Native to Pakistan, Afghanistan Native speakers 21 million (2013) | Ethnicity Pashtun Writing system Pashto alphabet | |
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Language family Indo-European
Indo-Iranian
Iranian
Eastern Iranian
Pashto
Northern Pashto Regulated by Pashto Academy (Peshawar, Pakistan) | ||
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.
Phonology
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.
References
Northern Pashto Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA