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
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
Result: English has become Afghanistan's unofficial third language, after Persian and Pushtu.
From Time Magazine Archive
The old General spoke Pushtu fluently, and there was a parley, begun by him, ordinarily the most silent of mankind.
From Gallipoli Diary, Volume I by Sir Ian Hamilton
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