language of the taliban

[@thelegendaryboy4939]

YES I WAITED FOR THIS! Love from an Afghan Pashtun ❤️

[@TNOfan4093]

Love Afghanistan from France

[@irinakolcheva5212]

Can you understand Persian language?

[@rafimohammad1210]

Do U speak Dari Too?

[@thelegendaryboy4939]

@@irinakolcheva5212 yes I can

[@thelegendaryboy4939]

@@rafimohammad1210 Yeah

[@Memor-1]

There are a lot of similar words with the Pamir languages. we love you from Pamir brothers 🇹🇯 T A J I K I S T A N 👋

[@amilavxilmen5632]

If I remember correctly, Pashto is the biggest eastern Iranian language by number of speakers

[@Abe-my9wb]

It's true. It's also the only Eastern Iranian language that is an official language of a country

[@thelegendaryboy4939]

Correct ✅

[@SnowLeopard-lt1vf]

Yes, Ossetian is the second largest eastern Iranic language after Pashto. The remaining languages have only a few thousand speakers.

[@alinaafghan3470]

Yes Pashto is the first largest Eastern iranian language and Ossetian is second largest

[@mohammadaminvali3363]

Love pashtun people 🇮🇷💗🇦🇫 their language is very beautiful

[@ashir2119]

hello from a pakistani pashtun , love to afg brothers. larr o bar yaw pakhtun

[@thelegendaryboy4939]

Hello from Afghan Pashtun 🇦🇫

[@JananMD]

Thanks For this beautiful video Pashto is the sweetest language ♥️

[@pashtoonmiakhel8292]

Ty, appreciate the video ❤

[@Espasy]

I'm pashtun but I heard new words here, my dialect is so different, the pashto i speak is pure pashto 😊

[@arranssabapathy]

What a beautiful video! The Pashtun people and their language is very interesting. PLUS 2nd COMMENT LET'S GOOO!!

[@ikramulhaq7431]

thanks

[@thelegendaryboy4939]

@@ikramulhaq7431 salam wrora

[@SB-fw3yr]

I am from Russia and I can say that only the number 2 was similar to Russian (dva in Russian)! I thought there would be more in common, but not really! Of all the Indo-Iranian languages, Sanskrit is closest to the Slavic languages

[@ikramulhaq7431]

you're indian not russian stop nonce😁

[@SB-fw3yr]

@@ikramulhaq7431 Lol. Why do you think so? 😂

[@cristian427]

Beautiful video, but it would be great if the text in Pashto script was also included.

[@puthisak456]

pashto script is arabic script

[@Humble_Electronic_Musician]

Awesome!

[@karabakhazerbaijan1646]

I love Pashto language

[@rouldennn]

as a Persian speaker, I adore this language and the resistance of Pashtuns throughout history against foreign Turkic and Indic invasions. I can clearly understand lots of things in Pashto since both of our languages are Iranian, I hope that some Pashtun rulers in Afghanistan stop making trouble for Persian World or Parsivans there. glory to Pashtunistan from Iran ❤

[@balthazarnielsen6424]

lul, there barely been much resistance towards indics. either way pashtuns often fought under turks, both ghaznavids and mughals

[@sanjaygowda1143]

Pashtuns are not different from indic and indic are not foreign to them . They are called has gandarians in ancient times . Peshawar in Pakistan has 2,300 yrs old which is predominantly ruled by many Hindu kings of both pashtun and other indic ethnic group. Means pashtuns are once Hindus and Buddhist who converted to Islam. I am not saying zorostrinisam is not predominant but Hinduism and zorostrinisam don't have have to many difference. We have so many evidence to give that other Indian kings married to gandharian(pashtuns ) women in our history . Turkish are the foreigners not indic.

[@MM-br3gt]

@@sanjaygowda1143 Bro Gandharan's spoke a different language from Pashto the Gandharan language was a Indic language while Pashto isn't en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gandhara You keep confusing them for Gandharan's because of the geographic area the present day inhabitants live in the present day inhabitants are Bactrian mixed Gandharan's it seems many are adopted are Iranic language but genetically they over lap with Afghan Tajiks that basically like saying even Afghan Tajiks are Indic also.

