u/Low_Sun239

This is a question for lar pashtuns but bar pashtuns can also contribute.

How many of you are expected to learn/know urdu (if you don't already)?

Me personally, I don't know a lick of urdu and I wanna keep it that way. I'd rather learn more pashto dialects for the fun of it or arabic for religious/tourism reasons. I speak the afridi pashto dialect but can adapt my pashto depending on the person I'm speaking to (sometimes I speak the sha dialect to my southern friends).

My parents are trying to pressure me to learn urdu saying it's the country language but I just don't want to/ dont care to 😭. When I visit Pashtunkhwa, all my time is spent in rural village regions where urdu has no use.

Thoughts?