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
Unlike Karmal, who is a member of the small, Dari-speaking elite, Najibullah has the advantage of belonging to the country's dominant Pushtu tribe.
From Time Magazine Archive
A generous world press has drawn an unvarying image of volunteers effortlessly spouting Pushtu, Swahili, or Tagalog, of volunteers winning legions of friends while transforming economies ...
From Time Magazine Archive
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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