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| dilbag | Wednesday 26th of January 2005 10:42:04 PM |
| basic phrases in pastu - Hi, I want to learn Pashto from quite some time now, but did not found any usefull resources on net. I just want to start with some basic words like hi, hello, how are you?, etc etc. Can anybody help me out in that... | |
| Paul8 | Thursday 27th of January 2005 06:51:46 AM |
| It's gonna be a whil - It's gonna take a while for anything to be posted on Pashto for some reason. It's not spoken by as many people as Urdu or Arabic or Persian. All I have is a list of the alphabet and the names of the numbers 0 - 10. If you want these just send me a pm (private message) and I'll post them here on the site. | |
| Paul8 | Thursday 27th of January 2005 07:17:54 AM |
| - ok I just realized that I'm not able to insert pictures into the site (I only have them as pictures and cant type in pashto because the keyboard for it doesnt exist on wn=indows xp so just give me your email and ill send it to you. | |
| Paul8 | Thursday 27th of January 2005 07:25:28 AM |
| - I can however give you the names of the numbers one - yau two - dwa three - dre four - calor five - pinj(uh) six - shpazh seven - ow(uh) eight - at(uh) nine - n(uh)h ten - las | |
| daristani | Friday 04th of February 2005 12:52:41 AM |
| Pashto phrasebook - There's a relatively new "Pashto Dictionary and Phrasebook" on the market from Hippocrene Books Inc. that includes a very simplified grammar, a two-way "dictionary" (more like a glossary), and some standard phrases arranged by category. It's by Nicholas Awde and Asmatullah Sarwan, and is available online via Amazon, Barnes and Noble, etc. A smaller but similar Pashto phrasebook in German, for which you can also get a cassette, is "Paschto", by Erhard Bauer, in the Kauderwelsch series of "Wort fuer Wort" phrasebooks, and is available via Amazon Germany. | |
| AJ_UK | Saturday 16th of April 2005 05:24:08 PM |
| I know a little! - I know a little Pashto ... or pakhto .. depends how you were taught I guess! Paul ... some of the numbers you typed I did not recognise! Different dialects maybe! I can only type phonetically (sp?) 1 = yau - pronounced like 'your' but minus the R. 2 = Dwa - the d is pronounced deeply almost like D(a)wa 3 = dre - same as above, almost like D(a)re 4 = tsaloor - T is pronounced with an attached S sound 5 = peenzuh - pronounsed peen - zuh, it has the TS sound in it. 6 = shpeeg - pronounced shh - peeg 7 = uwa - pronounced by exaggerating the U (uuu) wa 8 = atuh - pronounced like Paul has already stated At (h) - uh. the T is prounounced as you would ponounce the 'Th' when saying THE. 9 = unuh - pronounced like an -uh 10 = las - prounced like 'Last' minus the 'T'. Las also means Hand ma ta las raka/ ta las mata raka or las da ma ta raka = give me a hand/give me your hand. ma ta las rupee raka = give me 10 rupees ma = me ta = you or to or there raka = give What kind of words do you want to learn exactly other than those listed? I will try and help if I can! hi, hello = Salam/As-salam-ulaykam how are you? = tsun gey yey? or tu tsun gay yay? Tu meaning 'you' (not you the speaker but the person you are directing the question to, prnounced differently from TA with also means you/your) although, some also pronounce it 'sungay yey'. Good bye = Khuda Hafez ... some pronounce it Khudafez. Like i said ... bad bad spelling lol lol. But if anyone feels to, they can correct me if I am wrong ... may have included some slang there! | |
