In this video we compare standard Pashto from Afghanistan to the Pashto that is spoken in Pakistan's largest Pashtun-majority city, Peshawar, and see where the differences occur in terminology, and the pronunciation. Naveed, from Afghanistan, and Haroon, from Pakistan, will read several terms and sentences and see how well they can understand each other.

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Pashto is an Eastern Iranian (Iranic) language, and one of the two official languages of Afghanistan. It is also spoken in the west and northwest parts of Pakistan.

The Pashto language is primarily spoken in Afghanistan and Pakistan, being one of the two official languages of Afghanistan. The language has several dialects, but mainly divided into two major varieties of Northern and Southern, with Northern Pashto being spoken in eastern and northeastern Afghanistan (including Kabul), and in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan, including Peshawar where, along with Hindko, are the primary native languages. Southern Pashto is spoken in southern and western Afghanistan (including Kandahar), southern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and northern Balochistan (including Quetta). A major part of Pashtun culture consists of literature and poetry. Some of the best known writers and poets of the Pashto language include Amir Kror Suri (امير کروړ سوري‎), also known as Jahan Pahlawan; Pir Roshan (بايزيد پير روښان‎), also known as Bāyazīd Pīr Rōshān; Khushal Khattak (خوشال خان خټک), also known as Khushal Baba; Rahman Baba (رحمان بابا), Khan Abdul Ghani Khan (خان عبدالغنی خان), Afzal Khan (افضل خان), Ajmal Khattak (اجمل خټک‎), Khan Roshan Khan (خان روشن خان), Ameer Hamza (امیرحمزه), commonly known as Hamza Baba (حمزه بابا); Kabir Stori (کبیر ستوری‎), and numerous others.

Pashtuns, also known as Pakhtuns or Pathans, are an Iranian (Iranic) ethnic group who are native to the area that primarily stretches across southern Afghanistan and northwestern Pakistan. This region was historically known as Pashtunistan.

There have been arguments by several linguists that the ancestor of the Pashto language is Avestan, the ancient Iranian language used in Zoroastrian scripture.

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