Roots of the Pashto Language and Phases of its Literary Evolution

Noor Ahmad Aail, Kamal Din Kamal

Abstract: The social and recorded richness of the Pashto just as its noteworthiness inside the setting of different dialects has been recognized over the world. This article investigates the logical inconsistencies of different students of history and philologists regarding the cause of Pashto as a primary language of South Asia, with uncommon reference to Semitic and Aryan assumptions, the procedure of improvement of its writing, the dialects of the language and its place inside the setting of the South Asian semantic reality. This work additionally investigates the advancement of Pashto writing and fundamentally researches an as of late led DNA study that discredits Pakhtun's hereditary relationship with Arabs.

Keywords: Roots of Pashto, dialectology, Pashto literature