Northern Pashto ( ps, شمالي پښتو) comprises the North Western (
Pashto
Pashto (,; , ) is an Eastern Iranian language in the Indo-European language family. It is known in historical Persian literature as Afghani ().
Spoken as a native language mostly by ethnic Pashtuns, it is one of the two official languages ...
: ) and North Eastern (
Pashto
Pashto (,; , ) is an Eastern Iranian language in the Indo-European language family. It is known in historical Persian literature as Afghani ().
Spoken as a native language mostly by ethnic Pashtuns, it is one of the two official languages ...
: ) dialects.
North Eastern
Northeastern Pashto, is spoken primarily in the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of
Pakistan
Pakistan ( ur, ), officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan ( ur, , label=none), is a country in South Asia. It is the world's List of countries and dependencies by population, fifth-most populous country, with a population of almost 24 ...
.
Yusapzai
Yusufzai/Yusapzai Pashto is the most-spoken subdialect in the Northeastern Dialect.
Comparison:
Lexical Variation
Even within the Yusapzai dialect; regional lexical variation is noted; as pointed out by Dr. Muhammad Ali Kaleem:
= Sub-regional lexical variation
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Even with regions there can be minor differences in pronunciation. Example:
North Western
The North Western is spoken in the east and northeast Afghanistan.
Phonological Variation
There is regional difference in North Western Pashto in pronunciation of words:
References
Pashto dialects
Languages of Afghanistan
Languages of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
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