r/pashto

so i’m a pashtun from tirah valley specifically orakzai from the sheikhan clan. well we are called hamsaya clans which means not directly part of the same lineage. Most of my family does look like they are either central asian or middle eastern so i did a dna test. Well according to my DNA im more turkic ethnically and persian-kurdish. The regions i got was central asia, middle east, southern italy and thoughts anyone if they have gotten something similar because it’s shocking for me to be more turkic or ‘turkish’ then someone from the place itself

Pashlishurdu.

A form of “Pashto” so heavily mixed with Urdu and English that I refuse to call it Pashto anymore. It is a phenomenon mainly displayed the Pashtuns of the Peshawar Valley.

Ji instead of هو.
Bhai instead of ورور.
Anda instead of ويه.

People in the diaspora speak better Pashto than the individuals from this region.

I think we should shame people who speak in this way. We should speak to them in proper Pashto, so they feel stupid about how cringe they sound then they speak they way they do. When they count in Urdu, we should remind them of the Pashto equivalents.