[@SnowLeopard-lt1vf]

@@balthazarnielsen6424 there doesn’t need to be resistance against Indic people because Indic peoples have the most embarrassing military record in history. India was invaded 21 times and lost 19 of those wars. And looking into history they have absolutely no equivalent to Roman, Qing, Russian, or Islamic empires. Because they cant expand outside of the Indian subcontinent. In fact they couldn’t even unite the Indian subcontinent, that is until a foreign power (Britain) managed to get close enough. Yet it’s still broken into 3 pieces lol.

[@SnowLeopard-lt1vf]

@@sanjaygowda1143 You again? I’m just gonna repost my other reply to your comment. Pashto is completely different from Indic peoples. You said you have evidence, so had better show your evidence. There is no cultural, linguistic, or genetic connection to Indic peoples. One of the worst blunders you make is to say that Zoroastrianism and Hinduism are mostly the same. This proves that you have zero understanding of history or culture or religion. They are completely different religions with completely different beliefs and values and a different “holy” scripture. The only similarity might be veneration for fire. The vast majority of Pashtuns followed Zoroastrianism as they are genetically and linguistically Iranic and Zoroastrianism was an Iranic religion. Greek paganism was much larger than Buddhism before islam in Afghanistan. Nobody followed Hinduism. Pashtuns all descend from their homeland Kandahar. Pashtuns are NOT from Gandhara and Gandhara is NOT Kandahar. Gandhara / taxilla roughly geographically correspond to where KPK is today. Hundreds of kilometers away from Kandahar. Kandahar was originally called Aracosia and was founded by Alexander the Great and then expanded by the Selucid Empire. It has nothing to do with Gandhara (which is a completely different city). No one in Afghanistan has ever followed Hinduism with the exception of the Pashayi people as they descend from Indic peoples. And a small amount of Tajiks who left Afghanistan in the 1980s. A small minority of them remain. Regardless, how would YOU know if you dont speak the language? Pashtun history hasnt been translated into any other language except into Farsi and very little into English and Russian. Zoroastrian and greek practices oddly still remain in Pashtun culture despite them accepting islam. Had they been Hindus or anything else then Hindu customs would have remained but there are none. I can name dozens of ancient practices that persist to this day from Zoroastrian and greek paganism but none from Hinduism. In fact these practices are more common in Afghanistan than in Iran which us considered the heartland of Zoroastrianism. Pashtuns descend from Avestan and Bactrian peoples. None of them have Indic ancestry. There is genetic admixture from the Pontic Steppes due to mixing with those who arrived into the Iranian plateau. There are also those of Saka descent. But none of them descend from the Indian subcontinent and there is no evidence to support that claim. The video gave correct information about Pashtuns. Stop spreading fabricated ignorant historical claims that are divorced from reality and academic study.

[@rohaanansari3775]

half pashtun from my mom's side maybe gonna try and learn pashto In sha Allah

[@balashnizamanibaloch4148]

Love from Balochistan ❤

[@smitchmarcomani5937]

I'm Burmese. I really love Afghani language. That sound cool.

[@ingvardruid7997]

Andy, Please, do comparison of Erzya and Moksha languages.

[@joseg.solano1891]

Great video! I'd have liked to see pashto's true script for the words though

[@yeahso4268]

Let's go i am Pashtun

[@appearancegame2921]

Iranian language ❤

[@mainul1444]

😮❤ 🙏 I love and respect this video and channel! God bless you all amen ❤

[@balochafghan4890]

Love to all Pashtuns

[@Yarkanlaki]

I found words that only still in use in Kurdish and Pashto. Razan : sleep Heart : Zira zirta

[@philthephilosopher9235]

A video about Brahui or Kurukh would be interesting.

[@khemchanokmondopyai2509]

I'm part Pashtun but I never heard its language before.

[@owaischlanguages2081]

Pashto is our friends language

[@Ferhat21..]

