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