Pushtu

[ puhsh-too ]

noun

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Mike Martin is a Pushtu-speaking former British army officer who served multiple tours in Afghanistan as a political officer, advising British generals on their approach to the war.
The Taliban, not the West, won Afghanistan’s technological war | Christopher Ankersen, Mike Martin | August 23, 2021 | MIT Technology Review
His Highness addressed his audience for some little time, chiefly in Pushtu but partly in Persian.
At the Court of the Amr | John Alfred Gray
The old General spoke Pushtu fluently, and there was a parley, begun by him, ordinarily the most silent of mankind.
Gallipoli Diary, Volume I | Ian Hamilton
The man refused with a Pushtu oath: and high words followed.
At the Court of the Amr | John Alfred Gray
Then Stalky jabbered Pushtu and Punjabi in alternate streaks.
Stalky & Co. | Rudyard Kipling

It was conducted in Pushtu, and was naturally unintelligible to every one of our party except the two political officers.
The Story of the Malakand Field Force | Sir Winston S. Churchill

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