Central Pashto | |
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Native to | Pakistan, Afghanistan |
Ethnicity | Pashtuns |
Native speakers | 8.4 million (2019)[1] |
Arabic (Pashto alphabet) | |
Official status | |
Regulated by | Pashto Academy of Pakistan Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | pst |
Glottolog | cent1973 |
Central Pashto (Pashto: منځنۍ پښتو, romanized: Manźanəi Pax̌to) is a standard variety of the Pashto language, spoken in parts of Pakistan and Afghanistan. They are the middle dialects of Mangal, Zadran, Banuchi and Waziri.[2][3] These dialects are affected by what Ibrahim Khan terms as "the Great Karlāṇ Vowel Shift".[4]
Here is a comparison of Middle Dialects with South Eastern:
Central Dialects | ښ | ږ | څ | ځ | ژ |
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Waziri | ʃ | ʒ | t͡s | d͡z | ʒ |
Dzadrāṇi[5] | ç | ʝ | t͡s | d͡z | ʒ |
Banusi[6] | ʃ | ʒ | t͡s, s | d͡z, z | ʒ |
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