I'am Kurdish. Bijî Belucistan. Ma va Baloch yak qoumin ❤️

[@servantabdullah]

I see a lot of negative comments on this video... can we all just have peace? There is no doubt that Pashtun culture is beautiful but that doesn't mean you look down upon other cultures. That's just narcissism. A Pashtun is not superior to any other culture, nor is any other culture superior to Pashtun culture. Why are we looking down upon those who speak/or have origins other than Pashtun. Love to Pashtun brothers and sisters form Malaysia 🇲🇾

[@Covington.mo_g66nig]

سلام / ستوري مسي / خي چارې ټسانکه يې / يا حال دي زه شا يم سهار مو پخير رز مه پخير شپه مه پخير ته خبره / ته خبوري دي هوو / نه کيسې / شايد متوسف يم

[@ansarirbis7194]

Привет, Энди! хочу помочь сделать ролик с лакским языком (нахско-дагестанская семья языков). Что нужно для этого?

[@ilovelanguages0124]

Privet! Please help me with it! Here are the things we need from you: Text and Audio for the following: The native name of the language/ dialect Numbers 1 to 10 Greetings & Phrases Vocabulary Any story / Sample text Images for: Flag & Emblem Traditional Costumes Art/ Patterns Suggestion for Background music :D Kindly send it to my email [e-mail] Looking forward! :D

[@kamiljan_ashiri]

Can't wait for modern uyghur language)

[@AFG0123]

Pashto 🇦🇫❤️

[@Kinasya148]

Do you Live In Türkiye

[@AFG0123]

@@Kinasya148 no, I live in Afghanistan.

[@ashir2119]

and pakistan rora

[@AllanLimosin]

@@Kinasya148 What question is that?

[@AsylumDaemon]

I guess he asked that because there are so many illegal Afghan refugees in Turkey

[@Godfather2121]

Ez bi kurdî dizanim, wek hemû zimanên îranî, hin peyv wek hev in an jî dişibin hev. Ez bi kêmanî bi qasî farisî li hêviya wekheviyê bûm. ewqas cuda ez matmayî mam. silav li hemu paştûnan.

[@Zahiroo325]

Pashto ❣️🇦🇫❣️

[@OwaisChaudhary-tw4wu]

Meherbani kawa

[@Gallusek]

Idea: Masurian and Warmian cultures

[@thomasellis1498]

could you plrase add back mesow mari and sranan tomgo i like tthose languages please thank you

[@ethnicityofhistory7334]

Best

[@afgtec]

Pashtü پښتو ❤️

[@toxion_8]

I am Pashtun, from India. My great-grandfather was the last in my family to speak Pashto. Thanks for this.

[@ikramulhaq7431]

Stop lying .

[@thelegendaryboy4939]

@@ikramulhaq7431 lol

[@toxion_8]

@@ikramulhaq7431 LMAO

[@thelegendaryboy4939]

@@ikramulhaq7431 taso de pakistani pakhtane yast ?

[@igorjee]

@@ikramulhaq7431 Why would anyone lie about this? Hundreds of thousands if not millions of Pashtuns moved into Hindustan and India proper in the last thousand years.

[@robogamer2023]

Hey Andy i'd like to volunteer for a video on dakhni urdu. How do I volunteer and what should I send

[@ilovelanguages0124]

Hello! Please help me with it! Here are the things we need from you: Text and Audio for the following: The native name of the language/ dialect Numbers 1 to 10 Greetings & Phrases Vocabulary Any story / Sample text Images for: Flag & Emblem Traditional Costumes Art/ Patterns Suggestion for Background music :D Kindly send it to my email [e-mail] Looking forward! :D

[@robogamer2023]

@@ilovelanguages0124 Hey actually we guys don't really have a flag, can I use the Indian flag

[@deanticocombar7529]

Beautiful and good people nice experience respect for Afghanistan and it's culture from Pakistan 🇵🇰🤝 Peace from me I am not sure about my government but I as a individual respect your country

[@olciairafcio]

Do a conlang (hamsterish) Its for a book

[@ethandouro4334]

Do a video of Dari

[@ilovelanguages0124]

I need a volunteer.

[@thelegendaryboy4939]

@@ilovelanguages0124 I can be a volunteer! How do I contact you?

