Northern Pashto

Northern Pashto
Yusufzai
یوسفزئی پښتو
Native to	Pakistan, Afghanistan
Ethnicity	Pashtun
Native speakers	21 million (2013)[1]
Language family	Indo-European Indo-Iranian Iranian Eastern Iranian Pashto Northern Pashto
Writing system	Pashto alphabet
Official status
Regulated by	Pashto Academy (Peshawar, Pakistan)[2]
Language codes
ISO 639-3	pbu
Glottolog	nort2646[3]

Northern Pashto or Northeastern Pashto,^[4] sometimes known as Pekhawari Pashto after its principal subdialect, is a Northern dialect of Pashto spoken in northern Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan.

Phonology

Yusufzai Pashto has a difference in affricates: in other dialects t͡s, d͡z/z, ʒ, in Peshawari instead s, z, j. Such as in most Northern dialects, in Yusufzai is pronounced x and g instead southern ʂ, ʐ.

Dialects[5]	ښ	ږ	څ	ځ	ژ	ā	ū
Kandahari Pashto	[ʂ]	[ʐ]	[t͡s]	[d͡z]	[ʒ]	[ɑ]	[u]
Quetta Pashto	[ʃ]	[ʒ]	[t͡s]	[d͡z]	[ʒ, z]	[ɑ]	[u]
Ghilji, central Pashto	[ç]	[ʝ]	[t͡s]	[z]	[ʒ, z]	[ɑ]	[u]
Northern (Peshawari) Pashto	[x]	[ɡ]	[s]	[z]	[d͡ʒ]	[ɑ]	[u]

References

1. Northern Pashto at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
2. Sebeok, Thomas Albert (1976). Current Trends in Linguistics: Index. Walter de Gruyter. p. 705.
3. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Northern Pashto". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
4. Prods Oktor Skjærvø, P.O. 1989. Pashto. In "Compendium Linguarum Iranicarum", R. Schmitt (ed.), 384-410.
5. Hallberg, Daniel G. 1992. Pashto, Waneci, Ormuri. Sociolinguistic Survey of Northern Pakistan, 4.