Balochi is thus much more closely related to Kurdish than it is to its close neighbour Pashto.
Kurdish and Afghan languages (Pashto, for example) are not taught at all, and Arabic and Persian are in decline.One problem is money.
It takes over a year to teach a soldier Arabic, Pashto, or Dari from scratch.
Page one, in Pashto, taught the letter "T" (or te) of the alphabet for topak ("weapon"), and used as an example "My uncle has a weapon".
But as many as 120 languages, from Italian to Pashto, are spoken by those involved in the heroin trade.
This reflects a plan to recruit Muslims to fight in Islamic countries where an ability to speak Arabic or Pashto is helpful.Alas, one or two American Muslims fight for the other side.
Japanese and Mandarin are well known for having a single word that covers blue and green; others that share this trait, according to Omniglot, include Pashto, Yakut, Panare from southern Venezuela, the Tausug of parts of Southeast Asia, and the language of the Alabama-Coushatta tribe from what is now Texas.
At the Indo-Iranian border the oldest fragments of the powerful Pashto poetry date from the Middle Ages.
It ranks as the third largest Iranian language, after Persian and Pashto, and has numerous dialects.
Yidghā-Munjī is most closely related to Pashto.
Pashto, the language of the Pashtuns of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and the Federally Administered Tribal Areas, has a scant literary tradition, although it has a rich oral tradition.
