| Central Pashto | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Pakistan, Afghanistan |
| Ethnicity | Pashtuns |
Native speakers | 6.4 million (2017 census)[1] |
| Arabic (Pashto alphabet) | |
| Official status | |
| Regulated by | Pashto Academy of Pakistan Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | pst |
| Glottolog | cent1973 |
Central Pashto (Pashto: منځنۍ پښتو, romanized: Manźanəi Pax̌to) is a standard variety of the Pashto language, spoken in parts of Pakistan and Afghanistan. They are the middle dialects of Mangal, Zadran, Mahsudi and Waziri.[2][3] These dialects are affected by what Ibrahim Khan terms as "the Great Karlāṇ Vowel Shift".[4]
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Here is a comparison of Middle Dialects with South Eastern:
| Central Dialects | ښ | ږ | څ | ځ | ژ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Waziri | ʃ | ʒ | t͡s | d͡z | ʒ |
| Dzadrāṇi[5] | ç | ʝ | t͡s | d͡z | ʒ |
| Mahsudi[6] | ʃ | ʒ | t͡s, s | d͡z, z | ʒ |
- ^ Central Pashto at Ethnologue (27th ed., 2024)
- ^ "Glottolog 4.3 - Central Pashto". glottolog.org. Retrieved 2020-10-16.
- ^ David, Anne Boyle (2014). Descriptive Grammar of Pashto and Its Dialects. De Gruyter Mouton. pp. 37–40. ISBN 978-1-61451-303-2.
- ^ Khan, Ibrahim (2021-09-07). "Tarīno and Karlāṇi dialects". Pashto. 50 (661). ISSN 0555-8158. Archived from the original on September 8, 2021.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ Septfonds (1994).
- ^ Rensch, Calvin Ross (1992). Sociolinguistic Survey of Northern Pakistan: Pashto, Waneci, Ormuri. National Institute of Pakistan Studies, Quaid-i-Azam University. pp. 79–146.
