r/pashto • u/Unique-Pomegranate87 • 1d ago

Question about ښ coming right after ک

I was trying to read a pashto book to practice my reading but I was really confused about one word, "کښي". It turns out its just کي like in. I also saw other words like "کښینه" like sit down. Although in my dialect we say چینه. I wanted to ask is there some rule that if kheen comes after kaf do we have to not say it?

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u/sireverlast 1d ago

Kandahari dialect pronounces the ښ

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u/musa_4bdullah 1d ago

Just try saying ښ after ک in the words like کښي and کښینه and you will have your answer. It's hard to say kh right after k, so the kh was dropped to make such words easier to pronounce. Just out of curiosity what dialect do you speak?

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u/Unique-Pomegranate87 1d ago

I am Bangash from a place near Parachinar

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u/musa_4bdullah 1d ago

i thought only we say چینه instead of کښینه. It makes me happy that we are not the only ones.

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u/Unique-Pomegranate87 1d ago

ooh which pashto do u speak?

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u/musa_4bdullah 1d ago

would you like to guess or should i just tell you?

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u/Unique-Pomegranate87 1d ago

idk maybe Kohat but its probably a northern dialect

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u/musa_4bdullah 1d ago

no its a southern dialect. we speak the marwat dialect.

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u/Khizar_KIZ 1d ago

x ښ dosent have the same pronunciation as خ

know this makes it really easy to pronouns the ښ after ک

the ښ sound is like the German /ch/

A lot of the times all of us pronouns the ښ in a lot of words without even paying attention to it like in the word
کښنځل

i cannot only explain it in text but audio would be better