4 Easy Lessons of Pashto, You should know

Shafeeq Gigyani
1 min readDec 4, 2016

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If you want to read or write Pashto, You should know these for lessons, Which I tweeted last year.

1. Know the Alphabets of Pashto

Pashto has 44 alphabets, taken from Arabic, and some are made by Pir Rokhan.

2. Characters resemble to Urdu

In those 44 alphabets the sound of 4 alphabets are same like in Urdu but written in Pashto Design.

3. 4 Alphabets are used to distinguish the dialects

Pashto has 88 dialects which are divided into 2 main dialects. Soft Dialect and Hard Dialect. Soft dialects means the sound which spoke on the tip of tongue. Qandhar, Quatta, Zhob, Waziristan Lakki Marwat use Soft dialects. While hard dialects is spoken from throat like in Kabul, Jalalabad, Peshawar, Mardan & Swat.

Pronounce as:

4. Pashto has 5 Ye

Bonus Lesson

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Shafeeq Gigyani
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