[@salinapervin1164]

Huh

[@CallMeConnell]

Аida xwbai ɑst!

[@rafimohammad1210]

@@ilovelanguages0124 If u do Please also provide the Perso Arabic Writing just as U did with Urdu and Persian

[@SnowLeopard-lt1vf]

❤

[@kothiramchandankhede6536]

Like this launage thaks

[@nabazf8891]

I'm seeing a lot of Arabic words in their language.

[@user-ql9mg5zc8e]

make talyshi please

[@thomasellis1498]

could you plrase add back mesdow mari language please thank you

[@wahidullahwahid1584]

Do a dari vedio

[@ibrahimab6896]

Have been waiting for dialects from Afghanistan & Pakistan. You have done incredible work thank you so much. 🙏🏽 Free Kurdistan Free Balochistan Free Burma Free Palestine Free Kashmir ✊🏽

[@leonardoschiavelli6478]

Burma is already a country 🇲🇲

[@kokoci324]

👍👍

[@Tatopatato]

Free Pakhtunkhwa

[@ibrahimab6896]

@@leonardoschiavelli6478 occupied by a Fascist Military gov funded by the west and China. Seen the civil war recently?

[@jeremiablohm9690]

Pleas francosian german dialekt langues

[@kriswugalaxy6468]

Iranian Languages Are fascinating 💯 I'll try my best to learn these languages, I know it won't be easy but I really wanna understand them 🇮🇳🧡❤️🇮🇷🇦🇫🇹🇯

[@user-ph4wb2mk1s]

パシュトー語関連の本が少な過ぎて困っています

[@titan9259]

Pashto: Naranji Croatian: Naranča Tajik (Persian dialect): Noranji Gujarati: Narangi Albanian: Ngjyrë All 5 languages are in the same language family

[@salinapervin1164]

no Albanian from Albanic croatian from slavic tajik and gujarati and pashto from indo Iranian but if u count indo European then yeah thats true

[@Abe-my9wb]

Origin of the word is actually from a Dravidian language

[@legendarypussydestroyer6943]

How can you forget the Spanish naranja?

[@igorjee]

'orange' is not part of basic vocab, it is a loan word from Sanskrit through Persian into European languages.

[@NICATKERIMLI2005]

Bäsin Batsin ay Cähil.Korvatia Slavyan dil ailësine,Albäniya Illiriya Dil ailesine aiddi.

[@Mosden20]

😍🤩🥰

[@rafahusayn]

The sound is very next to farsi. I learn farsi.

[@Godfather2121]

Cuz iranic language.

[@alinaafghan3470]

What Pashto dialect is this? It sounds like a mix between southern and another dialect

[@SnowLeopard-lt1vf]

Ghazni dialect.

[@ouka6509]

Whichever it is, thank god she didn’t use the Peshawari dialect. da pakhawri lehja na se nashem yalay. dora der urdu take werke de

[@alinaafghan3470]

@@SnowLeopard-lt1vf My first time hearing ghazni pashto sounds quite similar to kandahari but still sort of different

[@alinaafghan3470]

@@ouka6509 Yeah you're right Peshawari Pashto at this point shouldn't even be called Pashto it sounds more like urdu. They mix so much urdu and english with it. I think in a few years they might become full on like punjabis cause they are losing culture and language both

[@ouka6509]

@@alinaafghan3470 ow kana 😭😭😭 and its sad cuz Peshawar is one of our biggest cities and an ancient one at that.

[@Covington.mo_g66nig]

يو ۱ دوه ۲ درې ۳ تصلور ۴ پنځه ۵ شپذب ۶ وه ۷ عطا ۸ نوح ۹ لاس ۱۰

[@puthisak456]

Faerie island

[@Ali-bu6lo]

1:42 Afghanistan and Khorasan weren't synonymous. Only the northern two third of Afghanistan was called. The south, were Pashtuns live, was not part of Khorasan.

[@Yoochko]

"East Turkestan" was never called that until the 19th century and is a term invented by the Russian Empire to lay claim to Western China. At that time most Turkic peoples were living in the Russian Empire and so Russia claimed itself to be the protector of Turks. So as protector of Turks they claimed land in China inhabited by Uyghur Turks.

