Pushtu

Pushtu, or PUKHTU, the language of the Afghans proper (see AFGHANISTAN), is, according to Darmesteter, not intermediate between the Iranian and Indic branches of the Aryan stock, but is directly derived from the Zend, with Persian, Hindustani, and Arabic admixture. See Trumpp's Pashtō Grammar (1873), Strangford's Letters and Papers (1878), and Darmesteter's Chants Populaires des Afghans (1890).