Western Loanwords in Modern Pashto

area between the two countries; it is beside Persian the official language of Afghanistan, but only a regional language in Pakistan, which favors Urdu. A major part of the learned and scientific vocabulary of Pashto has been derived from the PersianArabic tradition, and the number and status of these loans troubled lexicographers in the past (e. g., H. W. Bellow; cf. his Dictionary of the Pukkhto Language, preface, p. vii). This study will deal with the loanwords from English, French, and German found in the modern literary language and in the educated speech of Afghanistan. It is based in the main on the investigation of the usage of the Kabul dailies Hewad and, particularly, Isldh from June, 1958, to May, 1959, as well as on work with educated speakers of Pashto.' We will deal with the following aspects of the loanword problem: the fields of meaning represented in the corpus (? 1); the phonemics of the loanwords and their sources (? 2); their morphological features (? 3); the morphemic variation among loanwords (?4)

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