[@ajijulmolla9321]

please Kurdish sorani to Bangla

[@ZhuyithNuristani]

Afghanistan's true name was Aryana.

[@tjmiller185]

khorasan

[@d4rkoce4n48]

@@tjmiller185 Khorasan was named in Islamic times, and it means the land of sunrise because it is located in the east of the Islamic world, while North Africa was called Maghreb, meaning the land of sunset, so Ariana is an older name.

[@cartoonlife11]

One video for Sindhi

[@HA-fr8rh]

Afghanistan persian is beautiful language

[@thelegendaryboy4939]

lol.

[@sepaahbud4399]

@@thelegendaryboy4939 lol your talib family who banned their children from schooling

[@hasray9699]

I wish Pashto had its own beautiful script instead of using the Arabic script.

[@feliperodriguesclaffnne8151]

The Afghan language resembles: Persian and Kurdish.

[@dalubwikaan161]

I think I would like to learn that language. How can I start? Anyone?

[@SnowLeopard-lt1vf]

There is not much resources for the learning the language. Most of the available resources for learning Pashto are in Farsi and some in Urdu. Not many in english. The few which do exist in English have a ton of errors. The best way, is to find a person who speaks the language and practice with them. Note the dialect in this video is the “sha” dialect. There is also the “kha” dialect which sounds completely different. Other the that, the language is excruciatingly hard and not very useful. I’d recommend learning a more accessible and useful language like farsi or Turkish or Arabic.

[@vikalprana2140]

I am a hindi speaker and omg I can recognise every second word of this language most of them are used identically without even any sound change world is more connected than I thought

[@maldex3997]

Use the old Afghanistan please?

[@raxzastthefabe6341]

Quindi probabilmente sta lingua parla samir

[@japaneseapoist286]

which language is this language close to bactrian or Khwarezmian?

[@thelegendaryboy4939]

not sure, but I’m an Afghan pashtun who did an ancient ancestry DNA test and got Khwarezmian as my ancient ancestors

[@ikramulhaq7431]

Pashto is a mixture of bactrian khwarezian sodhgian scythians. Pashtuns have 3 hundreds above tribes and all tribes have different background and belonged from different races .

[@shamm1053]

A tajik is g.e.netically more Pashtun (east iranic) than a pashtun from Pakistan. FACT

[@ikramulhaq7431]

​@@shamm1053 afghan tajiks is mostly pashtuns who adopted persian language and pakistani pashtuns is pure pashtuns 😊

[@SnowLeopard-lt1vf]

Bactrian and avestan

[@rashidmukhrizin4892]

E

[@firozmunshi9755]

KHUDA HAFIZ OR FEE AMAANILLAH KO PASHTU ME KAI SE KAHENGE ?

[@Leonardo-se4su]

It sounds farsi with some arabic and turkish words lol

[@ouka6509]

Does it really sound like that?

[@sepaahbud4399]

Copy paste language

[@7mad211]

it sounds like central kurdish

[@sabaoen1289]

@@sepaahbud4399 in ur head rent free

[@sanjaygowda1143]

Pashtun has more similarities with other indic languages and especially sanskrith.

[@SnowLeopard-lt1vf]

It has no similarities with the exception of the adoption of retroflex R sound. That’s it. If you think otherwise, provide your evidence.

[@Tatopatato]

If you say Pashto is related to Indic Langauges. Your Mentally Disabled

[@ZhuyithNuristani]

We wuz paashtons saar

[@ikramulhaq7431]

no similarities with indic languages neither sanskrit.i can speak urdo hindi punjabi hindko pashai .and i don't see any similarities . persian is more close and more similarities with indic languages urdo hindi sanskrit punjabi sindhi . pashto is totally different

[@thebestofthebestmedia7545]

Short - Land .. This is funny af for a Hindi/Urdu speaker 😂

[@dizimizi8337]

sounds like a mixture of Russian & Hindi

[@ozzy194870]

Do speakers even know it's ancient roots are European origin? Or do they ignorantly deny this as western view?

