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Northern Pashto

Northern Pashto
Yusufzai
یوسفزئی پښتو
Native to Pakistan, Afghanistan
Ethnicity Pashtun
Native speakers
21 million (2013)
Pashto alphabet
Official status
Regulated by Pashto Academy (Peshawar, Pakistan)
Language codes
ISO 639-3
Glottolog nort2646

Northern Pashto or Northeastern Pashto, sometimes known as Pekhawari Pashto after its principal subdialect, is a Northern dialect of Pashto spoken in northern Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan.

Yusufzai Pashto has a difference in affricates: in other dialects t͡s, d͡z/z, ʒ, in Peshawari instead s, z, j. Such as in most Northern dialects, in Yusufzai is pronounced x and g instead southern ʂ, ʐ.



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