Pushtu
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Among the rank-and-file are speakers of Arabic, Dari, Urdu and Pushtu.
From Economist • Nov. 2, 2017
Celebrating the prisoner swap next to Mr Obama in the White House garden, Mr Bergdahl used a Koranic invocation and some Pushtu phrases, saying his son’s English was rusty.
From Economist • Jun. 5, 2014
One disappointment : nobody at Lake Success could be found to put the program into Pushtu for the Afghan man-in-the-street.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Courses are offered in 183 tongues, including Twi, Tswana, Sesotho, Pushtu, Waray-Waray and Bicolano.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Pushtu, however, is the prevailing language, though it does not seem to be spoken in Herat, or, roughly speaking, west of the Helmund.
From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg
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