[@thelegendaryboy4939]

European? I know we have Indo European roots, but not directly european roots

[@deviljho4260]

It’s ancient roots aren’t of European origin. It just has some European influences. They aren’t European influences either, they’re “Indo European”. Most Pashtuns don’t really think much of it.

[@SnowLeopard-lt1vf]

They are aware and proud of their greek ancestry. But as far as Pashto being an “Indo European” language, Pashtuns are also aware but don’t show any real reaction to it in my experience.

[@zed9072]

@@SnowLeopard-lt1vf we're not greek retard

[@ma-lm9vn]

THIS WHITE FLAG DOESN'T REPRESENT OUR COUNTRY AFGHANISTAN!!! THIS IS OUR REAL FLAG 🇦🇫

[@fahimrasouli6670]

I don't have time sorry

[@borealirithyll]

😆LOL

[@alinasrollahzadeh7610]

Need some Pashtun wife that brings me 20 children🤣

[@ikramulhaq7431]

you can't .anyway your persian speaking women's love pashtun men's that's why mostly pashtuns have second wife persian speaking 😁😊

[@alinasrollahzadeh7610]

@@ikramulhaq7431 😂😂😂 I like that

[@joseg.solano1891]

@@TheSingleCell no, they're pashtun, yet they're related.

[@alinaafghan3470]

@@TheSingleCell No Pashtuns aren't Persians

[@ikramulhaq7431]

​@@TheSingleCell no lmao

[@bactrian1442]

Pashto is a tribal and underdeveloped language with almost no literary work. Pashto is also the language of Taliban in the southern Afghanistan and tribal areas of Pakistan, and I am sure people know how savage and uncivilized Taliban are. Pashtuns have managed to recreate the 7th century way of life in the 21st century. If we take all the Farsi, Arabic and Urdu/Hindi words out of Pashto, the total vocabulary will not exceed over a thousand words.

[@SnowLeopard-lt1vf]

A. If we use this logic, then every language is primitive. In English for example, more than 80% of the words are loan words from neighboring languages. Less than 20% is native. If we remove all foreign influence then it will have less than 5,000 words (and it currently has about 600,000). Pashto and persian have roughly 8 million words in their dictionary. Most of these words, both Pashto and Farsi took from Arabic. The same can be said about any language tbh with a few exceptions like Arabic and Greek. (Even a rich language like greek with roughly 5 million words has an exceptionally high number of loan words from Italian) B. I’m not sure where you got your claim from, but roughly 45% of Pashto is derived from Farsi and Arabic. Less than 2% are from urdu and those are only used by Pakistani Pashtuns. Most of them don’t even speak Pashto properly as they mix English and urdu in it. Not to mention their use of Urdu numbers. In many cases, Afghan Persian has adopted words from Pashto that are not used in other dialects of Farsi. In some cases those words were adopted into other dialects but not very many. An example would be how Afghan Persians say “Bas” meaning “enough” instead of the Iranian Farsi word “kafi” with the same meaning. C. As for literary works, there are plenty. They just haven’t been translated into other languages. An example is the works of Khushal Khan Khattak, which is hardly available in any language other than Pashto. Only small snippets are available in English. There are others like Nazo Anna, Rahman Baba, Pir Roshan, and etc. You might say this is early modern and doesn’t count. If you seek medieval works then there are those like Jahan Pahlawan for example. D. Lexicon isn’t everything. Pashto’s phonology, morphology, and other grammar rules are significantly more complex than that of persian. That is why its so difficult for a persian speaker to learn Pashto but takes Pashtuns zero effort to learn persian. Some might say this is a strength because it gives Pashto more nuance (which it indeed has more of than Persian) But others will argue that this can limit the language because it becomes inaccessible and difficult to learn. Indeed making the culture more difficult to understand or adopt. I more or less agree with this one. Salam Alaykum.

[@balthazarnielsen6424]

why do you settamis always come to these pashto videos? I dont remember pashtuns being this much of koonis in your videos, yet you are here??? How obsessed are you with us??? Also, MANY tajiks lives like theyre in 7th century themselves, kharkuss. Pashto barely have any urdu-hindi words. Either way at least pashtuns speak their own language, you settamis cant even speak your own languages anymore

[@balthazarnielsen6424]

@@SnowLeopard-lt1vf thansk brother. I swear, these pashtun obssessed settamis, who cant even speak their own languages anymore, really are something....

