Central Pashto

Central Pashto
Native toPakistan, Afghanistan
EthnicityPashtuns
Native speakers
6.4 million (2017 census)[1]
Arabic (Pashto alphabet)
Official status
Regulated byPashto Academy of Pakistan
Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan
Language codes
ISO 639-3pst
Glottologcent1973

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]

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Here is a comparison of Middle Dialects with South Eastern:

Central Dialects ښ ږ څ ځ ژ
Waziri ʃ ʒ t͡s d͡z ʒ
Dzadrāṇi[5] ç ʝ t͡s d͡z ʒ
Banusi[6] ʃ ʒ t͡s, s d͡z, z ʒ
  1. ^ Central Pashto at Ethnologue (27th ed., 2024) Closed access icon
  2. ^ "Glottolog 4.3 - Central Pashto". glottolog.org. Retrieved 2020-10-16.
  3. ^ David, Anne Boyle (2014). Descriptive Grammar of Pashto and Its Dialects. De Gruyter Mouton. pp. 37–40. ISBN 978-1-61451-303-2.
  4. ^ Khan, Ibrahim (2021-09-07). "Tarīno and Karlāṇi dialects". Pashto. 50 (661). ISSN 0555-8158. Archived from the original on September 8, 2021.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  5. ^ Septfonds (1994).
  6. ^ Rensch, Calvin Ross (1992). Sociolinguistic Survey of Northern Pakistan: Pashto, Waneci, Ormuri. National Institute of Pakistan Studies, Quaid-i-Azam University. pp. 79–146.

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