Pushtu
Americannoun
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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
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
It was conducted in Pushtu, and was naturally unintelligible to every one of our party except the two political officers.
From The Story of the Malakand Field Force An Episode of Frontier War by Churchill, Winston
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