[@ZhuyithNuristani]

Taliban are good better than previous government,something that you don't want to accept becuz of your unjustified hate for pashtuns Please improve as a person

[@emraannaimi1591]

Pashto is not Iranian language it's Indian language!

[@Alexander-sr7qm]

⚪⚫⚪ Islamic Republic of Afghanistan ⚪⚫⚪

[@sanjaygowda1143]

Pashtuns are gandarians, the majority of Pashtuns not only following zorostrinisam but also Buddhism was larger than zorostrinisam and even Hinduism was larger and biggest polyethistic religion before Islam not Greek paganism. Kandahar was called gandhar during ancient times it is one of Republic in 16 great Republic of india. Majority of them has Indian ancestry and Iranian ancestry than Greeks. Please give right information about Pashtuns.

[@MM-br3gt]

They are Bactrian mixed Gandharans not full breed Gandharan's just like Uighur's are not full breed Tocharian's.

[@MM-br3gt]

It's not like Turks who speak Turkish today but they are not Turks but are Byzantine's and Anatolians who adopted the language but have nothing to do with how original Turks look like in Central Asia nor even generically.

[@SnowLeopard-lt1vf]

This is complete ignorance. The vast majority of Pashtuns followed Zoroastrianism as they are genetically and linguistically Iranic and Zoroastrianism was an Iranic religion. Greek paganism was much larger than Buddhism before islam in Afghanistan. Nobody followed Hinduism. Pashtuns are NOT from Gandhara and Gandhara is NOT Kandahar. Gandhara / taxilla roughly geographically correspond to where KPK is today. Hundreds of kilometers away from Kandahar. Kandahar was originally called Aracosia and was founded by Alexander the Great and then expanded by the Selucid Empire. It has nothing to do with Gandhara (which is a completely different city). No one in Afghanistan has ever followed Hinduism with the exception of the Pashayi people as they descend from Indic peoples. And a small amount of Tajiks who left Afghanistan in the 1980s. A small minority of them remain. Regardless, how would YOU know if you dont speak the language? Pashtun history hasnt been translated into any other language except into Farsi and very little into English and Russian. Zoroastrian and greek practices oddly still remain in Pashtun culture despite them accepting islam. Had they been Hindus or anything else then Hindu customs would have remained but there are none. I can name dozens of ancient practices that persist to this day from Zoroastrian and greek paganism but none from Hinduism. In fact these practices are more common in Afghanistan than in Iran which us considered the heartland of Zoroastrianism. Pashtuns descend from Avestan and Bactrian peoples. None of them have Indic ancestry. There is genetic admixture from the Pontic Steppes due to mixing with those who arrived into the Iranian plateau. There are also those of Saka descent. But none of them descend from the Indian subcontinent and there is no evidence to support that claim. The video gave correct information about Pashtuns. Stop spreading fabricated ignorant historical claims that are divorced from reality and academic study.

[@WARKADVNG]

Typical indian hindutva dude trying to claim everything as indian. When will you guys learn to love yourself instead of claiming everyone elses cultures 😂

[@MM-br3gt]

@@SnowLeopard-lt1vf No one is denying anything what this KZbin video claims is right but it's like completely ignoring the Indian influence in Afghanistan and only talking about the Iranic influence just because most of the people speak a Iranic language lol mostly this video is made by a biased Persian person ignoring history of Afghanistan that Afghanistan had more Indian influence then they did in the past. Of course Zoroastrianism as a religion came from Afghan but majority of Afghans were following different religions back then like Buddhism and other regions , en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bactria Please go through article mentioning the Bactrian people in which it states that "The principal religions of the area before the Islamic invasion were Zoroastrianism and Buddhism." Again you can't deny the fact that the last non Muslim Afghan kingdom was Buddhist not Zoroastrian denying history is a complete shame to your ancestors go and b... the Bamyan Buddha's more lol. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turk_Shahis