Pashto/pakhtu for beginners...

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WTF is pusdhto?

[MARRIED_NY]

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dayir a kha,,singa ayee tasu ...za pakhtun khu na ayeem khu biya aaam paktu walye shuum...sahee likha na mai nay:)

[_Passionate]

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I love pashto. I think if you can learn how to speak pashto you can learn how to speak any language!

[lazy_daisy]

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^^^ nope not true

i tried learning cantonese

[_TaNhAyAaN]

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Nice thread.

@Zakk

Guys this site has some interesting pashto lessons in audio format…

http://languagelab.bh.indiana.edu/pashto.html

It’s Pashto with Dari influence..but it might be of some help..

thanks for the site. But how can it help if we don’t know what they are saying since they don’t give any translations =\

And can you guyz please add more pashto words for general stuff.

[LastOfTheDinosaurs]

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And now google Pashto:

Google

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Originally Posted by Zakk
Guys this site has some interesting pashto lessons in audio format…

http://languagelab.bh.indiana.edu/pashto.html

It’s Pashto with Dari influence..but it might be of some help..

this is a really nice website because of the audio, but could any of our pushto speaking members translate them? Each clip is quite short, maybe someone could just translate one exercise a day or so? It would be very useful indeed.

[Jazba_pk]

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all you non Pashtu speaking people can listen to this hot song, BIBI SHIRINEE i’ll post pushtu and urdu version so you guys can get some of the words!

Pashtu- http://www.batkhela.com/music/zeek-afridi-pashto-music-91.php

Urdu- http://www.batkhela.com/music/zeek-afridi-pashto-music-925.php

n e 1 who hears me speakin pushtu my punjabi friends or whoever say pushtu is a sweet language!

[Jazba_pk]

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@Jazba_pk

all you non Pashtu speaking people can listen to this hot song, BIBI SHIRINEE i’ll post pushtu and urdu version so you guys can get some of the words!

Pashtu- http://www.batkhela.com/music/zeek-afridi-pashto-music-91.php

Urdu- http://www.batkhela.com/music/zeek-afridi-pashto-music-925.php

so did n e 1 like the song?

[Chel_Chabila_Babu]

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@Jazba_pk

all you non Pashtu speaking people can listen to this hot song, BIBI SHIRINEE i’ll post pushtu and urdu version so you guys can get some of the words!

Pashtu- http://www.batkhela.com/music/zeek-afridi-pashto-music-91.php

Urdu- http://www.batkhela.com/music/zeek-afridi-pashto-music-925.php

n e 1 who hears me speakin pushtu my punjabi friends or whoever say pushtu is a sweet language!

That’s a beautifullllll song… Great site, I’m going to see if they ave “larsha pekhawar ta..” song it’s hot.

That “Wai Allah..” song on there by Janas Khan is is also sooo HOTTT, it’s soooooo MAST I can’t sit still… It’s good for a breakdancing/bellydancing combination .

I kept listening to it over and over again really loud earlier on during my roja and my mom shouts to me “what are you, a dumrey”?. lol

[parissenoor]

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@Chel Chabila Babu

That’s a beautifullllll song… Great site, I’m going to see if they ave “larsha pekhawar ta..” song it’s hot.

That “Wai Allah..” song on there by Janas Khan is is also sooo HOTTT, it’s soooooo MAST I can’t sit still… It’s good for a breakdancing/bellydancing combination .

I kept listening to it over and over again really loud earlier on during my roja and my mom shouts to me “what are you, a dumrey”?. lol

pashto songs are awesome:blush: good reason to learn pashto!

[Chel_Chabila_Babu]

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^

I know, I told my mom to speak Pashto with us at home so I can pick it up, I'm already pretty fluent in Punjabi and Urdu so those languages can take a rest, I'll sooo impress my maternal cousins with ma Pashto next time I go to Pakistan.. :)

[lazy_daisy]

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How do you say "ball-room dancing" in pushtu?

[leena]

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babes i really dont knw about how to say ball room dacning your pushin it......lol

[Jazba_pk]

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"Gend kamra Gadidal"? lol

[Kashmiri007]

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@Aryan_Shponkai

^ Our bad…although being one of the oldest language in the world on record, it does not hold a place it should be at…

Pashto has a recorded history of 5000 - five thousand years in Afghanistan mainly, some tablets of ancient Pashto language were found in countris like Greece & Egypt as well. Such was the dominance of Pashto over the rest of the people. We’ve had our ‘Golden Age’ in ancient times, now it is the turn for the other minor languages.

Tel De We Afghanistan!

Interesting stuff…

But, languages change so much !! Both the people and the language would have been vastly different

For example, Arabic, Hebrew and other languages did not exist 5000 years ago.. Even though they are amongst the oldest… infact, Arabic only goes back around 2,000 years. Before the Arabs probably spoke Aramaic or Assyrian.

Mesopotamia had the Cuniform tablets with the first written language in Uruk

http://www.crystalinks.com/sumerlanguage.html

Anyway, im no linguistic historian, so would be pleased to see some further interesting info about Pakhtun heritage .

[pakjangjoo]

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Aramaic is North-West Semitic and Assyrian is North-East Semitic. Arabic is something different. It's South Semitic. Arabs did not speak Assyrian or Aramaic before speaking Arabic. They spoke primitive forms of Arabic as far back as the 2nd millennium BC. For example, inscriptions found in Southern Arabia have revealed a primitive form of Arabic. Furthermore, in one Assyrian inscription an Arab tribal chief is mentioned whose name is "Gindibu" - this is the Arabic Jundub. This shows that Arabs were speaking an archaic form of Arabic even in the 9th century BC.

[Kashmiri007]

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@pakjangjoo

Aramaic is North-West Semitic and Assyrian is North-East Semitic. Arabic is something different. It’s South Semitic. Arabs did not speak Assyrian or Aramaic before speaking Arabic. They spoke primitive forms of Arabic as far back as the 2nd millennium BC. For example, inscriptions found in Southern Arabia have revealed a primitive form of Arabic. Furthermore, in one Assyrian inscription an Arab tribal chief is mentioned whose name is “Gindibu” - this is the Arabic Jundub. This shows that Arabs were speaking an archaic form of Arabic even in the 9th century BC.

Thanks…you are right, although the Arabs in the North did… Lebanon, Syria etc.

[Mega_Men]

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salamuna wroono aw khwando

za'm pakhtu yama...noh taso ba ema pa pakhtu sayee poy nashai, ka poy shway noh der kha ka na, bey ma na tapos okai.. che za tsa gad wad yama...taso rata oyay che da kam zay yay? ema plaar de afghanistan da aw mor mey da pakistan da. pa sarhard ke da dre kalo Urmar. ehmong asal aw nasal da afghanistan na raghali dee. khamakha monga kho tol pukhtana yu...khudai taso ta neki aw sawab okhai...khuday pamaan

[Blitzkrieg]

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@PyariCgudia

wow, its dramatically different from Sindhi and Punjabi and other languages within those provinces!

I see a little bit of urdu there.

Otherwise, its totally unfamiliar to me. Vakai there is such a cultural imaginary line dividing eastern Pakistan and western Pakistan. (Not East Pakistan as in Bangladesh)

Well yeah since balochi and pashtu are part of persian group of languages (brohvi is close to tamil?) while sindhi and punjabi come in larger indo-european languages but peoplewise and ethnicwise, they are closer to india!