Lexical Variants in Pashto: A Comparative Study Accompanied in Paktia and Nangrahar

Abstract

The aim this study is to investigate the lexical variations in Pashto spoken in Paktia and Nangrahar. The linguistic variations of age and region were considered to find out the lexical differences in Spoken Pashto both targeted provinces. However, to accomplish the aims of the investigation, two data sets were center of the information for this comparative study of the lexical variations. The main data were collected by open-ended questionnaire to get the secondary data. For getting the objectives of the study, a questionnaire was spread out among the randomly selected participants, the 50 participants were selected from both targeted places. Vocally managed questionnaire was also led in order to get the purpose of the study. Although, the observation of the speakers was another research tool. The examination of the collected data from both study tools showed that there are prominent differences in spoken Pashto in Paktia and Nangrahar from the view point of lexical variation. However, from the observation it was decided that there are certain expletives associated in both targeted places.