Dialects and varieties
Pashto dialects: soft and hard speech
Why Pashto is also called Pakhto: how ښ and ږ are pronounced across Kandahari, Peshawari, Quetta and central varieties, the distinctive vowels of Waziri, the outlying Wanetsi dialect, and the Kandahar-based written standard.
Read article9 Oct 2026