Sage-Tips

Is Pashto similar to Farsi?

Pashto is a different language than Dari and Farsi. Native Pashto speakers often learn Dari, but few Dari speakers have a good command of Pashto. Formal Farsi and Dari are very similar, but differences in pronunciation and the use of certain words are more noticeable when they are spoken informally.

Is Pashto a dying language?

I intentionally do not mention two major languages of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, namely Pashto and Hindko, as by now these are considerably known to many people. All of these languages are categorised as ‘endangered’ in Routledge’s Encyclopedia of World’s Endangered Languages (2008).

Is Kurdish mutually intelligible?

Kurdish is divided into three or four groups, where dialects from different groups are not mutually intelligible without acquired bilingualism.

Is Pashto The language of jinn?

Afghan was the son of Prophet Sulaiman عليه السلام. This was then his father taught him the language of Jinns and named the language as Pashtu. The historians believe that the descendants of Afghan were named as Afghanis or Pashtuns and their language is known as Pashto.

Are there any Pashto – Kurdish words not found in Persian?

There are also many common Pashto – Kurdish words not found in Persian. Perhaps Persian retained less of the root Pashto-Kurdish-Persian ancient Indo-Iranian language. This said the difference between Pashto and western Iranian languages such as Persian and Kurdish is large enough to suggest a split perhaps 2000 years ago.

What is the relationship between Kurds and Pashtuns?

Apart from that, Kurds and Pashtuns are Iranian relative, tribes. Their language is similar to the Sorani dialect of Kurdish. They share many common words with Kurdish.

Are Pashto and Persian mutually intelligible?

It seems that Persian is the odd one out in the Iranic language family, as so many words in Pashto are more similar to Kurdish than they are to Persian. The two languages are no doubt that, languages, and are therefore not mutually intelligible. However, the similarity is there.