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title: 'Is the Pushto a Scmitic Language?'
type: pdf
hasMedia: true
requiresPurchase: false
authors:
- 'Isidor Loewenthal'
date: 1860-10-01
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: '19th century'
topics:
- 'Language'
- 'History (General)'
scriptures:
- 'Genesis 10'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/19th-century/loewenthal-1860-is-the-pushto-a-scmitic-language
---

# Is the Pushto a Scmitic Language?

19th-century philological critique arguing Pushto (Pashto) is Indo-European, not Semitic. Reviews evidence and rebuts claims linking Afghans to Israelites.

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