Southern Pashto

Southern Pashto
Southern Pashto
South Western Pashto, South Eastern Pashto
Native to	Pakistan, Afghanistan
Ethnicity	Pashtuns
Speakers	L1: 15 million (2017); L2: 3.5 million (2021)
Language family	Indo-European Indo-Iranian Iranian Eastern Pashto Southern Pashto; ; ; ; ;
Writing system	Arabic (Pashto alphabet)
Official status
Regulated by	Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan; Pashto Academy Quetta
Language codes
ISO 639-3	pbt
Glottolog	sout2649

Southern Pashto (Pashto: جنوبي/سهيلي پښتو) is a standard variety of the Pashto language spoken in southeastern Afghanistan, and northern parts of the Pakistani province of Balochistan, comprising the Southwestern and Southeastern dialects of Pashto.^[2]

Southern Comparison

غوږ

Ear

South Western [Kandahar]

Pashto pronunciation: [/ɣwaʐ/]

South Eastern [Quetta]

/ɣwaʒ/

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^ ^a ^b Southern Pashto at Ethnologue (27th ed., 2024)
^ "Glottolog 4.3 - Southern Pashto". glottolog.org. Retrieved 2020-10-16.

[e27-1] Southern Pashto at Ethnologue (27th ed., 2024)

[2] "Glottolog 4.3 - Southern Pashto". glottolog.org. Retrieved 2020-10-16.

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