What does Pashto sound like to you?

**Mingle** · 02-03-2018, 08:23 PM

Originally Posted by Hadouken

well both are iranic languages . but I havent yet spotted another iranic language that sounds close to kurdish much . I will research and tell you

btw. the video I posted listen to 9:20 when he sings. he has a nice voice

Kurdish languages in Iran and Luri form a dialect continuum. There's debate on whether Laki is a dialect of Lurish or the local Kurdish language. You might find Lurish to sound similar.

By the way, Lurs are ethnic Persians, but they are nomadic like Kurds so their dialect is a bit distinct from Standard Persian.

**Bornoz** · 02-03-2018, 08:24 PM

It sounds like a mix of Kurdish and Indian to me.

Ülev · 02-03-2018, 08:24 PM

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...webm.360p.webm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pashto

**Zroota** · 02-09-2018, 12:46 PM

Mix of Farsi and Hindi (but better in my ears and more pleasant), with hints of (unrelated languages) Assyrian Neo-Aramaic, Hebrew and Turkish.

**Mingle** · 11-03-2019, 12:13 AM

Bump.

**~~Moje ime~~** · 11-03-2019, 12:18 AM

Originally Posted by Bornoz

It sounds like a mix of Kurdish and Indian to me.

This.

**Babak** · 11-03-2019, 12:19 AM

A blend of Urdu and persian tbh

**Avicenna** · 11-03-2019, 01:09 AM

Originally Posted by Babak

A blend of Urdu and persian tbh

Urdu itself has a lot of loan words from farsi and pashto

**~~Trouble~~** · 11-03-2019, 01:11 AM

Sounds similar to Persian or Kurdish. Lucky for you guys to have such a pleasant sounding language.

**Avicenna** · 11-03-2019, 01:22 AM

My barber is a kurdish speaker and when he talks kurdish I can see the many similarities it has with pashto and persian. He even noted the strong harsh tones as well the vocab it shares with pashto, and he wasn't the first kurd to notice that. Although not a pashto speaker, I can safely say that dari(Afghan Persian) is far more pleasant, popular and elegant than pashto in Afghanistan.