A research based study of the phonological features of South-east varieties with the reference of consonants sounds

the phonological features of South-east varieties

Abstract

Pashto, which is a very ancient language, belongs to the eastern Iranians group of the Indo-erupain language family. Pashto is not only spoken in a wide area, but the number of speakers (linguistic group) is also very large. This is also the reason that this ancient language has dozens of regional varieties and several major dialects such as south-west (kandhanri), south-east (Southern Pashtonkhwa), north-west (centeral Ghilzis), north-east (Ningarhari/Peshawri/Yousafzai), centeral (Karalani) and Tarino (Waɳeʦi). the South-east dialect, which is also mentioned as part of the South-west dialect (Kandahari dialect) in some literary works and discusions, has such special phonological and others linguistics features that it can be considered a separate dialect despite some similarities. this dialect (South-east varieities) is spoken in the extreme southeastern parts (Southern Pashtunkhwa) of the Pasthto speaking area. in this research paper, a research based study has been made the special phonological features of this dialect (South-east dialect) wtih the reference of consonants sounds. and those special phonological features have been brought under investigation that can be considered special for this dialect.