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PUSHTU , the language of the Pathan races of Afghanistan and the North-West Frontier province of India. It belongs to the Iranian group of the Indo-European languages, but possesses many Panjabi words. In Afghanistan it is the dominant language, but is not spoken west of the Helmund. In India it has two main dialects, the northern, hard or Pukhtu, and the southern, soft or Pushtu. The dividing line of the two dialects runs eastwards from Thal through the Kohat district
Buner
minor tribes in the south
system
south
Orakzai
century , being the best-known poet. Pushtu was spoken in the North-West Frontier province in 19o1 by 1,142,011 persons, or 54% of the population .See Grierson, Linguistic Survey of India; Roos-Keppel, Manual
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