Description

Grammar and Vocabulary of Waziri Pashto is a textbook intended for British officers with knowledge of the Pushto of Peshawar and seeking to learn the Pushto spoken in the Bannu District and in Waziristan (in present-day Pakistan). The author, a political officer in the British Indian army, notes the significant difference in the way the language is spoken in the two locales, which, he ventures, “is hardly less than that which separates broad Scots from cockney English, and like it extends to grammar and idiom as well as vocabulary.” Following ...